It's a victim of its own success. It's struggling, because large institutions are invested in it, and it now rises and falls with the stock market. It used to be advertised as an alternative to these institutions.
I also think because of the volume, pump and dump schemes are less likely and some popular Youtuber shilling for it can't raise the price anymore.
The part you are leaving out is treating them solely as "illegals" means these people will avoid going to physicians to get their shots, because they would risk deportation.
The obvious solution for better health for all would be providing public and freely accessible locations for getting these shots, or mobile teams providing them at schools etc.
Can you cite some sources? Because most countries have a functioning vaccination program, in part thanks to now-cancelled USAID funding. But vaccination rates have been dropping, just like in the US. https://www.unicef.org/lac/en/press-releases/latin-america-a...
Your comment reads like anti-immigrant propaganda. If USAID were to be restored, the US could use its vast wealth to improve global health. But the current US regime is decisively anti-vax and wants everyone to suffer unnecessarily from preventable disease.
Yet the measles outbreak in Northern Mexico was caused by antivax white mennonites who brought it from Texas. Turns out there are subpopulations everywhere who need to be vaccinated - if only we had evidence-based people in charge of public health instead of wellness grifters.
If the current generation of software engineers only know how to code using AI, engineers that don't need it will be that much more valuable in the coming years.
I’m less focused on engineers using AI to code and more on agents being the “users” of software. Especially because you have agents doing all these tasks now (ie. OpenClaw and others). Even if engineers stay critical, if the end consumer shifts from human clicks to agent decisions, distribution and ranking mechanics change.
Would you agree or do you think this stays human driven long term?
You only get better at something if you actively try to improve and learn from your mistakes. Sometimes you can't do this on your own, and need to hire someone with more experience to teach you.
For many people, this takes the fun out of it, because it's too structured, which is fine too.
"The release of the files is also cause for concern because so much of the raw investigative material in them — untold layers of hearsay, unverified accusations and vague circumstantial connections — ought not be released for the public to pick over."
The only reason people wanted these released, is the hope they could use it to ruin Trump's career. Now that there has been essentially nothing implicating him besides some randos in 2020 calling in to the FBI with complete bullshit, the same weapon is being used against Democrats and their major donors.
This is why Biden didn't release these files. Nobody truly cares about the victims, only weaponizing it against their political enemies.
Seeing someone still enthusiastically carry water for the pedo in chief in 2026 is like seeing a dodo bird in the wild.
Bro I hope you're getting paid for this because otherwise your talents are going to waste. There are, like, only a dozen true believers left and they're all pedophiles and psychopaths just trying to avoid the inevitable. What are you still fighting for? The storm isn't coming.
3. Let's start with our priors about what we know of Trump's behavior and who he is as a man and a politician, and then update that with what's in the files.
The top companies (and the wealthiest for that matter) already pay the majority in taxes. This doesn't include the jobs created to support everything (and the taxes paid from these jobs).
We should be allowing businesses to write off research and development. This promotes forward-thinking and almost always adds new jobs during the investment phase and after.
More tax money just gets wasted at the top. California is a good example of this. They pay more in taxes than any other state and have almost nothing to show for it but a failing education system, crumbling infrastructure, and high crime.
The main issue is that those companies should be require to hire US citizens and not outsourcing, for these jobs.
That's incorrect information, roughly half of US tax revenue is from income taxes, roughly a third is payroll taxes (not sure whether to attribute that to employees or corporations paying), and then corporate taxes and excise taxes are only about a tenth of US tax.
In general, no they aren’t. But there is the social security tax, which is individually tracked and collectively allocated for that office. And the Medicare tax which goes off directly to that program. These two constitute a major component of money going into the system.
> The top companies (and the wealthiest for that matter) already pay the majority in taxes.
When you hoard far more than just a slim majority, paying a majority isn’t unexpected and it can still be unfair. But I think you are talking about federal personal income tax not corporate tax.
> We should be allowing businesses to write off research and development.
They already do in various ways.
> More tax money just gets wasted at the top. California is a good example of this.
I agree California is wasteful. But we can tax and just give the money directly to people.
> The main issue is that those companies should be require to hire US citizens and not outsourcing, for these jobs.
Not even close to the main issue. Why not just redistribute the gains instead of playing games with these other schemes?
I mean sure it might be wasteful (name one entity private or public that doesn’t suffer from assholes and corruption), but the quality of life here is far better than in Texas or any other state.
We have labor rights, environmental protection, hell even the ethical farming practices like how eggs are produced. Life here is objectively better for the people.
It’s obviously more expensive. There’s demand for people to live here. Even if some people leave more want to move here or wish they could. Shitting on California is 90% of the time some form of cope for many people. They know they could never make it here so the best they can do is complain about it from whatever **hole they’re in.
The major reason California is expensive isn't because of the things that make it nice to live here, it's because a faux-environmentalist love of sprawl and protection of single family zoning from denser, more sensible housing options for those that want them.
Instead, Californians with high incomes, but not enough to pay the outrageous price for ownership, pay outrageous rents to landlords that repackage unupdated 1970s starter homes at extreme luxury prices.
Once we stop letting landlords exploit productive labor by removing the regulatory capture, the quality of life will increase, merely through allowing more people to experience the higher quality of life. However, reversing that trend is proving extremely difficult, despite fairly widespread support among the voting population.
