Individual cities, and townships fund their own libraries, which has nothing to do with Federal government without considering federal overreach.
Article 1, Section 8, does not give the Federal Government the right to draw taxes such that it can fund our local libraries. You pay taxes and sales taxes at the local level for this.
Nothing to do with trump or anti-intellectualism. We live in a society with a lot of shiny things. Dopamine doom-scrolling, short-form video content, addictive-by-design social media.
People are reading and processing all day long. People are overstimulated.
Reading is a past-time for the under-stimulated people. So teenagers and young adults have started asking mom and dad for feature-phones and dumb-phones, even phones designed to stop attention grabbing push notifications, pop-ups, advertisements.
The youth are exhausted, so IMO no, it has nothing to do with the presidential administration, and everything to do with anti-human algorithmic manipulation of people. They spend millions of dollars to figure out just how to get you to click and spend the most amount of time on the platforms. Just like corporations hire scientists to figure out how to keep your hand in that sack of snacks.
The answer is to stop allowing corporate entities to take advantage of people for profit. Profit is fine, but manipulation for profit is the stage we are at now.
Not really. I'm a conservative and I think the second term of Trump's economy stinks.
Ghost jobs are everywhere. https://www.forbes.com/sites/k...
Happy to see others are trying to end this practice. I've applied to over a 130+ jobs in the last 3 months, and with MAANG layoffs, you don't get a call back, email, etc. You've got guys with masters willing to work for nothing at this point. Guys on reddit with better creds than me, are reporting over 1k with zero callbacks.
A troubling new piece of legislation continues to make its way through the British parliament. Dubbed the “Banter Bill,” the Employment Rights Bill would criminalize any speech that might be considered offensive by any passerby.
As Dominic Green reports for The Free Press, under this proposed law, “Britons can be prosecuted for a remark that a worker in a public space overhears and finds insulting.” Under this standard, whether a certain sentiment (for instance, that Britain should reduce immigration) is legal will now depend on whether someone in the vicinity takes offense.
Unfortunately, this new subjective standard for what types of speech are allowed isn’t restricted to Great Britain. In the United States, more and more states are experimenting with a similar system. The Washington Free Beacon reports that eight states have set up “bias-response hotlines” which citizens are encouraged to call if they hear a comment — from a neighbor, coworker, or even passersby on the street — that they consider to be offensive. As Oregon says of their hotline, if you see or hear someone “creating racist images/drawings; mocking someone with a disability; or telling or sharing offensive ‘jokes’ about someone’s identity” they want to hear about it.
"The Lives of Others" was not supposed to be a training film.
I grok the desire for comfort/luxury, we all want that. I'd like to remember the unseen hands behind it. Every meal, every road, every service comes from people who labor hard; farmers, truck drivers, builders, service workers; often for little pay, multiple jobs, long commutes, and at the cost of their health, time and family.
Many of them live right on the edge, vulnerable, struggling to afford housing, healthcare, or even leisure. They work in savage heat and freezing cold, in sewers and refuse, in jobs that society depends, forgets, that society rarely honors. Often, even policies and zoning push them further from opportunity, despite promises of care from politicians who talk, but sell them out.
The truth is: some of us live it easier, others sacrifice. Those stuck in traffic are often not the privileged, theyâ(TM)re the people keeping everything running, while barely holding their own lives together.
Not everyone gets to live the dream. For many, survival is the daily reality. Not everyone gets to go to Fhloston Paradise.
I don't wish poverty on anyone, but if only if people knew what it meant to choose 1/8th of a tank of gas, or having something to eat just once that day. The prices go up, but the wages don't go up. People go hungry. That's real. Most people don't confront the reality of your boss suggesting food stamps, because you can't get by with what they pay you, or your hours getting cut.
Not everyone gets the dream. No everyone gets the same aptitude, the same opportunities, the same gifts, talents, or resources.
Yeah, gotta love the "modern monetary theory" of continue to print money. Can you imagine if inflation didn't steal out future, hollow out our savings, spending power, and doom our children to wage slavery?
We might buy land, and housing, the one thing the rich seem to want in great abundance. It's almost like fiat currency is a trick. You can print more money, mine more gold, even, but you can make more land.
Reminds me of how the Native Americans who were unfamiliar with European legal traditions, were tricked by settlers, into selling their land for beads, trinkets, and other item of low value. Now the American sells his land, and business for a worthless fiat currency, that has more in common with toilet paper than with a store of value. Fiat is a depreciating asset, and they make it near impossible for non-business, non-lawyer, non-uber wealthy to use wealth-generating or retaining vehicles, save the bond. They cap your IRAs, the banks give you nothing, while the fed gives them 10:1 for every dollar they take in.
All the while they slowly buy the land, the opportunities, the businesses that are successful, trading the worthless fiat they print, for the precious limited commodities of land, housing, and regional businesses. Speaking secularly, the land is the most valuable thing. Housing is valuable, because it is an asset, but the land is worth even more. Businesses that keep you from being a wage slave, are valuable. Beautiful family farms, passed from generation to generation, sold to corporate farms. Sold to Bill Gates's shell corp, sold to Blackrock Holdings.
I don't understand how I didn't see it before a few years back. Living in an apartment you can't afford, commuting in a car you can barely afford, to go into a job that you can't afford to lose, to go home and self medicate with what little is left over. What the heck are most people out here living for?
Money printer, very sadly, and very intentionally goes brrrr.
Oh, well that's a nice to know. I had heard that the best way was QVL. Maybe sticking with vendors that are commonly QVL'd is valid, but you could write a book with all the stuff I don't know.
Most of the time the QVL is a distant afterthought. There really is something to be said about boutique PC vendors, systems integrators, and even apple, beyond, oww my wallet! As I get older, I really AM starting to get why people want to buy and not build. I been building for 25+ years. Sometimes you just want something that just works.
Do you ever get the feeling that there are group of people that have their finger on the pulse of what C-level, junior executives, and people that manage other people want to hear?
I have this sneaky suspicion that they just write their ideas down into a buzzable book, grab a turtleneck, take a photo with a pensive look, slap it on the cover with a three-word summary title, and put it on amazon, and then make a gorillion dollars, and disappear until the next thing.
Sounds like DDR5 training. Is the kit you are using on the QVL list for the motherboard that you have?
I learned this after many years of just slapping whatever kit I liked in whatever board I liked. The QVL is the qualified vendor list, and it has a list of validated ram models that will work well. You can find it on the support section for your motherboard.
A great way to tell is if your system memory is no longer using the XMP/EXPO timing/frequency. Like, if you bought 5600 and set the EXPO profile, and now it's defaulting to like 4800, or whatever the DDR5 equivelant is, I'm still on AM4 DDR4. DDR4 also had ram training with Ryzen processors.
Money may buy friendship but money cannot buy love.
