Trump has given quotas to the immigration enforcement and they are completely impossible for anyone let alone someone as incompetently managed as the immigration enforcement to meet.

So they are arresting anyone and anything they can get their hands on to meet those quotas.

Very soon you're going to see that in the general populace. You already are really with DUIs. There are tons of sober people being pulled over for DUI.

The way the laws work you're basically guilty until proven innocent with the DUI so it gets really ugly really fast. Never mind the fact that we constantly teach cops that they are in a war zone and everyone is out to kill them so they are incredibly trigger Happy.

This is what happens when there's too many cops and not enough crime.

Getting tired of the distractions. Vance managed to have his strategy meeting to figure out what to do about distracting the public.

I don't expect the Epstein files are going to change anything. Anyone who voted for Trump has long since figured out they voted for a pedophile and they are going to have a rough time facing that reality so they will probably retreat into comfortable lies.

But I am enjoying the mess. I am also enjoying how it has completely derailed the Republican legislative agenda because anything that stops those psychopaths from doing anything else has got to be a good thing.

And I am really looking forward to Trump releasing the files with nothing but Democrat names in it and with it being painfully obviously missing information about the Republicans in it particularly himself.

Tourism is collapsing. The Evo fighting game tournament saw a 20% drop in entrants and that's pretty much because people don't feel safe coming to America.

From what I can tell the damage done to tourism is going to hit the tourist industry about 30%. And those are big international flights that are high profit.

We haven't really seen the effects yet but they are coming very soon and it's going to be a bloodbath. But hey how about those cheaper eggs right?

Also the Sega Master system sound chip kind of sucked. Especially compared to the NES chip. Of course the famicom would run rings around it because of the sound chips in the cartridges although America never got those.

We got a couple of good soundtracks like Shinobi and phantasy star and Golvelius. But for the most part Master system sound was pretty terrible when compared to the Nintendo.

There's a reason Sega Japan made in FM sound unit for the console and used it every chance they got even in games that would never even get to use it because they were only released in America and Europe

The llm following me around back to the fuck off. Some of the more interesting behavior I've seen out of a bot.

Eventually Europe is going to kick Russia out of Ukraine so that they don't lose the bread basket.

And eventually America will invade Russia and string Putin up like a pinata. Not because we're good people but because we want to loot the country for ourselves, or rather our ruling class will want to loot the country for themselves

Basically all the juicy targets for private equity have been eaten up and all that's left are worthless dregs.

They are looking to dump the worthless crap somewhere so they can make that money too but the problem with that is they have maxed out what you can dump on what's left of the pension funds in this country.

So now they're going after your 401k. I suspect a lot of boomers still have their retirements vulnerable to so that we are going to see a lot more homeless boomers a lot faster than I thought we would.

I don't know how but I'm sure they'll blame Obama. I mean where was he on 9/11?

I don't think so, they hit just about every language. New courses yes, but not new languages.

That's what I read anyway that they had backed off on the lot of the AI bullshit because it wasn't working yet.

I'm not surprised investors saw them doing ai and jumped on board.

I do seriously question a 40% increase in users. I'm guessing that the bad press from the AI got them some attention and they picked up a bunch of people signing up for trials to see what the hubbub was about.

Don't get me wrong they will eventually replace the vast majority of their employees there's no question of that.

But the problem with doing that is anyone else can do it too so I would be hesitant to invest in a company like this because they could easily be eliminated by a larger fish.

To be clear by anyone else I mean anyone else with gobs of money. We no longer have real startups or competition anymore. You just don't get the resources and because we don't enforce antitrust law if you start to get any traction somebody is just going to crush you with anti-competitive tactics.

Ain't late stage capitalism a bitch?

The only difference is the money laundering it facilitates. There is a underlining base from the money laundering which is how it survived long enough for Trump to prop it up further by pulling back on money laundering regulations and consumer protections.

I've said it before but you need to watch your elderly relatives closely because Trump has slashed all the protections for them and it's open season on anyone over 60.

It's not about health, in America you don't talk about anything that shows that you are suffering or that you are weak unless it's someone fairly close to you.

