It is likely true that software quality is dropping. But the important point I would like to make is that quality elsewhere is horrible too. Our relatively new house is on its third bathroom sink faucet in about 12 years total time. I cannot fathom how this could be so bad. Car quality, parts, engines, transmissions all of it is worse. Worse parts, worse designs, it all is bad and so much more expensive. A twenty year old car w/ only front wheel drive, a four speed transmission, a reasonable power v6 in comparison is SO solid. A little worse MPG but that is it, and sometimes that isn't so clear cut. I'm sure there are examples of things that have improved, and others that have gotten worse. But those were a couple I can think of off hand. A lot of this is driven by big government making decisions for us, even during republican administrations ironically. Fuel efficiency standards go back to Bush. Anyways, enjoy, the future is gonna suck. And be expensive.

Farmers will bitch about a def burn/regen, but still buy the new huge combine because even with sitting for 45 minutes, they get so much more done so fast it is unreal. So they buy/rent huge equipment they cannot work on because they run so many acres they really have no other options. Our government bankrolls all their risk so land/rent values keep going up and everyone is too happy to question anything. Red America complains about market access while voting in Trade War Trump. We're all so stupid. Nevermind GMO everything. If only we could make tofu w/ all this cheap soy. Nope, we gotta feed it to cows/pigs/chickens. No one cares about the river and aquifer water quality, or how expensive it is to treat for high nitrate levels. Sorry for the slightly unrelated farming rant. But I really wish our local river was cleaner. It is never a focus and so sad. But I'd refer to it as a "water quality collapse." Ironically you have to pay farmers for buffer strips and CRP, I'm not sure they'd do it on their own. Left to their own devices they're even ripping out the shelter belts around here.

Listen, this is barely even on topic. We should be talking about how bad tariffs are, and if the supreme court will allow the tariffs to continue and force Trump and Republicans to eat their shit sandwich. Etc.

But what he's done to medicine and research? Not really pertinent. Besides, the point I was going to make, is how can the modern medicine complex even continue? You routinely here about how people and their insurance isn't able to pay the exorbitant prices they want to charge for the output of said advances. It's so unrealistic. Can the upper 20% of consumers in America prop this up? That's probably not even accurate, I would bet it's less than 5%, so just high net worth households, that stand a chance at paying for this research. This industry is delusional and has to extend the timelines of paying back themselves for their costs. The current path for health insurance in America that we were already on was going to threaten our "world-leading biomedical research industry."

My favorite story ever I got via an anti-vaccer family member. In the process of sharing a story about vaccine safety the story led with how it was Reagan who indemnified the industry from lawsuits relating to how unsafe vaccines were. Pure political disillusion. MAGA is indeed a cult.

The EPA no longer wishes to even recognize the harms that may come from pollution. Their basic core function at this point is likely to be questioned and deregulated. I'm surprised Trump doesn't just close down the EPA. They should end the farm bill and stop paying for CRP while they're at it. Then we can see how many of these "stewards of the land" actually care to do so. The rivers will be pure puke at this rate. It's like mainlining libertarian dreams now. Filled with pure unadulterated vindictive hypocrisy.

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No, it's them being unable to type, spell, We don't want to onboard and train anyone.
and wanting a promotion on day 1 with no experience There's no career path here, not sorry.
while spouting off socialist bullshit in the office. Stop complaining about Israel curb stomping the poor people in Gaza.
Seriously no one knows how to spell anymore. Red squiggles please. Young people are right to be frustrated, disillusioned, and frustrated at the state of the world today. Work isn't as rewarding or as promising as it once was. Further a lot of work places probably have a mix of remote work so onboarding is harder. AI is a dual edged sword so productivity expectations are up and career hopes are very fuzzy.

