MAGA people don't trust statistics, you have to provide relatable anecdotal evidence. If MAGA idiots understood and trusted statistics we wouldn't have RFK as the head of HHS.

The question is, why aren't Americans willing to work below "market rate" if they have no other opportunities? The market rate ought to adjust.

It's about willingness to risk capital. If you aren't sure your restaurant idea is going to make a lot of money, you won't open one unless it's very cheap. If a lottery ticket costs $100 would you buy one? If it costs $1 then you would be more likely.

So far technology has been fixing things and making life a lot better for everyone. Before the year 2000, zero US presidents had ever live past age 92. Now it's 4 (Reagan, Ford, GHW Bush, Carter). You can't tell me that's not advances in medical technology. 200 years ago, it would take 3 days to get from Berlin to Munich. Now you can go from New York City to Beijing, China in less than a day .. and much safer than that trip from Berlin to Munich btw. Anyway, a lot of people died in the early days of aviation and automobiles, but we fixed it instead of writing the whole technology off. Humans kill about one million people every year in automobile accidents. In the US alone, the number is 40,000. If we can reduce that number by a few hundred or even a dozen that would be a big deal. 12 human lives saved every year. We've tried telling humans to drive safe. We've tried telling them not to drink. We've told people to never ever be distracted. None of that has worked. 40,000 people die every year on the roads, and you know what each of those deaths is on you. Because you're refusing to allow driverless technology to be developed and deployed. We've seen that it's safer than humans. How many college kids die in traffic accidents caused by humans every year? How can you not want a practical and reaslistic solution to that?

Land can be seized in the US too, if the government decides they need it. It's called eminent domain. Sure they'll have to compensate you .. based on what they decide the land is worth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's better than a cardboard box or tent.

They are fine with it. Prison cells suck because you have a roommate named Bubba and are stuck there.

Japan and Singapore have some of the world's lowest homelessness rates. You have to be extremely deliberate about being homeless to stay homeless there.

There's no way Chengdu has the cultural vibrancy of NYC.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/... ">80% all households own their homes (well above the rates for what have been defined as ownership socities in the West) (Clark, Huang, & Yi, 2019). If homeownership is an important indicator for the Chinese Dream, as it was for the American Dream, it is fair to say that most Chinese have achieved their Chinese Dream. This is a spectacular achievement especially given the fact that public rental was the dominant tenure in the 1980s in Chinese cities, and homeownership has recently declined in Western countries. Along with the growth of ownership there has been an expansion of multiple home ownership. More than 20% of urban households (16% of rural households) own multiple homes, which is also much higher than many developed nations (e.g. 3%–4% in Australia and Northern Ireland; 13% in the U.S. and about 10% in Britain (Resolution Foundation, August 2017; Paris, 2010; Choi, Hong, & Scheinkman, 2014). Residential property has made up >60% of household assets in China since 2008, while the same proportion is about 30% in U.S. (NAHB, 2013; Huang, 2013; Xie & Jin, 2015)."

No aspect of them is "car" ..they are electric helicopters, multi-rotor. Or eVTOL if you want to sound cool, but don't call them flying cars .. that's straight up lying.

A car can be driven on roads and fit in a parking spot.

Give it UI problems.

What do you believes controls the price of an item? I mean why don't they just double or triple the price of the widget? Also quit using the word widget if you aren't willing to apply it broadly. I mean is toilet paper proprietary? Orange juice? Strawberries? There's two things that can control the price of an item .. a competitor or customer's willingness/ability to pay. I find it hard to believe there is collusion for most consumer items. If it was some industry with a few players, like airlines or cars .. then yes. Maybe. There's a lot of consumer products that would require hundreds of vendors to agree to increase their prices. Are you saying restaurant owners are all colluding .. some to the point they go out of business?

AI is increasing jobs. Nobody is getting not hired or fired due to AI. The thing we're losing jobs to is inflation due to tariff bullshit. Inflation is reducing the number of people going to restaurants and things like that. If AI was taking jobs and doing things more efficient we'd see the price of goods collapsing.

Damn, you guys are morons. Even the Taliban knows banning WiFi has NOTHING to do with immorality or Wi-Fi .. people in Balkh don't like the Taliban. It was, and is, a Northern Alliance stronghold (now called National Resistance Front - NRF ), they are annoying the heck out of the Taliban. Reference: https://www.afintl.com/en/2025... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.afintl.com/en/2025... https://moderndiplomacy.eu/202.... This ban will make things a lot worse for the Taliban there, not better. The reason for the WiFi ban is because the Taliban thinks the attacks on them were coordinated through Wi-Fi and that the NRF use it to communicate.