I drive a 20 year old piece of junk with only about 30% of the original pieces and so many dents it only resembles a car in the academic sense. So yeah, good luck with using AI on me.
I seem to remember him writing about this and how when he was a day laboring he drank hard to deal with the pain from getting beat up. Maybe I'm mixing up my American writers, but the point is this is hardly new information.
It's a problem now because:
a. We have the tech to keep these people alive past 55 if we want.
b. Except for a few genetic freaks they can't work much past 55 but our retirement age is 67.
c. We know we have the tech and if we don't use it we know we're letting them die 10-20 years younger.
Doctors have been giving these folks phony disability papers because while they can technically function enough to work they're so much less productive nobody wants to hire them and they quiet frankly shouldn't be working in the shape their in. Even if they get jobs they're likely to hurt themselves and/or the people around them. But America being a "If you don't work you don't eat" kind of country there's not a lot of options. Thing is that's not gonna last. Sooner or later folks'll notice them "cheating" the system and come down on them (and their doctors) like a ton of bricks.
The right thing to do is to recognize they've given 20-30 years of service to our civilization and take care of them, but try explaining that to the "Taxes are theft" wing of the right.
but the number of H1-Bs keeps going up and every one gets taken. From a purely mathematical standpoint it's just not true. If it was we'd have labor shortages resulting in not just hiring but raises and training. Anecdotally I'm not seeing the training and there's been plenty of studies to show the raises aren't coming (there were several in the wake of the Trump tax cuts that showed the money was going to stock buy backs and mergers like everybody said it would).
I hate to say this but so far it's all just wishful thinking.
but I don't think the Republican party is redeemable. The Democrats at least have the Bernie wing and Liz Warren. I can't name one person on the Republican side that seems to have American interests at heart unless you count some of the warhawks push for US Hegemony at all costs (John Bolton I'm looking at you). The Republicans have gone too far down the rabbit hole of accepting corporate cash.
I think the defining moment for me was when those Parkland shooting victims called Mark Rubio out on the NRA donations and he counted it by saying anyone should be able to "Buy Into" him; not realizing (caring?) that if I'm "buying in" to a politician then he's not really serving me...
when you're right. At some point we need to accept objective reality or things will only get worse. I get it. You don't like reality. Neither do I. I hate the way the world works. I hate that racism and bigotry are such powerful forces for dividing the working class. I hate that we're likely to waste $17 trillion in the next ten years on crap healthcare. I hate the endless wars and how easy it was to whip Americans into a blood frenzy after 9/11. I hate this world.
But it's better than it was 100 years ago. Heck, for a lot of Americans it's better than it was 50 years ago (e.g. if you're black, gay, Hispanic, etc). We can make things better if we try. That's what I hate so much about Conservatism. The entire point of that ideology is that we _can't_ make things better so we shouldn't try. After all, being conservative means being opposed to change (and if you're not, you're not really conservative, you just like the moniker).
right? They're not ruining everything. It's exaggeration for effect and occasionally an old man yelling at clouds. It's a few extra people on scooters. If anything it's a good thing if it makes it so folks can use public transportation. You'll thank them for the cleaner air and less traffic when you're driving.
making Arbitration legally binding. I forget the name of the law, but it passed with good 'ole "Bipartisan" support, meaning with Republicans and what we call "Corporate" Democrats (e.g. Democrats who side with corporations over workers). There's a small wing of the Democratic party that opposed it but there's so much corporate cash in politics now and so many wedge issues (guns, abortion, gay rights) that economic issues mostly gets drowned out and when they do make it front and center people get the wool pulled over their eyes by endless ad campaigns and a media that leans hard right on economics and gets called "Left Wing" for supporting gay rights...
they didn't do this out of the kindness of their heart. They're afraid they'll lose the ability to force their drivers and regular customers who get in wreaks into arbitration over this.
If you don't like arbitration contracts you'll need to change who gets elected. Kick the Republicans (who voted to allow companies to mandated it) and the corporate Dems like Pelosi & Schumer who did too. So far only the Bernie & Warren wing of the Democratic party has offered any serious opposition...
The New Deal was funded with large tax increases on the wealthy. Following it and up until the 70s the marginal tax rate was 90% (e.g. you paid 90% of your income after around $22 million/year when adjusted for inflation). Wages weren't paid as stock dividends yet and offshore tax shelters weren't a thing so the tax was actually paid. It was the largest sustained period of growth in the middle class in American history. These are all facts, and you can verify them with a few minutes/hours on google.
Then Nixon & Regan came along, convinced everybody that Government was the Problem and Not the solution (lovely slogan that) and real wages and the middle class have been in decline ever since. This is also a fact you can verify on Google.
