Most minority groups do integrate, and bring along their culture to mix into the rest.

I dunno....when I see all these protests in the US, these assholes are all waving other countries' flags....I'd actually be a bit more at ease and listen if they were waving the American flag...

People waving flags of other countries while rioting and being violent....strike me as invaders from a foreign land that need to be defended against, you know?

From what I can tell...is that your warranty runs out at age 60 for the most part....wow, I mean I wish I'd bought the extended warranty....

Lots of friends going well till early 60's and then BAM, everyone getting hit with health problems.

There must be some really juicy things in those files about him. No other explanation makes sense. Or maybe about someone of the group of cretins he put into important positions.

I think there's a very good possibility that Epstein was an intelligence agency(s) asset....and there are a lot of people that do not want that out....that he was used for intelligence purposes, to blackmail, etc famous people and world leaders.

Something tells me that is something they dug up and now are wanting to shut down...

Here's a reference that details some of that, and also notes it's probably going to get even worse if/when Trump's tariffs kick in:

Beef prices are soaring: Hereâ(TM)s why

The countries that export a significant amount of meat, such as New Zealand and Australia, are facing a 10 percent tariff, while others, like Brazil, which has exported 216,119 metric tons of meat this year, might be staring at a 50 percent tariff.

Still, multiple other factors have contributed to the rise in beef prices, including drought conditions, a downward trend in the number of herds, high supply costs and a parasite impacting some imported cattle.

We should be MORE than capable of raising enough beef in the US to meet any US beef needs.

we don't need imported meats....

I do not think anymore that people are capable of this. A few are and they do it without prompting (the 10-15% "independent thinkers") the rest is just dumb and honestly believes ignoring things makes them go away. They do not even understand what a fact is, much less that it can be verified.

You may be leaving out a substantial number of people that. "Just don't care"....

I'm leaning pretty heavily towards that group of folks.

I mean I don't see this destroying the world of my way of life in my lifetime......and therefore I don't see a compelling reason to change my lifestyle, go out of my way , or even compromise my comfort for something of no perceivable benefit to my remaining lifetime....

I'm in Lahaina right now. There was a fire here two years ago. You may have heard of it.

Nope....never heard of it...

Robotics as a field is about to surge, and food prep will be one of those things that many people will have a robot in their home for.

I doubt that in many cases....for instance, I happed to really ENJOY cooking....and prep work is part of it. I learned my knife skills for a good reason.

And for restaurants that are at least a level or two above fast food...they're not going to want everything to be non-human perfect, etc....otherwise why go to any particular restaurant when the full experience would be just exactly the same with full blown robotic food prep and service...?

It's funny how we get comments like this but we never hear conservatives complain about the loss of freedom from us banning all kinds of other dangerous stuff. That FDA and their freedom hating right?

Are you trying to argue that the FDA is a constitutionally protected right?

What jobs won't be AI impacted?

Most restaurant work would be one....

$75 Billion allocated for ICE over the next four years.

Cheeto claimed he was going after criminals but it turns that 75% of this group who were kidnapped to El Salvador had criminal records

Well....while it is best to clear out the REALLY bad guys first, anyone here in the US illegally....is a criminal and should be deported according to the laws on the books.

And yes it IS a criminal offense under 8 US code 1325.

And illegal re-entry after deportation is a more serious felony.

I will agree that some sent to that foreign super duty prison was overkill....by law we should be sending them 'home'.

Remind me how arresting the guy doing kitchen prep work makes the country great again?

He is taking up a job that a US citizen could be doing. I used to work in restaurants as a kid and college student.

Also, very good chance he's being paid under the table in cash, so no taxes....and he's likely being treated in the ER for any medical needs, which comes out of all of our pockets with increased prices, etc.....we may be paying to educate the kids they brought over or dropped while here that otherwise would not be a burden on our educational system.

That's a few solid reasons.

If you print a gun (or gun parts, depending on the part), it has to be traceable to an individual (not sure how you'd want to handle that), and have a serial number that gets registered to your gun license, complete with rifling pattern (randomly generated for each print)... of course, the file would have to be secured against being modified (maybe SHA or something).

Federally this is NOT true....US citizens have had and still have a right to manufacture their own firearms and you do not have to mark them with any identifying codes/numbers.

Now...that being said, you cannot sell or even give these guns away, they are for personal use ONLY.

But it is perfectly legal to manufacture you own weapons, even the "serialized parts" that gun manufacturers do that they SELL....and you as a private citizen do not have to mark or register them in any way....Federally.

Some freedom hating states have put laws in place making this illegal....not sure how that would stand up to a lawsuit, but it is what is it now...but these state laws only apply in a very few blue states.

Thankfully I dont live in or near one of those....

Even during this year's heat wave, inside temperature never climbed above 26C (I have home. That's just fine. I did get a ceiling fan though.

Looking 26C up..that's about 78.8F...that's too fucking hot for indoors to me...

Hell, I keep it about 72F at night to sleep.....about 74-75F during the day when home....

"Yep, so much Californian money goes to supporting the inefficient red states. It's little wonder."

Seriously? That's your "go to"?

Just... wow.

CA is exhausted as being the 5th largest economy in the world if it were it's own country, yet we have the highest taxes in virtually every single catagory, among the highest unemployment, poverty, homelessness, lowest ranked student performance (most high schools in CA are opting out of the federal standard tests now) -- virtually every category such a "wealthy" state should do well.

Shall we talk about how CA went from bragging about surpluses to huge deficits at the drop of a hat? While bringing in record breaking state revenue? All these problems are NOT due to federal taxes but California's poor management and apathetic electorate. And, "oh". Federal taxes are collected from the people of CA -- not what CA deigns to provide to the fed.

BTW, I'm not a republican -- and I'm a "never trumper" (proud to have had the opportunity to *NOT* vote for him 6 times (3 primaries and 3 national elections).

Jeez...

One of the only areas our elected officials do excel.

That's been going on for ages. Used to be able to hit some of the sketchy parks and buy $100 worth of food stamps for $40. Buyer gets a huge savings on this weeks groceries and the addict gets another 2ish weeks of feeding their addiction.

EBT ATM cards kind of killed that market. Now they get full value on wasting their benefits.