Single family zoning was implemented back in the days when California was a red state. California is still a very red state; there are more Republicans in California than most of the U.S. South combined.
Perhaps, but also it was Berkeley that invented single family zoning. There are some skeletons in the Progressive movement from a century ago, whether its eugenics or an idea of eliminating tenements, which enabled things like the destruction of the Urban Renewal movement in the following decades!
And for fixing the current housing problems, there are still a good chunk of Republican representatives in the state legislature and they are even more strident in defending zoning and keeping out apartments than the Democratic representatives. At the local level, though, I think that housing issues are an axis that is pretty non-partisan, with only small amounts of partisan influence on the beliefs of people. I think the YIMBY groups have tried really really hard to keep it from becoming partisan, because even if it does become a partisan issue and move some deeply Democratic places, it would then cement Republican places against the issue and it would be nearly impossible to make overall progress on the issue.
I don’t disagree with what you are saying. But the rise in spending per capita, even if you adjust for inflation or population growth or other factors, doesn’t make sense.
I agree the demand drives up certain costs like housing. But those are in the private markets. But I don’t understand is what the state government and local governments are spending all of the money on. And there are certainly some prominent wasteful programs such as the high-speed rail project or various programs for homelessness. I expect there’s more of those kinds of waste.
In the end, I think simply giving people money is an effective way to make society better. I’m not against the taxation as much as the low return for the additional spending that has happened in the last few decades.
It looks like the increase in spending has come from expansion of Medicaid, K-12 education, housing programs and homelessness programs.
I can't speak to the Medicaid expansion or K-12 funding that much, but I do know that the spending on housing programs have been a boondoggle, mostly to fund more first-time purchasers chasing after the same fixed supply of housing, driving up prices even more. And the homelessness problem is created by the refusal to allow housing to be built. Even the supposed successes, like SB 79, have been minor, and not allowed much more building at all. And in more conservative places like Southern LA, state laws attempting to force cities to permit more housing have been met with extreme resistance, even for the small gains that the state laws make.
For K-12 spending, that's been a disaster ever since Prop 13 gutted property tax systems and forced the state to step in to make up the difference. And Prop 13 is at the core of the housing problem as well, incentivizing underuse of land by giving such massive tax breaks to those who stay in a massive house after they have an empty nest (mostly fixed very recently), and inducing severe tax penalties to those who would like to stay in the same location but build a bunch more housing (like Greece's polykatoikias, which solved Athen's severe housing crunch...).
And high housing costs means that all labor is far more expensive than it would be otherwise, which makes building the housing expensive, which makes it difficult to expand the workforce to build housing, etc. etc. etc. Lack of housing is at the core of all rising costs in California, and the bad policies such as Libertarian Prop 13 and NIMBYs are most of it.
> The top companies (and the wealthiest for that matter) already pay the majority in taxes.
First, not true.
Second, even if true it wouldn’t be surprising, if you have most of the wealth you pay most of the tax money. It’s surprising that that’s not even the case.
Third, it explains California.
Of course the state with the highest GDP has also the highest tax income
When 'crazy' people that talked about pizza gate and a network of powerful people in a pedophile network, they were laughed at. All the late-night talk shows had skits and were laughing about it.
Clearly you just read the title and didn't bother reading the Twitter thread. It doesn't prove what you think it does. Pizzagate wasn't real. None of the codes, signs, portents, hidden symbols or Illuminati Monarch MKUltra nonsense you thought you were decoding meant anything. You fell for a meme invented on /pol/. And you morons were so obsessed with an imaginary satanic pedophile cult within the Democratic party that you actually hindered legitimate attempts to stop sex abuse and child trafficking with your bullshit. Epstein and his lot were never even on your radar, but you thought Hillary Clinton was holding black masses and drinking the blood of Christian babies underneath a fucking pizzeria.
And then your god-emperor, your messiah, your pussy-grabbing president Donald Trump, the man you believed was sent by God to unmask the satanic pedophile Democrat conspiracy, turns out to be the biggest pedophile of them all. And when he said the Epstein files don't matter, half of you jackasses turned on a dime and agreed with him.
Cope with what? It's all of the QAnon and MAGA folks who have to cope with staking their lives, identities and reputations on an internet meme cult and the delusions of a senile old pedophile. I didn't do that, so I have nothing to cope with.
I'm cool with that. Let them fight their own battles...but also don't ever ask or expect the US to help.
The problem with your stance is that too many people want it both ways: They don't want the US to intervene, but then also want support in terms of money and special treatment for people emigrating from these countries (and blame the US for the deaths that occur for a terrible government).
You know, maybe it would be just enough if you do not actively work on making their life miserable (sanctions and inciting instability).
There were almost no Syrian refugees before operation Timber-Sycamore.
Thank you USA, our dear friend and freedom-sharing soulmate, for unnecessary refugee crisis in Europe (and another one from Ukraine). With friends like that, who needs enemies. Also, as the above two examples (and Biden's Inflation reduction act, and Nuland's 'f*k Europe'), it is not a Trump thing, its USA thing.
I also think because of the volume, pump and dump schemes are less likely and some popular Youtuber shilling for it can't raise the price anymore.
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