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Have you actually used anything 15B or less? Those models are borderline retarded.

Iranians are protesting because their economy is collapsing from targeted attacks by the US/West.

Foreign media records them and says they are trying to depose the theocracy, propaganda to justify a military incursion.

Wild claims of civilians being killed by the regime, with zero evidence, manufactured from thin air. (WMD's in Iraq, White phosphorus in Syria)

Average person now thinks it's their duty to to send American sons to die in the sandbox for another generation.

The only winner here, israel.

The idea that Iranians are marching in the streets begging for a monarchy is so absurd only the dumbest will believe it.

And specifically they are "dying" to bring back the clown prince, son of a foreign puppet that was deposed by their parents/grandparents.

Afraid the zionist controlled media has already set the stage for an Iraq level invasion, using their propaganda machine, to install the guy they control.

> One of my parents is an Indian immigrant. I have worked with many great Indian engineers and many not-so-great, just like every other nationality.

This kind of blatant, wholesale dismissal is part of the problem. It's not "just like every other nationality". It is overwhelmingly indian nationals abusing the system. Why would we spread the blame to nigerians, or hungarians for what is an indian issue?

> Obama seemed to manage it (around 3 million people)

It is well known that the Obama administration counted turning around people at the border as a "deportation".

> Obama didn't hire record numbers of barely qualified (40-50 days worth of training) people and then send them to occupy American cities

The only cuts from the surge hire training were spanish language and some driving courses, spanish alone consumed 12-weeks. None of the other training material was reduced. In the cases of Good and Pretti, neither agent was a surge hire. This is nonsense rhetoric attempting to delegitimize ICE agents performing lawful duties.

You are correct in that part of the reason they are hired is because they are ostensibly indentured servants. They cannot quit because without another job lined up they have to leave the country.

But I don't think we should be correcting that issue to their benefit while Americans are dealing with a horrendous job market and high unemployment rates. And in my experience, it was often other indians abusing the indian foreign workers. These behaviors are incompatible with western society.

Measles and TB are only making a return to the US because of the massive influx of third world migrants that were let into the country over the last 5 years.

Anyone saying otherwise is a delusional psychopath.

Well it kind of is. Tesla are not coy about their plans of moving away from selling consumers personal vehicles. If you think cybercab can eat any significant percentage of Uber/Lyfts lunch there is value.

It takes a lot of hubris to throw away ostensibly worldwide EV dominance. And selling Americans on giving up car/independence culture when compared with Europe or Asia will be tough.

They will undoubtedly crush in the robot and energy space though.

I bought a refurb gen 4 thinkpad on amazon for like $350 and it arrived almost brand new.

Installed arch, setup some commands to underclock the processor on login and easily boost it when I'm compiling.

Battery life is great but I'm not running a GUI either. Good machine for when I want to avoid distractions and just code.

You cannot take someone seriously when they hold conflicting thoughts. Doublethink and doublespeak are signs of disingenuous sociopathy.

I suspect two things, low-calorie diets consisting predominantly of fresh foods and vegetables. And active lifestyle.

It is unreal how much a good diet and walking everyday will change your entire life.

I wonder how Palestinians feel about the jewish man Drezner arguing against territorial expansion.

I don't know you or give a shit about you. You need to be a man and be accountable for your own life. Why are you expecting others to subsidize your mistakes?

You are weak and your life is the outcome of your own actions. You should have prepare for such a situation if you feared it was possible.

As for all the others, same thing, literally not my problem. You failed your family, why are you blaming the healthcare system.

How much do you pay as a percentage of your salary in taxes? In total of course.

I pay 30% in taxes for federal and state. House is paid off but taxes is about 3% my salary. My insurance is more than I need (I don't use it at all) and cost me less than 2% of my salary.

You can keep your socialized system, we are doing more than alright here mate. I got plenty of friends in Europe, England, Canada, and Australia all complaining about the same thing, wait times for care. I can see my doctor for basically anything inside of a couple weeks.

AI is barely a blip on why the job market is dead for entry level, and dying all the way up the ladder.

Every one of my engineer friends says the same thing. "My team is 80% indians" and more than half are not qualified for the job they have.

The whole thing is a fucking scam for them, every company, top to bottom. Recruiters, hiring managers, referrals, CEO's. All one thing in common.

I'll take my downvotes, I don't care, everyone here knows I'm right. And those with their head up their ass can enjoy getting replaced and spending years looking for another role.

You said the truth but this site is full of them. Hope my one upvote can save you.

>60 or 70% of Americans polled*

I certainly don't want it and nobody I know that actually understands the real cost does either. Every single nation that provides socialized healthcare is hopelessly strained by its cost, and the service has suffered as a result. The system relies on eithe dramatic reductions in the cost of healthcare or a positive birthrate to sustain it.

Nobody I know in socialized healthcare systems has good things to say about it when they actually need it.

This is even less than statistically insignificant.

Every single person that doesn't return their cart does so out of laziness. Besides just being an asshole, the cart will take a potential parking spot that someone else later needs to move to free up, and worst of all the wind could blow the cart into someone elses car.

Nobody is gonna kidnap her kids as she walks the cart back in less than a minute. It is simply her being a lazy asshole.

The government should not be bearing that cost. It is idiotic to ever put the state in charge of people's health.

You sound like the child, needing to be coddled rather than told you're failing at the job you have been happily collecting a check for.

The addition of flouride to tap water supply likely affects brain development. Let's not go adding lithium too.

These things are simple enough to advise the populace to use on their own. The government should never play nanny, ever.

Author seems confused. 2FA isn't about securing your account, it's about harvesting your phone number.

Please don't spread baseless conspiracy theories. Regardless of the side pushing it, and whatever noble/virtuous motives you think they have, sharing them is absurdly low IQ and probably negative for your mental health.

The dumbest among us tend to be the most in awe of mundane technology.

> Experience has show we cannot build secure systems

It's an unpopular idea because its bullshit. Building secure systems is trivial and at the skill level of a junior engineer. Most of these "hacks" are not elaborate attacks utilizing esoteric knowledge to discover new vectors. They are the same exploit chains targeting bad programming practices, out of date libraries, etc.

Lousy code monkeys or medicore programmers are the ones introducing vulnerabilities. We all know who they are. We all have to deal with them thanks to some brilliant middle manager figuring out how to cut costs for the org.

There are far more than 500 people working in Starbase. Most of them do not live there so it's kind of pointless to mention that.

It is the duty of Americans to vote for good congressmen to represent the whole Republic. We need to hold them accountable. Failing to do that relinquishes our right to complain about the things they are doing.

Everything else you are saying is retarded dogma wrapped in utter brainrot.

If congressmen never voted on double edged swords or poison pill legislation out of principle, they'd all be labeled do-nothing grandstanders like Thomas Massie. While it may work for Massie, as his constituents are smart enough to know voting no on every bill is better than voting yes on a bad one, most congressmen would not survive that for long.

It is, solely, the fault of disinterested constituents that congress get away with passing laws for special interests and corporate lobby rather than the country at large.

Optical media is unmatched for archival purposes. I have photos, videos, and documents I'd be devastated to lose. I simply cannot trust magnetic or solid-state storage over the long term.

Luckily blurays are still somewhat cheap in Japan so I stock up when I visit. Stored properly they should outlive me.