Ah, ok. I follow that. The tariffs were pretty temporary though, so by the time people ran out of inventory of many things already in US warehouses? It was coming to an end by Supreme Court ruling.

I'm not sure I'd put a lot of stock in business leaders claiming they're essentially paralyzed due to unpredictable markets, over any of that?

Again, I'd blame AI for most of the current upheaval, with regard to memory and SSD prices going through the roof.

The tech field is clearly in a downward spiral in America, but honestly? I don't see how you can blame Trump directly for much of that? I mean, everyone seems to agree the rise of AI changed the whole playing field, but Trump didn't cause that to happen. He did a bit of bandwagon-jumping so he could talk about it and give it a new name. (Who cares?)

The general economic downturn due to rising diesel fuel costs and the like? Yeah, that's his to own but doesn't explain tech hurting proportionately more than other career paths?

This is what I expected, and I'm basically fine with it.
Trump created this whole mess so now he gets to deal with it.

There are still people viewed as more reasonable/moderate Republicans who got re-elected, such as our Illinois State Representative, Amy Elick.

But clearly, we're just watching that political pendulum swinging back, as it swung forth.... Same old, same old. I predict a whole lot of time wasted simply trying to undo Republican changes without regard to their merit, while older Democrat policies get brought back out. No thinking outside those boxes.

And I wouldn't have if y'all hadn't propagated the Subject and tricked me into looking at an AC context. But I only saw a few words from AC and they were void and without form or meaning.

Or fix the bug in the History menu for recovering recent tabs. (But perhaps that was a transient failure overlooked in the regression testing?)

Glad to see the story got so many Funny comments, but I think yours was an overlooked candidate in the race for best joke. I only found it on the search for "blame" because I'm waiting to see who the YOB blames for this. Heads will roll, and the YOB's own punkin' head can't possibly be among them.

But all of the options seem so pleasant. Hegseth has been worth firing since his first day on the job, but how can the YOB spin his own war as Hegseth's fault without mentioning those pesky Iranians? Actually lots of cabinet members with heads worth rolling, but what lies could persuade anyone, even the YOB himself, that they are at blame for this pesky election fiasco? Or I could dream big? Maybe the YOB will try to blame Vance and that could finally trigger them thar' cowards to invoke the 25th Amendment? (I still think that one of Biden's mistakes was not taking the 25th for a test spin and thus setting the stage for Harris to run as the incumbent. What if Biden had arranged for special periodic cabinet meetings without the president where the consideration of the 25th could be added to the agenda?)

Oh well. Mostly just glad to see what happened and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the YOB suddenly announces a bunch of pardons and his retirement, flying away in his YUGE jet. Or even if the YOB goes away via implosion.

Also I'd like to see the accounting on how much money Musk wasted, especially in Texas. Not a genius by any stretch, but a better gambler on average. (And I still laugh whenever I notice a Tesla with the hood logo removed.)

Closing joke based on the famous Churchill quote? Americans will eventually do the right thing after trying everything else. Sometimes even trying it twice.

Hmm... I just added an attempted joke about North Korean one-way taikonauts... But the story is pretty much expired on Slashdot Savings Time.

Pretty good, though I thought Yu and Mi (which you didn't use) are Korean names. Wiggle room for using North Korean taikonauts as more expendable. With one-way tickets?

For sarcastic values of Funny? Better of the two jokes the story "earned" and I lack the motivation to peruse the discussion in search of deeper thoughts.

Also no major thoughts of my own that I want to clarify through the effort of writing. I suppose I should look for something substantive about how the google went from a pretty good thing to such a major part of all the problems? Or even worse, how about a citation of the book Algorithms that spent an entire chapter on a rather interesting analysis of how the original Pagerank algorithm worked? Though gawd knows what sort of garbage the google is using now to justify the AI slop, especially the stuff coming from Google Maps where I would argue they have some of the best data to work with. Maps is maps and the human reviews are practically aching to be purified and distilled.

Funny is about timing and I'm way too late for the laugh. Story is at the bottom and expires RSN.

Or maybe it's Funny that I did start thinking of this angle soon after I saw the story, but I wasn't motivated enough to "try to contribute"? Maybe there's a joke lurking around vis a vis distracting political events and all those contributions they were begging me for?

But not funny is that the story discussion "matured" and is now about to go away without broaching the topic of comparing what they did to brain surgery. 'Nuff said. At least enough as far as Slashdot motivates the effort to say anything.

Oh yeah. About the FP. Pretty weak and I can barely imagine why it was modded Funny. The timing was willing but the spirit was weak.

You choose not to acknowledge it because it's inconvenient to you.

That makes no sense....

I fully support our officers trying to enforce our immigration laws here in the US.

I can't understand why any US citizen would actually be against such.....

Citations please?

I find that high of a number hard to believe, but out of those...how many were guilty of impeding these agents ICE officers while they were carrying out their duty?

Detained and released doesn't really count....happens with regular police too.

DSA is not the Democratic Party.

Well, they are getting elected as Dems.....they seem to be having an undue influence on the Dem party, or at least the Dems in power seem to be worried about offending them by disagreeing with them....so....if it quacks like a duck....

Dishonest framing. That's not what ICE is about. All you people have to offer is dishonesty.

Funny..that's exactly what I've seen ICE doing...rounding up and deporting illegal aliens in the US.

That is their purpose under immigration law.

If it weren't for idiots out there violently protesting and impeding these agents in their duty....things would be doing smoother and US citizens would not have been getting hurt.

So, again...what do you have against our law enforcers enforcing immigration law.

The laws basically say, if you are NOT here legally, you need to GO.