Indeed. For that matter, it just occured to me that it fits the "communist manifesto" pretty good.

Consider that Earth, that became a founding member of the Federation, had to suffer through WWIII and the Eugenics wars. Depending on the writers, those might have been separate or the same conflict. And if you follow the backstory, they had to be bad. Worse than WWI and WWII put together, higher casualty rates.

And what did Marx put in his writings? That the utopian communist society would have to be put in place through revolution - let's see, they eliminate money after an extremely damaging world war...
Though later writers did tend to moderate stuff a bit. I always keep in mind that we're seeing the Federation primarily through the lens of Starfleet, effectively the Navy. Of course, it's going to keep its crews fed and happy. It's probably not going to worry about money, though apparently, they do have "credits" - transporter, replicator, that sort of thing.
The Vulcans and most other races still seem to have money, so the lack is mostly human/earth based. Despite the Vulcan's backstory actually being worse, war wise.

That said, I have to disagree on "woke" and transhumanism. I'm a scifi nerd. Woke isn't even dipping its toe into that.

No I said Reagan and I meant it. There was an 84-year-old judge who just struck down one of Trump's crazier power grabs and he was a Reagan appointee.

They're all younger judges that were appointed by Reagan. And the guys appointed by Trump are often in their 30s because they were appointed for loyalty not competency and the Democrats don't have the balls to hold up judicial appointments.

although for the most part except for the actual supreme Court the lower courts have been surprisingly sane in regards to Trump's power grabs.

It's cute that you think rules apply to multibillion dollar corporations. Oh you sweet summer child....

Are temporary construction jobs? Also wake me when the factories are actually cranking out semiconductors. We've seen this before where they suck down a bunch of tax incentives and get a bunch of free land and they get to keep all the land and the incentives without ever delivering any jobs.

Perhaps, but the other side can display all the science showing that the specific event in question was casused by the emission of way too much global greenhouse gas emissions.
Then remember that civil trial evidence standards are not "beyond a reasonable doubt" but "preponderance of the evidence", IE "more likely than not". With a criminal trial the defense can win by injecting enough slivers of doubt to reach "reasonable doubt" to get a not guilty verdict. With a civil trial, they have to go much further and reach "probably not us", which is much more difficult.

It'll get shot down at the supreme Court and everyone involved knows that. There is a high probability it'll make it all the way up that far even if it goes through a few Reagan or Trump appointees. The evidence is pretty much incontrovertible that oil industry executives knew that their product was going to cause deadly heat waves. It was their own research back in the 30s 40s and 50s that got the ball rolling on our understanding of anthropogenic climate change.

But the current supreme Court is hopelessly corrupt so it'll die there. It might make a headline or two which is probably the main point. The oil industry can't settle on something like this because once they start there's no end to it. The damage climate change is causing is in the tens of trillions. The only way the industry can survive is by continuing to externalize their costs onto all of us.

That explains why. You have a lot of boilerplate code because you don't think about how to reduce it.

Please eliminate complexity.

ok, here is the sentence you seem to have had a problem with:

I don't know why you have a problem with that, but I think you are an idiot.

The phrase going around right now is, I hope you have the day you voted for.

Not that it matters but they polled a bunch of hardcore self-identifying maga types and even a quarter of those nut jobs were opposed to what Trump was doing.

Hilariously they still approve of his job because they can't connect in their minds the Trump screwing them over to the Trump they keep seeing on TV.

Trump's own commerce Secretary already admitted that any factories did come back will be automated.

And we're going to use unpaid prisoners, AKA slaves, to pick the lettuce.

So I'm afraid you're going to have to find a different career.

According to random slashdot posters we should all be HVAC welding plumbers. As I understand it from the posters around here that's how Peter thiel makes all his money. I don't know I didn't make it to the bottom of their comments...

You just gave them (a small) viral boost with that comment.

And there is absolutely no chance in hell we will be enforcing any antitrust law for the next 4 years. Europe might try but Microsoft has ways of dealing with them. If all else fails they will just kind of coordin them off in their own little world.

The Microsoft doesn't particularly need sales people. Because you need microsoft. Or at least your boss probably does. And every time Linux starts to get a hold on any sort of desktop or workstation environment Microsoft will do nasty little monopolistic things and get away with it because it's not a priority for voters. It's much more important that we stop those 14 girls in MidWest America from playing field hockey.

Also this removes all the FDIC insurance. These will be treated like banks that Target vulnerable people and they will be marketed like Banks to those vulnerable people.

It's going to collapse and when it does you're going to have tons of people who thought they were using a bank and found out they had no protection whatsoever.

We have already seen that scam with various companies acting like Banks and holding money for people and people losing all their money when they find out it's not FDIC insured.

This nonsense is literally what caused the Great depression among other things that we're doing right now.

Fuck I'm so sick and tired of people who don't understand anything about the economy or know what Chesterton's fence is... We have at least 77 million of them in this country.

When I started listening to "Techno" (basically a catch-all term for EDM/Electronica/Whatthefuckeversnobsarecallingitnow), I noticed I could think more clearly. And that's my ADHD (before it became cool to be retarded) ass giving empirical cred to the theory.

Linux is cool and proton helps but there's still a hell of a lot of stuff you just can't do. For example if you use your computer for music production it's extremely hard to get devices working under Linux (at least according to my buddy that does exactly that and has tried Linux multiple times and recently). They're just aren't drivers for a lot of the less expensive hardware interfaces.

Also proton just doesn't work for a ton of online games because of the anti cheat software. Although marvel rivals is supporting it thanks to steam deck which is really impressive.

Still every time Linux has a chance of getting a foothold Microsoft uses illegal antitrust violation tactics to stomp it into the ground and Europe hasn't stopped that anymore then any other country.

If we ever had solid antitrust law enforcement I think you'd see some uptake but we're just not going to have that. Half of voters are busy with moral panics and the other half either gets blocked by voter suppression or really only is focused on jobs and the economy without understanding the value and need to enforce antitrust law...