The opposition should not have mattered. This time around, you should have been able to put a pineapple with a hat on it in the ballot, and the people should have said, "well, at least it's not that guy." And we'd all be talking about the inaction of President Pineapple.
You miss my point. Everything goes in the blender. Voting, not voting, quietly accepting gerrymandering because it helps your guy, staying silent out of self interest, adhering to past alliances even though they no longer really represent your beliefs... there are paths to avoid everything you mention. But the system and the people collectively are the masses, and this is your output.
You make an interesting point. Not as much about the dollar... the world has been dealing in disparate currencies for a very long time. It'll get sorted out.
But about an America becoming aggressive in desperation... that's a concern. But not as much as people think. The world is not that of the British Empire, and there are some strong militaries. Countries don't need to beat the US. They just need to stave the off. And the history of the US trying to take and hold resources in other countries is abysmal.
Unless you have some system in place to distill the "will of the people", you can't say anything about any group. Thankfully, in the US you have your democratic election cycle. And whether it's who voted, or who didn't vote, your aggregate spit out this guy.
TWICE.
This is who you are.
Those of us not in the US can just pull up a chair and watch it burn down. I'm buying popcorn. They're opting out of health and education, which underpin the future of everything. The future is not theirs - they are steadfastly committed to near irrelevance in a couple of decades. I spent the last decade feeling concern for the citizens of the US, but I'm out of empathy.
"This isn't who we are!" Sorry, that rings hollow now. It is, in fact, who you are.
This seems to have been an investment scheme. Who hired an architect who is this insane?
"One recalled warning Tarek Qaddumi, The Line's executive director, of the difficulty of suspending a 30-story building upside down from a bridge hundreds of metres in the air. 'You do realize the earth is spinning? And that tall towers sway?' he said. The chandelier, the architect explained, could 'start to move like a pendulum,' then 'pick up speed,' and eventually 'break off,' crashing into the marina below."
That level of nonsense is usually restricted to a flat-Earth message board. But these folks were hired? They had no intention of delivering this project. If they wanted to deliver it, they wouldn't have hired people from the local psyche-ward.
Anyone who voted this up is disgusting.
OP is also disgusting.
Since when do people who read "news for nerds, stuff that matters" advocate for racism? Good, old-fashioned racism? The kind that started in the 16th century, and should have died there?
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That this is a post and was moderated up is disgusting. What the hell is wrong with you?
"1) Canada has already lost its status. Its hard to see how that is Trump's fault."
It is the fault of people who cause other people to hesitate or not vaccinate. We call them anti-vaxxers.
"2) Trump has only been in office for less than a year. Its unlikely the measles outbreak is a result of any of his policies."
Trump appointed an anti-vaxxer to head the CDC. This is his policy. His actions drive this as much as RFK and other anti-vaxxers. No one seems to disagree that the folks who vote for silly policies view his silly policies as legit, and legit policies as silly. That means they are the same problem -- ignorance masquerading as a relevant choice due to people's fear, uncertainty, and doubt. The same things any flim-flam con-artist would brag about.
"3) The outbreak is all along the southwest border with large populations of people who lack access to regular health care."
Yes, it is truly sad to see how terrible healthcare is in the United States. Why do you view that as a reason to not try anything new, and give up what little is being done? We seem to agree that what exists is not satisfactory.
"Blaming anti-vaxxers is attributing way too much power to a fringe group."
Wrong. That's like saying the person who drove the car off the cliff isn't responsible, because the other people in the car could/should have wrestled the wheel away from the driver. The driver is responsible. It is ridiculous to claim otherwise (you sound brainwashed).
"Perhaps we should look at years of neglect of public health in those states instead. With millions of people lacking access to basic health care what did you expect?"
Yeah, normal people have decried the terrible state of public US health policy. The only improvement in the last 2 decades was Obama Care. What's with the Republicans taking that away? How far into the dark ages do they want us to go?
""Trump did it" has become the standard excuse for the widespread failure of our political class. You can just point the finger at Trump and pretend the problems will be solved when he goes away. So his rival politicians will spend the next three years talking about Trump instead of addressing how to make our lives better."
Like you are doing? This "point" seems weirdly self-antithetical. Trump is one part; there's also Justice/SCOTUS, Senate, Congress. All aspects of government are in government, otherwise it's not government. Seems tautological.
"Its not that there isn't a lot to criticize about Trump. Its that most of the criticism is directed at minor sideshows like this one. And I say that as a former community health worker who spent a couple years knocking on parent's doors to increase the level of MMR vaccinations in local schools. I may have run into one parent who opposed vaccination. The rest just lacked the personal resources to get their kids immunized. They had a hard time making sure their kids had breakfast and got to school."
You know, programs that provide food to those in need + vaccine resources were cut by Trump and his cabinet of doom? This "point" also illustrates that this problem is big and has many factors at play, like problems that humans have traditionally banded together to face. That's why most developed countries (just the USA abstaining) use socialized healthcare policies.
Frankly, your confused post just shows why the problem seems intractable to the occupants of the country most victimized by their own medical policies -- the current USA medical policy is rake-stepping! You have people who make more money than god from medical care profits which are in the bleeding-from-your-eyes-numbers of over
Trump is also a promoter of that. It's valid to mention the toxic effect his cabinet and policies have had during *BOTH* of his terms, because that is literally what's happening now. These are the issues we agree on, and these are things driving those issues. The learned helplessness and unwillingness to challenge ignorance you seem to suggest isn't helpful, in my opinion.
Because human biology is an incredibly complex system, you can never prove anything definitively. You can only have degrees of uncertainty. So they presented their case, and explained their conclusions. I don't know how you can ask for anything different.
And "correlation is not causation", while being true, is highly misleading. The two are not completely disconnected. Circumstantial evidence is still evidence, no matter what popular opinion might wish.
They gave specifics. You want the opposite. The list of ultra processed foods is larger than the list of "regular" foods.
No one is really suggesting"at ANY price point". No one thinks renting rooms at 10 dollars is better than nothing, but renting rooms at 100 dollars that normally rent for 200 is better than nothing. And there is nothing stopping you from renting last minute, except the possibility of not getting a room or at least the room you want. If you want to take a chance of not getting a room to save 50 dollars you go right ahead.
That's the difference between a store of wealth and a speculation. Long after nVidia - or Bitcoin - have faded into history, gold will still be valued as wealth.
Trivialize it all you like. But that's just shortsighted pedantry. Gold has been considered valuable for longer than people have been writing it down. There's almost nothing with the unbroken track record of gold in being a store of wealth, and it'll still be wealth after we've all turned to dust.
And why would aesthetic uses not be intrinsic value? Sure, if it were a case of unproven demand or a fad... but that isn't the case.
I don't really see what cursive would provide that printing would not. They aren't that different from a fine skills perspective.
Sure, cursive is prettier. But the best argument for cursive is speed. It's just faster. And if you have to write a lot of text, the difference becomes significant. But nobody has to write in high volumes any more.
Well, here's my anecdote. I have been typing continuously since the 80s, making a living coding, writing business and management docs, creating software manuals and training materials... my whole adult life had a keyboard in front of it. But I never learned to type "properly". To this day it's a hodge podge process of controlled, high speed chaos.
Several of my aunts were in administration. They all knew how to type properly, and they were slightly faster on the keyboard than I.
They all got repetitive motion conditions in their hands and wrists later in life. I've never had so much as a hint of it.
Draw the line however you like, but I believe the unstructured chaos and higher error rate I accepted are the reason for the difference.
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. -- John Naisbitt, Megatrends
