US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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That is a perk of manufacturing jobs. Put it on the job recruitment ads.
Not a bad idea.
Free education costs almost nothing if done online. It could require a government issued spyware laptop with glowie-anti-cheat and still be cheap.
This is hopium if I've ever read it.
Hate to tell you this, but Gen X is going to have to continue to work at least as long as Boomers, so we're not going to give up shit once we have it.
Just remember: you can't take it with you.
Operative word: "could." Not going to happen if they don't want it.
Precisely. So many dudes don't want to work. They are lazy.
 
The tariffs were always a temporary thing. Eventually, they'll work out a backroom deal, and Trump will back off from the tariffs if he gets a concession from them.
I disagree. Trump wants permanent tariffs.
That, and Trump's billionaire backers do NOT like the tariffs. If they walk away from him, he'll have no support, especially if Congress turns on him come next election.
Trump does a lot of things billionaires don't like. Including the current tariffs. Trump wins elections by populism and appealing to the actual voters.
That is the problem. And the conservatives are doing nothing about that.
The Neocons in the current Republican party will not maintain their positions with the old conservative playbook. The party of Mitch McConnell is dead.
Again, that's another problem with conservatives. They bitch and whine and moan that their kids aren't having kids, but have they looked at the prospects for marriage? And even if the women are willing to be good wives, the financial and home sector is completely trashed by private equity firms buying up homes and jacking up prices.
These issues will drive voting patterns and realign the parties.

Trump's MAGA party is not the Neoconservative party. Liz Chaney backed Kamala Harris. Trump is anti-war.
 
and electronics etc were not exempted but were always intended to have a 20% tariff on them which is what they have currently.
You're missing the recent news, then.
I'm talking about this:





Trump exempts phones, computers, other electronics from reciprocal tariffs

The Trump administration is exempting electronics such as phones, computers and other electronics from the “reciprocal” tariffs imposed on other nations, including China.

Guidance posted by Customs and Border Protection, which collects duties on imports, indicated roughly 20 products would be excluded from the tariffs. Those include smartphones, computers, routers and semiconductor chips.


Edit: My question has already been answered here:
 
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It’s amazing how often you’ll hear this from the mouthes of people who sit on extra cushions for their office chair, in an air conditioned room, with Facebook open in the other tab
If you think you can solve the NEET crisis, go right ahead. I won't stop you, but I absolutely will wait impatiently until you solve it.
 
Put the classes back in? When I was at school, there were "home economics" (cooking and sowing), "personal finance" (checkbooks and taxes), and things like woodworking. I think mechanics was a vo-tech thing.
I graduated a little over 10 years ago and home economics was gutted class that they stuck the sped kids, personal finance wasn't a class, and woodshop had so many pre-requisite classes that you weren't able to touch tools until senior year. Mechanics didn't exist in my school.
 
You don't have to roll back women being allowed to have bank accounts and have a career. No fault divorce would still be allowed, but either both agree and split 50/50 or the sole-leaver forfeits everything (maybe up to years living expenses to be nice). Marriage infidelity is fault for divorce and would tip the scales against the cheater.
Marriage is a matter that belongs to the states, so not sure what you want the feds to do about it. If you want change, you have to do it state by state. A lot of states have statutory schemes that spell out exactly how divorce works in relation to assets. Where it becomes murky is when children are involved, because the standard is almost always the best-interests-of-the-child standard, which just means they look at everything possible and make a decision. But if your state has a scheme that says "if you're married two years, then X partner gets Y amount of assets" then I don't know what more you want financially.
 
It's also a good brainstorming tool. Give it a concept, or something like a riddle, and it'll extrapolate from there. It's easily led, but it does ask questions you wouldn't otherwise think of.
The AIs are mostly pretty retarded, but extremely knowledgeable. On any particular topic they'll know infinitely more than the average person does (zero), but they're maybe even worse than the average person at reasoning. The end result is that if you ask a question that it can apply existing knowledge to you can get a reasonable answer. However, the more extrapolation you ask for the worse the answers get.
 
The AIs are mostly pretty retarded, but extremely knowledgeable. On any particular topic they'll know infinitely more than the average person does (zero), but they're maybe even worse than the average person at reasoning. The end result is that if you ask a question that it can apply existing knowledge to you can get a reasonable answer. However, the more extrapolation you ask for the worse the answers get.
That’s why it’s best to be specific with what you ask. Use it as a better search engine than google. If you want it to draw comparisons between things, make sure you ask for the comparisons you want.

The user has to supply executive function
 
The AIs are mostly pretty retarded, but extremely knowledgeable. On any particular topic they'll know infinitely more than the average person does (zero), but they're maybe even worse than the average person at reasoning. The end result is that if you ask a question that it can apply existing knowledge to you can get a reasonable answer. However, the more extrapolation you ask for the worse the answers get.
It also loses memory over time, and if there are too many details, it'll confuse itself. That's why its answers get worse. Sometimes you have to be very specific with questions, others you keep chats rather short.
 
I wasn't saying factories are bad, nor did I. You're arguing with me for no reason, dude.
You’re standing in as my punching bag because Dorothy didn’t come back after saying factory jobs should all be full-ass sweatshops.

They can’t be. I’d like to see anyone spend eight hours a day bent at a 90 degree angle. Sometimes you need time between tasks because not having time between tasks would actually cause injury.
 
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