Reading instead of viewing isn't the problem. How many times do you see a video that's 30 minutes long that says "do these 3 things as you near retirement." They could choose to tell you all this in the first minute. Be concise. For example, move heavy into bonds to absorb 2+ years of a bad market, rebalance often, and reduce debt. Yes that is easy to read, but its also easy to say IF THEY CHOSE TO. Youtube wouldn't be able to show you as many ads though. Etc. So in review, absolutely wasting our time. It is by design structured to lengthen out content and waste time. Occasionally you get a real dude that'll talk about (for example) a fishing lure trick, show it to you right away, and then fish with it for another 30 minutes. Then you decide if you want to watch it all.

Yep it is 2025 and they still say such stupid shit. Take cloud seeding for example. I can guarantee you they won't take strong action to end/deny/shutdown cloud seeding. Because then when all the extreme rains keep happening, they can't point their stupid fingers at anything. Man made global warming is just this thing they have to deny and ignore. And if Trump (who fucking won) were to actually completely shut down cloud seeding, then they'd have no conspiracy to blame. FML. That's just one fun example of their mental gymnastics.

Racists are everywhere. Usually, they just say stupid off color things, but they can still be nice/kind/polite to others. Racists come in many varieties and shades of grey. But kill a few million Jews, Greeks, Armenians, and all of a sudden people are ready to start punching some faces.

Your point of view is basically not the laws as they stand today. You can go to a farm supply store and buy a fairly large amount of 24D and spray your lawn if you want to. It's up to you to read the label and mix as needed. But more importantly, "causing environmental contamination" is also basically pretty hands off in America. When Obama tried to do some water reform it failed to stick. Today a farmer has to opt in to the idea of providing adequate buffers to help cleanup runoff and make streams improve. We know a lot more about how to improve things but it is not really enforced. You choose to do so and get your CRP payments. A LOT of large dairy/feedlots will get approved, and water and aquifer quality is barely a concern in most "ag" states in America. The rivers will tell the truth. And one household and their lawn doesn't have much to do with it. They probably aren't over spraying herbicides or fertilizing to the same degree.

These guys don't actually believe in free speech. During Covid when a democratic governor shut down a church, they sang the song of the first amendment. When tradiional Catholics were categorized a certain way, they sang the song again. But time and time again you can see that these guys don't actually care. No principles. Why would a college student, foreign or domestic, not want to protest? Or speak out about damn near anything? Or have any of a huge variety of opinions? They have to be super careful now about how and what and to whom (or where) they share these opinions? And we're supposed to believe that the current administration will limit this hyper critical treatment of online speech to foreigners wanting to come here to college? Are they promising this is limited to online reviews - by the way its not... they were asking/forcing Harvard to review their cameras... Will they hire spies to go on campus during protests to gather video and further intel? I'd almost guarantee that they will/have/do. Will there be a Palantir database for this too? Will citizens accidentally be pulled into this dataset?

And just to further cement the absurdity of all of this, Republicans on J6 carried the flag of traitors all over DC. But they're not "foreign terrorists", just domestic. I'm not even sure if that's sarcasm or sadness. I just can't understand anything these days.

Say what you want about Biden but he did more to "stimulate" and build manufacturing in the USA. Señor TACO acts tough like he is bringing manufacturing back but this completely remains to be seen. What little jobs that could come from modern manufacturing takes sincerity, capital, incentives/rebates/grants/cheap-loans, and an educated and available work force for this to happen. The administration is not inspiring me in any way on these. The modern republican party only knows how to sow the seeds of a culture war, deregulate, and pass a tax cut. These won't be enough.

For a further anecdote, I know someone in parts manufacturing for manufacturing and they have been very busy for a year plus. They have a hard time hiring good people that can do the work and stay on. So to say Trump will accomplish more than Biden makes me very suspicious. And then think about what they're gonna do to interest rates if all the treasury market/bond worries play out with an increase in deficit spending and federal debt? Now it'll be harder to get the capital, do the buildouts, hope your investments pay off, hope the tariffs are stable enough to incentive on shored production?

If you kick out significant numbers of able immigrants, you pressure the available work force even more. Now you need to train/hire them for modern manufacturing - and if this in particular rings any bells that would be because that's the talk of a Democrat, not a Republican! You think Republicans are going to talk about helping kids go to tech school w/ subsidized tuition?! There are SOO many questions to all of this.

