RememberTheApollo_ @ RememberTheApollo_ @lemmy.world

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The mistake is thinking that any of that redirected budget will actually be used to help people in the US, and also not factoring in the loss of favorable trade and other soft power. Save a billion on bases, lose 2 billion in trade agreements kind of thing. These aren’t simplistic one-dimensional math problems, there are a lot of moving parts and downstream effects.

Give trump a little while. If it isn’t closed, he’ll make it hell for any non-citizen crossing it no matter what it does to each country’s economy.

Now they get to use more guns to do it. E: If guns aren’t good for killing people maybe they should use knives instead. Or baseball bats. Or cars. Or whatever other tool gun nuts say can be used.

We defended our economic and geopolitical influence. I really don’t know how much “policing” we did from any truly moral or ethical standpoint. it’s almost all been about keeping rivals at bay in some way or another. We delivered democracy…or whatever puppet government that promised the do what we wanted…at the point of a gun more often than not. China will likely move into the US’s economic role and has been pushing that way for quite some time. As far as military intervention, we won’t be able to afford it anymore with the loss of favorable trade or other agreements. Where the US may have felt like a necessary evil to some countries allowing us to have bases or other dominant presence, those countries are probably going to start looking elsewhere or solve those issues internally and hold the US at arm’s length.

Because actual presentation of analytical and practical AI here is rare. AI conducting analysis of medical imaging to catch tumors early isn’t something we discuss very much, for example.

What we do get is the marketing hype, AI images, crappy AI search results, ridiculous investment in AI to get rid of human workers, AI’s wasteful power requirements, and everything else under the sun with corporations basically trying to make a buck off AI while screwing over workers. This is the AI we see day to day. Not the ones making interesting and useful scientific discoveries.

Republicans pick winners and losers in their misanthropic hierarchy. Now they own the government, so the government is them.

There’s a reason for that. Maybe if all those well-off bankers hadn’t thrown in with trump in hopes of deregulation their portfolios would still be slowly climbing up with the DJIA under a democrat instead of flopping around like a fish out of water under trump.

We don’t get many on this platform. It’s the only spam I’ve received here. So getting spam we all shared is something that generates discussion. I don’t think anyone took it seriously. It was mildly humorous at first, but now that knowledge is spreading that this likely isn’t some generic spammer we can deal with it differently.

Back up a bit.

Wealthy people with the means to buy up lots of land.

That kind of thinking is exactly what landed us where we are now with Trump. Guvmint bad. Rich people good (or not as bad). Rich owe us nothing.

A retort that completely disregards the reasons why it doesn’t work in some major cities based on the sole example presented here while you make sweeping judgements conflated into an overall condemnation of everyone living here. Wow. Fuck right off. Really. Blocked.

Well, I guess you’ve got it all figured out then. Just stupid Americans, right?

People who think they’re an island. I don’t know how to describe it. People who operate like little effort should be expended on the fact that other humans exist around them and they’re part of society along with some responsibility for that society. Doesn’t matter if it’s stopping in the middle of a busy sidewalk in a group and blocking it, driving the speed limit in the passing lane, or utterly destroying the use of spelling, grammar, and punctuation in an online post forcing the reader to translate it into something meaningful. People unwilling to return the courtesies and efforts those around them offer by default.

Yeah that’s usually at an intersection where the only place to go to is into a red light with crossing traffic. A quick search of laws in the US shows no relief for motorists just because there’s a fire truck behind you trying to get through. If you run the red light to make way you could be ticketed (even though it would be real asshole to issue the ticket), and if someone hits you while you run the red or move into tbe intersection to make way it’s your fault. So there’s a lot of disincentive to move in those cases. Where I live people all move over if they can. Otherwise they stay put to be predictable and let the emergency vehicle use the breakdown lane or oncoming traffic. Worst thing is when people cluelessly start randomly trying to outsmart the ambulance and cause a clusterfuck of cars that nobody can get past. US drivers have fuckall for discipline.

Doctors said you’re fine?

Exactly what is “fine”?

There could be a lot you’re not telling us, not that I’m expecting you to post personal info here. If you’re overweight and/or sedentary and a blood test shows things are normal this does not mean things are “fine”. You shouldn’t be falling apart at 28. You should be hitting a stride. I can only offer the most basic suggestions. Permanently change your foods to healthier options. Get exercise. If walking sucks, find a gym with a pool and swim so pounding the pavement doesn’t exacerbate varicose veins or some other low-impact exercise. Don’t quit. Failing to try to change only means things will continue downhill. Maybe some psych help? Depression? Good luck.

Minority kids.

More than 2/3 of the free school meal recipients were black, or hispanic/latino.

As usual, they’re willing to screw over some of “their own” as long as they screw the minorities harder.

Probably because elite schools have smaller class sizes or teacher/student ratios thereby making it less necessary to have the ability to disseminate information via mass means with technology. Put it all up on a big screen where 30 kids can see it, send the assignments out to 120 kids via google classroom on school issued chromebooks (because there are plenty of kids from families that cannot afford computers), and do all the grading and review digitally. I’d be willing to bet those expensive private schools use plenty of tech, maybe kids carry Macbook Airs instead, but there’s no escape from tech in schools.

There are no lanes to move aside into. It has nothing to do with vehicle size or “driving away”. I really don’t know what to tell you, I’ve spent plenty of time in several German cities as well as US cities, the comparison isn’t there. There are no breakdown lanes or shoulders to move into in many places to make room for emergency vehicles. You’re welcome to argue all you want, but I drive in and around NYC regularly so I’m more than familiar.

They’re all assholes.