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Comment Re:Thanks, no. (Score 2) 181

If Bernie thinks I'm 25% more productive, that will eventually be reflected in wages.

Wages have been disconnected from productivity for over 4 decades. Like, that's Bernie's whole point; employers see all the benefits of improved productivity, and workers do not get any more money or leisure time.

That said, there's nothing stopping my employer offering me either deal today. What makes Bernie think he knows better than my employer and me what work arrangement makes more sense for us?

Your employer does not want to offer you that deal because your employer wants as much of your labour as they can get for as little money as they can get away with paying. They aren't incentivized to pay you one cent more than it takes to stop you from quitting.

Comment Re:Gaslighting writ large (Score 1) 90

There is nothing gloomy about an island, where they employ people to shove others into tightly packed trains, from reducing to a more livable population size, where you can actually move through streets and find places to live.

This might be true if the drop in population were controlled, and the government could easily stop this trend once it reaches its desired population. But this drop in population is uncontrolled, and I don't blame them for worrying about it.

Comment Hypocrites! (Score 1) 255

So the US will deny visas for officials from countries that censor social media (including "demand[ing] that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies"), while simultaneously denying visas based on the social media posts of the visa applicant? What a bunch of hypocrites!

Of course, the authoritarianism is much worse than the hypocrisy.

Comment Re:Even a stopped clock is sometimes right (Score 1) 161

And I'm sure, based on the Trump administration's history, that this process will involve deliberate analysis, followed by targeted removal of specific regulations in order to achieve the result they want. It definitely won't be a reckless, slash-and-burn approach that leads to a disaster, followed by some halfhearted backtracking.

Comment Re:Thanks Biden (Score 3, Informative) 168

This is a strong contender for the most deliberately ignorant comment I've read in my life.

For millennia we've had male and female (not bothering with the statistically insignificant unfortunate folks that are hermaphrodites)...dick or no dick...etc....and it's been pretty easy to deal with all this time.

"If you ignore all the complexity, it's a simple topic."

Men...women....simple, who needs to study that shit other than with regard to some biology studies?

It's like you don't even understand the concept of higher education. Spoiler alert: it's not just job training.

Comment Re:Just rewarding Apple for $500B investment in US (Score 1) 303

Your own quote supports my claim.

All other countries that were subjected to reciprocal tariff rates Wednesday will see rates go back down to the universal 10% rate, he said.

So now that we're all on the same page about most countries getting 10% tariffs, I'll repeat my question. Who's paying these tariffs?

Comment Re:Just rewarding Apple for $500B investment in US (Score 1) 303

Nope. 10% on non-China tariffs are paused. Exceptions for China tariffs under discussion.

I know this shit is hard to keep up with, but I'm going to need a citation on that, from a source more recent than this news site. From my link (emphasis mine):

April 9

Trump’s higher “reciprocal” rates go into effect, hiking taxes on imports from dozens of countries just after midnight. But hours later, his administration says it will suspend most of these higher rates for 90 days, while maintaining the recently-imposed 10% levy on nearly all global imports.

The site goes on to describe updates that other countries have made to their tariff policies on the 10th and 11th, but there are no further updates for US policy.

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