Thanks for relating those two things. I enjoyed hearing I'm not the only alien who thinks this way.

Uhh, not to take away from your other points, but I'd like to point out that factually the whole thesis for the article is pretty shakey. America is the top destination for migrants in terms of desirability. They want to come to the USA more than other places. That's just a simple fact. Another fact is that net migration inbound is much greater (1.3M to 2.7M more positive on the inbound side than the outbound).

So, I get that it's all the rage in EU to bash the USA, and yeah, okay whatever, but let's at least have the discussion with those two facts on the table too along with the "More people than usual left the USA for other places." bit.

I knew home-schooled kids who's textbooks were from the 1930's ("just for fun sometimes") they outscored nearly all my public school peers on standardized tests.

Also, I once replaced a bunch of greenscreen terminals at a furniture company. About six months after I got a call from the CTO who wanted the terminals back. Apparently, the workers were wasted WAY less time playing games and browsing the web when they had terminals and they were now getting infections on the PCs as well as people running or staying in apps they were never meant to even use at work. These folks were pissed when I took their PCs away and put the terminals back. Well, all but one of them. There was this lady who knew all the keyboard shortcuts to their text-user-interface forms and she was glad to have them back because she could fly through that app so fast with her muscle memory.

I thought for sure they'd revert back to PCs after a user-pitchfork-rebellion. Nope. They called me about six years later and I replaced the green screen CRT based terminals (Wyse 99GT's) with DEC VT525's that just used regular VGA style output and PS/2 keyboards. Then another few years later, flatscreens on the VT525's they already had. They are still using them more than 20 years later. The have the same C-level guy who simply will not relent. They have modern operations with wireless serial hand scanners for inventory and all kinds of ways to keep the old application online and working while gaining a bit of efficiency with new tech like wifi. Somewhere there's a Microsoft account rep crying himself to sleep over all the licensing fees this company never paid them.

They have been making these hyperventillating failed Hyperventillating predictions for more than 50 years. Nobody seems to be held accountable when they blatantly lie then get the predictions dead wrong.

Correct. I'm just here for the lols. I would never try to engage you in an "earnest discussion", I'm not that masochistic, Comrade.

You're a Communist. You're opinion doesn't mean shit.

If you don't know that large numbers of folks have been arrested in the UK for "hate speech" violations it seems like perhaps you are the one who isn't properly processing the media you're consuming. You've been able to ignore the most important facts possibly because you were actually unaware and ignorant, since the people you listen to never told you. They probably didn't tell you what migrants did to the the rape statistics in Sweden. They didn't tell you about the housing problems in Germany or the train-related violence against women. They probably also didn't mention the hate speech laws in Germany starting to see the same action as the UK.

You also seem to mistake government regulation as "keeping us safe" which is typical of collectivists. In fact, in America you still have options to do things that aren't safe, but are individual rights, such as own a gun. In the EU all those decisions have been taken away from you and you call it progress and safety. I call it tyranny and nanny-states. However, the immigration problem is going to sink the EU into a swamp it may never emerge from. This is why they keep delaying as many elections as possible in the UK. They know that the anti-mass migration parties are going to sweep the elections the next time they remember they are a democracy. Expect the same elsewhere, too, as multiculturalism continues to fail spectacularly in the EU and the US. Sure, the UK had Brexit but the Left there managed to keep the boats coming and blocked any immigration reform. What they don't realize is that they are going to get reform the hard way if they cannot vote for it.

Do you ever notice how often you say really ignorant shit, get absolutely stuffed by the rebuttals by people who actually have some life-experience in the areas you're speculating on, but you just derp-out and ignore the reality that you're just getting crushed over and over? I'm just wondering if that bothers you. Do you just insta-delete your replies or what?

Good list. Also, if they "left" tomorrow they'd have smaller class sizes and less need for ESL programs in public schools, improving educational quality and outcomes for native children, shorter wait times and greater availability of beds and services in emergency rooms and public hospitals, lower overall crime rates, including reduced gang-related violence, drug distribution, and organized theft rings. Seeing them gone would decrease demand on police, courts, and prisons, freeing up resources and potentially lowering local tax burdens. We'd have less strain on utilities and public works, resulting in more reliable water, electricity, and waste services with fewer outages or disruptions and reduced litter, graffiti, and maintenance costs in parks, streets, and public facilities due to lower transient populations.

