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Comment Re: Wow (Score 1, Troll) 160

You, as well as so many others, are not looking at the differences in attitude between the different factions in Israel. Netanyahu is a criminal who should be brought up on war crimes, along with the rest of the government in Israel. Now, there are far more people in Israel that DO want peace, but they are powerless, in the same way that the vast majority of people in the USA are actually against what Trump and his administration have been doing.

Once you have a right-wing lunatic in power who then works to rig elections, it becomes more and more difficult to remove them from power.

With all of that out of the way, it is the fault of Hamas for giving Netanyahu an excuse to go into Gaza in this way, but then, it is the government in Israel who has gone over the line of a "reasonable" response into the realm of genocide. It's like if someone insults you, and your response is to stab them with a knife or shoot them in response. It's so far over the line for a reasonable reaction that it can't be defended.

Comment Re:Let's create some strict liability here (Score 2) 158

When you have people in government creating doubt about the effectiveness of vaccines in general, then those people in government are fully responsible for the drop in vaccination rates. The US government even has it in the preamble to the US Constitution..."...to promote the general welfare...", and that says government should be doing things to improve things for the overall population. While some doubt might be reasonable for NEW vaccines, the idea of vaccines overall has been proven to be a good thing, and the old "MMR" basic vaccines should never have been removed as a requirement for children going to public schools.

Comment Re: Is the US winning yet? (Score 2) 214

That is complete bullshit. We have(or had), a good information network until Trump alienated our allies around the world while making verbal love to the dictators in Russia, China, and North Korea as well as others. When our former allies stop giving information to the USA to stop terrorism because the USA is no longer reliable, everyone loses.

If you think violating freedom of speech is good, then you are in the wrong country, and you would be better off supporting Putin in Russia.

Comment The problem is when HR uses AI to screen resumes (Score 1) 41

When every company has resume filtering software that blocks out good candidates because of arbitrary formatting rules(that are not disclosed), it makes sense that people will look for other ways to make contacts to get a job. Sure, a dating app/site doesn't seem like a good way to go, but these days, people do what they need to in order to survive, and politicians here in the USA don't seem to understand that, "...to promote the general welfare..." means that government should be working to improve the lives and well being of the overall populace, not just the wealthy, not just people from one political party or another, but EVERYONE. Corruption has been allowed by Citizens United, and at this point, those who voted for it should be brought up on corruption charges if they have been getting "gifts" from billionaires.

Comment Re:Hey! This is great news! (Score 1) 44

Do you understand about the need for government services like homeless shelters, sewers, water treatment, and all of the rest? All of these things cost money, and while those in rural areas don't seem to care about homeless people(they can just go off into the woods to die), those who live in and around cities certainly understand the need for government services. Then, you also have the schools. When you have 1500 students going to one school, that means the buildings and maintenance are going to cost more.

And, unlike those schools in rural areas, they don't put all their money into new sports stadiums for high school sports.

Comment Cause and effect is being missed (Score 1) 81

What we have here is a clear difference between the source of a problem, and a symptom of a problem. Those who are naturally prone to accepting false information as the truth are already at the point where they can be told ANYTHING, and they will believe it. Here in the USA, it could be something in the drinking water or environment that have promoted this, and we see it where people will believe ANYTHING some politicians put out there, even when it is obviously misleading or objectively, a lie. Oh, AI chatbots are the source of people being very easy to manipulate, and people will believe THAT, as opposed to these people just being very very easy to manipulate? It could also be genetic, because the less intelligent also tend to reproduce more(for a number of reasons), so we have regions that have higher concentrations of stupid people who just believe the really stupid things you see online.

Comment Re:Or we can tax appropriately (Score 1) 165

Republicans keep pushing for not taxing the very wealthy at even the same percentage as people who make $50,000/year, so that is what makes it so everything is "too expensive" for government. At the same time, they keep pushing to spend more on the military, because they are the party of war, not of defense, but just to wage war and spend unlimited amounts of money doing it.

Comment Re:Bubble (Score 5, Insightful) 43

You are at least 100 years early on expecting this to happen. We still don't have AI replacing the majority of jobs. We don't even have AI call centers replacing the customer service people. So, while a lot of potential is there, AI isn't killing too many jobs YET. It will take at least 20-50 years before robotics will be replacing the workers at Amazon in the warehouses. So, right now, it's all hype based on the potential for AI, and yet, it's causing problems with water, electricity, and other things due to infrastructure having been neglected for such a long time.

Comment The USA falls behind due to Republicans (Score 3, Insightful) 43

You may think of this as a troll, but the, "how will we pay for it, what do we get for it?" crowd, which is primarily Republicans, are against research in science for the sake of learning and discovering. What they ALWAYS forget is that the things discovered during the planning and these pure science projects almost always lead to scientific discoveries that make a LOT of money. People who are short sighted just can't figure it out. Republicans of today would be against the ARPANET, because they don't have enough understanding of ANYTHING in science to understand the idea of potential.

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