Why and what does a "balanced budget" look like?
In a balanced budget, taxation exceeds spending, like it did at the end of the Clinton administration and just before George W. Bush went to war. The highest federal income tax bracket at the time was about 40 percent. What broke the budget was a misguided attempt to stimulate private business by cutting income tax on the richest American taxpayers.
I sorta think of it as the "always online" issue, which in the past I thought was absolutely unacceptable for a single player game, and now I mostly don't care because I'm always online anyways.
That created a problem for dial-up users and laptop users back in the day. That was solved in two ways. First, Valve fixed the bug in early Steam that was causing it to fail to store purchase receipts for offline mode. (Users at the time were experiencing this as a need to be online for switching to offline mode to work.) Second, the home Internet market as a whole phased out dial-up, and even in areas not served by fiber, cable, or DSL, dial-up users largely switched to satellite Internet.
if i really want a game i wait until the price seems reasonable and affordable even if that means waiting for years
Unless it's something like DuckTales Remastered that gets delisted from Steam after a couple years on the market. This particular game was an adaptation of a Disney product identity, and Capcom's license from Disney had expired.
The more you breathe, the more the risk of age-related illnesses increases. There is, of course, no other factor other than eating the hot dog that can explain diabetes, and not, say, a poverty-based lifestyle. It's the hot dog. My dad lived to 99 on a diet of Chinese take out, frozen pizza, cold cuts, and beer. He was slim and still active.
Ah yes... The "My grandfather made it to 100 drinking a liter of whiskey smoking 3 packs a day." argument. Some people get lucky. Most don't.
Just to add some insight:
Trump, in a Truth Social post, said: “We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy.”
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So clueless.
The fact is that the trade imbalance is the largest single factor that makes the US dollar the world currency -- and also helps to keep the federal debt cheap. All of those countries that have a trade surplus with us send us lots of goods and in exchange they get lots of dollars. What do they do with them? They buy US-denominated securities, including treasury bonds. So many people and organizations around the world holding large reserves of US-denominated securities is what makes the dollar the world's default currency.
To the extent that he succeeds at "correcting" the trade imbalance, he'll undermine the dollar's status. And trying to bully countries into sticking with the dollar by threatening action that will make the dollar worth less to them is just... clueless. And that's assuming his actions to explode the debt while escalating financing costs doesn't result in enormous devaluation of the dollar, which would make it worthless rather than just worth less.
On balance I think I'm mostly glad that Trump is a moron, because if he weren't he would be really dangerous. On the other hand, if he had either a brain or the humility to listen to people who do, he might understand that he's trying to destroy what he's trying to control, and that winning that sort of game is losing. Probably not, though. He's amoral enough to be okay with ruling over a relative wasteland, because he and his will be better off.
I would say no it's not fraud and not even dishonest -- it's actually kind of honest, open and direct in that they put the text right there.
The fraudster is whoever is submitting any paper they were asked to review to a LLM instead of properly reviewing it.
A LLM is not intelligent and not capable of reviewing a research paper accurately.
The AI can look like they are doing what you ask them for, but that is not exactly the case.
As the whole matter of prompt injection shows.. they are actually looking for signals which can be very different than the signals you think the LLM is looking at.
And there can and are very unexpected (As far as humans can tell) interactions between training data and prompts, and what actually happens.
These are the kind of agents that suggested putting glue on a pizza, LOL. There's a good chance the LLM trained on an Opinion piece, and that will affect the outcome of a so-called "review" by a LLM. Like someone writes on Reddit this random crap that the text of the paper pings on, and you'll have a negative or positive line in a review that is definitely not objective or reasonable.
Other than that new versions of mainstream operating systems and web browsers make it harder for the owner of a device to trust the root certificate of a particular private CA. I seem to remember, for example, that iOS and Android put a scary warning on the lock screen if one or more user-trusted root certificates is installed, and Android application developers have to opt into user-trusted root certificates through a "Network Security Config".
Different machines can respond to the same IP address as seen from the Internet vs. from a coffee shop's guest WLAN. Let's Encrypt sees only the former when evaluating an http-01 challenge. If you associate to a guest WLAN and connect to https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2F42.42.42.42%2F and it offers a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, that means you're seeing the same server that Let's Encrypt saw through the Internet, not a server on the guest WLAN that's intercepting your connection.
They'll find a way to pretend Democrats are the only ones responsible for the rapidly-growing budget deficit.
This sort of thing may be the real reason Republicans are so anti-science and anti-education... they want people to believe their Magic Math.
The sad part is, the general public has believed the lie that the Democrats are the ones screwing the budget repeatedly, while it's typically the Republican administrations that do the most financial damage. It's maddening how predictable it is. If the midterms give the Democrats any power at all, I expect the public to once again believe the damage caused by the Republicans with this legislation was entirely the fault of the Democrats and sweep them right back out of power in the next big election cycle.
Let's get rid of our labor. Let's get rid of our brainpower. Let's get rid of our government. Let's get rid of our healthcare. Let's get rid of our due process. Let's get rid of our financial strength.
I'd write more of what we're getting rid of, but too depressed.
It's OK though. Big tech is going to provide us with artificial friends to distract us from how empty and meaningless life will be once we've gotten rid of everything that matters.
I won't be satisfied until I can unfold a 5" phone into a 65" display.
Fuck everything, we're doing five panels! [ref]
Apple prefers bendable phones to foldable ones.
Back in the seventies and eighties, as automation was hitting hard, and offshoring beginning, the talk was all about how everyone would get newer, better jobs in the "information economy". They at least could point to something.
Now? They have *nothing* at all, and "we'll have fewer people, but other companies will pick up the slack"
In the interim, companies and C-suite executives have realized that they no longer have to have any rhetoric at all that reassures workers or the general public. In fact, our media being owned by a very small number of extremely wealthy corporations actually makes it important to most executives to only appeal to the extremely wealthy, the owner class, and the government officials that work directly for that owner class. So for the most part, these folks have stepped into a reality where they no longer have to hold up the smoke and mirrors behind their actual motivations. Now they can make PR-ified statements that boil down to, "Fuck the workers, fuck the working class, and fuck society. We're gonna make as much money as we can in the short term. Who cares about tomorrow? Tomorrow may not even exist."
I don't know where they think the customer base is going to come from when they supposedly replace large chunks of the workforce with automation, but I'm guessing we're going to see if they can find one, since it doesn't seem any of them have a plan outside of, "Automate away as many jobs as we can. Shareholder value!"
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich, German theologian and historian
