It is so weird and creepy watching so many people lately defending mega corporations.

I'm assuming it's because our economy and civilization is collapsing so if you are conservative and you want to keep defending what you perceive as the good old days you kind of have to go all in on corporate oligarchy. Otherwise you got to admit the emperor has no clothes.

Either way it creeps me.

I'd easily settle for towing my 1/8 scale.

Jokes aside if you're stuck in apartments, and pretty much anyone under 50 is, then there isn't really any advantage to an electric car. You don't get the cost advantage or the convenience of not having to stop for gas. You just get a more expensive vehicle, especially after September.

I know the Cyber truck is useless for towing of any kind. To a laughable degree. Not sure how well the F-150 holds up. I know it can absolutely do the towing unlike the cybertruck but I don't know about range.

But honestly just to make things a little more interesting, I just don't want cars period. They're a terrible and unsustainable transportation system. If you actually forced people to pay all the externalized costs for their vehicles I think that public transportation would be a hell of a lot more popular.

I'm not going to debate whether you're right or wrong but I'm going to debate is whether that will be done and whether it will be done quickly?

Containment requires a rapid response and we have already seen that this administration isn't capable of that.

The politically motivated firings alone are basically stopping their response to disasters. That's before we take into account just the raw incompetence.

So the good news is it is not that uncommon for the plague to be found. So we don't have to panic immediately..

The bad news is that Robert f Kennedy Jr and Christi Noem are going to be in charge of any sort of containment response, so actually we do need to panic immediately.

In order to get the Yes Man Trump wanted and that the heritage foundation wanted they had to put completely incompetent buffoons in charge of literally everything that protects you.

For some of us that just means we're on our own and a lot of us are patting ourselves on the back thinking that's okay.

But when it comes to a literal plague it doesn't work like that. The plague doesn't care that you own a house and live in a nice suburb that isn't in a flood plain. This is one of those cases where you can't have a no peeing section in your pool. Also Chesterton's fence.

Unless Trump is so completely senile that all the sane washing in the world can't hide it he will run. And you will vote for him unless you are not american. Which you might be we've got a lot of Russian trolls floating around here trying to lessen the immediate impact of the big beautiful bill so that people will forget it in time for the midterms.

But you won't make any comments. When you lose your house, again assuming you're American and not a foreign agent or asset, then you're not going to go to a McDonald's for the Wi-Fi in order to tell everyone how I was right. You will double down and you will blame Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden because that's what TV tells you to do.

If it's one thing I know about Trump voters they always do what TV tells them to do because they can't think of themselves. If they could they wouldn't have voted for a rapist with 34 felony convictions.

I mean you fuckers literally elected a businessman who couldn't pass a background check for a night shift at a 7-Eleven. There is no way you are thinking for yourself. You outsource that to TV. The only reason you haven't been destroyed already is because there was still some people on TV protecting you. Those guys are gone and now you've got about 4 years. The crash hits in 2028 shortly after the midterm and you will be mortgaging your houses. 2 years later the bank will come for them.

And Has completely stopped all law enforcement around cryptocurrency.

So yeah you're going to have a bubble. Nasty one. And pretty soon cryptocurrency will get integrated directly into the economy and Wall Street. You will eventually see the same kind of nasty little finance products that cause to 2008 market crash only backed by imaginary funny money instead of houses.

When that happens the resulting crash is going to make 2008 look like the good times of the .com bubble.

I know nobody believes this but mark my words in 4 years half of you will have lost your houses. Six if you're lucky.

Heck eventually Trump will get those 200% tariffs on medicine through and the the cost of keeping you alive it will double. I know damn well you're being kept alive with pills because all us old farts are. Statins and blood thinners. And I know that you're thinking well I take a generic. I guarantee you somebody else is already thinking that and working on getting more money out of the stuff that keeps you alive.

We have 2,000 people trying to be the first trillionaire in this country. The only way they can do that is by taking your property.

Like one that isn't expecting to have elections anymore. It's clearly expect one more round in the midterms but it's also clear that after the midterms they don't think that they need to care what any of us think.

I think the Trump voter is know they fucked up but they're in too deep. A lot of them have lost family and friends for trump. It's classic cult like behavior where the cult leader is trying to cut you off from the outside world. And it's working.

So midterms will still go maga and then Trump gets a third term in 2028. After that yeah, no more elections. We will go through the motions like Russia and North Korea do but those are really be a census used to keep track of dissidents and people fleeing the country.

But hey, how about those trans girls in sports?

When Trump was President last time he couldn't do a lot of the really bad shit because he had hired competent people out of habit and they just wouldn't let him do all the crazy shit like try to end birthright citizenship or do a fuck ton of illegal tariffs using fake emergencies or firing everybody in the government so you can replace them with cronies that will let you crown yourself King

So in order to be able to do all the crazy crap in project 2025 that is just going to wreck the economy like it did in the 1800s where the policies came from he hired yes men the worst kind.

So you have lunatics like Robert f Kennedy Jr and completely incompetent buffoons like Christi Noem.

These people are evil. But they're also staggeringly incompetent. This means that no matter how much money corporations and lobbyists have the people they are lobbying are going to be so dumb that they can't even do the things they're being bribed to do.

