Copyright is whatever makes the wealthy wealthier. They’ll be copyright reform, but only to protect these new industries.

I think we need to normalize alternative landscaping. Think tall and thin sumac with lots of mulch on the ground. Once in a year dump lots of mulch and don’t mow anything. If you don’t like gardening, and don’t spend time outside, just plant large bushes and mulch. I see so many people around that just don’t care about their lawn, and do the easiest thing so it looks like everybody else’s.

Neighbor cuts their postage stamp lawn with a loud lawn mower for 30 minutes. When they finish the next neighbor thinks to themself, ‘I should cut my lawn’, and starts a loud mower. When they finish the next neighbor starts. ALL Saturday. One after the other! Can’t you all just do it at the same time! Why can’t you use a push mower on a lawn that is smaller than a car parking spot! Why does it take you 30minutes, of using loud power tools, to cut a lawn the size of a car parking spot!!!

Car thefts are way up, thanks to key-less entry. How about doing something about that!

I don’t like the Republican policy, but it is semi-coherent; isolation, xenophobia, anti-immigration, no abortions in red states, burn down the entire economy if it doesn’t work for rural areas. The Democrats don’t have a coherent policy; immigration yes but also no. Peace in Palestine, but also send weapons to Israel. Stop Russia at all costs, but send as little money and only expired weapons. This is the greatest economy of all time ever, even if you don’t feel it and can’t afford a house. Crime is down, too bad you don’t feel safe.

Youth don’t vote, only Boomers vote. This is a election decided by Boomers, with Boomer issues.

The short sound bites are exactly what Trump is best at.

Neither do his voters.

It was bad.

Just like the Russian pipeline got blown up, those fab labs will be smouldering dust. https://youtu.be/OS4O8rGRLf8?t=91

city

It’s their fantasy that they’ll go into the ‘city’ to take it over. Let them. Downtown is mostly social services in major cities, maybe some healthcare or a large teaching hospital. They’ll quickly realize that pointing guns at homeless people isn’t very productive.

The vast majority of people live in suburbs, don’t care about politics, don’t follow the news.

Revenge fantasies are always stupid. Modern cities are vast tracks of cookie-cutter suburban housing.

I remember when corner stores rented DVDs, this could be another business for them. But…since they haven’t adopted it I guess it really isn’t that profitable. Power tool prices have come down in price and size.

“…anarchists looking to consolidate power…”, they don’t even know what anarchism means. Was this a dumb AI drivel content? Reads like it.

Lowering and raising interest rates directly correlates with the increasing or reducing inflation.

Meh. When you raise interest rates, companies raise prices, and go on borrowing. Raising rates doesn’t help fight inflation.

We are now seeing housing starts grinding to a halt, as average people stop buying homes do to high interest rates. These stories are starting to trickle into the press. Housing developers are calling high interest rates a disaster and economic killer. Politicians and banks listen to housing developers. The anger is building against bankers that believe simple stories such as ‘Lowering and raising interest rates directly correlates with the increasing or reducing inflation’, the real world is never that tidy.

“…younger employees become less likely to work for higher-paying firms, whose share of older workers disproportionately increases over time…”

“firms cannot change the contracts of older employees and cannot freely add higher-ranked positions to their organizations. In this model, a larger supply of older workers and declining economic growth restrict younger workers’ access to higher-paying roles and widen the age pay gap in favor of older workers.” https://www.nber.org/papers/w32340

The punishment laid out in their convictions take into account how involved they were in the insurrection. The Supreme Court isn’t taking that into account. Many are getting a simple fine for trespassing, but the ones that went with the intent of causing trouble are getting the actual real punishments.

They brought pipe bombs, hand cuffs and zip ties as tokens of affection for their elected leaders!

For years there was a push by economists to include metrics on how people perceive the economy, because that will indicate their spending patterns.

Now, ‘only look at this specific data point, that does not include rents, mortgages or food, and indicates that wages are just slightly above inflation, as long as you don’t go back more than 6.2 months of data as proof that the economy is roaring!’.

Crazy that we are talking about an areas maybe 1/4 of the size of Chicago, when talking about Gaza. There are like only 6 land exists, 1 through Egypt and the rest through Israel.