The population of the USA was dragged kicking and screaming into having more education the last few generations, and will gladly receive less.

There will always be a minority who actually want more, most less

It sounded better in my mind last night. And I should have just said genocide.

I’m reminded when a tidal wave of change starts with tiny little things, which are not very noticeable or apparent for their later importance.

Maybe this will be the last time Washington DC will be demilitarized

You know the difference between a democratic and gop leader? The gop wants to do crimes domestically and in Gaza. While the democrat just wants to do crimes abroad

One thing I keep missing in these AI layoff articles about the United States is that a huge percentage of tech workers lost their jobs because of tax changes. It was a little known tax code that was modified.

The tax code allowed a deduction of worker salaries and benefits if they were engaged in pure research. This write off is what powered many of the invocations from the USA and was done for decades. The change mandated this be deducted over ten years instead of the next year.

For a long time, companies could write off the cost of salaries on their taxes, if the workers were doing research. This was changed by the republicans, and most of these private research departments closed . It was what caused a lot of the major layoffs this year in the mega corps.

That, coupled with the public research departments being laid off , caused a cascade bouncing off entry level jobs in tech.

Very little of this has to do with AI, and I think the misinformation is driven by a combination of AI hype, and PR by some companies laying off workers.

This redistricting should be seen more as a failsafe or backup to keep bad governance. There are several other reasons why good governance cannot happen.

While what is happening is scary and enraging, it will only matter in elections should there be a movement to actually count the ballots by hand in the next generation.

But there is a secondary reason this is happening. Most Texans have no clue their ballots are miscounted, in primaries and general. Having such districts prevent movement in all parts of the state to question this. This future-proofs the cheating past the 2030s

Using RT for Ukrainian news is like using NYT or WSJ or BBC for Gaza coverage.

“Yes, one or two people may have been harmed”

But like every other highly biased source, it has it’s strengths

Never faced justice

Maybe you jest, maybe not, but scams and bad actors will be a required milestone for popularity

Absolutely. I shop weekly in Texas and when I avoid: the extra sugar, extra fat, processed gains, etc. And only buy meats, dairy vegetables, fruits, nuts and unprocessed ; then I have only 5% of the grocery store, maybe 1% even, to choose from.

Really interested in long term health correlations to this

It’s not like anyone uses it now

What would be the downside of weakening and sabotaging intel?

The USA election system is a complicated mess. Its probably likely this is true, and also likely many countries, companies, important people, their cousins and friends, all tried their hand at tipping the scales. The problem with stuff like this is that it is literally not provable.

It is impossible to prove the majority of vote counts in the USA are accurate, at the state or federal primaries or elections. So the corollary is that it is impossible to prove any specific plot exists.

All of this could be stopped by implementing the same counting system(s) as exists in most countries elsewhere. Some states do this already, most do not.

It’s frustrating

I’m not that charitable; I started to see the Texas democrats more as public relations and grifters more than anything else.

Back in the 1990s the Texas democrats were different. They used to have meetings while hog hunting and honestly make the modern GOP look feminine, and rainbow coalition. Not that feminine is bad. I only mentioned it to show it was a different group of people than now.

That party died, its power structures were transferred to the GOP, and everyone with political sense, who had ambition , converted or retired or went elsewhere.

But like a franchise, a new group of people took over the brand, and these people were timid, not wanting to cause actual conflict. And for all intents and purposes, became some kind of captured opposition.

Nobody with real power wanted anything to do with them. And the Texas democratic candidates are a weird collection of helpless idealists, trust fund babies doing it as a hobby, blue blood families keeping appearances, and professional fund raisers who make bank as underdogs.

This is semi regular.

The Texas democrats are living their best lives right now. It’s great for fund raising later. And the other party gets extra press during this mild speed bump.

Win win

It definitely does not help so many people are extorted by different intelligence agencies, of which Israel the first among many.

But, in all honesty, the corrupt arses make it so easy. I wonder if the politicians have professional services they use to prioritize the demanded actions from competing agencies. And what happens when there is a conflict of demands?

Not much has changed in Washington DC the last several generations except the average IQ. It’s dropped recently and I blame lead

I for one look forward to the made up numbers: allowing me to be optimistic about the economy