The real problem is we can't return to being a key chip manufacturing nation overnight. You have to fall down to learn how to walk.

It might require class-action lawsuits, or a sub-industry dedicated to suing them, somewhat comparable to patent trolls (but for a good cause).

Amen! It would be a great consolation prize.

Can we make some kind of wager on it?

The Donniban have taken over.

They can't afford the ambulance.

Donkey cart? The ironic ending of a poor Republican.

Poor Republicans seem to be sadomasochists.

I guess they want to be martyrs against LGBTQ+, which Fox et. al. hyped to be the Worst Thing On Earth, despite the fact Jesus himself never mentions LGBTQ+ in the Bible (although he did belt the shit out of greedy people).

They'll find a way to pretend Democrats are the only ones responsible for the rapidly-growing budget deficit.

GOP has been responsible since Reagan. Democrats usually inherent GOP's econ crashes when they get both chambers, which are not a good time to raise taxes.

But the rich do bribe Dems also to have lower taxes. We are part plutocracy, I'm just the messenger.

(Dems perhaps could have put in delayed restoration of taxes into bills, such as kicking in when unemployment drops below 5%. Biden did increase IRS auditing of rich, which helped, but GOP eventually removed it.)

Careful, that's how we got F@ing pit-bulls. The Dog Star didn't send its best.

PhbGPT

Yes it's going to change them so that one person can do the work of two.

Or one person makes the mistakes of two. Don't forget the offshoring craze that generated piles of maintenance problems such that at least some staff was often re-onshored. Being embedded in the domain matters.

All the CEO's were gung-ho about offshoring back then also, but ended up with more ho than gung.

I don't like it. They leach off our gravity.

"These freeloader comets need to be deported back to their home star! This is Sparta! I mean Solar System! Other stars are not sending their best comets; these comets have mental, have virus, catastrophe our grammar, flatten dogs and cats, and nobody wants them! If you think the Dino's had it bad! At least Dino's gave us gasoline, God's Liquid Gold [sniff].

They are poisoning the ions and isotopic ratios of our system, damaging our prosperous pro-Solar culture! Even Jupiter wants to leave now! We cannot even tell the gender of these degenerate lumps, so sad. I and I alone have the power and means to stop this horrendous invasion of these unwanted shit-hole clumps of useless dust and smelly gas. Make the Solar System Great Again! [claps]

... transparency solved!

History teachers can get arrested in FL for pointing out LGBTQ+ people exist.

'Murican English is best, everyone says so, believe me!

That's why they need to keep the birthrates up.

The same people claiming birth-dearth doom are booting out established families. They are morons, bigots, or both.