miguelazo

Has this person never seen Rashomon? Or any of the other films (even documentaries) that cleverly use different perspectives? Seems a bit breathless.

No, I don’t trust USAID, and it’s telling that that was your takeaway from my comment. I was pointing out the obvious differences between an institutional development project approach and that of a parachute-in “charity” looking to create as many trophy projects as possible. The latter do not care about creating local capacity to maintain the infrastructure, among other things.

Mr. Beast? LMAO. A ridiculous comparison in terms of development project implementation. (And I am no fan of USAID, whose real chief mission was creating dependency on the US and overthrowing independent governments.)

Lots of overlap in that venn diagram of fanboys

Big surprise. Care to take a guess why?

Looks like another user already alluded to it. ;-)

Along with most of the people who voted for him.

Based on a survey by some outfit called "Kickresume." Couldn't find many details on the methodoloy.

Excellent point— contractor and consultant headcount’s have ballooned at many firms. Lots of technical debt being taken on to make short term profits.

I suspect this has much less to do with AI than the consolidation of industries, especially tech. There’s almost zero antitrust enforcement left in this country, and it shows in these numbers and in the lack of meaningful technological advancement.

Guess Zuck's inauguration investment worked out well! https://archive.ph/sSmcl

That’s one issue, but is it even the most important thing? A lot of it is just regulatory capture, legalized political corruption (“lobbying”) and the total disfigurement of antitrust law by Bork decades ago.

Most voters don’t understand this issue and thus don’t care about it, so the IOUs don’t have to spend that much to sway things. There’s also a lot of corruption and incompetence at the CPUC, including a revolving door to/from industry.

“solar is so bad for prices which affect poor people” One of the main points of the article is that this premise is completely false, and that the opposite is in fact the case.

More astroturfing

Just because VR fitness was a flop hardly proves your point. Most people expected that to happen.

This is an extremely naive statement. You might want to do some more research before blaming the victims of a multi-decade multibillion dollar assault any further.

Classic sanctions backfire. The US is just accelerating its own decline.