Dimon's connection to reality has always been a fleeting one at best. Also, he's by all accounts an objectively horrible human being. JPMC had to make sure to keep him out of the public eye for years because of how unfiltered-awful he was as a person. Only recently has he been coached into seeming semi-human enough to get in front of media.
Coded, automated tasks have fundamental gaps in their execution. They will always be limited by the fundamental limits of the code powering them. A lot of my work addresses gaps created by systems that were supposed to automate everything and solve problems. Tech has a fundamental arrogance towards what it does, mostly because people don't like to pay attention the details or the consequences of ignoring them.
Saudi money is propping up venture capital. Venture capital is propping up tech. Tech is propping up the American economy. If/when the Saudis decide to stop for whatever reason, THAT is when it will all come crashing down. And it probably will happen at whatever point the Saudis consider an opportune point. This has been their plan all along. Why bother with conventional terrorism when you can undermine and insidiously destroy an enemy's economy from within?
No, it's become too big to be influenced even at the local level. Seattle elections alone seeing 7-8 figure investments in campaigning. All of the states you mention see 6 figure campaigns. If you lack public influence and any other useful job skills you might as well not bother with the political theater system.
I have a proposal to improve politics: Bypass it. Money and cultural influence are what drive society and government anyway. Governments are staffed with decision makers who are never elected, and who drive the decisions or those who are. The Pentagon (CIA and the FBI) ultimately are who runs the United States Government, which is among many others one reason why countries get bombed and why various policies get passed or not passed no matter who is President or who controls Congress. Elected offices are simply political theater to smokescreen what's ultimately going to happen no matter what. Corporate influence drives political action/corruption because their money drives the day to day ops of everything about the country. If you want to change the system, you get the money and influence to do it. Who you elect and what your platform is or isn't has little more than tangential effect.
Eventually, the wisest learn that you may as well vote just in case, and so no one gets on your back about it... but to never expect much.
We have and have long since already had the web interface compatibility problem. This doesn't really change that, other than an unpredictable change in websites becoming more or less useful and compatible. Having Edge didn't make developers more or less willing to code for Firefox.
It's worth noting that half of supermarket employees in Seattle are also on food stamps. Maybe Amazon ought to pay people more (and since this was posted they allegedly have addressed it), but much larger swaths of the population in other key jobs still have this problem.
Good. The Constitution is frequently misinterpreted as being a Ten Commandments style document that rules everyone, when in reality it largely governs what laws Congress can or cannot pass, and what legislative rights are delegated to subordinate governments. The ACLU has spent decades legally screwing up what the 1st Amendment covers, which in reality only covers Congress' authority (or lack thereof) to pass laws restricting freedom of expression. What any other governing body elects to do regarding expression (including other Federal jurisdictions, which is why the FCC can exist) is at their discretion.
The Western world can do all it can to curb emissions but as long as China and India plus other countries continue to pollute and emit carbon unabated, there's not much we can do to address let alone curb or reverse the problem.
I'm impressed anyone would voluntarily choose to date let alone marry him in the first place.
Glad I didn't waste the effort while I worked in public service... not that I managed to log the needed 10 years anyway. I always figured the rug could easily get pulled from under you. The program read like a series of hoops that you had to know to jump through the right way, all while managing to hold a public service position.
It's just Burning Man trying not to be Burning Man but basically being another Burning Man. The telltale sign is the repeated use of the trope template phrase, "People don't do this at [other festival]...."
It helps that there's only maybe a couple dozen particularly active users here. So their opinion carries a lot more weight on whether or not your content gets positive attention than it does on a larger platform like Reddit. Reddit turned at some point from an open forum to a subversively curated platform, and though no one can pinpoint a particular moment, such a turn became inevitable once they prioritized revenue growth (which, if they were going to survive at their scale, they had no choice but to do).
Conflict and shitty behavior also generates a ton of web traffic. They were very deliberate about curating that sort of content for its own sake. Problems generated more of the traffic that made them more money. I have no sympathy for anyone there.
No humidor in Colorado and Arizona. Pitchers who were valued for throwing 97 even if they had no command. Managers, coaches and scouts who we now realize had fuck-all ability to evaluate pitching talent or team defense. Add in some performance enhancing drugs, and you get a lot of dingers.
They definitely don't need the exposure in Chicago schools.
We're sedentary. We eat a lot of processed garbage designed to make you crave more processed garbage. We cook food in oils that are bad for you. We drink a lot and do a lot of drugs, legal and otherwise. This is just going to get worse. Buck the trend, get in shape, spend time with and around people who are active. The only way out is to not let the lifestyle drag you down with it.
In before "Millennials lack commitment so they don't get married that much in the first place."
A whopping 2 percent on the silver plan, which for an age 40 adult costs in the neighborhood of $400 a month. So instead of costing an arm and a leg for a high deductible plan, it costs your arm up to the top of the bicep and still the whole leg, for the same high deductible plan.
Their citizens also have far less disposable income, because European socialism. So of course a consumption tax would work effectively there.
Looks like Microsoft headquarters is still managed by hyper-alpha egomaniacal bros who push through horrible decisions against the will of pretty much everyone in the room who still has common sense. Looks like some things never change in Redmond.
John Stossel was previously famous for baiting pro wrestler David Schultz into striking him, so he could sue and get Schultz blackballed. He's a classy guy.
It really is that simple. People make taking personal responsibility hard, because it requires proactive personal effort.
Feeling shame is always a choice.
Naw, I'll just leave you to swing wildly. If you want to die on this hill, that's your choice.
Seattle attempted this to some extent. Even implemented perfectly (which Seattle's law wasn't), it doesn't really work, and ultimately such a move is little more than a topical money grab.
The system is designed to exploit you for profit. People need be more proactively mindful than assigning blame and expecting an exploitative system to protect them.
Go figure: A key element to financial crises in our modern era is debt. It always comes back to debt. Of course, in the US we're a consumer driven nation. Even at the risk of mortgaging the future, everyone wants what they want now. So they assume debt with no real plan for how and when they plan to make that debt disappear. It's on both sides. and yes, it goes for student loans too. No one thinks past signing the promissory note and getting into school.
Gave up improv and theatre. Also gave up an unrewarding uni administration career when problems came to a head. Even still between careers it was absolutely the right move. I now run a lot. Races etc. Have lost weight and feel much better.