While a low effort comment, it does touch on an important topic.
Imagine if CA was run with the kind of efficiency that Singapore or South Korea was run. Clean, safe streets. Modern infrastructure.
Instead we get a state government that is going to waste the goose that laid the golden egg. The high taxes paid disappear in a black hole centered in Sacramento.
CA reminds me of New Jersey. Other states used to be jealous of New Jersey's economy, yet the riches were frittered away by an inefficient government.
I have probably never felt more insecure (and disgusted at the same time) in a Western country, the way I felt on the streets of LA. Not all of them, of course, some are obviously well guarded - which in turn makes me think the government and city council is not doing a great job really.
My memory is that during late 90s, whenever a game supports glide, 3dfx card will always render smoother and with noticeably better texture than NVIDIA and ATI cards, even benchmark will give you similar numbers. So we constantly envy the roommates with a voodoo card.
If one month is too early to indicate failure, it's also too early to claim success. But that's not stopping doge and musk from touting how much the cuts and chaos have "saved".
If I sell my car on Friday, I might claim to have saved a $500 a month car payment. But what happens on Monday when I need to get to work?
The responsible course of action would have been to lay out the markers of success so their actions could be assessed against objective measures. That's not what we're seeing in practice.
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