Face it, right wing economics don't work. We tried my way and it worked. We tried your way and it didn't. The logical thing is to go back to my way. Stop _feeling_ and start _thinking_. That's the only way out of this mess.
but hey, it's still better than those socialist hell holes like Scandinavia, France, Germany, amiright? Just keep pointing out Venezula (a country with exactly two resources, oil and an electric dam) and telling yourself everything's OK.
and they don't train. H1-Bs and outsourcing ended that. So the only way to get ahead is to use your current job as a spring board into something better. And since inflation's still a thing and companies don't give raises you're either getting a new job every two years or taking a substantial pay cut.
Any pretense of a "social contract" is gone. What I don't understand is why folks don't all get behind Bernie Sanders' New New Deal. It's about time to hammer out a new contract since the ruling class reneged on the old one. And while we're at it we might as well take more for the working class this time.
I don't think it'll matter. Russia doesn't play nice when it comes to security and has a history of using overt violence to get what it wants out of people. You can't thumb your nose at Putin the way, say, Tim Cook did to the American FBI. If any of their staff or family of their staff are left in Russia I'd be nervous about using their product. That's just the reality of it.
shall be the whole of the law. As long as you're willing to admit you're in favor of Dog eat Dog capitalism that's something I can work with. Very, very few people are willing to admit it because, well, it's been shown repeatably that it ends horribly for all but a lucky few (the.01%, the robber barrons, monarchs, facists, whatever you want to call them they're the same all throughout history).
I actually prefer guys like you. Because 95% of us know your ideas are just plain wrong. Which is exactly why so few right wingers will admit to them. Especially in person. After all, it's easy to say "Let 'em die" on the internet. Not so much when you're face to face with somebody actually dying.
And if you want to know why you're wrong (and you're open to figuring things out) start by googling "Wallet Biopsy".
that's the final estimated bill for Iraq & Afghanistan (after we pay all the interest). I'm gonna guess it's more than that, so let's round it to an even $10 trillion. There are 350 million americans (give or take) so about $28k per person.
So yeah, he exaggerated. You've only got $28k on your credit card for the sake of two pointless wars. But let me remind you we're fighting another 6 wars and working on #s 9 and 10 (Iran & North Korea, though I think NK is gonna be the one that got away). Cheaper wars I suppose, so I'll give 'em to you at price. That's $84k per person, so I'm at $112k per person. Add in Iran and I can get us to $125k easy.
So you tell me, when's it all gonna stop? So far as I can tell we've got Orwell's 1984 "Always been at war" but it's the middle east instead of Eurasia.
and more to do with 6 months of not worrying whether you get to eat or not. The part that got me was this:
"less likely to make trade-offs between food and health care"
Seriously nuts that this is a thing, but that's America's healthcare system.
OTOH if I want to have a bit of libtard fun I like to ask my right wing friends/acquaintances if healthcare is a right or not try to make them answer yes or no. After 5-10 minutes of speeches and heming and hawing they'll either say 'no' or admit we ought to have a national healthcare system.
we've got the people, we're just not using them effectively. That said, for decades our military has been a cheap place to train pilots and engineers, hence the reason for 'up and out'. It's remarkably difficult to get Americans to pay for roads and schools but defense (read:war)? They'll blow money all day long.
The proper quote is not wrong. It's just that there's a disproportionate amount of poor people who are bad at math since, well, math is a valuable skill and if you're good at it you're probably not poor (though I wouldn't bet on it:) ).
is where I see this going. If you can Id good targets from pictures offline then it won't be long until you can do it in realtime. There's a world of difference between using AI to sell me McDonald's Cheeseburgers & BMWs and using it to kill people.
What's scary is you're having trouble with the difference (and if you are, so are other people). Even ignoring the fact that our drone program is anything but legitimate it ought to be obvious why someone who makes advertisements for a living wouldn't want to switch over to weapon's manufacture.
it didn't ban sports gambling, it make it illegal for the States to lift their existing bans. That way Nevada (who lobbied for the law) could keep right on gambling.
I'd love to see gambling fully legalized. The Casino operators are crazy rich and use their money to buy all kinds of influence. It'd be nice to see some of that power broke up even a little bit.
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I drive a 20 year old piece of junk with only about 30% of the original pieces and so many dents it only resembles a car in the academic sense. So yeah, good luck with using AI on me.
I seem to remember him writing about this and how when he was a day laboring he drank hard to deal with the pain from getting beat up. Maybe I'm mixing up my American writers, but the point is this is hardly new information.
