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The tax rate is definitely not correlated to birth rate. Use your head for a minute: the highest taxes were in the first half of the 20th century and have steadily decreased since then.

COL, on the other hand, could be something there.

Rogan is usually a pretty good barometer of current climate. Ignore at your own peril.

I did.

I believed when I was told to read Project 2025 and decided I did not want to vote for those policies. I believed President Trump when he stated he wanted to balance global trade through tariffs; I did not and still do not think tariffs are an intelligent approach to American trade.

I hope the DNC in its current form loses every foreseeable election if the best they can do is what they put up in 2024. If you’re going to install a candidate instead of run a legitimate primary, you better pick the right candidate.

Narrator: They did not pick the right candidate. Wasn’t even close.

I’m a proud economic progressive. My primary issues are healthcare reform, workers’ rights, societal safety nets, big business regulation and someone to take a look at universal basic income. Big Bernie fan, big Yang fan. Happy to support AOC when she runs.

The real issue lies not in the quality of their messaging, but in the content. I think Democrats could gain some popularity with the young male demographic if they focused on what to say and not how to say it.

If your platform doesn’t offer any content for a demographic, you need to re-evaluate your platform or stop throwing money at a fool’s errand.

I wager young men would listen to a message about healthcare, job creation and workers’ rights.

Well this seems like a gross overreaction to whatever is currently upsetting you about the administration.

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Once 2020 election become 100% official that it was stolen.. expect 2028 to go to Trump. They can’t get caught stealing an election and everything just turns back to normal.. their punishment will be another Trump term

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This will never come to pass. It was not stolen.

The rest is a comical extrapolation.

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Why does there need to be a government plan for this? Let the market figure it out.

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Plenty of folks still waiting for the market to figure out their offshore outsourced jobs. This is outsourcing on a greater scale.

To be precise, “accounting” was a stand-in phrase that I should have really thought for more than 2 minutes about before using it. I was fishing for a better way to describe “desk jockey” and didn’t want to use the term “accountant”.

What I really meant was “analyst,” which could be an accountant, a medical billing coder, a supply chain middle manager, etc…

You are right that there are MANY judgment calls to make as an accountant. What happens when you pare down the time worked into only judgment calls, instead of having to deal with all the other slow, inefficient work that an accountant does throughout a day? When AI analytics engines handle 90% of a job, leaving a human to parse the tough stuff? Do you think firms, companies and the government will keep as many accountants on staff?

Job replacement won’t be 100%, I strongly doubt that. Hell, 90% reduction across the board is pretty extreme too - I use the 1:10 analogy because we are using that figure in two current project estimates.

But let’s talk about just 50% reduction for now. If 1 employee can do the job of 2, what do you think the decision becomes for an entity interested in reducing labor spend?

Creative content is imagination let loose. Engineering and science is imagination studied and reproduced.

The future might not be exactly like the authors write it up, but to not heed it as a warning is perilous.

I’m glad you’re set to retire peacefully UtahBaw.

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quote:We're talking about possibly every white collar jobs being obsolete within a couple years

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Correct, because there must be a human in the loop. But when you only need 1 worker for every 10…

Quality melt

I’ve been considering the fact that who he picks is his agenda.

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Now.. the conservative candidate in Canada is now dominating the polls

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I don’t see this indicated in a cursory look at Google results. Whatcha got?

Do you have information I don’t? The infograph agrees with your anecdotal evidence. What are you upset about here?

Overall Night 2 cleaned house.

AJ Styles vs Logan Paul was the best of the weekend. I absolutely loved that match and what they tried with the drone footage too. They will figure that out into really cool stuff soon enough and then you’ll see it in lots of places. Wrestling will be worse off without AJ Styles, but let’s appreciate the time we have.

Cena vs Cody was about the WWE Universe giving John his flowers. It was pitch perfect til Travis Scott’s music hit. If you just erase that and still have everything as is, it would have been fantastic, given the context of a Cena retirement tour. Only thing I wish were different was that he still ran to the ring for one last time at Mania.

Enjoyed that the Women’s Triple Threat opened and brought a good match to kick it off.

4-way was very well done compared to most clusters. Bron is so young and so good already. Finn and Penta were good ring generals and Dom looks good with the belt.

Street Fight was excellent for its place on the card - if it were 3 minutes shorter with one or two more car crash spots it would have been phenomenal, but that’s just nitpicking. I just love big hoss car crashes where they go 300% until they’re gassed.

THE MAN HAS COME BACK AROUND. Safe return match for Becky Lynch that was better than two or three of the Night 1 matches too. She is one of my faves of the last decade, both divisions. Becks got herself wrestling ready but she has lost a lot of muscle.

4 stars. I’d recommend to others a rewatch of a few of the matches for sure.

That’s what is great about an art genre: you like what you like and can enjoy it any way you choose.