I'm just glad this is happening while I'm capable and not dependent on the government. I think all the libertarian small government folks will finally start to figure out what a government is when it stops being one.
Most of these advocates for reducing this number of employees think there's an office full of people collecting checks and not doing anything when in reality many of these government employees I see are cops, firefighters, soldiers, civil engineers, judges and DMV employees. If I need any of those people I certainly wouldn't want to find out I had to wait longer because their jobs were cut.
The US Army alone constitutes 400k+ employees. Overall the military is more than 1.3 million active duty staff.
trump - if you haven’t followed one of the core reasons folk voted for him - is a peace President and will end all the Wars. hence defense budget will he slashed by like 95% (when the Wars end no need for all that) and most of the military will also be let go or moved to volunteering as necessary :)
I took this to be a question of what reality is. If you are delusional that is your reality. To someone delusional those of us "normies" could appear crazy. It's all in your point of view and level of objectivity. To your point delusion is a sliding scale, but to believe that you are the most valuable employee at your company is an order of magnitude different than believing there are lizard people trying to poison your pizza while you can't see it in the oven. The objective far end is outside of what I think this person was getting at.
Public sector pay is too low for me to consider it anyway. Make it in-person and with lost wages and fuel costs from driving in they may as well not pay at all. Sounds like they'll get the quality employees we usually associate with government jobs.
I would expect with the judiciary we have now, the expectation is that it will sell to Microsoft who have built Edge on top of blink/v8. My frustration with this is that Microsoft faced this in Europe with IE at the turn of the century and we did nothing to stop it in the US now it feels like we want them to monopolize browser pick up Google's search scraps and monopolize PC OSes too without any repercussion. While Google can't have two of the 3. Seriously, what sexual favors did they provide to keep dodging this for 50 years? Is it okay for them because they're not always successful? Or because their founders were white Americans?
I think it would do the industry a service. Foreign EVs are 75% better quality than Teslas in my experience. I would buy a Kia EV that I can open the doors of in the winter that doesn't have parts falling off of it for the same price as my Tesla in a heartbeat. If the company tanks Elon Musk will lose what credibility he has left and I'll never have to hear about him again. Win win for America as I see it.
Tariffs against foreign EVs plus dropping the EV credit means Elon is trying to corner the US EV market through cronyism. You'll pay whatever Tesla is charging, or you won't be able to get an EV.
The M chips will never be as efficient under Linux as macOS. Outside of immulation, Apple wants you stuck in their ecosystem. A Thinkpad is going to end up being just as efficient (or more) under Linux and a little cheaper solely because of predictable hardware.
If history is any indicator being from a rich family is a big contributing factor to later success. The more famous Impressionists for example were mostly trained as lawyers.
Chasing money robs an artist of time and generates added expenses that require more money. By this car to drive to work. Drive to work to pay for this car.
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