...since Mercantilism.
Developed countries have too-high a standard of living to be able to afford the uses of space and labor for simple manufacturing. Ergo, they offshore their simple manufacturing where it can be done more cheaply elsewhere = trade imbalance.

Part of this is basic specialization + cheap shipping. I *agree* that specialization benefits us all and can be quite fairly done. (Funny how all those protests 'against Globalism' have sort of disappeared?)

That said, I think there's a reasonable moral point ALSO to admit that our current, capitalist, materialist lifestyle has been largely enabled by the exploitation of lower-cost societies and - not to overstate it - the misery of industrial workers in the third world (and the rampant pollution of THEIR environments). We have exported the icky necessities of our electric cars and iphones to somewhere we don't have to live with the consequences.
Maybe we could pull back on that a bit, since it's essentially subsidizing this broken system?

But of course, it's Trump, so the left HAS to oppose anything he does. So fuck the low salary workers in the US who might have decent factory jobs (if we had any factories); we should keep buying our gewgaws from Asian labor getting $3/day. Oh wait, no, they were STRIKING to get $3/day. (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fasia.nikkei.com%2FEconomy%2FInflation%2FBangladesh-tea-strike-spotlights-poorest-workers-inflation-plight)

As opposed to?

I hear stuff like this "too many people are X" when it's clearly based on some sort of vapid idealism that has no meaningful presence in reality.

"Not enough people ride Unicorns" would be an equivalent absurdity.

"I have a fantasy-imagining of how the world should be, so I'm going to insist that humans change their fundamental way of operating to conform to my ideal"...I mean, I guess it's an approach that's landed both Jesus and Marx a place in history, so play on?

...does this mean I can install Signal, never use it, but get this feature?

It SEEMS that this only will black out signal's chat window, presumably only when it has focus.

I wonder how much I could pay for such a feature 24/7?

Maybe. I'd be curious where you got your statistics.
U of MN was a land grant University, with the land given to the school by the state on the premise that state residents would attend for free. That is not true.

When my dad attended in 1954, it was $300 per year including boarding.
When I went 1986-90, it was about $4500/yr not including boarding.
When one of my sons went 2012-2016 it was about $27000.

None of us got govt grants, loans, scholarships, so unless you're asserting invisible subsidies I'm not sure how you're insisting a giant chunk of any of our educations was paid for by the government.

Good. Maybe we can demolish the giant shell game of subsidized college education that's driving massive student debt and crushing young peoples' opportunities to have families, buy houses, get on with life.

To wit:
- Democrat congress passes massive educational subsidies for college education in the 1980s.
- concurrently (or shortly later) college tuitions climb at 5x the rate of inflation
- $billions of US taxpayer funds go to colleges and ultimately expand the most reliably-leftist-voting-bloc in the US for the past 60 years: teachers.

Step 1: no more gov't backed loans for college
Step 2: clear away stupid Republican* legislation preventing educational debt from being cleared by bankruptcy
Step 3: if colleges want to loan money to prospective students based on their future expected earnings, THEY can finanance/arrange it.
Step 4: stop requiring college degrees for the vast number of jobs that don't actually require it.

*ironically, championed in the Senate by ... Senator Biden, of all people https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus...

Maybe the first point would be limiting the use of the term fascist to actual fascists?
De-emotionalising your own language goes a long way to keeping the discussion civil.

Now there's a claim that could benefit from a citation.

It looks from the op text that Bungie is basically admitting it's copied.

This.
I have a number of Indian friends and co workers (who are completely vegan) and even they are annoyed by the 20-something white woman in office who won't shut the fuck up about her vegan discoveries...

Right, right, NASA never suffered budget cuts before Trump.

Your TDS is showing. Up your meds

This explains so much.
I thought he was just a routine hate-America socialist.

Because they're less odious than the other side, a bunch of repellent elitists and sanctimonious pricks who like to tell everyone else how they should live. Yeah, I do.

I find the idea of any 'Religiously-Based' lobbying group repellent.

If you want to advocate for your church, just do so without trying to camouflage (?) it as a secular thing.

Personally I don't think churches should be free of taxation, either, so I guess that illustrates what I think of religion-based arguments against capital punishment.

I'm in favor of it for simple utilitarianism. In a world of 8 BILLION people, it's a mathematical certainty that basically everything gets better if we cull the worst 8 million (0.1%). The trick is just identifying them.

To be clear, I'm not personally claiming sainthood in any way. I may well be in the 95th-worst percentile. But I have no doubts that there are many, many people that are worse than me and have no hesitation saying that eg Charles Manson should just be tossed in a wood chipper. Imagining that there's some mystical "value" to every human soul - yet, for leftists, hilariously insisting that religion is silly - is stupid and non-provable. Fine, I get it, you're squeamish. (shrug) Some of us aren't. In any case, your personal discomfort is no basis for policy.

Life is full of shit choices that still have to be made. Here's a tangential but meaningful example: as a young park ranger, one day I came across a rabbit on the bike path that had been hit by a car. Its back was clearly broken; it was screaming in agony and flopping around. I didn't have a knife, or any other sort of tool, so after a lot of second-guessing and reluctance, I snapped its neck and put it out of its misery. I had the shakes for the entire next day, and still 30 years later have the occasional nightmare about that... BUT I WOULD DO IT AGAIN. It was awful, but it was the right thing.

Nothing they suggest these systems will be for requires the computing to be done in situ.
Couple that with AI systems voracious demand for power and the need to dispose of large amounts of resulting heat in a rather difficult context ... it seems orbit is a terrible place for computing.

So why are they doing this?

The difference per student is about $2000, hardly enough to explain the disparate results.
Maybe it is about grifting teachers.