Revealing you think the program is about stickers but still willing to continue said program that costs American taxpayers millions.

The fact is appliances became more energy efficient regardless of government programs, not because of them. This is due to advancement in technologies that resulted in smaller components that needed less energy to operate. But appliances also became less reliable too. Maybe we need another government sticker program?

Mark views himself leading people and AI's as he replaces Salesforce's engineers and other technical employees. But everything above those workers is just "I'm a people leader" type of employees. Those are far easier to replace with an AI versus an engineer and they really hold no value after the humans are no longer there. And when you replace them, who is really left?

Mark's vision is the end of white collar workers everywhere.

So you are saying we shouldn't bother. Gotcha.

Only issue I have is the hypocrisy that these are the same people who avoid building them here.

Build them here now! The only people who oppose nuclear plants in the US are crazy people, people who hate the environment, and those heavily invested in crappy Chinese solutions like solar or wind. Or usually a combination of all those.

"Americans have always been free to do that if they wanted. No need to force tariffs on everyone to do it."

I heard the same dumb argument against increased taxes on cigarettes. Right now far fewer Americans smoke then ever before. And no it is not because they were educated about the health risks. Sometimes you have to make people pay for their bad buying decisions to get them to break from those bad habits.

Good. Americans should get past disposable, cheap Chinese junk that breaks quickly and fills our landfills. Maybe we will start fixing things instead of just replacing and make better product choices. Seems like tariffs will make things better after all.

We would always meet with our offshore team in the morning. By end of our day we would ensure they had proper instructions and details of where we left off. In a way it made it feel like we had round-the-clock work being done.

Granted, this means there has to be very good leadership and communication being performed on both sides. And more times than not this is not the case. This is why people have bad views of offshore teams. But it is the companies involved (on both sides) that are the problem as they often put non-technical people to lead from onshore a group of offshore technical people. The communication is almost non-existent and confusion quickly sets in to the projects.

>at least when residents also had high levels of trust in each other.

Reads like the people who conducted the study came to the conclusion about dogs while ignoring possible other factors that may be of higher importance to the reason of lower crime.

Ukraine says they lied. But Russia has been in development of such a weapon for a few years now. It being used in a battlefield situation actually isn't unlikely. They used their hypersonic missiles in combat just a few weeks back. Look at what the statement reads: they shot down a single drone after 5 seconds. That is feasible with current laser technologies as drones are generally lightweight and thus flimsy by design. The real tricky part is target tracking (have to keep it on target to a flying vehicle) and powering it.

So don't discount this as real. But I doubt it will be used in any real capacity or impact in this conflict. This was likely a single prototype that is very early in design.

It is funny you bring up "Vlad" as Russia is currently heavily censoring its media and internet which you want the US to do. You have a lot in common.

Like how Facebook was. Now its nothing but censorship and it algorithms trying to put content I didn't ask for in front of me. And what is with the "sensitive" blocks? I'm not sensitive so stop trying to block stuff from my non-sensitive eyes.

Nowadays it seems they are moving options around in their old products and calling them updates. And here we have them acting like some old white collar company with "butts in seats" so middle management has a job and executives can quietly collect their bonuses from their beach front property in some foreign country.

Microsoft seems more progressive.

You mean those people and scenarios you make up in your head but have no link to actual reality but you want to talk about to seem virtuous? Or is that fap material? Is everyone covered in oil in these fantasies?

Keynesian solution to problems is always "just spend more money". If you want to achieve real balance you have to follow what Germany did with austerity measures a decade ago. Look at their economy today.

Assange in a video interview stating it was not the Russians back in 2017:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.realclearpolitics....

Your turn.