Bard

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considering how to implement UBI to make up for the lower number of jobs due to AI

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Socialists will never pass up a good chance to watch their ideas fail in spectacular fashion. The bigger the potential stage, the more giddy they are to try it (because their myopic view allows for failure happening only because they didn't do enough of their idea, not because their idea was faulty to its core).

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The big question is what can be done to fix the problem.

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It starts in the schools, teaching a constant standard of personal responsibility. The Japanese, for example, have very few janitors in their school system, instead they rely on the children.

That's right, part of the responsibilities of Japanese school children is for them to mop the floors, clean the toilets, etc at their schools. Now, with that knowledge, open up Google Maps and drop a pin anywhere in Japan and see how much litter you see.

That said, there are far too many "parents" (regardless of race) who would shoot up a school before seeing their "precious baby" having to scrub toilets.

That's a privilege mentality and until we can get over that, or force our way through it, things won't change.

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There are more registered Ds in La than Rs.

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There are, but enough vote R to keep the state firmly Republican. It's a holdover by older generations who came up when the default in the state was to be a Democrat.

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Is it just me or do cold beverages taste better out of metal cups?

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It depends on the beverage. Milk tastes better out of metal cups but soft drinks taste better out of glass bottles (especially after being chilled in them).

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He went the opposite way. And now his job is going to go to somebody else.

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Going against Trump like that is going to get a reciprocal response from Trump and his supporters. At that point people do one of two things:

1. Stick with just being against Trump on that singular issue. This confrontation often (but not always, right Bill Cassidy? :lol:) ends up as "water under the bridge" as work on the things they and Trump agree on continues.

2. Get the butt-hurt to the point where they begin actively taking other stances against Trump for little obvious reason other than "he was mean to me!" These are the types who end up spiraling out of control (see: MTG).

Running for Congress often means having a big ego. Staying in Congress with its courtesan class constantly looking for ways to be in your good graces (and get incriminating evidence on you) grows that ego. People like that are far more susceptible to succumbing to the 2nd point, especially if they've been in the Beltway for a decade or more (ie: long enough to feel the job and having smoke being constantly blown up their arse is their right).

Massie let the job get to him enough that he's fallen into that 2nd category.

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Declaring he is “pro-mutilation-of-children's-genitals, pro-open-borders, pro-pedophilia, and pro-cashless-bail-for-violent-criminals,” columnist Bill Kristol, the 73-year-old former Republican chief of staff to a vice president, announced last week he is now a Democrat.

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Fixed.

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Your analysis also means they work because of him, so he could flip that switch at any moment

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Maybe. There could be things outside his control, having things like that would make the story more interesting. It would explain his (her) passing interest in the talisman (other than it being an act) as well as meaning the potential for a blind spot to his power.

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"The reality is, in so many of these instances, we are sensationalizing teenagers, often lower income children of color, who are taking over, if you will, or visiting gentrified neighborhoods," Henning said. "The focus becomes on the delinquent or criminal activity that takes place."

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Well... yeah. The delinquent/criminal activity is coming from them visiting gentrified neighborhoods to purposely engage in delinquent/criminal activities.

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what could effectively replace them.

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A culture of personal responsibility and accountability at home would be a good start.

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Sophia being in the houses proves that the talismans don’t really do anything

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Not true.

The talismans work only if it is placed on the wall of is an enclosed area. If it falls or a door/window is opened, the protection falls. They don't work in open spaces, which is why wearing one outdoors doesn't work.

What this could mean is that Sophia/MiY is the entity controlling the area. if that's true, then he makes the rules.

Let's back up a second...

The primary theory is that the night people feed off of misery. They kill the townspeople, but they do so in slow, horrifying ways. They go through long periods where they kill no one, so it's a safe supposition they are psychic vampires of a sort.

We know MiY is some sort of higher level being, having been the voice telling Tabitha to stop digging and guiding Sara's earlier antics. What if he's the power the townspeople made a deal with, thus he made the night people? If that's true then perhaps he gets nourishment/power through the night people?

While the night people are blunt instruments of fear and misery, MiY could be the giver of false hope (because the more hope there is, the greater and more intense the fear and misery is created when that hope is brought crashing down).

So to bring this back around, what this could mean is that they work but just not on him.

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There’s some for some for those, but you can’t boil education down to purely economic demand.

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There's little to no demand for many of those, but they have emotional appeal and that's why so many flock to them. Instead of being realistic with incoming students about these fields and lack of opportunities within them, they blew smoke up their asses about how they had some sort of future and that caused demand for them to grow.

They then used that greater demand to expand them even further beyond what the market wants (much less needs).

And now we have a surplus of degreed Starbucks employees.