It's a cultural thing over here. It's not that you aren't supposed to show weakness it's that you're supposed to project happiness at all times. It's a more twisted version of keep a stiff upper lip. It's part of the puritanical bullshit mixed in with a bit of prosperity Gospel. You're not just not supposed to complain you're supposed to act like you're happy all the goddamn time and that everything is fine.

It means that people with medical conditions don't talk about them at all. There's also the fact that as soon as it gets around that you have any kind of medical condition you will face discrimination at work. The number of medical conditions that cannot be discriminated against are extremely narrow and it is extremely easy to get around those laws.

So I guarantee that there are a lot more people over 55 you are in contact with that are managing various conditions they do not talk about. You will usually find out about it when they have a widow maker. These days if you get to a hospital fast enough you will survive it even. Assuming you can afford the ambulance ride..

So that was at least a war getting out of hand.

What we in America are about to do is so much worse. We are literally going to hand nuclear weapons over to religious lunatics.

Back in the fifties people were actively trying to avoid nuclear war and at least a world war, although they were happy to do proxy wars and regional conflicts to score cheap oil in the Middle East and cheap labor in Asia.

This is something completely different and I think that's why people have a hard time wrapping their heads around it. The idea that you would take somebody who is an absolute fucking cult member and hand them the nuclear launch codes doesn't make sense to anyone in any way.

But that is exactly what the United States is about to do. And like I said barring a miracle like Gavin newsom outmaneuvering the Republican party that's what's going to happen.

Then our empire will start to collapse, we will invade and loot South america, Mexico and Canada and then when the money runs out we will head over to China and Russia and Europe to do the same and then the nukes start flying.

And it won't be like fallout where there's anything left. That'll be it for humanity. Game over. And all it took was a couple of moral panics and some religious lunatics who are convinced gays cause hurricanes

Netflix didn't actually stop me from sharing my passwords with my kid now that they've moved out. But we aren't heavy users on either side. The kid is working on their career so they're working a hell of a lot of hours and I just don't watch that much.

On the other hand I know lots of folks around here have been dinged and I suspect that's because they're algorithm determined they could get two subscriptions out of you where as they couldn't get to subscriptions out of me I would just cancel (and they were right).

It's another example of selective enforcement of a rule or law. Relatively harmless All things considered. Certainly better than a lot of the other things we selectively enforce in America.

Yes it is a Ponzi scheme. Being decentralized does not make it not a Ponzi scheme.

Ignoring the actual Ponzi schemes built around crypto, and there are thousands of them, if you just look at Bitcoin it can only survive through a combination of money laundering and a constant flow of new users buying into crypto with Fiat currencies.

Now crypto can survive off of the money laundering as long as we have corrupt governments. So for example America and Trump can keep crypto going for a long time with that corruption.

But if you build your entire economy around money laundering then you are obviously going to have severe problems.

Eventually you have to either let your economy collapse and your civilization with it or you have to clean up the economy like we did after the Great depression and that means cleaning up the money laundering.

Take away the money laundering and the only thing left is the Ponzi scheme. It's greater full theory where you're buying crypto in the hopes of selling it to somebody stupider than you. That's why people call it a Ponzi scheme it doesn't survive unless you keep getting more users.

It will probably take a long time before the whole thing collapses because it's either going to be because civilization collapses or it's going to be because money laundering laws get enforced.

But it will collapse and the only question is how much is it going to take down with it.

As has congress. We have three branches of government and they have all fallen to fascism.

If you are not American then you need to be freaking the fuck out right now because as our empire collapses we will invade your country and we do not care if you have nuclear weapons.

Failing empires always expand their borders to loot other countries in order to keep things going long enough to keep the ruling class in power.

I suspect Europe allowed this to happen instead of interceding to block Russia's interference because they thought that the US dollar would collapse and they could take advantage of the situation to put the euro in as the world currency.

One of the major problems are species has and what I think will end it is that the ruling class is constantly jockeying for positions thinking that they can just get away with this shit indefinitely

People do not understand that we are about to hand the nuclear launch codes over to a group of fanatics who belong to an apocalyptic religion. I don't think anyone really understands just how motherfucking crazy us Americans are. And by the time you find out it's going to be way too late