These little piggies always forget that thereâ(TM)s a marketplace. They want no constraints.

But if you donâ(TM)t have a set of rules for food and drugs. Then suddenly you canâ(TM)t sell to Europe. Everyone starts growing their own crops and heads to YouTube for home remedies.

Itâ(TM)s a libertarians wet dream but not really good for business when everyone loses faith in the commons.

If you keep spying and building database that end up on the dark web. Donâ(TM)t be shocked when people go back to an old IMac and set up a BBS with modems because they donâ(TM)t need your crap any more.

Reagan sold out to big oil, big banking and big war, and I suppose to Wall Street as well. So of course all of them would pressure their media outlets to sing Reaganâ(TM)s praises.

Other than that, Carter was introducing a bit of neoliberalism, but on balance, a far better President than anything weâ(TM)ve had since. Although Biden wasnâ(TM)t as bad as I thought he was going to be but the bar is low.

Maybe now one of the Carter family can say what âoereallyâ happened.

It wasnâ(TM)t just Iran/Contra. George Bush actively sabotaged the rescue efforts of Delta Force.

Of course that will be written off as a conspiracy theory. But letâ(TM)s run down all the proven evil deeds;
Ollie North helped run cocaine drops to fund corporate slaughters by mercenaries in Latin America. These operations also helped pay for weapons to be shipped to anti US religious extremists in Iran. Meanwhile, this same administration poisoned marijuana that killed a few people and ran those âoejust say noâ campaigns. But their cocaine was clean!

Theyâ(TM)d be rotting in prison if the lead witness didnâ(TM)t have sudden emergency brain surgery the day of the trial.

When you want to look back on the road to hell and how corrupt the USA got, Nixon-Reagan-Bush put down a lot of pavement.

Itâ(TM)s just not worth discussing economics with clueless people. Thereâ(TM)s just so much shenanigans going on and robber barons manipulating the media and wage theft and everyone is taught microeconomics wrong.

The largest part of the economy is the tech sector. And a large chunk of that is services, software and IP. So all of that doesnâ(TM)t scale like a factory.

The next large chunk is luxury items. Where supply and demand is perception.

Then youâ(TM)ve got financial services. Because there is too much hoarded wealth for the rich to spend and money makes money through artificial scarcity.

On top of that, weâ(TM)ve got interlocking ownership where who knows who owns what buy you do a deep dive and learn that there are cartels and not real competition.

Then weâ(TM)ve got energy, and sometimes friends of Putin and the Saudis make agreements to keep prices high. Followed by gasoline production which is not a free market and designed for profits.

And then youâ(TM)ve got every other robber baron seeing how rich they can get. Your produce, your funeral plot, your mobile home â" artificially more costly in the USA because only a few major players in each category.

So when you get to the part of the economy that isnâ(TM)t rigged and follows supply and demand curves, well then youâ(TM)ve got hedge fund managers and futures options.

Suffice to say, if you didnâ(TM)t know it was mostly rigged and itâ(TM)s dogs fighting over a bone, thereâ(TM)s no point in a conversation.

The following is my translation:
*Alcohol is the most preventable source of cancer outside of plastics and numerous other things we allow you to be subjected to but would frankly cost a lot of money to people who scare us.

We could give you hope, a decent wage, and some classes on how to chill with other humans, but that would require work and distribution of wealth, so that isn't going to happen.

Again, we'd like to let you know that you should think we care. But we know you drink to forget, and then there's internet porn. So,..

The person to first break Godwin's law has a link on their tagline that is labelled "F@ck Palestine [youtu.be]" -- without irony.

Just replace one targeted group with another -- no longer fascism?

Also, I agree "living wage" is about dignity.

Pretty sure that Apple is pursuing an "Intelligent Assistant." A lighter version of an LLM that can exist on a device and doesn't need to author your next screenplay. The AI that we really want; one that sifts through the spam to let us know about the IMPORTANT email, or one that finds something of interest, or can actually fill out a form only leaving the "decision bits" to the user. Finally, you can post that CV to the various websites that have you jump through hoops and make you enter in each job and University one by one, even though it's already in the PDF you uploaded.

The main challenge in this type of assistant will be interpreting commands to be "mostly harmless, but still useful." Like "Siri, send a message to my office to ask for time to visit the car mechanic tomorrow." And it's not a resignation letter.

There's a huge middle ground of annoying grunt work we do on computers right now that sits between "open app" and "write me a song -- make it good, illustrate the album cover." And that's the junk we REALLY want help with. Apple is likely not going to push the envelope like Google and Microsoft, but will do things most people will welcome.

Music industry; "Hey, only we get to rip off the creative people!"

Nobody died there until that one guy.

I do think some of these Q conspiracies are true, but they also might be a bit skewed by the guilty.

Trump had zero political power. Netanyahu used to say jump and at least half of Washington would say; âoeHow high?â

The Epstein thing was a poorly held secret like the DC Madam before who fulfilled a demand and âoesuicidedâ before her guest list could be lifted from judgeâ(TM)s âoeprotect the guiltyâ orders.

Then Trump has Epstein as his best buddy. Parties at the now famous golf club.

Then suddenly, Putin or Trump say jump and get people jumping. He complained during his 2016 campaign about Foxâ(TM)s coverage and they shaped up real quick.

Could it have been a catfishing operation and the people assigned by Trump were there to hush it up when it could no longer be protected. What motivates Allen Dershowitz?

Itâ(TM)s just a theory. But, probably not going to be adopted. For some reason, all the crazy clubs now have a lot of focus on whatever comes out of Hannity, Tucker, Alex Jones, or Putinâ(TM)s mouthâ" just to name a few who read from the same playbook.

So what you are saying is; if all three cars were autonomous, there would not have been an accident.

It won't be long before we are comfortable with autonomous cars, and they will be far safer and consistent than humans in short oder.

One day someone will freak out that they cause 5,000 accidents per year when only 3 Billion Americans use them.

Anyway, that's not GM and not today. But it's funny how people want to give up on it because there are accidents. If it were the other way around, NOBODY would be giving humans keys to anything.

Asking robot overlords for the are keys; "Oh come on, I only fall asleep for 8 hours a day!"

Get this, someone on Slashdot thinks Microsoft has IMPROVED Office.
"Now works with other apps, rearranged icons, and has a eyedropper to grab colors like everyone other program has on the planet."

Only 1% of the public uses those extra power features. And, if the documents were compatible, I'd consider the NON-ribbon version of office an upgrade in usability. I've given up finding where the change case button is to be found and just use that search bar for it.

Is it the CCP? I donâ(TM)t see much from them. Usually pro Russian, anti liberal. But, I canâ(TM)t tell the difference between the Russian agitprop and the NewCorp alt-right agitprop. I think they had a board meeting and decided to carve up the world. Amicably.

One caveat, if you think you are not manipulated you are probably manipulated more than the average.

But, Iâ(TM)m different, Iâ(TM)m not stuck in the internet with social media, social media is stuck in here with me!!!!

So let me get this straight. Does this mean fans of Trump were alarmed and concerned but other than the hate and the lowered oversight on ICE agents for a whileâ" zero actual changes to border security actually changed?

I guess being upset and using it as a campaign issue is the extent of the involvement. Seems the left and right has more in common than I once thought.