So "always" useless because "sometimes" it's insufficient. Got it.

I guess I should clarify... I disagree with the idea that my post is in opposition to the bulk of your post. I just never intended the thing you rebutted.

If you don't have or attend dinner parties, you should. It might seem quaint or antiquated, but sharing lives over food is one of the most underrated, easiest, least pressure-laden social experiences you can have. Even if the food fails to come out right, it generally works out fine.

I disagree with your clarification - and post in general. I addressed dinner parties and the like. Not the world at large. Some things need preserving. Casual social interactions are not among them.

Lazy, ignoring explicit instructions and hiding it, possibly blackmailers and unionizers... sounds like they're already direct replacements for people.

If I find out somebody is using wearables to archive anything that includes me without my direct permission at a dinner party I attend - video, audio, or stills - it'll be the last time I ever speak to them.

Almost precisely nothing that happens at these sorts of things needs to be preserved - in fact, it should specifically be fleeting. Experienced, then gone. This desire to preserve everything is a sickness.

That's not how tariffs work. He'd have to collect from crewmen at the bases that got bombed. You know, the importers.

A 100% tariff does nothing related to national security.

But at this point I don't understand why any explanation needs to be offered for any tariff. They do what they want and the Supreme Court has been revealed as a toothless, sycophantic shell company owned outright by the republicans. Whatever losses they hand the right are performative.

Just don't say why. Follow any objections up with, "See you in court... eventually..."

I suppose when the automatic urge is dishonesty it's hard to override it and say nothing.

This may be okay, depending on the subject. Soft fields like arts and humanities? Okay. Engineering? Not so much.

This bullshit is a modern problem though. The comparatively ruthless past didn't seem to struggle in producing relatively competent graduates in sufficient numbers. Now you can layer many things on why that may be changing. The unbelievable increase in the cost of education is an excellent starting point. That in itself is massively stressful.

But lowering the bar in the name of coping with fragility is bonkers to me. Save it for fields of low consequence. I want the guy designing bridges to have been graded thoroughly.

Let's see if other countries can push these problems down faster than the US can bring old ones out of retirement. I'm betting American ingenuity prevails.

For companies with a complete set of supporting infrastructure, you must include the costs of standing up the whole structure, less licensing costs of the current ecosystem.

- Automated distribution and patching tools
- Standardized software
- Imaging tools for provisioning

Not to say it's still not worth it. It could be. But the larger the org, the greater the inertia, and the longer you live with both ecosystems.

If it's okay to go through a major civic building, destroy things along the way, and injure or kill a few people in the name of civil disobedience, it should be fine to knock down some cameras. Perhaps you should even be able to claim some expenses for it.

Way to bust that stereotype. :)

I only needed the first five words to get the dopamine hit. We're long past the point where it matters if purpose of the tariff is reasonable or valid. Even if this tariff is defensible. - and maybe it is - it's still like the blindfolded kid speared the donkey. Because even then, he'll try again and miss. And it's just entertainment now. Damaging... but still entertaining.

No... but I see what you did there. :)