The pandemic has made the world nervous about single-country sources. The benefits of Comparative Advantage are being downplayed at the expense of supply resilience.

Vaporware? That's in the eye of the beholder's cat.

Quantum computers have been crap, are crap and will remain crap.

Shhhh, we'll need a new bubble to rescue us when the AI market pops.

Don is Gish Galloping the system.

only Congress has that authority.

Puppets with orange strings who fear being primaried.

Somebody just accidently typed:

Constitution.KissTrumpsAss();

Every day I wake up waiting to hear that he was found dead and bloated on his golden toilet.

Nope, just (mostly) alive and bloated.

He's been mumbling about Hannibal Lecter while wandering on the roof of the White House making undecipherable gestures and mistaking his staff for golf stars; let's see if GOP is hypocritical per Biden's alleged dementia...

According to the Holy Book of Murphy's Law, irony usually wins.

If one's bigotry sees most problems caused by non-whites, then Trump is doing a wonderful job.

MAGAs see it as "getting needed shit done". However, if Biden had used similar mobster-like tactics to coerce his agenda, MAGAs would be having conniptions, worse than Jan 6 even.

Might-Makes-Right is often embraced by those it favors, but such violates the Golden Rule in that if the opposition party does it, it's "commie" or "authoritarianism".

Indeed! Apple also does a lot of business in Jiiihna, both sourcing and selling. But Cook found a way off Tinties radar by being white and/or kissing his ass.

Perhaps you'd like to live in China or North Korea where you can be randomly apprehended and harassed by the police just "because you look a bit sus".

Versus the United States, where a US citizen born in the US can be deported to country they've never been to, where they don't speak the language, just because they look like an illegal immigrant?!

I don't like communism or socialism, but I can't deny that the Western world is having a Soviet Moment, with Britain and the US leading the way in violating civil rights.

If the Earth identifies as a cool planet, who are we to say otherwise?

...then fire and/or burn it.

That's what dictators do. Nobody trusts China's and Russia's official econ stats because the books are always cooked to make the dictator look like the best dictator ever, believe me, everyone says so.

There can't be climate change if there is no instrument around to measure it.

Every perspective employer will look at your experience and they will agree that you're valuable and capable of doing good work and profitable work for them but they will also fully expect you to hang around just long enough to get a little bit of experience and then leave.

What this implies is that as soon as someone gains valuable experience, every other employer in the area is willing to offer them more money. Which says very loudly they want to pay below-market rates for labor, and they don't give raises, ever. If I could take a year of experience and make more money anywhere else, nobody at the company is paid for more than a year of experience. Your kid trained for a career with no future.

Like most, I didn't go to college for four years to get a career that didn't pay raises past the first year. I suspect your kid made a bad choice of career field, because apparently - as you describe it - none of the employers in the field want to pay for more than a year of experience. This is precisely the attitude (and employers) graduates are hoping to avoid by getting a degree. Nobody puts in four years of effort with the expectation that they'll be treated like unskilled labor. Yet this is exactly the employer attitude you describe. People have started to realize that the problem all along wasn't a matter of skilled/unskilled labor, but that employers viewed employees as disposable, and rather than train them, made unreasonable demands in the first place.

The problem isn't whether or where you got your degree, but the attitude toward employees imparted by the CEO's alma mater.