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Go offer your services to these companies and see their answer.

The big IT firms syphon off all the talent with compensation these fridge and supermarket companies can't match. You won't find much talent there. Who is brilliant with computers and would want to work there?

But look also at how underfunded the basic blocks of IT are, how open-source is left to fend for itself. It is the whole culture of modern IT to hack things together and not make them well-defined and reliable.

Lies, dann lies and statistics.

I used to have a dig at social sciences but I regret it, because it works, people. It is behind proper marketing campaigns. It is behind the design of casinos and betting games. It is behind the algorithms in your social medias, the dark patterns and all the political manipulation.

This is proper science. You can experiment on people. You can test hypotheses and see which ones work and which don't. What you are laughing at are the social sciences produced by underfunded universities which have to obey ethical restrictions and painfully recruit a dozen campus dwellers to try something. But there are social science experiments that are privately funded to the tune of millions and are run without oversight to sell you more sugar or to keep the country stable/make it unstable. They don't publish papers for you to laugh at.

Go touch grass, Vance, you're drunk again.

That... Doesn't make any sense. Parties should not have any opinions before they get any influence? They have to be a blank slate before they get elected to a majority or a sizable minority?

Complete bad faith, or lack of basic logic.

"Hey, I shot at you but I missed this time, that means this gun is perfectly safe! Let's do it again"

Thanks to the inherent safety of nuclear? Or that the wind was, by chance, blowing to the sea when the worst happened?

https://www.ianfairlie.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/fukush...

https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/wp-content/upload/2011/...

And who cares about the 150 000 displaced people and the still existing exclusion zone?

Oh, yeah, because the Fukushima nuclear accident is still ongoing. The plant is still too dangerous to access and dismantle. Cooling water is still pumped into the reactors to keep them from melting down. That water is still contaminated by a mixture of radioelements and being released to the ocean after partial treatment. And this will go on for several decades still.

Already memory-holed Fukushima?

It wouldn't be any better, because if plants had been built decades ago, they wouldn't be able to be competitive anymore, would keep running a deficit, and would depress the economy and public finances like the white elephants they are, and take away means to transition to renewables.

>it has absolutely no influence over

You argument fails at the first sentence. The list of deep collaboration between Israel and the UK is too long for this post, and I won't list them, as you know it but are not arguing in good faith.

>The entire concept is tinged with antisemitism

But we can't say Zionism is tinged with racism? A blindingly obvious double standards.

The Zionists parties of Israel want to do ethnic cleansing in the Palestinians territories, and will purge the Arab Israeli the second they grow too big. Is there a gentle Zionism somewhere, that only wants Jews to emigrate to Israel to live their faith without all the war crimes? Maybe, but it is as relevant as the religious anti-Zionism that objects to it on religious grounds. Which is too say: not at all relevant.

Netanyahu is actively sliming all of the Arab Israeli as "cheaters" and "stealer".

The opposition could ally with those parties and end Netanyahu corruption and start the Oct 7 investigation that Netanyahu blocks but they don't.

Explain to us, in light of these very evident and present facts, how Zionism isn't racism. Give us an idea what is going to happen if the Arab citizens part of the Israeli population grows more than the current 20% in regards to "self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland".

Last opinion I saw is that it is well suited for LLM coding thanks to good error messages.

But copying Ghibli style is still allowed.

Software people protecting their "own" and fucking over everyone else.

You aren't a functional country.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/05/1140778386/real-id-enforcemen...

https://www.votebeat.org/2025/06/09/proof-of-citizenship-doc...

It is also funny you have at people not being real adults when the vice president of the United States - himself very worried about election fraud - is saying people in Alaska may be confused between two Sullivans on the ballot because "people are busy. People have lives. People have jobs". Apparently he thinks a large proportion of Alaskans aren't functioning adults. Funny, that.

Yeah, "all" the Democrats will throw you under the bus. All of them. You aren't delusional at all. How much better you are under the Republicans!

You would like a third, fourth choice outside of Democrats and Republicans? Well, you would need a ranked-choice voting system for that. Remind me, who is pushing to extend that system of voting? And who is completely opposed to it and is even banning it wherever they can? Dare to answer?

> When they had all 3 branches of legislature, they couldn't get stuff passed

And why? Aren't you forgetting something?

Who is hurt most by a government shutdown? What does it solve? Would Democrats have gained something politcally or lost more support?

So you think you are better? What have you achieved? Your own purity, at the expense of your trans friends' rights? "Yeah, you are hounded now by crass Republicans who use every lever of power to make your life hell, but at least I didn't vote for a Democrat who may or may not have lied about his support! Praise me!"

