Nonsense, the very act of driving does not mean anything, you bought into this nonsense hook, line and sinker. Government shouldn't have any say over how we live our lives, how we drive on our streets, what apps we use, who we trade with.

The only one single, the only one maybe half reasonable thing for government to do is is protection against foreign attacks, that's it.

You are absolutely correct. It is disgusting to see so many people supporting any government intervention in our lives and this is just more of the same. People are supposed to be these automatons the government wants them to be so that they can be fined more and more often, controlled harder and harsher for normal human behavior, which is under a continuous attack by the goons, who have power and occupy government positions.

IMHO the fact that we have to, under criminal law, to testify against ourself is a violation of our Constitutional Rights, to not incriminate ourselves.

I'm sure there is some weird legal theory that the government uses to get around this.

Things of value are usually rare. The amount of "entertainment" is ever increasing, and thus becoming cheaper and cheaper. Creating MORE isn't going to help.

And with AI starting to be used in the Creation process, that will lower the costs of making it, and start making it widely available to more people in the creation process.

This ends in a death spiral of more and more "entertainment" with less and less perceived value, chasing diminishing returns. I suspect that places like OF will make quick end once AI girls are able to do everything by prompts on the fly for their "users".

USSR used nuclear bombs all over the place https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwik... because the money was spent and now they just these bombs, how do they not use them as brute force solutions to every day problems? It seemed like a low effort, high reward way of accomplishing things where otherwise proper engineering and work would be required. It would also somewhat justify the insane expense on the nuclear program outside of the promise of total annihilation.

We moved from Ukraine to Russia, Yakitia in 1985 and lived there for 6 years before going back, We found out that a decade prior a nuclear bomb was blown up underground nearby and it didn't go well, a few thousand people decided to try and walk away from the town towards another town 500km away but they couldn't make it in that winter and came back. Winters there are dark (no Sun at all most of the time, you only see a glimpse of it for a couple of hours) and cold (-50C is normal, sometimes much lower than that).

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USSR failed many times on many fronts, today criminal murderous morons want to reinstate it and so we have a war where thousands are dying daily and where the victims are getting blamed by the leaders of the most powerful country in the world for the perpetrators attacking them, that is after the victims gave away their nuclear arsenal to the perpetrators after the leaders of the most powerful country in the world promising that this very thing wouldn't happen, because the most powerful country in the world would prevent and or intervene.

So many failures on so many levels, people all around the world are learning lessons that a nuclear arsenal is a must.

Once many will have their nuclear arsenals, they too will use their nuclear bombs all over the place in futile attempts to reverse flow or rivers and for other similar reasons. Not looking forward to it.

You don't nee j2ee, just java itself and a jdk/jvm does the job just fine, this entire crazy stack nonsense, including Spring is garbage not worth using for any purpose where you need clarity, curtness, ease of implementation *and* debugging and maintaining the code. You don't need XML inside your application, it was something forced upon people for the same reasons people later started trading NFTs - the mentality of the sheep, where those, who are selling the idea make all of the money and the rest end up suffering and bleeding.

Java is used by the enterprise, enterprise buys into grandiose promises sold by snake oil salesmen sent by the likes of SAP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon, Adobe, VMWare, etc.etc. these guys know how to take enterprise money and you cannot really fight them once they are done with you, likely they have more money than you do. Everyone's service becomes shittier and for stupid reasons out of all of the things that could be blamed, a computer language takes a huge brunt... silly. I like Java for what it is - a great language to code server side business systems.

Trade deficit and national debt are absolutely tied together. The debt is growing all the time to 'pay' for the unaffordable welfare state, the trade deficit is deficit financing the consumption that isn't paid by production but instead is paid by debt. The funny thing is that the very people who manufacture your products are also debt financing your consumption, they are buying your Treasuries (Debtories really) with the dollars they receive from you that you provide in exchange for the goods they are selling you. You are borrowing / printing the money used to finance the trade deficit and this borrowing / printing adds to your debt.

