What we have is the perfect storm of [all 3 branches being stuffed]

But that should be expected to happen every couple of hundreds years out of sheer probability.

a DoJ that has a sycophant that also refuses to prosecute obvious violations and instead is seeking to punish past foes

Because the DOJ is under the Executive branch, the Prez has too much influence over it. We need a 4th branch for various committees such as DOJ, department oversite committees, and Federal Reserve. Make it hard to change the board members (committee managers) such that it doesn't swing back and forth so easily. "Staid" is good for those functions, we don't want a startup or political-fad mentality in them.

And also limit the Prez's ability to remove or topple leaders of foreign countries without a Congressional vote. (The "War Powers Act" is potentially Unconstitutional because Congress can't make laws to reduce another branch's Constitutionally given powers. It would have to be a Constitutional amendment to keep it out of the whims of SCOTUS generations.)

It's a common scheme for a big "investment group" to buy up companies with a decent reputation, start shoving ads, snoopware, and/or junk fees on it, giving them short-term profits, and then sell it off at a discount when its now damaged reputation makes it a money-loser.

Even though they sell it at less than they bought it for, the reputation milking between those events often brings in more than enough to cover company sell losses. Or they just may keep it and let it linger until the skinny over-milked cow tilts over and kicks the bucket.

The investment group's enshittification formula is time-tested. It doesn't always work for a given purchase, but does in aggregate.

I once worked for a startup whose primary goal was to gain enough customers to be able sell the startup to an enshittifier. Thus, we made a decent attempt to be nice to customers even if we couldn't make a profit.

MAGAs' reasoning is often that because subject matter experts are sometimes wrong, their special Jesus-induced gut-feelings are more accurate. But such SJIGF's have proven even worse than experts in the past. (It was called "alchemy" and "snake-oil".)

"But those in the past were the wrong sect" or whatnot is given as an excuse. Whether that's true or not, the current group of SJIGF's needs to demonstrate their accuracy over a reasonable time before we allow them to override experts. "Just trust us because we use the right Jesus-talk" doesn't cut it.

I forecast Intel will belly up when the AI bubble crash depresses the entire IT industry.

That is unless The Orange One wants the gov't to own even more of Intel: socialism, wooopyy!

However, the backlog of people who want to buy PC's but delay due to high prices may actually give Intel a boost after the crash, as people start buying regular equipment again.

"Avoid OrangeWare!"

We are now a fucking pariah. The Iraq war also made us a pariah, but not in the commercial sense. Donnie just had to be the strongly top-most pariah ever seen in USA history, believe me!

Our Constitution strongly needs to shore up checks & balances on the Prez. Amendments could pass if GOP is embarrassed enough after Don's reign to try to patch relations with the world & voters; then Congress could get the 2/3 votes needed. Fairly unlikely, but not unrealistic.

Today LG is king. It's LG's market to lose.

The Law of Enshittification means LG will get arrogant & greedy, grab their money one day, milk their cow dry, and then run away.

Adobe can take their Creative Cloud subscription and recurringingly shove it up their asses.

FTFY

Anecdote: I had a CC subscription and tried to uninstall it when no longer needed, but couldn't. The uninstaller kept crashing. I tried to delete app folders, EXE's etc., but its zombie guts keep trying to run or contact HQ for updates etc. even to this day.

It reminds me of one Battlebots fight where the bot with the bigger weapon shattered the other into pieces. The bout clearly looked to be over, the apparent winning team burst into celebration, and the boxing-style count-down started.

But! ... then the pieces started moving on their own, like a worm sliced into thirds. One judge yelled, "WTF, they're still moving!" The look on the celebrating team's faces was classic: one half of their body was still dancing and the other half had a WTF slump: it kind of mirrored the sliced bot's disconnect.

The sliced bot was designed with fully independent sections so no single punch would stop it. They still lost, but lost in style. But Adobe CC is an evil bot, it does nothing in style.

Taxes are not something you want bots guessing at. Most places AI is doing well are where drafts are first created and then tuned using a combination of tools. Tax doesn't work that way because the user is not looking at image or text to be tweaked, they can't normally "see" the algorithm a tax computing gizmo is using to know where to tweak.

If users knew enough to readily tweak tax algorithms, they probably would use a spreadsheet anyhow, it's a tweaker's quickest route to KISS.

The younger generation of rich tend to want money now rather than yet more tomorrow. Thus, they'll often milk the cow dry, get their money now, and accept the risk the cow may not survive an industry slump. Maybe they want to get laid by top whores before their wanker no longer works.

My apologies, I misunderstood the context. It wasn't clear to me who the traits in the list were intended to apply to.

Japan seems to have repeated bad luck with nuclear technologies. While I don't condone superstitiousness, I can understand their population's hesitancy.

Addendum: I'm assuming you are (mis) quoting the lyrics of John Lennon's "Imagine". If not, then I have no idea what you are talking about.

To me "American values" are democracy, checks & balances on the powerful, freedom of political speech, freedom of and from religion; rewarding logic, honesty, and humility; and sincere learning from mistakes.

Logical Fallacy: Most liberals agree with ALL opinions of a particular Beatle. Should I likewise paint all MAGAs with the might-makes-right opinions of Stephen Miller?

Read a fucking logic book, Maganderthal!

Just mostly evangelicals. Go figure.

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