Which they did, so your point is?

Yeah, so, it won't be put up for a vote before the midterms. So? Are you going to vote for the party that at least proposes to do something you want, or will you vote, or leave in place, the party that has proposed nothing or the opposite?

The "silent majority" doesn't exist if it doesn't vote. Democracy isn't Halloween, ghosts don't exist.

>At least try to legislate.

It is still "puffery" if they don't have the needed majority to pass it. I am sorry, I can see you try to find any excuse, purity test, "no true Scotsman" fallacy, to rationalize not voting for the Democrats, but you will have to if you want anything to happen.

>I have no issue if people want to implement measures to make it easier to get ID.

That's the big "if". That's why the current representatives who pretend to want to secure the elections are only pretending. That's why you are not answering in good faith, because you are ignoring/handwaving that crucial part.

>Sure, I mean, going to the grocery store is also very oppressive. You need money, time, transport, etc.

Going to the grocery store is not a constitutional right. We already went through this vacuous argument when Republicans pretended that "you have to show ID to have unlimited pasta at the Olive Garden" as an excuse for their sudden request to force states to impose ID requirements just before the midterms. Again: bad faith argument.

I live in a country where there is ID requirements to vote. It is also a place where we use paper ballots, and polling places have never queues longer than five minutes, and voting only happens on Sundays. There is no mail voting. There is no gerrymandering. This is all possible because the whole system is made to make voting convenient and always has been. This can't be said of the USA which has an old and present history of massive voter suppression and electoral manipulation. The current push from Republicans to "secure" the elections is a complete bad faith attempt because they are completely open, at all levels, this is only to cancel and contest Democrat votes. That's what you describe as "election security currently seems important enough to me that voter ID laws seem reasonable". You completely ignore that, as well as the lies behind the argument:

"From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/us/politics/nevada-voters...

https://archive.is/20260924155025/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

16000 lies.

Yeah, it is not as if Trump was planning (more) massive war crimes, against Iran in particular, right now. (I mean , on top of the ongoing war crimes in the Caribbean Sea.) I am completely exaggerating here, right? It is not as if the secretary of war had fired another top ranking military officer without offering any explanation:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/hegseth-fires-the-pent...

Or it isn't as if top oil executives are changing their business trip plans to the United Arab Emirates:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-chevron-cancel...

No need to think anything important is going to happen with an insane president (did you know that "dumb" ends with a "b"? Did you know that?) surrounded by incompetent sycophants.

We can all see the equivalence here: some people said that Obama was the antichrist, some people say now that Trump is senile, violent, racist and unhinged. Clearly they are both wrong. Both sides. Clearly. It is obvious that both are decent, educated men who just carry their elected duties.

Well, you'll see after the midterms... You know, the one where the DOJ is looking to cancel the election in Alaska, where Texas GOP officials are trying to stop the election, where Homeland Security Investigation officers are sent to a sitting Representative's home at dawn and the president is boasting she has forfeited her seat...

Totally normal stuff in a democracy, don't we agree?

Just imagine the shittiest country that you can think of. Now imagine everything I described above happening in that country. Now imagine how you would react to that, and how it would be covered in the news and punditry.

>The average constitution lasts about 18 years

What

>It was not particularly difficult to get.

Thank you for reminding us that you aren't working three jobs in the same day to make ends meet, have disposable income and free time to collect the documents and get to the office twice,and live in a district where said office isn't half a day of driving (with the current gas prices) away.

And of course, you are fine with people with less affodances than you not being able to vote. Such moral character on top of your comfortable life.

And won.

The truth is that Americans hate the working class. They idolize the super rich.

When Mississippi Republican lawmakers voted to gerrymander their state in May _2026_, they decided to convene in the old state capitol. The one the Confederate used.

This isn't the past. This is pretty much the present and the future. This, together with the restoration of Confederate names and monuments and the president and vice-president lying about Haitians and Somali is clear, pure, objective racism. It is not six degrees. It is who they are.

Are these REAL ID? Are they free? How long does one has to drive to find an office who can deliver those? How much paperwork is needed? How many times does one has to get back in person to that ID office?

Stop. We can all see you argue in bad faith. You are at best incurious and naive, and at worst...

Then explain the existence and extension of ranked-choice voting.

Also explain why only one side of the "uniparty" is very, very vocal against ranked-choice voting. Like, to the point of banning it by law. All of them Republicans.

Weird, uh? But please tell us again how much Democrats and Republicans are the same and what is your solution.