Oh horse shit. I heard on a podcast, talking about Canadian vendors (and avoiding American products btw), saying how their customers would just stare at the prices of European cheese being sold. They would be in shock saying, you want us to pay that, for that!? So, whatever. I'm sure European organic, location of origin, cheese, wine, everything, is already expensive and have their prices already jacked up. You can enjoy your expensive beef. Frankly, as a liberal/centrist American I hope that we don't sell any of our American beef anywhere else, its too expensive, herd counts are down. I feel for the general situation. Some prices are up. Some (like commodities, soy, alfalfa, etc) are down. It is gonna be a K shaped shitty economic situation for a while. But keep some context please. Like we're jacking up your prices, whatever.

He won because he said enough nice things to a broad enough coalition to get angry people to vote for him. Mad about inflation well I'll get groceries down. Mad about your school library book choices well I'll defund them. Etc. Democrats were mad at their leadership and so their only choices were to vote third party, not vote, or plug their nose and vote for their chosen next in line. Republicans were mad enough to have one of many reasons to vote for the orange clown show. The real story is that in the first Trump term he was surrounded by enough establishment conventional Republicans that there were sane voices in the room. They're all gone. Now it is yes men, yes women, and only those self selected by their indiscriminate loyalty to him. They no longer hear the voices from the center or anywhere else. It's all about the Stephen Miller and the Breitbart flood of shit. Their base no longer consumes sane/centrist/other media. These are farmers who will tariff their own (or their neighbor's) farm out of existence to own the libs. And then not even second guess their fat government check when they plant soy beans again anyways. It is insanity. No one thinks critically anymore. Idiots everywhere. I hope the left can learn from this and return to the center instead of talking about drag shows and reparations all the time. Democratic candidates can win in Montana, Minnesota and all these rural mostly conservative states when they run centrist liberals and mostly stay in the center as a party.

Yes, but they're amazing for running. I have an older (series 3?) apple watch. The core OS no longer updates, but the app for nike run club sure did. It broke itself. The NRC app depends on a newer version of the OS. I refused to buy a new one out of spite. I now run a lot less than I did in '23, I'm a hair over 40 years old and now I just take the dog on more walks. But it still sucks, I loved running with the watch and the NRC integration. Our dog is a Beagle so he is pretty near impossible to take on jogs with me in spite of rather excellent stamina. Point is, I will soon be deciding if a running watch is worth the purchase.

Yes, and for American farmers, you know, the normal kind? The kind that grow GMO corn and soy beans like lemmings? You think there won't be tariffs for them? I look forward to the next four years how Trump and Republicans will just fix everything. I bet they'll balance the budget, the markets won't crash, they'll repeal and replace Obama care, deport all the illegals and pass tax cuts that grow the economy and end inflation. Now, personally, I look forward to some serious schadenfreude. But I am not a normal American voter, I actually remember what it was like "four" years ago. How he shut down the economy, sped up the shot, and threw money around out and passed two stimulus bills. How the fed bought corporate junk bonds. Anyways, if he undoes Biden regulations like for clean water, I'll remember that too. I remember not buying scotch whisky, tarriffs do matter.

I am starting to believe this also may reach a tipping point. Internal combustion engine vehicles are also becoming very expensive for newer vehicles to stay maintained. Engine bays are very cramped, engine designs are very complicated. Replacing timing chains, water pumps, gaskets, etc. is a big undertaking and quite expensive. This all means that it could get to a point where a used car's battery replacement becomes a reasonable option as long as they can stay available in a reasonable way. I do not believe that auto manufacturers (or their lobbyists/lawmakers) are helping their own cause with the stuff they're kicking out. Older engine/automobile designs from ~30 years ago in a typical sedan are preferable for longevity to a twin turbo, quadruple overhead cam (exaggerating... maybe) monster w/ awd and a 6+ speed auto of today.