If the payola doesn't repulse us, the damage that alleged administration has done to the justice system should. The Justice Department used to have stellar reputation. It worked via "regular order". Effectively it meant when the government, via the Justice Department, brought a case, the judge could rely upon the good faith of the Justice Department and its lawyers to follow the law to the last dot and tee, and honestly bring cases where there was evidence of an actual crime being committed.

You have to pay attention to what the judges have been saying recently, including court transcripts. Several judges have told Justice Department lawyers they no longer trust them and have caught them in flat out lies. Judges also talk amongst themselves. Many are now on the lookout for bad behavior and have threatened sanctions on the Dept. el Bunko is using the Justice Dept as his personal lawyers to go after perceived enemies (he gets new ones every day), so the judges are getting pissed. Now the Justice Dept. is trying to insert themselves into the E. Jean Carroll case where el Bunko was found guilty of sexual harassment and defamation.

The most glaring recent case concerned el Bunko's attempt to shake down the IRS for $10 Billion to be spent replenishing el Bunko's pals including the Jan 6 insurrectionists. The J. Dept filed a lawsuit against the IRS over some contractor in 2016-2019 disclosing some of el Bunko's tax records. So the gov. was suing the gov. which raised the judge's eyebrows. Eventually she killed the lawsuit, but not entirely. The Justice Dept then revoked their suit. A group of about 40-50 former judges and legal professionals petitioned the judge to reopen the case claiming the law suit was filed in bad faith just as cover for the $10 Billion.

Effectively, the administration was attempting to flim-flam the court. So she called a hearing whereupon the J. Dept claimed the judge couldn't do anything because they'd withdrawn the suit. The judge told them they were full of shit and they may have committed a crime playing the courts like this. In a case in Chicago, a Justice Dept. lawyer was vouching for her office's case to a grand jury, effectively telling them to trust the Justice Dept and ignore the evidence and indict anyhow. That lawyer broke regular order, that is not something judges will tolerate. Now every indictment brought will have the opposing lawyers demanding to see the grand jury records because no one trusts the Justice Dept. any longer.

Current stupid cases including the DA in Chicago lying to the judge, going after J. Comey for nothing more than doing his job (losing and then going after him for shells on beach spelling 86 47, i.e., 86 el Bunko....but 86 is an old restaurant term meaning to stop an order, not kill el Bunko, going after the Letticia James (NY's Att. Gen. , she brought the case that concluded el Bunko was guilty of fraud in NY), and there are more. Now el Bunko using the FBI to sniff around Gavin Newsome in the hopes of finding something, anything to tar him.

It has taken years for the Justice Dept. to build their reputation with the judiciary. el Bunko trashed in a year and half. It won't get regained easily. And that costs all of us money since cases will take longer. And one case was so tainted that the judge rejected the case with prejudice meaning the pair of criminals (they were liking guilt of Covid fraud) went free.

Bullshit. From my experience, you have no idea what you are talking about.

"socialism for corporations the regime favors": we know this in educated circles as Fascism.

"There is a group of people who believe their self worth is based upon owning the newest greatest shiny thing every year".

And just how large is this group? Have you or anyone else any statistics on them? Is it large enough that they can swing a market or decimal dust that we can ignore.

Not only the retail investors. Many experts were questioning his financials in the run up to that IPO, but not the SEC. The SEC more or less just bent over for him and do whatever he wants. Now millions of Americans will have their 401Ks hitched to that company. And he controls 80-85% percent of it, so there is no oversight. The investors better hope he's some kind of genius, but if he fuck ups, he will fuck up hard.

The SEC is suppose to guard against market manipulation. However, in this alleged administration they ARE the market manipulation.

Because la Presidenta is a giant buttplug screwing up science and technology in the U.S.

"how many federal employees are employed full-time to monitor and report on the energy, water, and climate impact of federal government datacenters?"

Answer: very few, the current alleged administration does not care about any "impact" other than to their bank accounts.