It's a problem now because:
a. We have the tech to keep these people alive past 55 if we want.
b. Except for a few genetic freaks they can't work much past 55 but our retirement age is 67.
c. We know we have the tech and if we don't use it we know we're letting them die 10-20 years younger.
Doctors have been giving these folks phony disability papers because while they can technically function enough to work they're so much less productive nobody wants to hire them and they quiet frankly shouldn't be working in the shape their in. Even if they get jobs they're likely to hurt themselves and/or the people around them. But America being a "If you don't work you don't eat" kind of country there's not a lot of options. Thing is that's not gonna last. Sooner or later folks'll notice them "cheating" the system and come down on them (and their doctors) like a ton of bricks.
The right thing to do is to recognize they've given 20-30 years of service to our civilization and take care of them, but try explaining that to the "Taxes are theft" wing of the right.
but the number of H1-Bs keeps going up and every one gets taken. From a purely mathematical standpoint it's just not true. If it was we'd have labor shortages resulting in not just hiring but raises and training. Anecdotally I'm not seeing the training and there's been plenty of studies to show the raises aren't coming (there were several in the wake of the Trump tax cuts that showed the money was going to stock buy backs and mergers like everybody said it would).
I hate to say this but so far it's all just wishful thinking.
but I don't think the Republican party is redeemable. The Democrats at least have the Bernie wing and Liz Warren. I can't name one person on the Republican side that seems to have American interests at heart unless you count some of the warhawks push for US Hegemony at all costs (John Bolton I'm looking at you). The Republicans have gone too far down the rabbit hole of accepting corporate cash.
I think the defining moment for me was when those Parkland shooting victims called Mark Rubio out on the NRA donations and he counted it by saying anyone should be able to "Buy Into" him; not realizing (caring?) that if I'm "buying in" to a politician then he's not really serving me...
when you're right. At some point we need to accept objective reality or things will only get worse. I get it. You don't like reality. Neither do I. I hate the way the world works. I hate that racism and bigotry are such powerful forces for dividing the working class. I hate that we're likely to waste $17 trillion in the next ten years on crap healthcare. I hate the endless wars and how easy it was to whip Americans into a blood frenzy after 9/11. I hate this world.
But it's better than it was 100 years ago. Heck, for a lot of Americans it's better than it was 50 years ago (e.g. if you're black, gay, Hispanic, etc). We can make things better if we try. That's what I hate so much about Conservatism. The entire point of that ideology is that we _can't_ make things better so we shouldn't try. After all, being conservative means being opposed to change (and if you're not, you're not really conservative, you just like the moniker).
and there's plenty of debate around the impacts of Kennedy's tax cuts. It's the classic line "But the Tax Cuts will Pay for themselves".
right? They're not ruining everything. It's exaggeration for effect and occasionally an old man yelling at clouds. It's a few extra people on scooters. If anything it's a good thing if it makes it so folks can use public transportation. You'll thank them for the cleaner air and less traffic when you're driving.
not everybody's a retiree or so rich they don't need to consider getting to work on time...
making Arbitration legally binding. I forget the name of the law, but it passed with good 'ole "Bipartisan" support, meaning with Republicans and what we call "Corporate" Democrats (e.g. Democrats who side with corporations over workers). There's a small wing of the Democratic party that opposed it but there's so much corporate cash in politics now and so many wedge issues (guns, abortion, gay rights) that economic issues mostly gets drowned out and when they do make it front and center people get the wool pulled over their eyes by endless ad campaigns and a media that leans hard right on economics and gets called "Left Wing" for supporting gay rights...
they didn't do this out of the kindness of their heart. They're afraid they'll lose the ability to force their drivers and regular customers who get in wreaks into arbitration over this.
If you don't like arbitration contracts you'll need to change who gets elected. Kick the Republicans (who voted to allow companies to mandated it) and the corporate Dems like Pelosi & Schumer who did too. So far only the Bernie & Warren wing of the Democratic party has offered any serious opposition...
The New Deal was funded with large tax increases on the wealthy. Following it and up until the 70s the marginal tax rate was 90% (e.g. you paid 90% of your income after around $22 million/year when adjusted for inflation). Wages weren't paid as stock dividends yet and offshore tax shelters weren't a thing so the tax was actually paid. It was the largest sustained period of growth in the middle class in American history. These are all facts, and you can verify them with a few minutes/hours on google.
Then Nixon & Regan came along, convinced everybody that Government was the Problem and Not the solution (lovely slogan that) and real wages and the middle class have been in decline ever since. This is also a fact you can verify on Google.
