One day, people will learn that Republicans are neither democratic (chosen by the people) nor socialist (in service of the people), though they keep claiming that.

Yes, but can you tell me about White Genocide In South Africa?

Sometimes it slams the brakes for a shadow, other times it runs headlong into the truck. Sometimes it even drives normally, but that doesn't give you a fun, spirited driving experience. For that, you need the unpredictability of AI.

Although, I have heard of "forward collision sensors" doing similar stuff. Not sure how much "AI" is involved there, but I have my own built-in ocular collision sensors that haven't failed me once, and I drive more miles than probably anyone whose job title isn't "driver".

Not sure how Gerald Ford's lifespan was relevant to anyone but Gerald Ford. You don't get the same doctors as Gerald Ford. For normal US citizens, life expectancy began declining years ago, and you're about to see it crater once they quit inspecting the food supply, amongst all the other things.

Not all leaders take bribes. Even the ones that do, may have limits to the type of behavior they can be bribed into. They may care more about the sovereignty or welfare of the nation.

I realize this is a foreign concept in US politics, but we are talking about countries where that kind of behavior is at least not actively encouraged and excused by the social/media and large chunks of the voters.

Bill Clinton is the most effective Republican president there ever was.

Right, I've heard a few good ideas from them, the problem is always either: (1) It's a lie, (2) It's administered so incompetently it doesn't work.

I'll believe this is really happening when it survives Zuck and Teel's veto power, and Indian accents start disappearing from the halls of the tech palaces.

As Trump University students will tell you, you can pay him the $100k, and he'll take the money, but that doesn't mean he's going to do anything for you. I doubt that sum even gets his attention now. You'd have to add a few more zeroes to the end.

You're looking at what a subset of graduates will be doing next semester, but building a skilled workforce takes a generation.

The proposed rules wouldn't kick out existing foreign workers, merely restrict the rate the more are brought in. (i.e., a sensible immigration policy, in sharp contrast to the ICE concentration-camp thing.)

You have to start somewhere, and this is the right way: Gradually phasing more native workers into these roles. I'm not sure what else you expect; maybe there's a button somewhere to push and a fully-formed labor market just pops out? These things have to be built, so yes, someone will have to pay for it and take a bit of time.

Of course, this government is going to miss the other side of the equation that's equally important: Free, quality education. So they may do everything right with the visas and still fail, due to their policy of de-education.

My company uses Microsoft for email. Managing users is a mess with two systems ("Admin" and "Entra"). We don't use Microsoft for any Windows logins or anything resembling the cloud AD.

Earlier this year, one of my users lost access to his authenticator app. I followed instructions I found on the web, which went through the "Admin" web pages. Didn't work. I got on a support call with Microsoft, in which they could see my screen. They talked me through the same steps as I had performed earlier. Didn't work, even though it should. Eventually, with lots of searching, I happened on the "Entra" web pages and was able to actually fix the user's log in issue.

It's a mess.

They also like to control the child. That is part of the attractiveness of the arrangement, and their obsession with it. These are people who take a special joy in manipulating others.

I've never heard any say there are too many people on the planet. I do often hear them say there are too many of certain types of people, too close to them.

There does seem to be a sincere (sincerely dumb!) desire among some of them to pump out as many babies as possible. "Pro-life" is still a misnomer though, obviously. It's just pro-birth. They don't really think about the consequences that follow the birth.

Texas Republicans have really ramped up the attack on local governance in the past few years. They've transferred school districts from local to state ownership. They passed a law restricting cities from ever decreasing their police budgets (only increases are allowed now, by law). They withheld hurricane recovery funds from cities for years, pursuant to a political vendetta.

Oftentimes these laws are written so that they only restrict specific cities, but there are enough attacks on local governments generally, that it's clear they are frightened by the general idea.

Remember: we are talking about Business Insider here.

Probably the biggest difference between 1995 and 2025 is that most calls weren't scams in the 90s. There were certainly scams, I had family members get scammed over fax machine.

But it's not like now where any unknown text or call is more likely than not a scam. We are definitely in a golden age of scamming. Look up the scam call centers in Myanmar if you haven't heard of them. Thousands of slaves locked in offices and beat with cattle prods if they don't hit their quota on the phones.