The failed pseudo-science of psychology is still failed even when it affirms the commie inside of you.

What better time, then, to making importing H1Bs extremely expensive.

No, it won't. The numbers ultimately published are massaged by agencies run by political appointees. Formulae are tailored to fit narratives and ultimately what we get is propaganda.

Your scheme, for instance: Who will be participating, and who will be eligible for a reward? These calls will be made by political forces.

That number is not credible. The prompts I write for "personal" purposes are literally indistinguishable from what a worker might make: for all ChatGPT knows I'm an auto mechanic. Location isn't a valid metric either, given WFH, mobile devices, etc. They can't possibly distinguish between work and personal to a one digit of precision. Obviously they can see whether prompts are coming from commercial accounts, paid personal accounts or free tier, but even that gets fuzzy at the low end.

There are few wells of propaganda deeper than those of "inflation numbers."

That, right there.

Just as one minute example of many: did you notice or care that BLS disappeared ~1.7 million US jobs in less than 12 months? "Corrections."

You have no "evidence." What you have is your preferred propaganda. Failure to dutifully inculcate propaganda as "evidence" is the exact opposite of servile.

If you could get a commie (or whatever you'd prefer) elected with the temerity to "just do stuff," you'd follow he/she/it off any number of cliffs as well. Pretend otherwise and show me your perfidity.

The framers put a lot of power in the Executive. The fact that whatever your side might be is incapable of producing actual leaders that can set aside the establishment group-think and leverage this is both a symptom of your sclerotic nature and also a shame. I'm not the simple minded knuckle dragger you presume.

If they did or didn't wouldn't matter to Trump in any meaningful way. Trump doesn't listen to technocrats until they make the mistake of opposing him. Trump also doesn't given a damn what other nations do or don't.

That's leadership. You may hate him for it, but you can't deny it.

I can't recall any business moguls jumping up and down about this. On the other hand, I haven't heard anyone screaming from the hills about the high costs of such a change either, and business never, ever fail to bitch about regulatory costs. So I have to discount your supposed concern.

That I can recall. Yes he did. He mentioned it on occasion in speeches, so this no surprise to me. Obviously it's not a big vote-getter of an issue, so he didn't walk around in a big red "MAKE CORPORATE REPORTING GREAT AGAIN" hat, but it was a point in the campaign.

We've all seen the "WTF Happened in 1970/1/2?" meme. Now, no one can credibly claim that whatever that stuff means had anything at all to do with the inception of quarterly reporting around the same time. I can claim, however, that somehow, some way, the US economy did, in fact, function pretty well before Nixon's SEC mandated quarterly reporting. So, perhaps Trump's change isn't actually the end of the world and the dawn of the Forth Reich.

If it helps overcome your knee-jerk Airbus vs. Boeing hang-ups, 737 MAX has a known failure mode that will rapidly gas the cockpit with vaporized oil. Equipped with this necessary whataboutery affordance, you should feel safe in at least allowing for the possibility that Airbus is also not flawless in all things.

Cockpits and cabins have been getting filled with various gasses since the inception of pressurization ~80 years ago. To Boeing's credit, the 787 has set a legitimate engineering precedent in aircraft design and eliminated at least some of the major sources of air contamination. Eventually, when Airbus copies it, you'll be able to safely ignore this. So no worries.

Intel is simultaneously a.) creating a new GPU ecosystem, b.) implementing their 1.8A process node, c.) developing the "nova lake" architecture d.) perfecting "backside" power delivery, e.) building several new fabs.

That's a lot of spending. Apparently, despite what Reddit thinks, they're not planning on going out of business.

Also, Intel is shipping their "Pro" GPUs now: the B50 is out. 16GB of VRAM and 170 INT8 TOPS at 70W for $350. Level1Techs has a review (yesterday) and it looks like a pretty good product. They're promising SR-IOV with VDI support for this GPU in Q4: so, remote VM desktops with hardware video acceleration at a non-"enterprise" price point, which would be a first.

The Prilukskoye field in Donetsk has 600M bbl of proven oil reserves. In 2013 the Budishchansko-Chutovskoye field was discovered. Reserves are at least 100M bbl based on initial estimates, but no one really knows the full potential because it hasn't been developed.

The truth is that no one knows the full extent of oil in Ukraine. Oil wells that were tapped out in the 70's in Ukraine are later found to have more oil because modern seismology and recover technology is better than 1970's Soviet technology. There is even oil in Crimea, but the scale of that is unknown because Russia invaded Crimea a year after it was discovered.

Here is a map of proven reserves of gas and oil in Ukraine to help you avoid saying stupid things like that again.

Well then you're stupid. Putin wants to claim the vast oil and gas basins in Ukraine. Putin wants warm water ports, domination over the Black Sea, and a land bridge into Southeastern Europe. Putin wants Ukraine's oil and gas pipelines and all the leverage over Europe that comes with them. Putin wants the mighty industrial base that was Ukraine under the Soviets, where much of the very best of the Soviet Union's technology and industry were created and built. Putin wants the immense bread basket of the Ukrainian plains, as depicted in the flag of Ukraine, and full control of these immense food resources as leverage over dependent nations in Africa and the Middle East. Putin wants the prestige of conquering a neighbor in Europe and making the world accept it.

So stop being stupid.

Don't argue with that fuckwit. Malcontents like rsilvergun are perpetually enraged by the existence of Amish and other such faith communities that fail to fail.

Yes, you are correct: they are growing steadily, snapping up affordable land when large chunks of contiguous property becomes available. They prefer land that has low value to conventional agrarians; northern state rural property, where winter provides free refrigeration for slaughter. A bonus when it has tracts of hardwood lumber, which they clear (by hand) and use for high quality furniture products.

And the food is crazy. They eat like 19th century landed aristocracy.