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@grok is what I'm about to do illegal?

Prices stay elevated but stop increasing, because, as we've learned from the "supply chain issues" of covid, prices must never come down even if the supposed cause of price increases is resolved.

I believe whoever came up with that requirement could already be replaced by AI.

It's all to make you feel desperate and worthless. It's also the real reason behind the screaming about the birth rate, because they need a large supply of labor to pretend that they could always find someone else to do hard work for long hours and low pay.

Sometimes I wonder if it's me getting old or if it's tech being more and more about solutions in search of a problem. I feel like we had reached a "good enough" point for a while, but I can't tell if the "good enough" judgement is just me getting old and stubborn.

bin laden warned us!!! !!! !!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are ways, but they're even less effective and impractical than they were when companies weren't all merged together and government wasn't flooded with lobbyist dollars. Now industries are dominated by 2-3 major players who collude on prices through "algorithms" and the government is openly for sale to the top bidder. Money completely rules all, guess who has more money. That's the only thing that talks "peacefully" now.

As I already stated, peaceful solutions are easier to ignore or quash. You cannot negotiate with someone who can already get their way because they have nothing to gain. Negotiating to them means giving things up. If they refuse to negotiate, how are you going to bring them to the bargaining table?

I don't know how you can think I'm giving a free pass to republicans when right in the part you quoted I'm saying they're worse than democrats. I skimmed the rest of your moralizing lecture and you've made a hilarious strawman that doesn't represent me at all, but I hope you enjoyed your masturbation session, "champ".

Okay, what is happening to him is a humanitarian crisis, but they arrested him for driving without a license, not because he missed a turn signal.

Technically true, but the turn signal was an excuse to pull him over, it's not like they knew he didn't have a license. At the same time, is he able to get a license without legal status? He has lived in the country for 50 years, but these technicalities are what give the excuse to deport him.

It can be argued "the law is the law" but what kind of society are we trying to achieve by enforcing these technicalities (while also permitting the corruption and outright illegal acts of the president)? It's a case that highlights the broken (intentional or otherwise) system of legal status within this country and how it's used to exercise control over people's lives.

Can you imagine being pulled over every time you fail to signal? A lot of times people don't signal when they're in a turn-only lane because it's obvious they're going to turn, but technically that can be used as an excuse to pull them over.

For some reason I thought there'd be way more trans women than trans men, probably because trans women are brought up so much more often.