And as soon as he notices, they will be out of the pipeline.

I wish you'd tell Uncle Thomas to get his black ass back in the field. He's been way, way too uppity.

No, it has not "evolved beyond" what is framed in the Constitution. Congress has created the laws and institutions to implement the powers it is given. It's as simple as that. Go read Article I.

@stevew:

If you read the Constitution, you will come to the realization that these agencies and commissions are ENTIRELY constitutional. The Necessary and Proper Clause, Article I, Section 8, Clause 18, gives Congress the power to enact all laws necessary to accomplish the tasks assigned to Congress by the Constitution. The commission in question, the FTC, regulates commerce, which is explicitly a power given to Congress in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3. Congress enacted the law that created the FTC and governs how it will be run, the FTC Act in 1914. The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 created a standalone Federal Trade Commission composed of five commissioners appointed by the President with Senate approval. No more than three commissioners may belong to the same political party, and each serves a seven-year term, with staggered initial terms of three to seven years to ensure continuity. The President designates one commissioner as Chair, and any member may be removed by the President for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance.

So, if in its final decision, the Supreme Court says the President has the power to remove commissioners at will and populate the commission with all Republicans, then they will plainly be telling the President he can violate the law and do as he pleases. You know, like the immunity they gave him months ago. Which of course is completely frakked. My theory is that this is payback for FDR's actions. MAGA is in the process of tearing down the institutions and frameworks that were created and instituted, and the stability and rule of law that helped create the US as the world power it is. We are heading the way of a banana republic, all for short-term gain and the ability to rule over the convulsing corpse that we will become.

Damn, don't say that. If la Presidenta gets wind of that he'll demand they go back to steam. During his first alleged administration, he attempted to force the Navy into steam. He said at the time (my paraphrase but close): You need to be Einstein to understand those things, they should use steam. And then issued some sort of directive. I can see how that was received:

la Presidenta: I decree that Navy catapults shall use steam. Picks up pencil from the floor.

Navy Head: Why thank you for your leadership, la Presidenta, in picking up that pencil. Re the steam catapults. I shall immediately turn this over to our engineers.

Engineering: Uh, what kind of a dumbass believes in steam. It is only good for softening old bagels. We'll turn this over to our Engineering Steering Committee.

Engineering Steering Committee: What a wonderful proposal. We shall commence a study immediately with our Engineering Review Panel.

Engineering Review Panel: Oooooo, a new study. We shall immediately commence a pilot study to study the feasibility of the study. Get Boomer in the Engine Dept. on it.

Boomer: Hmmm....another fricking waste of time. I'll need to think about this for awhile.

3 years later:

Sec. Navy: Okay, la Presidenta, I have your study on steam powered aereo-planes. la Presidenta? Yo? Where'd he go.

Flunkie: He's down at Mar-A-Loco. He left some prepubescent girls down there and wants to check in on them, says they miss their Daddy. Meet our new President, Mr. Biden.

They should just field some new porn sites: "Yooohoooo, Mr. Russian Spy Man, get a load of these!!!"

This. Technology isn't the problem in this case. The lawyer asked someone else to do his work and didn't check it at all before putting his signature on it. He signed off on it so he gets to take full responsibility.

Nice payout for Zuck after gluing his lips to la Presidenta's butt.

I currently work hybrid. It reduces my effective pay by around 10%, which is a hell of a cut. It gains me nothing, since all meetings - even when we're all in the same room - are via teams, because company policy.

I see no added value from visiting the office.

Plus, the U.S. cannot produce all that it needs, manufacturing-wise. And the U.S. does not have enough people to even bother trying. Except that la Presidenta seems hell bent on trying no matter what the bad consequences. He thinks he can sell anything. So he's axing all the gov. reporting mechanisms that can report bad outcomes. And he's constantly uttering stupid things about how great the economy is.

Those are all "second-job" jobs, jobs you take because your primary job isn't bringing home enough cured pig; so they aren't going to do much for the American worker except keep him/her from pulling out the pitchforks and the torches. And as you mentioned, el Bunko needs those for his resorts and other crap he's into.

Did you even read what the GP wrote? He concentrated on Universities because the article concentrated on those.

Where I quibble a bit with the GP is that I am unsure what companies WILL like to see in their employees once they have drunk the AI-Kook-Aid. We want to believe they will value the things the GP mentions, but I do not believe it is a given they will value those things in the future, especially since they tend to be run by MBA-bots who really only want to get rich and retire until they die of heat death due to brain inactivity.

The thing I think they like best about AI is no humans. Humans are messy, they raise ethical concerns, environmental concerns, concerns about the future, etc.. AI is a dictator's dream. So if your military is populated by bots, then orders get immediately acted upon with no push back or thought for consequences.

What? You say. All them things can be built into AI. And we'll get AI versions of those elements that will only cover what the bots deem necessary.

An added benefit is that if you replace taxpayers with bots, then they are more compliant and will do whatever you tell them. A bit of pop. reduction, bot production, and an AI Utopia is there to be had.

Well, the U.S. is developing a fantastic record blowing up unarmed Venezuelan fishing boats. So the U.S. can build on that capability to threaten other unarmed assets of foreign countries that cannot hit back.

Wine runs in user space. I don't see how Wine could ever run drivers, such as peripheral drivers required by things like the iPhone sync functionality of iTunes or kernel-level anti-cheat required by major online games supporting pickup matches with strangers.