So, yeah, material differences that are pretty hard to debate would be the outcome. The government and media are indeed the ones distributing propaganda telling us to stop complaining and embrace their shitty policies "Or else!" in the EU. The "Or else" is that they'll use "hate speech" laws to threaten, fine, imprison and otherwise censor and silence anyone who doesn't think letting in ideologically hostile diseased criminal illiterates isn't a great policy.

You're being flooded with migrants and losing your free speech rights, but hey, as long as you are proving to the world how helpy and communal you are, it's cool right?

It's a state by state landscape here in the USA. Some states are pretty strict, others, like California have laws against showing ID. So, despite some states having things like ID requirements and serialized anti-counterfeiting paper ballots, others have next-to-nothing. The part that makes it such a partisan issue is that the Democratic leaning states are, factually, where all the lax policies are . They allow things like same-day-voting-without-ID, use known-vulnerable electronic voting machines, allow ballot harvesting, only spot-check signatures on mail-in ballots, and do not properly audit voter roles. This lends fuel to the perception that the Dems want to encourage cheating.

When someone has restricted voting security so incredibly much that you cannot even find evidence that they are cheating (because they've made it illegal to create that evidence), I'd say that's a pretty good indication of a problem. Where there is smoke there is fire. Those anti-security measures are definitely smoke.

Actually, his post was quite well-reasoned and spot on. You, on the other hand sound like a liberal crank who reads Reddit and listens to NPR all day. Instead of "throw the election", I think you mean "require an ID" like the vast majority of other countries do. You can't buy a beer without showing ID. It's not too much trouble to require one to vote, unless of course you wanted to steal the election... So, what's the problem?

Nobody likes seeing masked LEOs grabbing people off the street. Personally, I'd rather see immigration enforcement start with the illegal employers. This seems like theater. However, voters clearly want an end to immigration chaos and an some actual policy choices made and enforced. Slashdot is full of very opinionated EU dwellers, most of whom have strict immigration enforcement and skills-based quotas (ie.. loud, retarded, hypocrites with no real experience or basis for an opinion). Well, we have @14 million illegals here. How many are in your country?

We are sick of corporations using illegals for cheap labor wage suppression (ie... attacking the poor using the poor) and I am very much willing to pay more for hotels, meat, and tomatoes to see them go home. Unfortunately, after all the effort that was expended to hold the door open for them under Biden, many more flooded in and it's a lot messier to get rid of them than to let them flow in. That's the reality, along with, again pretty large chunks (82% in this article) who want at least some immigrants sent back, despite quibbling with how aggressive that should be.

Basically folks want them sent back but without the headlines and violence. That's why it should be done quietly via employment enforcement, not street thug tactics.

I've used these "vibe coding" tools. Cursor, Claude Code, VS Studio Copilot, ChatGPT API in NeoVIM, etc... They absolutely suck. They waste more time than they usually save except for very specific tasks. They can occasionally create working code for smaller problems, but it's not code you want to check in. It's full of other bugs. They are usually logic bugs or oversights due to the context tokens being exhausted and the bots "forget" about various parts of the project that's already done or rules/decisions you already made. The threshold right now is about 300 lines of code. Get past that, shit falls apart rapidly.

Don't get me wrong, bots can occasionally code. However, unlike for writing copy, creating images, or making music, the code isn't "good enough" to use or continue building with. If you do, you will regret it. Sure, have it write docs, review code, etc.. but as for writing the solution itself: it's garbage. People just lap these stupid journo stories up but they rarely talk to skeptical real coders with AI experience.

When will the world learn that nothing is going to effectively shortcut having to code in large projects. The bots simply fail in real-world projects. They make the code substantively worse and more confusing. There is no silver bullet. There never was. CASE method was bullshit. Visual coding didn't make managers into coders. New methodologies like Agile or XP only made working life more miserable and add admin slots for non-coders. There is no shortcut to writing code that really works long term for big projects. PERIOD.

Yes, but this time it's the unionized SAG-AFTRA writers and *GASP* the beautiful people (actors) who are being threatened this time. I mean, who cares if a bunch of geeky model makers lost their jobs, but if a celebrity has to suffer, then we must act!

No. After being subjected to celebrity political advice and CV1984 scorn, Hollywood can burn. I don't care for "film" or TV. So, I was never their customer anyway and have always been their enemy politically, as I stand for individual rights and basic freedom. AI can't be any more evil than the celebs themselves have been. Let's do this.