Legal immigration is also a problem. The HXX visas all let an employer hold immigrants hostage. It is legislated human trafficking. Musk loves his H1Bs because he can pay them less and work them harder. E series visas where switching jobs is ok are fine.

We need ranked choice voting. I'm tired of voting against, people, just once I'd like to vote *for* someone without worrying I'm throwing my vote away. Proportional representation or some variant would be nice too, so many gerrymandered states, mostly in favor of republicans, but Illinois and Oregon not so much

That golden period nearly ended democracy in the us as the government was captured by industrialists. Tariffs and subsidies both are good tools to protect industries you want to grow. You don't do it forever though. The goal is to make them strong enough to compete globally (which means you have to make them compete internally first). When they can compete globally, you withdraw the tariff protections and cease the subsidies and hand them to the next sector you want to grow. Except titans of industry don't want the gravy train to end so they try to take over the government. Instead of happening gradually it ends up happening all at once and you get the great depression, or Japan's list decades, or what is about to happen in China (probably).

What do you mean? Heat pumps are ubiquitous everywhere I've been in the us that wasn't walking distance from the ocean or had permafrost deep enough to require a basement.

These aren't the emergency cutoffs, these are the ones they operate every takeoff and landing. Aorbus forces you to throttle all the way down before cutting them off, which might be enough to wake your brain up to the fact you are running the wrong checklist, but if you are in that state of erroneous automatic action there isn't a lot you can do from an interface design standpoint. The right answer is to run the checklist as a checklist each time very intentionally, but people, even pilots, aren't good at that. There are very few cases where shutting off the engines at that altitude on take off make sense, barely any, so you could prevent it entirely, but then when it actually is the right move it will ne your fault for preventing it.

That is only true after they adopted western diets. Pre contact heart attack was lower than even Mediterranean diets, they had literally no cavities, obesity or type 2 diabetes. Meat heavy diets are what they adapted to, and they adapted well. If you grabbed someone from India and had them use that diet? That probably wouldn't go as well, but fresh meat is one of the things humans run best on, that is pretty well established by science. The cancer links to animal protiens have been mostly discredited. There is a link between excess nutrition and tumor growth, but that is just because tumors need fuel too. Processed meat is as equally implicated as fresh meat is vindicated though. Bacon kills.

Sadly no. China wont take the steps necessary to be a world reserve either. It would require a commitment to the rule of law that the ccp has no palate for. Otherwise no one will trust them as a debtor. Which is why Bessent saying that he will do whatever the president says is so alarming. The EU has no centralized monetary policy, so that leaves us with... gold? Swiss francs? Neither of those are anywhere near deep enough to sink the worlds investments. No one seems nearly as alarmed as I think they should be.

Zaihan is fun. I follow his YouTube videos too. But he is an entertainer first. So he will always give the most interesting take. Will China go full mad max societal failure. Or have a few lost decades like Japan? Well, you can support either analysis with real data. But which one gets more views? His primary premise of demographic collapse is obviously a real one, but whether it will drive the changes he suggests is debated. A dutch economics profihas a channel called money and macro and he has an analysis on Zaihan that puts it better than I could. The golden age was borrowed from the present. Low birth rates after a population boom left almost everyone working. Rapid industrialization of various asian countries lead to huge productivity gains of a guge number of people at the same time. Now you need to welcome immigration and training, come up with some insane productivity (and consumer spending) boosting tech, or you need to make more people at a rate impossible without artificial wombs and group homes. A combination would probably be best.

I read just yesterday they jave many permanent effects and are not reversible at all depending on the age started. But that in some cases that is the lesser issue.

But you succinctly stated the playbook. Spot something unrelated to the issue you feel your party is in the minority opinion on, but that the opposition, will defend emotionally and make that the issue. It helps if you are in the majority opinion on that issue. It is mostly a weakness in the democrats. They have The Groups and they maintain solidarity, so you only have to find an issue that one of them cares about to get the rest to hold the line, even at the expense of the issue they would have won on. In this case the left didn't just stop campaigning on the other issues, they stopped fighting for many of them altogether. That is what killed them.

That is it in short. Also looking at the states they run, their current playbook is broken. It isn't like TX can build housing anymore either but from the 90s until a few years back it did pretty well. California can't build anything and hasn't been able to for years. But, the disease of letting absolutely any niche group (or individual!) stop any action whatsoever has spread from the left to maga leadership. Along with centralized one size fits all federal government and deficit spending. Maybe the left will recover from it first having had it for longer. But it looks more like they will fight fire with fire and bring their own authoritarian populists out to take our freedoms instead.

Except the employers know this and tequire more work. Anecdotes are of people writing prompts that mostly specify a handul of testcases and to have the agents self prompt with the output of the compiler, linter unit tests etc. until it passes. Then they verify the tests cases are still right and move to the next ticket never even looking at the code, commiting the prompts into git. I've tried this with cline and a corporate hosted mistral. it works. My employer doesn't know it works yet but at some point we'll all just be writing prompts and verifying tests as fast as we can...

Saying there is no difference is incorrect. But it is surprising how often completely different motives lead to the same behavior. There are many overlapping factions with differing goals that sometimes align and sometimes oppose each other. Complexity is annoying, but it is real. Thiel for example has views that are largely incompatible with any faction involving manufacturing, but he wants enough of the same things that there is compromise. There are even different generalizations you can make about the parties that hold up. Red states have lower median incomes, lower education, more gerrymandering, about the same federal investment, lower gdp per capita, higher wealth inequality, but can actually complete building projects and infrastructure when they do invest in them. Causation and correlation as usual, but correlations are useful in partitioning groups.

I found your post difficult to parse. Is your assertion that profits are down or are expected to go down due tariffs? And that this is the primary driver of the layoffs? I'm not disagreeing, I just genuinely couldn't tell.

Mosquitos form a tiny portion of the diet of the animals that eat them, including bats. Mosquitos are pollinators, but again. Many othe pollinators pollinate the same species of plants. Making mosquitoes extinct might actually help honey bees by decreasing competition for shared resources. There have been multiple studies, and surprisingly, there is no evidence that removing mosquitoes would cause a trophic cascade, and a great deal of evidence that it would not. We should do it.

Well they started out as a diabetes drug which is one of the major correlations, so there is that. And anecdotally it does decrease desire to eat bad foods. The primary issues are insufficient protein intake and all the things that come along with rapid weight loss. Also, suddenly changing your diet, even for the better, can be hard on things like the gall bladder. So it is not risk free. Which is why doctors supposedly should only be prescribing it when the health risks pf obesity outweigh those risks.