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You just named symptoms not cause. 1. People vote for old idiots . 2. Local politics is all about milking any potential work with permits. Sky rocket housing
by maxdo 4mo ago
You just named symptoms not cause.
1. People vote for old idiots .
2. Local politics is all about milking any potential work with permits. Sky rocket housing due to that .
3. American lost engineering culture everywhere except software . Now software is dead as industry we used to know
- jjtheblunt 4mo ago> American lost engineering culture everywhere except software microprocessor design : Apple Silicon and lately Intel Panther Lake and later?
- maxdo 4mo agoBoth companies created in the previous century and running on old fuel of past success
- hparadiz 4mo agoYea that's why the only three orbital grade reusable boosters are American. Lmao.
- iancmceachern 4mo agoBut our bridges and infrastructure are crumbling
- esseph 4mo agoThose are issues of priority and revenue generation, not capability.
- iancmceachern 4mo agoSoon we won't have the capabilities. See the nuclear industry and how we don't have the people and training to do the work anymore.
- hparadiz 4mo agoThere are 342 million people here. We'll be fine.
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- polotics 4mo agoreference needed
- xp84 4mo agohttps://www.yahoo.com/news/taxpayers-fund-trans-surgery-inmate-172952731.html?guccounter=1 https://www.yahoo.com/news/taxpayers-fund-trans-surgery-inma... Hope this helps.
- polotics 4mo agoSure, untreated mental illness is a tragedy, and humanity sucks balls at biology, so hard it's as if we wished to be made of silicon. How does this make for a trend or justify the idea that the WEIRD's least-harm decisions explain broader resources allocation in real monetary terms. We're talking about the price of how much concrete pouring in the sad story you linked? (WEIRD: Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic, indeed a dying breed)
- xp84 4mo agoI think the story I linked is if anything more damning than "the wall" in what it tells you about the minds who think it's appropriate. At least "the wall" passes the first smell test: Want fewer people move between A and B: Build wall between A and B. It just falls apart when you fill in the details (visa overstays, tunnels, ladders, etc. etc.) In contrast, baby-rapist-murderers obviously do not deserve free, very costly surgeries for non-life-threatening[1] conditions that non-murderers don't get subsidies for. For starters, they're baby-rapist-murderers. But anyway, I just picked one example. I'm sure the Wall costs are thousands of times more than just trans surgeries for prisoners. That doesn't mean there aren't many, many billions wasted on Team Blue boondoggles. [1] And no, these surgeries don't decrease chances of suicide. Studies don't all agree but some have found that they increase those chances. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38699117/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38699117/
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- jjtheblunt 4mo agothat looks like reinvesting profits from innovation in hopes of more innovation
- j16sdiz 4mo ago> People vote for old idiots . i think this is also a syndrome not a cause
- 305superuser 4mo agoAgree, coming from a 3rd country to US what I have personally perceived a lot is the generational loop at the later stage..."Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times." — G. Michael Hopf
- ozim 4mo agoAll these people working in NASA must have had terrible childhood. We can selectively breed astronauts by beating them from early childhood. People don’t realize how stupid this quote is.
- phs318u 4mo agoThe Russians must be having a grand old time according to this theory.
- red-iron-pine 4mo agoyeah all those Good Times created by Hard Men like Mussolini and Stalin or does this quote refer to Hard Men as in the men who rioted and fought and died for 8 hour work days and basic social services?
- judahmeek 4mo agoThe latter
- sfblah 4mo agoPersonally I think those are also symptoms. In my opinion, the cause is: 1. Easy money for far, far, far too long in the US and a complete political unwillingness to take any risk of a recession, no matter the long-term cost required to stave it off. In my mind, this explains the rich-poor gap, the rise of crypto, insane valuations, house-price inflation, the weird delta between US and rest-of-world standard of living/salaries, and probably even the migration crisis.
- tim-tday 4mo agoHey, I like easy money.
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- sbayg 4mo agoEasy money and cheap (foreign) labor are one and the same. Political parties that are not accountable for this are the upstream problem. In other words, it’s a failure of what we think of as our “democracy.” The will of the people doesn’t mean much when you can just swap out “the people” to get what you will.