We need ICE to pick up Melania and deport her due to her application for residency in the USA being done improperly(someone was bribed into allowing it).

You know that all of that nonsense about "efficiency" that reduced the teams that go after cyber crimes in the department of justice just encourages China, Russia, and North Korea to attack our infrastructure. So, Trump has all of this going on so he won't get prosecuted once he is out of office, but you also have foreign governments now encouraging hacking groups to attack ANYTHING in the USA they possibly can.

The big problem is that these studios are so afraid of risk, they don't even try anything different. Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Showtime, and the other streaming services do have more variety, which is why they are still around.

You can go a bit further into the problem, when they release 20 movies a year, three can do poorly, three can do really well, and fourteen of them can do "ok", meaning they don't make a lot, but they don't lose much either. The result is though, that people keep going to the movies because there is variety. Now, over the years, these studios have dropped how many movies they make per year, and that means they don't want to run a risk of even one movie being a flop. So, we get "more of the same", and that means, more people decide to just wait for it to become available to watch at home, because the options generally suck.

If you aren't willing to take a risk, then you will never get these movies that really amaze people because the story and characters are really well written. Nope, it's just bland garbage. Netflix cut back on their development, and will probably be feeling it before too much longer, because without a LOT of different content, many don't find enough to justify the monthly cost.

I can still hear it in my head, "Welcome to MoviePhone...."

There is a huge difference between AI that gives false information and AI that only provides factual information. If what AI comes up with is full of "that doesn't really exist!" situations when you go through to verify the output from AI, then people clearly should not be substituting AI for real workers. For lawyers, how many of them are using AI to generate legal briefs that cite cases that don't exist? If AI is giving you stuff that works, that's useful, but with the number of reports about AI just inventing things to please the user but that do not really exist, then AI can't be trusted.

Both of these things can be scaled up to deal with the issues at hand, but politicians are so limited in thinking about what will happen in the next 2-4 years that planning for things 20 years out is lost on them. This is why the issue is hitting us today, because of people who don't understand planning for the future.

Sea walls, while expensive, would help prevent cities from ending up underwater. Desalination plants to pull in a lot of water could be used to not only irrigate land areas that have been having issues with a lack of rainfall, but also to keep the rising sea levels from causing a lot of damage.

You must be relatively young. Back before the days of streaming, we had the challenge of checking through all of the TV networks and cable channels to find what new stuff was going to be coming out that looked interesting, but at the same time, the majority of them had VERY VERY little content that was original. Netflix having an insane amount of original content made it the go-to for streaming in the modern era, and while it doesn't offer quite as much, there's still a lot of content there. Amazon Prime as well, then you have the HBO and Showtime originals. So, things weren't too bad, until...Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV, Peacock, Paramount. The thing is though, it's only been for the past five years or so that people feel they need to check Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV, Peacock, and Paramount for original content.

There was also a dip in original content caused by Covid, so the 2020-2023 time period caused a lot of programming to either be delayed or cancelled.

You claim "The West", but when you have the Chinese government subsidizing cars just to allow for very low prices, that is the perfect place where tariffs would normally be justified. It's not the same as "in the West" where governments pump money into auto makers who then keep the prices high just to increase their profits. The safety regulations in many "Western" nations are much more demanding than what you get out of China. These Chinese vehicles, do they have more than two airbags for the front and nothing for passengers in the rear seats for example?

Frontloading sales happens all the time, and then the company has to deal with lower sales for the rest of the year. This is how the executives make their money, they dump shares between when the results are released and when the forecast for the rest of the year is released.

Sales tax, tariffs, and other taxes are how everyone is getting his by taxes. But, why do the so-called conservatives continually push for tax breaks on the very wealthy who pay a lower percentage of their income in taxes compared to those who make $50,000 per year?

Wealth redistribution, so, let the very wealthy pay a lower percentage tax rate than those who work for a living, meaning they make more and more money while the rest of us pay more in taxes? Note that when 1 percent of the income of a billionaire is more than what the rest of us pay in taxes, some people will claim that the billionaires are paying more in taxes, while they pay a very low percentage of their income, meaning the government is being short changed and then runs a deficit.

You mistake the difference between the modern and primitive world that we live in to something that could potentially exist in another 100 years. The basic issue is that when supplies of items are limited, then it makes sense to limit who gets those items or how many of them people should be able to have. If we have an unlimited amount of something, then the idea of charging for it is just being selfish.

So, because we don't have unlimited resources, then pure socialism doesn't work, because you can't allow EVERYONE to have every last thing they might want. So, capitalism...it makes sense, except that the politicians now give special breaks and discounts to the wealthy, as if the wealthy deserve to pay a lower PERCENTAGE of their income compared to those who work for others. Historically, there has been a top marginal tax rate of over 90% up until the Reagan era of "give everything to the wealthy and it will magically improve things for the working class".

If the wealthy paid even their fair share in taxes, the "economics" of doing something about climate change and infrastructure improvements would become fairly easy. But, trickle down economics, where the wealthy complain when they have to pay 5% of their income in taxes.

I am surprised that no one else has mentioned that Samsung had done this years ago. Samsung went from the Galaxy S10 to the S20(which came out in 2020, the S10 came out in 2019). This was entirely about marketing in the competition between Samsung and Apple, but it worked. So, S25 is the phone that launched this year, the S26 will come out next year.

Standards of living go down when you put these upper caste people from India in charge where they expect everyone besides themselves to work 60-80 hours a week for less money.