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Comment Re: There are bigots among immigrants too ... (Score 2) 159

Those people are the vast minority, and even when they do Balkanize a neighborhood, over time that usually drifts away, as their children and their childrenâ(TM)s children see the value of assimilation and leave.

Look at the Balkanized Amish areas - would you say they have been a danger to progress of the rest of America? Or did the world move on without them, as their kids have been embracing the modern lifestyle of their neighbors?

Most minority groups do integrate, and bring along their culture to mix into the rest. Do you like BBQ? Was that a European culture dish, or was it introduced by economic minorities who mixed with the rest of the culture? How about pizza?

Comment Re:Where Did Perplexity Get The Idea? (Score 2) 32

I don’t see where Perplexity was an internet giant when Google decided to copy them.

There’s derived ideas, and theres copying. Perplexity was deriving from Google, google just straight out copied Perplexity’s implementation.

It’s like:

You invent an Apple, and also sell Apple Juice, based on your apples.

Your neighbor tastes your Apple Juice, and thinks they can do better, and invents Apple Cider.Some people like Apple Cider, some prefer Juice, both of you get sales.

Then, Kroger sees your Apples, and Juice, and makes their own Apples and sells Kroger Apple Juice and Kroger Apple Cider. You both go out of business because they dropped the price so low that you can’t make that many Apples to compete. Then Kroger raises the prices when you are gone, and also makes smaller less juicy apples, but it doesn’t matter because there’s nobody who can compete.

Did your neighbor

Comment Re:Dangerous territory (Score 1) 26

Problem is most parents are painfully unaware, and then let their children down by taking no action. Kids are getting groomed online, and we can’t just say “well parents should take better care”..are we ok with larger and larger segments of our society falling apart because the current generation doesn’t understand technology?

Comment Re:The question is... [in reverso world] (Score 3, Informative) 361

However, you still aren’t answering the question - so if you don’t have actual jobs for everyone to do, how do we survive? Even bringing the low-profit-margin manfacturing that Trump wants here, it won’t pay enough to cover rent. Do we want even more homeless workers, or maybe if we, instead of spending all of that tax money on more weapons, we actually supplement our workers, maybe we can have happier, healthier workers who can afford nice things.

Our current tax regime is designed to milk our economy and transfer money to shareholders. That’s what happens when you reduce corporate taxes - corporate taxes exempt investing in your business, you only pay taxes on the profits, what gets distributed. If we taxed corporations at 50%, do you know how they would avoid paying them? By spending that money on the business - hiring employees, expanding their business.

With low corporate taxes, you don’t need to reinvest your money, since the taxes are low enough that you can extract the profits and distribute to shareholders for their own stash. Some might end up in the stock market, so its reinvested, a lot more is stashed away in private business and banks, so that its not working as hard as money that YOU make and spend.

Comment Re:Political, not the humanitarian, getting cancel (Score 1) 361

Maybe, but you don’t accomplish it by firing everyone in USAID, cancelling their jobs and funding, and then say to state “Ok now all of that they did is yours”.

You move the head of USAID to State. Marco Rubio used to LOVE USAID, and if merged in with state department, it would be perfect that they work on their joint mission together. But as of now, there’s nothing to move.

Comment Re: what about the USA and that foxcon plant in W (Score 1) 78

Unfortunately they don’t seem to be winning after that political investment.

What they don’t understand is Trump will never stay bought. They can shower him with all kinds of money and admiration, but then when they want something in return, he wants to make a deal right then, no matter what came before. And he wants not just for everyone to be satisfied, or dissatisfied, he wants to trounce the other side, make a one-sided deal that only benefits him - he can only do that from a position of power, which is why we have a trade war to begin with.

In other words, this won’t end until he is out of power completely.

Comment Re: Drill baby drill (Score 1) 89

It takes years to get nuclear power plants online. Nuscale fell behind in development of their miniature plants. Biden funded them, but they will probably get turned up during Trumps adminâ¦and here you are ready to give him credit for them, even though he had nothing to do with it, instead focusing on drilling to solve energy issues, except we already drill as much as the oil companies want.

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