The reason the north hated slavery was not because of any concerns for the slaves. Rather production costs using slaves were so low that the companies using paid workers in the north could not compete.

We are reaching a similar state with AI and robotics that companies employing humans cant compete with companies using AI, robotics and automation. So we will have to outlaw robot slavery

Alternately to prevent the concentration of wealth we can make it illegla to owe more than one robot. No capitalist can corner the market. You need something built that takes 5 robots on an assembly line you gotto hire those 5 from their owners. So everyone who owns a robot has income and govt helps every adult to buy their robot.

The solution is to use porn and social media to distract people so they dont reproduce so by the time there are no jobs left there are far fewer people to pick up pitchforks.

The solution is simple. You increase taxes. You take out the same amount of money from the top as you are pumping in the bottom. Inflation only happens because the govt refuse to raise taxes on the rich.

The solution is not to print the money. Tax it. If you take the same amount of money out of the economy using taxes on the rich as you are pumping into the poor, inflation does not happen. Inflation happened because even though the country went through a once in a century crisis, govt refused to raise taxes on the rich to pay for it. Imagine if during WW2, US had not raised taxes to 90% on the rich and instead tried to pay for it via printing money. US would have ended up as Weimar. The problem is not that govt is spending on things it needs to, the problem is the govt is not taxing the rich to pay for it.

Con them instead. Sell timeshares on Elon's Mars colony. The billionaire class will happily pay 20 million as an insurance against the day earth becomes inhabitable. Than hit them with annual maintenance fees (even without the shelter being built yet). Say 2 million a year.

Use that money to instead build a bunch of satellites in orbit to reflect heat away. Not too different from a cluster of starlink satellites - just mount mirrors on the sunward side.

That how you get the global rich to solve global warming.

to expand internet access for Ukrainian suicide drones.

So the number of people enrolled in the program is 23 million not 10 million. So 100000 is even less than 1% of the people. Even if we look at Charter with 4 million people in the program, 100000 dropping out is like 2.5%. 97.5% have retained service even after the subsidy was removed. The at risk number is bullshit and just a number chartered pulled out of their a** to make pretty presentations. Remember this 4 million is not ALL of Charters customers just the ones with subsidies.

This program is meant for people too poor to afford internet. If you are affording multiple electronic devices and home entertainment devices, you are not the target audience. Frankly the elderly have had decades to save money. I am not in favor of any subsidies for the elderly. Further most dont even keep abreast of the issues. Voting age should be restricted to less than 70. We dont let children vote. Why should we let those entering their second childhood vote?

10 Million people were using this and 100000 dropped out without the subsidy so (10 million/.1 million =1/100) 1% drop out. So this is pretty much essential. If you remove a subsidy on something and 99% of the people keep using it, its an essential service. You can debate whether you want to subsidize access to essential services but for comparison only 60% of the people vote. Internet is more important than democracy to people.

In the time since this program was created, 5G has rolled out and people just use their cellphones (for which there is a separate govt subsidy program). Most people had not cancelled their unused broadband internet due to inertia. As long as its free why bother but now that its not , people are cancelling.

Effectively this was free money for the ISPs as these people were not consuming bandwidth but the govt was paying the ISPs for said bandwidth. I am surprised Republicans - the party of big business went after a corporate subsidy

I said what you said. Earlier only Windows Defender had this access so only faulty Microsoft patches could brick your windows server. Now every AV vendor has this access due to EU rules so the number of clowns who can brick your windows installation has gone up exponentially.

And I dont think you understand the term dogfooding as it applies to software. It means using your own products internally. Here we are talking about client systems so where is the question of dogfooding. And Microsoft does use its own products internally so it is already eating its own dogfood.

MS claimed EU forced them to provide kernel level access to clowns like Crowdstrike. Which is true. So now instead of just MS patches taking your system down any tom, dick and harry who convinced your PHB to install their software with kernel access can take down your system. MS does have a point. Better one devil you know than multiple devils who only your PHB knows.

At this point all tech CEOs should pool togeteher and buy Udemy subscriptions for all Congressmen and Senators. Whenever there is something they dont understand, instead of researching it they call the CEOs to come and tutor them in person. Waste of time. Its well worth paying for a subscription to educate the ignoramuses who know how to win elections and know nothing else. Staff was supposed to hide some of this ignorance but staff is hired nowadays mostly on nep basis instead of competence.

I guess before he retires Putin wants to settle scores with everyone who was involved in the decade of shame when Russia was destroyed from 1991-2000. The KGB coup was the last ditch attempt at keeping the Soviet Union together and preventing Yeltsin from letting the vultures loot the corpse of the Soviet Union. Putin probably feels if not for this man and his ISP, Russia would not have had to go through a decade of shame.

Simple solution. A democrat President can order 5 Republican Justices hanged for Treason and have the other 4 Justices rule it an official immune act.