Don't expect more than one reply from me in a day, given the moderation I can only leave 1-2 comments a day here, cheers.

A permanent trade deficit that requires more and more debt to be printed and sold for the future generations supposedly to pay back (will never happen, the default and inflation will take care of that) is due to a population consuming more than it produces, full stop, period.

When I say a population consumes more than it produces what I mean is this: you can have all of your government offices, government departments, government subsidies, government programs, everything that government does, you can put more than half of your population on various programs, food stamps, welfare, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, whatever. All of those things combined require *more* money than you can generation as an economy. People never vote for someone to reduce spending, spending always grows, government officials get excellent retirement packages, health care paid by the system, etc. This entire thing consumes much more than it is capable of producing.

Sure, you can actually tax everyone much more and maybe you can have a smaller deficit, but actually realize that the demand is so much greater than the supply that probably taxing everybody at 80% won't be enough. Actually *nothing* is *ever* enough.

You can promise everything to everyone, you can even attempt to deliver it. Free food, free housing, free education, free healthcare, free energy, free clothing, free travel, free transportation, free entertainment, free everything. If you do that, there is nobody working, everyone is just getting everything for free, so who is working? Who is producing all of these things, delivering all of these services? That's the imbalance, that's the maximum imbalance taking to 11. But you don't have to take it to 11 to have an impossible imbalance.

For sure, the main problem that is holding men back are the policies that the stupid men have been voting for and supporting. It is just that the actual policies are not what you are suggesting.

Men have allowed feminism to raise its head, that is what allowed women to demand the welfare state over the last 100 years, coupled with the pill this created the real problem for the society - single women, supported by the State, which means supported by the income stolen from men. Single women, who believe they can survive without husbands (and they can as long as the State uses its force to steal from men to subsidize the women).

As to private healthcare and private education - every single service must be private, there must not be any services supplied by the force of the government, taking from anyone to subsidize anyone, that's exactly what creates society that cannot function, because eventually the system must consume much more than it can produce. This happens because so many people start using the system for what it is designed - living without producing, while everyone keeps demanding more and more resources towards their own causes.

This creates an absolutely impossible situation, where the State must provide more than the society can produce. This leads to deficits and debt and cannot be resolved ever without the system collapsing on itself and destroying its credit worthiness and currency in the process (this happens already after the system completely destroys productivity, manufacturing due to the cheap money available to private enterprise at the expense of the debt and government support).

In any case, it is stupidity that causes this problem, it is just you cannot recognize the exact details of this stupidity and you offer equally stupid ideas as 'solutions'.

3% is not going to be enough, expect 3 times as much cuts by the year end, then twice more as much in the following year. The money isn't flowing, once the money is not flowing the cuts start. Money flows when the economy expands due to actual increase of production or money flows when it is handed out for free by borrowing, printing. Once the flow slows down or stops, the music stops, everyone tries to grab the closest chair. Every company will be shrinking this year and in the subsequent years, until the attitudes change, government actually shrinks by a couple of orders of magnitude, rules that prevent productivity become unenforceable and/or are rescinded, gold replaces fake paper as money, then people will start rebuilding.

you know, over a decade ago I wrote here that the government will be eliminated, that gold will become defacto currency, that debts will have to be paid and restructured, that laws will have to be rolled back, that government will be scaled down due to self destruction and lack of productivity. This id happening. I postulate that government has no authority and that individual has the right not to be stolen from by the government. The country you speak of used to exist before this giant government and it will exist after it.

Imagine for a moment that government is 100% efficient, so it is that efficient at taking money from Bob to subsidize Jane. The problem is not lack of efficiency, fraud or abuse, the problem is the very concept that Bov should be feeding Jane and that government will enforce that.

Confused too, twice as much.
Confused too, twice as much.

"I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it further" -Darth Zuck

you would rather have people in the company lose money and not make money? This is why you have the job - to make money for the company, otherwise why would the company want you around??????