In the grand scheme of things someone being here illegally and working construction is about last on my list of priorities

They bother me.

They are taking up housing that US citizens could use....everyone keeps complaining about needing more housing, eh?

They are a burden on our schools and other public resources.

They are dead weight on our medical system...in many cities they overrun the ERs of hospitals making it difficult for true US citizens to get emergency care in their own country.

Just a few examples.,,....the US budget would save a lot of money if they were GONE.

It turns out that immigrants commit fewer crimes than citizen

There you go again, conflating ILLEGAL migrants with LEGAL migrants, especially those that actually wish to come legally and become US citizens because they want to melt in and believe in our principals ans way of life.

Add some guard towers with machine guns and the border is starting to look like post WW2 Berlin.

Except in Berlin they were trying to keep people IN....there's a big difference from letting people freely leave if they want....and invasion from foreign entities.

Frankly, iI'd be all for settting up our snipers, they could get some free practice...

And a No Man's land....complete with a field along the border of land mines.

Operation: Hot Tamale

Thank you...thank you....I'll be here all week...

I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.

2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.

Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.

Airbnb allowed making guests do it.

They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.

Don't worry, greytree. I understood that this is heavily ironic. Sorry you're getting the clueless responses.

This has always been the thing of science fiction (Star Trek universe being a great example). There's this idea that humanity will automate and invent so much technology that nobody has any work left to do.

In realty? Nobody on the planet has ever reached this point before in history, to prove it really happens.

All I *do* know is that in my own life experience, EVERY time I use a new tool or gadget that promises to save me time and make my life easier? Whatever time it saves is immediately claimed someplace else. In many instances, the claimed labor and time savings turns out to be artificial. (EG. I've owned several Roomba type robot vacuums. Even though each one I tried was an improvement over the old one? None have ever truly eliminated the time and labor I would have spent vacuuming by hand otherwise. What inevitably happens is they don't get certain areas clean enough, so I have to go back and deal with those myself. Then, they need maintenance and cleaning themselves, which requires a lot of time taking them apart and getting lint and hair unwound from places it wasn't supposed to be. Next, something wears out or breaks, costing me more money AND time to repair it or replace the worn part.)

I think all we might really see is some temporary pain around unemployment as we collectively re-think what kind of labor/work we still want to pay people to do.

AI clearly can't do ANYTHING physical, so that severely limits what jobs it can take from humans. Robotics can do physical tasks but we're still FAR from it handling random tasks that humans do easily. Our robots tend to be purpose-built. One may be able to scan inventory on store shelves, but it can't go clean up a spill in an aisle. Another may claim to do security duty but probably has to call in to humans if anything bad happens to it.

"Voting Machines" come in 3 types:

1. DRE where your vote is Directly Recorded Electronically.
2. Ballot counters where your vote is recorded on a paper ballot and the machine is fed them, counts them and spits back out the ballot to be saved.
3. Ballot markers that mark a paper ballot and you then send it through a ballot counter.

1. There are only 6 US states where DRE machines are used at all, only Lousiana uses them for all districts. All 6 of those states want to get rid of the DRE machines and switch to paper ballots and Ballot Counters. Trump could easily hack Louisiana ... but does not have to. They already have that state. The other states where some counties use DRE are New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee and Utah. They use them in certain older counties. Tennessee, Utah and Indiana are not in play. New Jersey is a lock for the Democrats. Ohio is the only 'swing' states where hacking could give Trump an advantage.

2. Ballot counters can be easily checked to see if they are hacked. Just hand count 1000 ballots and feed them to the machine. No one is going to bother hacking them.

3. Ballot Marking Devices are typically used by people with vision issues. If you do not have vision issues you can ask to use the BMD and visually check to see if it marked the paper ballot correctly. No one is going to hack them.

It is reasonable to be very concerned about the state of Ohio being hacked. But if the Democrats win Ohio, they will win the US senate even without Ohio.

Sources:
https://ballotpedia.org/Voting...

Note, AI sources have lied about DRE machines. Do not trust AI.

Cause if it was profitable, he would keep the shares.

I do not give them money.

I consider them all to be fraudsters. Specifically they use the words "sell" , "buy", etc. when they are not selling you anything, they are renting you stuff.

People should not be allowed to misuse these words, it encourages ignorance in the younger generation.

She's not beautiful by any stretch.....but something about her, maybe the big eyes....I find somewhat attractive.

Anyone else?

I expect a lot of these game companies to change to a system where:

1) You pay for a yearly contract to play ANY of their games.

2) Despite them having only one or two games that people want to play, in addition to 8+ crappy games that no reasonable person would pay to play.

This allows them to screw over people in a manner similar to what they do now.

Linked in was an attempt to redo the hiring process.

The problem is doing it online is not an advantage. If they had come up with any real advantage, they would have become important.