It isn't just the administration, a good number of congress critters are similarly incompetent but have a media "outreach" organization to blind voters to this. That allows them to enrich themselves (stock trading, siphoning money in bills to their friends for a Bit-O-Graft under the table, etc). Their media "outreach" organization is a group of people dedicated to keeping their pet cockroach in office and paying them for their phony-baloney jobs.

In defense of the crabby old ladies at the DMV, ever you have to deal with the "public" on a regular basis? The "public" are the people who believe in conspiracy theories as truth, expect space aliens are whizzing around the skies spying on our clothes drying on the wash line (they like undergarments), think science is grows on trees, think championship wrestling is real, etc. They are irascible and perpetually irritated over fuck all. Then they come into the DMV and expect the old lady behind the counter to commiserate with why they didn't think to bring in the proper information for a license and are upset with the old lady for not just passing them through.

Try dealing with the "pubic" day after day and see if you don't theorize about bringing in a shillelagh for some tough love.

My own take is that the dustup is another ploy by el Bunko for a payoff. He isn't hard to figure out.

Will it matter if companies demand to hire vibe coders and never realize the gap between their skills and real skills? The gap will be there, but some C-Suites will refuse to see it.

As the precis mentioned, use it or lose it. Companies force feeding AI to their employees are cutting their own throats.

And this will come back to bite us all in the ass. These kids grow up and will be unemployable; they will be a constant drain on the U.S. economy.

And this doesn't bother the Silicon Valley techbros, they figure they will determine how the U.S. operates in the future by telling everyone else what to do. And with the uneducated (and uneducatible proles), they'll have and easy time of it until the U.S. goes titsup because it cannot function. The techbros will continue to wallow in their wealth.

Read Adam Becker's book, More Everything Forever, if you want to know how bad it is.

"a chain reaction has started" if you are implying that la Presidenta started chain reaction, I do not agree. The fuse was lit in Iran long ago, just look at their recent history of having to kill their own people to remain in power. The regime was headed for the scrapheap since at least 2010. What replaces it is open question. I don't think the Iranian people can be ignored. Yet the IRGC has all the guns and is not squeamish of how many of their countrymen they must kill to keep their graft machine running.

more to the point, he doesn't have a skillset for much of anything. Even his financial people for his "companies" admit he cannot read a spreadsheet. All those numbers and their magnitudes confuse him. And this is why he continually fucks up the U.S. economy. You can see his confusion where he'll equate selling Bibles for what are peanuts with mega-deals to people offering billions. You can also see it in his "companies" where he micro-managed pennies yet still managed to go bankrupt 6-7 times because of major financial fuck ups. He literally cannot tell the difference between magnitudes other than someone explained to him that one number was greater than another.

He also has the attention span of a gnat. He cannot calculate 2nd and 3rd order effects. Many people cannot but, if they are in a position of power, are smart enough to surround themselves with people who can do that sort of planning. He doesn't surround himself with such people because he cannot get past "me wants", like 5 yr. old. This makes him susceptible to the Project 2025 people who can easily convince him that something they want is something he wants. He doesn't know how to get it, so they explain how he can get it by directing his administration on the steps. And most of his "schemes" are hatched that way, with the obvious fuck ups resulting. He's like Putin gormlessly believing the spooks that Ukraine would be a push over. And if Biden had any balls, Ukraine would have already taken Moscow by now.

This push is another aspect of organizations not being or wanting to grok anything unless they cram it into one black box. This appears to stem from observing something similar that happens in science. In physics, this is the push to get one gonzo-whopping theory that Explains All. In computation it gets expressed as Turing Machines are all we need. However, if you look closely, you find there are frequently many different ways of expressing whatever it is theory is trying to explain.

Political "leaders" and the C-Suite are highly susceptible to see the world this way: if we get it all into Our Black Box, then all will be well. Now the Black Box is AI. Here it is even dumber than usual since we do not know the limits of AI, what it can and cannot do (my opinion is that with LLM-ish AI, they are unable to come up anything new that isn't already hiding in their training).

Those whose innate way of thinking is authoritarian (religions, political isms, social "movements, etc.) will glom onto the One Unified Theory which miraculously just happens to be what they already believe. This is wrong and will come to tears.