Face it, right wing economics don't work. We tried my way and it worked. We tried your way and it didn't. The logical thing is to go back to my way. Stop _feeling_ and start _thinking_. That's the only way out of this mess.
but hey, it's still better than those socialist hell holes like Scandinavia, France, Germany, amiright? Just keep pointing out Venezula (a country with exactly two resources, oil and an electric dam) and telling yourself everything's OK.
and they don't train. H1-Bs and outsourcing ended that. So the only way to get ahead is to use your current job as a spring board into something better. And since inflation's still a thing and companies don't give raises you're either getting a new job every two years or taking a substantial pay cut.
Any pretense of a "social contract" is gone. What I don't understand is why folks don't all get behind Bernie Sanders' New New Deal. It's about time to hammer out a new contract since the ruling class reneged on the old one. And while we're at it we might as well take more for the working class this time.
I don't think it'll matter. Russia doesn't play nice when it comes to security and has a history of using overt violence to get what it wants out of people. You can't thumb your nose at Putin the way, say, Tim Cook did to the American FBI. If any of their staff or family of their staff are left in Russia I'd be nervous about using their product. That's just the reality of it.
shall be the whole of the law. As long as you're willing to admit you're in favor of Dog eat Dog capitalism that's something I can work with. Very, very few people are willing to admit it because, well, it's been shown repeatably that it ends horribly for all but a lucky few (the .01%, the robber barrons, monarchs, facists, whatever you want to call them they're the same all throughout history).
I actually prefer guys like you. Because 95% of us know your ideas are just plain wrong. Which is exactly why so few right wingers will admit to them. Especially in person. After all, it's easy to say "Let 'em die" on the internet. Not so much when you're face to face with somebody actually dying.
And if you want to know why you're wrong (and you're open to figuring things out) start by googling "Wallet Biopsy".
that's the final estimated bill for Iraq & Afghanistan (after we pay all the interest). I'm gonna guess it's more than that, so let's round it to an even $10 trillion. There are 350 million americans (give or take) so about $28k per person.
So yeah, he exaggerated. You've only got $28k on your credit card for the sake of two pointless wars. But let me remind you we're fighting another 6 wars and working on #s 9 and 10 (Iran & North Korea, though I think NK is gonna be the one that got away). Cheaper wars I suppose, so I'll give 'em to you at price. That's $84k per person, so I'm at $112k per person. Add in Iran and I can get us to $125k easy.
So you tell me, when's it all gonna stop? So far as I can tell we've got Orwell's 1984 "Always been at war" but it's the middle east instead of Eurasia.
and more to do with 6 months of not worrying whether you get to eat or not. The part that got me was this:
"less likely to make trade-offs between food and health care"
Seriously nuts that this is a thing, but that's America's healthcare system.
OTOH if I want to have a bit of libtard fun I like to ask my right wing friends/acquaintances if healthcare is a right or not try to make them answer yes or no. After 5-10 minutes of speeches and heming and hawing they'll either say 'no' or admit we ought to have a national healthcare system.
we've got the people, we're just not using them effectively. That said, for decades our military has been a cheap place to train pilots and engineers, hence the reason for 'up and out'. It's remarkably difficult to get Americans to pay for roads and schools but defense (read:war)? They'll blow money all day long.
is this:
:) ).
Gambling is a tax on people who are bad at math.
The proper quote is not wrong. It's just that there's a disproportionate amount of poor people who are bad at math since, well, math is a valuable skill and if you're good at it you're probably not poor (though I wouldn't bet on it
So it's not hard to stop using their version of this crap takes off. And there's always Firefox.
The Space Merchants: Better a Thousand Innocent men suffer than One Guilty man go free.
it's around $9 ($7 trillion in Iraq and $2 in Afghanistan). Of course, I'm not counting what we spend in the rest of the region.
yet. Give it another 10, 20 years and we'll have fully automated kill bots. As long as civilian casualties aren't a concern then it'll work great.
is where I see this going. If you can Id good targets from pictures offline then it won't be long until you can do it in realtime. There's a world of difference between using AI to sell me McDonald's Cheeseburgers & BMWs and using it to kill people.
What's scary is you're having trouble with the difference (and if you are, so are other people). Even ignoring the fact that our drone program is anything but legitimate it ought to be obvious why someone who makes advertisements for a living wouldn't want to switch over to weapon's manufacture.
it didn't ban sports gambling, it make it illegal for the States to lift their existing bans. That way Nevada (who lobbied for the law) could keep right on gambling.
I'd love to see gambling fully legalized. The Casino operators are crazy rich and use their money to buy all kinds of influence. It'd be nice to see some of that power broke up even a little bit.