Creating public debate

Ok, then, let's give them what they want.

I'll start. I am an admittedly selfish American. Fuck everyone else. Fuck everyone who isn't me. From that premise, what are the advantages of renaming the gulf? Sure, it's causing some seemingly-unnecessary expense, but that's balanced by ..

...

..uh, sorry, I'm drawing a blank. How can the gulf rename give me an advantage? What is the upside to doing this? If I come out ahead at someone else's expense, that's great. I want to do that. I hope someone else loses and their life gets worse, as long as my life gets better, even if just a tiny bit. But how does my life get better from this? I'm fine if a thousand children are raped and murdered as collateral damage, as long as I get a penny. So where the fuck is my penny?!

Surely, someone has an answer to this.

Apparently this doesn't apply to slashdot moderators....

Lol, like even 1% of today's tech users could tell you their Mac address.

I guess you missed the part where it said "capital or infamous crime".

A guy breaks into your house, you don't have to ask a judge if you have permission to throw him out on his ass. Exactly the same situation with illegals - they're not even technically being punished, just returned.

If we wanted to kill them, then yes, we should ask a judge first.

Increasingly, it seems to be just that.

The American people didn't choose him. The American process did

You DO know, that Trump won the popular vote in addition to winning the electoral college, right?

He won every swing state....etc.

Seems the American people DID choose him....

I'm pro-automation for all jobs, and IRS workers are no exception. If you can automate these jobs, that's great. But whoever is in charge of this is either unintelligent or inexperienced.

In the past when a customer and I automated a job, we did things in a special order that I think would surprise the hell out of Bessent. My big trade secret (should I be leaking this?!) is this:

First, you think about how to do the job. Then you think about what the code should do. Then you write the code, test it, and then have a little trial in production, and see how it goes. Eventually you gain confidence and then finally .. how about that, my customer just removed those positions.

Notice how the word "think" appeared a lot at the beginning of the above schedule, and getting rid of the humans who made sure the job was getting done, came at the very end? My proprietary ordering of these operations is how I got a big advantage. (Yeah, I probably shouldn't be leaking this.)

It turns out that aiming after you fire instead of before, results in a much lower percentage of your shots hitting the target. I wonder if Bissent is traveling backwards in time. That would explain how they got rid of the workers first and now they're nebulously speculating on how they might, some day about a decade from now, create automation to replace the workers they got rid of way back in 2025.

The idea that you have a database tracking the costs of weather disasters is fundamentally stupid.
1980: it rains a lot, marsh floods, nobody cares
2020: it rains the same amount but in the intervening 40yrs developers have filled in the marsh and built 100x $1 million... Now it's a "$100 million storm omg clear proof of global warming" as well as folding nearly into impressive annualized climate damage reports forever.

Climate damage by $ is fundamentally bullshit and trickery to a goal.

Good fucking riddance to one tiny element of the great shill game.

It's 2025.
Any home that has Internet has wifi.
There's no need for little Timmy to ALSO have a hotspot so he can do homework in the barn..

Or require passing the class and completing it before paying.

Did you miss that Trump talked yesterday about raising taxes significantly on everyone making over $2.5 million?

This is what we voted for.

Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth here, the fact is that a lot of people understand that:
- the federal government doesn't have to provide everything
- we don't have enough money to pay for everything we want

I can imagine.

steal millions of dollars of financial aid

Why are you giving them any money at all, before you even know who they are?