I don't think anyone especially Trump voters have come to terms with just how badly we fucked up letting him get a second term.

People are calling him Taco because Trump always chickens out. But they're misunderstanding something.

First, Trump is a senile old man. He isn't doing anything it's a bunch of heritage foundation goons running the show.

and second they're not chickening out they are testing the limits of what they can get away with.

And all the while they're doing that they are completely fucking incompetent because they're a bunch of psychopathic nepo babies.

In 4 years about half the people reading this will have lost their houses like 2008 on steroids. Only this time they're on to cheap apartments for you guys to move into so you're going to be living down by the river. And I guarantee you anyone reading this has already convinced themselves they aren't going to be in that half. And I'll be voting for Trump in 2028.

The only problem I see there is a darn mediatek chipset. I had nothing but trouble with my Motorola based on a Media tek chip and ended up switching to a OnePlus 13r so that I could get a modern Qualcomm chip. Mostly for the modem. Much as I hate to admit it, $500 later it did solve my connectivity problems.

The head of FEMA, Christie Noem as appointed by Donald trump, fired the contractors in charge of the call centers that take people's phone calls regarding the flood and assistance.

As a result they went from answering 99% of all calls to answering 15% of all calls.

This is on top of the roughly 12 to 15 million people we are going to allow to die in 2027 by taking away their health care.

So yeah we do not give a fuck about people. Administration is now governing like one that does not expect there to be elections.

All I'm saying is the signs are a little bit stronger than just AI chatbots.

It shows a real lack of empathy. For one thing you could and should Google the rate of working homelessness. You should also understand that 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and that definition is literally just having $1,000 in your bank account. Only about 28% of Americans have these 6 months cushion of savings that any financial advisor is going to tell you to get.

The part that I find is disturbing about your post is where you just say it's an excuse. That's a word used in English to dismiss people outrigh.

If you're not a native English speaker though I apologize. But if you aren't understand that when you use the word excuse in english, at least in American english, it's basically an insult.

Anyway as far as transportation system it's got nothing to do with appearing homeless. The problem is that we don't have public transportation. If you try to commute to work using public transit you can expect a 20 minute car drive to be a 2-hour bus ride. Now do that twice a day. And continue to work 60 to 80 hours a week because remember, Americans work more hours to the Japanese now. Look it up.

That might not be a lack of empathy on your part it could just be you don't live in America so you might not understand how bad our transportation system is. Our car companies completely dominated the transportation system and shut down any attempt to build out public transit in order to force people into cars. They also work with the airplane industry for any long-distance travel. That's why Elon Musk came up with the hyperloop, it was a scam to shut down high speed rail in California.

Finally ask for the abuse of parents you're describing that's called generational trauma. Is a difficult cycle to break. That one's kind of global so you really should regardless of the country you live in stop to think about that.

Again though these might be things you don't know if you're not American and might not make sense to you if you're not a native English speaker.

I think you have fallen into a lot of really bad thought patterns but that's not necessarily your fault, there is a lot of propaganda out there that is designed to put you into those thought patterns. You're probably pretty pissed off with me right now for pointing this out especially because I am fairly tactless what would being a nerd.

But you should try to unpack and deconstruct some of the crap you picked up over the years, especially anything from your 4 to 14 age. Google the phrase 4 to 14 if you don't understand what that means... Good luck.

Stop making mother fucking phones without user replaceable batteries. There's absolutely no reason why we should not be able to replace our batteries except it forces you to spend a ton of money on a battery replacement or learn how to use a heat mat and a splurger. You also better have some damn good fingers and eyes so you don't break those itty bitty teeny tiny ribbon cables.

Because we owe most of it to ourselves and the stuff we use overseas is used to artificially prop up the value of the US dollar allowing us to import trillions of dollars of merchandise for a fraction of it's actual value. Essentially imperial tribute.

But you already knew all that right? Because you wouldn't admit to all of slashdot that you have little or no understanding of how the US economic system works would you? You certainly wouldn't admit that you don't understand the difference between a national budget and a personal budget right?

You are right about one thing Trump's debt is going to crash the economy. But that's not because the US government borrowed the money it's because the US government borrowed the money to give it to billionaires going on trillionaires.

You can't keep taking money out of the US economy to give it to the 0.1% and not expect everything to collapse.

It would be like if you went to a building and tore out all the foundation pillars holding it up. It's not going to end well for anyone involved except the people in charge of the demolition.

But again I'm not telling you anything you didn't already know right ?

There's a whole world of religious lunatics that really really really get upset with this research because it contradicts the 6000-year-old Earth. So this was always going to be knocked out first thing.

And yeah literally every single aspect of science contradicts the young Earth nonsense. But the thing about the religious lunatics is they have a lot of money and a lot of time. So they are happy to attack basically all of science.

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Coding is to CS as math is to Physics.

Software engineering is building the supercolliders for physics.

Meanwhile we have LLM's declaring themselves Mechahitler.

Good job University of No Job Placement.

(yeah, some Universities have been giving CS degrees for HTML and MS Office)