No. Incompetent management and the desire to maintain status quo with the least amount of effort. In other words, laziness.

I used to think these kinds of things happened because of stupidity and lack of foresight... as I grew older, I gradually learned that some of these are intentional. It is easier to control a person who has an enforced weakness.

Smart Republicans will vote with integrity. The American people have spoken: If you are a hateful liar, WE DO NOT WANT YOU.

The Republican party is explicitly about hate and division. Staying with that party is a sure way to lose your power.

But don't worry, the Democrats will save the Republicans as they are both part of the same team: Money.

No. No we are not done with both sides. In fact, we are entering a new era where you get to see for sure...

What was being said, and that you refused to hear: Both sides are corrupt. Period.

You can't vote for either party with a clear conscience.

Here is where you get confused: Until the Republicans unabashedly claimed Fascism and Hate as their parties values, there was little Real World difference between the two parties to the common person. Both sides were perverting the rule of law for their own benefits.

With this 'new' public declaration from the Republicans, everyone, together, said in perfect unison, "Fuck that!". And now we have Democrats instead of Republicans... but watch. Jeffries is already mischaracterizing the win. Schumer will definitely help beat down any investigations or impeachments... and, nothing will happen to any of the evil people fomenting evil upon us. And they will be back for the next election cycle. Yay Democrats! Thanks for cooperating with the evil amongst us. The money is nice eh?

In other words, it is not the parties, it is the money! That is why both sides are the same. They both take money in service of their own fortunes. How it ends up will be semi-random (depends on which party you vote for), but is guaranteed to not be something the public as a whole wants.

We are so far from the bottom that in 10 years, people will be looking back at this time as the good old days. Note how rsilvergun, the evergreen Democratic supporter, is amazingly absent from the discussion in this article. There is nothing he can say today that won't come back to bite him later.

No it won't. Money says that this will be a blip in the run towards a dictatorship. This movement has been going on for over 50 years. It will NOT be stopped through voting. They will succeed at taking control.

The only way to show me that things are changing is to repeal the law created in 1978 permitting the US Government to pull money from SSA through bonds. Or, if bonds do actually make sense, then the money from those bonds needs to go back into SSA administration when the bonds mature. As it is, it is set up to drain Social Security into the General Fund without the strict oversight granted by SSA. This is why Social Security is on "Life Support" (a misnomer as it is being drained purposefully; there is no life and there is no support).

You are not wrong; however, you are failing to take into account that the Democrat party is also compromised by the very same people who compromised the Republican party. I am already seeing leadership being gifted to those who have voted with Republicans on critical items.

It was the corruption that moved the voters, not high prices, not war; not political party, it was corruption.

A government without integrity is utterly useless except as a vehicle for a dictatorship.

You, and previous administrations have never proved that this effort from the USA is necessary. If Iran is such an exigent threat, why didn't China, Russia, or the EU invade? Why aren't they there now? Why is it that only the USA sees enough of a threat there that we need to sacrifice our own well-being to address that threat?

Even if they built a bomb, what exactly would they do with it? If they used it, every single human in the Iranian administration would be assassinated immediately and Iran itself might be entirely wiped off the map. These responses would be worldwide to Iran using a nuclear bomb.

Ultimately, YOU don't want them to have a bomb because YOU don't want anyone to be able to defend themselves against YOUR aggression. Fuck off with that nonsense. "WE" don't need to take from others.

That perception did not arise from nothing. Back in the 80s, the first Chinese made products started arriving after moving manufacturing off-shore. Those products were absolute shit. The American execs tried to get things built for the lowest cost possible and the Chinese delivered exactly what was asked for.

For the next 20 years, we were all buying cheap Chinese shit that would fall apart at first use.

Around 2010 or so, Americans were finally able to see some higher quality Chinese engineering. And then, Chinese technology became extremely restricted. Within the past few years, outright bans of Chinese engineering have been enacted.

It is insane to me that owners moved manufacturing out of the US and would only allow poorly engineered products into the country. What perverse incentives are being followed here? They are dragging ALL of us down, including the owners.

LOL, it is because they are resisting becoming the 51st State. They need to be punished, those filthy commies.

(the scary thing is that this might actually be the reason)

It is probably best to not ask AI to solve problems for you. Make it do drudge work, like setting up header files. Any logic that requires subtlety of thought is out of bounds for AI.

The incorrect use of AI allows lies to fly as Truth until they are challenged. With so many lies flying about, it is difficult to ascertain the Truth. There lies the real danger.

It looks like itch may need to create a process that causes enough friction to allow a human to review whatever makes it past the filter. Is it "unfair" to the creators? Absolutely; however, it is also unfair to ask a human to evaluate so much low-effort garbage.

Ummm, it will only be dead as a propaganda platform. I have numerous uses of the Internet that do not revolve around "the web" or gacha games.

I would go so far as to argue that your main premise is wrong. Most people use the Internet for communication purposes: their bank, placing orders, etc. This AI garbage may dance all around all of that and make some communication harder, but those base needs will still be fulfilled regardless of AI. Which means, that AI is not going to kill the Internet; at most, it will kill YOUR usage of the Internet and possibly others who are similar to you that can't see anything other than propaganda.

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Are too! (lol)

Hey bro, this is the Real World (TM). Nothing has ever gone suddenly "tits up" for you despite your best efforts? Were you incompetent or was it just an unfortunate series of circumstances? If you are going to try to enforce perfection here, I am going to have to ask YOU to prove that.

Yeah, the tow driver could very well have been incompetent, but it sounds like the vehicle was already falling apart due to lack of maintenance. That you choose to crucify the tow truck driver says a lot about who you are choosing to be. Be better.

Let's be fair here: The car was already a piece of shit. Towing it was extremely hazardous to the health of the car.

Let's also be fair here again: That poor woman needs to be provided a new car by the police themselves. The tow company is essentially also a victim in all of this.