I remember when people said the same about Roku. Just go into the menus and turn off the ads. Then they added them to the screensavers. Then the home screen, unremovable. Now they are also modifying it to stop pi-holes from working. This is the end game from Amazon. Just quit them now.

Uh.... not even close. There might be a particular reason the felt tip is still made in Japan, but I can gauran-damn-tee that it isn't because Japan is the only one who make quality items at scale.

For the loss of basic writing skills.

Are they dieing? Are they really? "Publishing" is going away, because there are so many ways to write, edit, and market books yourself. Did this study look into the number of e-books that are being sold, and shared? I agree that reading literature is slowing. But I don't think it's going away.

Tell us you've never lived in China without telling us you've never lived in China.

Wow. That's a remarkable bit of typing completely unbacked by facts.

I realize this is anecdotal.... but I went through school without once being asked about my political views. Unless I chose to make an issue of it. My wife - the same. My 3 children - the same. And the range of educations is: nursing, 2 engineering, and one business MBA.

Again, I challenge people making these wild assertions to provide us proof. And they can't other than anecdotal stories or scare-mongering provided by certain.... individuals.

But let me pop your ballon. Students increasingly are choosing colleges specifically BECAUSE of the college's political alignment. You make these indoctrination claims and act like kids don't have a choice of where they go to school. But beyond that.... a recent study of incoming college students recently found 50% of college students identified as liberal, compared to 26% who were conservative. So are colleges liberal, or do they largely reflect those ATTENDING college? A recent non-partisan review of faculty political leaning in the US shows that 60% were liberal. Which is actually LOWER than the % of liberal students who were attending.

See... that's data. It's one side of the this conversation sorely lacks. But... INDOCTRINATION.

Great. I know you aren't the OP - but if you are also asserting that major universities have engaged in large scale indoctrination, I'm sure you can produce some documented examples and not anecdotal evidence. Right?

No.

Colleges have (mostly) never been run by the professors. They have always been required to have boards that have financial and strategic responsibilities. Those boards *RARELY* involved themselves in how subjects are taught.

Obama's "nationalization" simply took away the middle man. Student loans have ALWAYS been guaranteed by the government, so when private banks were in the middle they really didn't need guiderails and would loan to everyone because.... guaranteed. Removing those banks saved students 68 billion dollars in interest and fees charged by those banks.

This is almost entirely a result of: The structure of the poll. The hatred that has been engendered by the right with regards to education. The distrust of educated people that has long been an undercurrent in American society. The demonization of all educational assets as 'woke' and 'left' and 'radical.

That's an age old argument that doesn't hold water.

Yes - foreign automakers have plants here. They employee hourly workers, and some engineers to keep it running. The majority of the engineering, design, and testing (the hard stuff) for foreign automakers happens in foreign countries. That's where the profits go.

So, yes, a some Toyotas are made here. But the engineering expertise is mostly overseas. Where do you want those nice white collar engineering and management jobs? China? Or here?

I bet the Chinese programmers are pretty good. Let's be honest - programming isn't exactly cutting-edge science. Variables. Classes. Methods. Basic software engineering at this point. Bread-and-butter stuff nowadays. And the programming industry in China is heavily bankrolled by the Chinese government, so they've basically taxed their citizens in order to throw hordes of money and people at the problem to develop the designs as fast as possible. No surprise they've made quick progress. Why shouldn't we leverage their work, especially for something that totally isn't at the cutting edge any more? Answer: Because if you want to have ANY jobs left in the Western World it's time to start rejecting slave labor wages and 108 hour+ work weeks along with living IN the factory that China manages. And once you lose the ability to manufacture and support the basics, you quickly lose the impetus to have the advanced development here either. You might have a little design studio where they paint pretty pictures of new models before they send them to the Chinese to make.

And shortly thereafter, the Chinese take that too.

Wake up. Look at how many foreign cars are in your parking lots folks. Those 'industry experts' they are quoting are almost certainly only worried about short term profits. After all, that's what our higher education teaches all those MBA's.

"space-x" astronauts? I They are goddamn NASA astronauts.

Don't say anything in the work place that you don't want repeated. Don't say anything embarrassing. Don't say anything sarcastic.

In summation, if you are in a professional work place, you need to act like a professional at all times. If you can't, you may be in the wrong profession.

At this point, you are an absolute idiot if you don't realize that Trump gave high earners an enormous tax break and is placing the burden of that on the lowest paid class in our society in the form of tariffs. Even those tariffs will not fully pay for the insane debt he has summarily created, but our future generations certainly will be. DOGE was a joke, and the savings they generated amounted to nothing. Especially after all the litigation and 'oops have your jobs back' that ended up after they realized they had fired critical personnel. DOGE was nothing but a hidden-in-plain-sight way of firing dissenters and dumping organizations that he wanted gone. Our country is the laughingstock of the world. We no longer have countries that call us friends. At best, we are a slightly challenged older brother who throws his weight around when he doesn't get what he wants. Trump has finished putting the last nail in the American century.

Disagreed. He's right on customer service. An AI customer service bot, done correctly, can be a much better end experience for the customer. The question here is, are they CHEAPER than the currently option? That costing is complicated, and it really starts on how the AI companies price each query. As far as doctors? He's full of shit. How does an AI check your reflexes, feel for growths under the skin, etc. Perhaps, given all the same data, an AI is correct more often than a doctor. But GETTING that data still requires expertise and tools that AI's don't have. So... yeah.... full of shit there. But what do you expect? He's trying to grow his business and justify the insane pay rates of the AI engineers they are hiring, along with trying to pay off the stupid high energy and infrastructure costs required by AI.

What - you really thought he was endosing crypto so hard because he thought it was a good idea for America? He sees it as one more way to get shady money laundered and into his accounts. It used to be Russia and Deutsche Bank. Now it'll be untraceable crypto. For just $100 you can get a gold MAGA hat made in China! Donate now! You're a hero! Donations in bitcoin plz.