Would be nice if we had blue state agencies and universities willing to step up and absorb some of the shock by hiring these professionals and issuing grants to continue their projects. Instead, we’ve got institutions wasting time and resources on elaborate surveillance programs aimed at Palestine protesters

Remember when they spent… like… fifteen years doing climate change denialism? But hey, at least they made fun of Donald Trump by… calling him… gay. Oof.

Hollywood Libertarianism. Not even once, kids.

It’s hardly a one-time thing. Kehoe came up through a rich Catholic School, owned an auto dealership, became a bagman within the State Senate, and eventually climbed up to the governor’s mansion by iteratively taking bribes and doing favors over the last 30 years.

Where do you think he raised the $13M war chest to run for governor in the first place? He’ll never stop supporting these reactionaries because he never wants them to stop shoveling money into his pockets. And if he wants to continue climbing? (And every governor secretly has an eye on the White House) He’s going to need those millions to become billions. That means he’s got to prove his loyalty. Go above and beyond. Really stand out as the kind of guy who will shove a few thousand babies into a wood chipper if his bosses demand it of him.

I am a professional encoder and I always put all my codes in a single big file marked EXE for faster execution.

A cunt who is getting crazy kickbacks from the Chamber of Commerce.

Business groups lobbied heavily to overturn the measure passed by 58% of voters, arguing it would cost jobs. The bill also repeals annual inflation adjustments for the minimum wage, in effect since 2006.

The action followed a pattern established over the past 15 years where conservative Republicans have used their majorities in the legislature to roll back or repeal measures that became law through initiatives pushed to the ballot by progressive groups.

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In a news release Thursday, Kara Corches, president and CEO of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, called the mandated paid sick leave a “job killer.”

“Missouri employers value their employees and recognize the importance of offering competitive wages and benefits, but one-size-fits-all mandates threaten growth,” Corches said in the release.

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The action on sick leave is similar to a bill in 2011 weakening provisions of a ballot measure from 2010 called the “Puppy Mill Cruelty and Prevention Act,” that specified appropriate living conditions for breeding operations and including action this year to overturn the abortion rights amendment approved in November.

Incidentally, Missouri’s abysmal animal rights laws had, up until that ballot measure passed, made it the national leader in breeding (and killing of surplus) designer puppies.

6’3" Dutch-Irishman with crystal blue eyes and perfectly manicured cuticles.

he was ACTUALLY born on American soil from the Birthing Matrix.

Reader: “How is he not an immigrant alien?”

90s DC Retconners: Slaps the side of a weird techno-widget “Space Wizards did it.”

He can’t even claim Birthright Citizenship

Canonically, I believe he was still technically gestating in the pod before he arrived. So he’s more of an Anchor Baby.

Red Son is the only correct version of Superman.

Everything else is bourgeois revisionism.

its gross how people were convinced millions of immigrants were here causing issues but as soon as a few thousand are exported everything is a-ok.

Media cycles have flipped from “MIGRANT CARAVAN! KUNG-FLU! TOOKER JERBS!” to “Those ICE agents are being a bit too rough, COVID is solved/not-real, AI will replace you anyway so migrants aren’t really an issue.”

oh yeah, and now we get spend hundreds of billions of dollars now not feeding people but ‘watching’…

Now that we have the eugenics focused government that the media industry lobbied for, we can pivot towards the liberal technocracy that makes the brutality cheaper and more efficient. Amazon / Facebook / Palantir will join forces to deliver a new era of Smart, AI-powered Population Management that can deliver the same gestapo-like tactics for a fraction of the price.

Just like with Clinton after Reagan/Bush and Obama after Junior and Biden after Trump, we’re going to get a new Tough On Border Crime democrat at the top of the ticket (maybe even Harris again, she was great at telling Guatemalans fleeing a civil war to go home) who will campaign on Trump’s ICE doing a bad job according to the deportation counting spreadsheets.

And we’ll get an earful about spending, too, of course. Never a bad time to take another big chunk out of the Entitlements in order to balance your books for National Security.

chinese companies are notorious for stealing IP

American companies sell the ip to China in exchange for access to capital and labor, then claim they’ve been robbed when the Chinese firms innovate and expand on the patents they’ve acquired.

The end result is a car company that produces better vehicles than anything an American or Japanese or German company can manage.

Curiously, these superior vehicles are “stolen” while the Teslas keep exploding under home grown technology.

Mamdani’s Jihadist plan to open municipally run grocery stores will destroy NYC with Shari Onions.

NASDAQ is up 6.8% ytd and 12.7% yoy. This “drop” didn’t even bring it below the 5D low.

Very possible some HFT was in the know and did a bunch of day-trader shenanigans in the ten minutes before the announcement. Possible this was just speculation on the eve of the announcement because “Trump opens his mouth” is typically bad for the markets for a day or two. But this is a 0.59% drop that you’ve got zoomed in. It’s nothing, in the context of the 3 year Bull Run that’s doubled the NASDAQ’s valuation since the '22 low.

I mean, unironically, this is what polygraphs exist to accomplish. They aren’t reliable instruments and a lot of the “results” boil down to a technician trying to figure out if your heart rate increase or sweaty palms are a result of you lying or the AC in the room not running properly.

By the time someone’s decided to strap you into a ploygraph machine, you’re already “guilty” in their eyes. They’re just looking for an excuse to slam the book on you.

A lot of these subsidies (both in the US and China) are implicit. Chinese state rail networks operate at cost, allowing cheap transportation of materials and labor. American borrowing is heavily subsidized through the Fed Credit Window, which keeps rates in the low single digits while corporate bonds and consumer loans can be 2x-30x as high. Both countries cut corners on environmental enforcement and subsidize waste management. Both countries subsidize education and incentive R&D through their university systems.

The real benefit BYD enjoys - even above its Chinese peers - is vertical integration. They own everything from mining interests to technology patents to dealerships. This is a deliberate consequence of Chinese trade policy, which requires foreign investors to partner with Chinese nationals in order to own and operate capital. Consequently, Berkshire Hathaway - a large early investor in BYD - cannot dictate Chinese vehicle manufacturing policy from a private office in Omaha. Chinese locals benefit from the innovation, the domestic capital, the experienced labor force (which can migrate to local competitors), and the increased economic activity it produces.

China is insourcing it’s wealth aggregation, which has a cyclical compound benefit over time.

Don’t forget the Lt governor has more power than the governor

That stopped being true decades ago, when Perry was granted a bunch of appointment power under the Republican legislature.

The Lt. Gov set the agenda in the State Senate, which made the position a bottleneck in the legislative process. But Senate Republicans are in total lockstep. The real legislative power rested with the House calendars committee for a few sessions, as the legislature was only in session for a few months every few years and the House could kill a bill by timing it out.

But of late, Abbott has excercised his ability to call “emergency” sessions liberally. And since he can get the agenda in these sessions, he can bully the House Reps into compliance by dragging them back over and over again until they concede.

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Are tensions between the countries rising or is the middle class just running out of money for travel?

you just really want me to be racist

I don’t think you’re racist. I think you’re clinging to this idea of the Transatlantic slave trade as some kind of necessary evil.

It wouldn’t have gotten as popular in the USA and Europe if all the early blues and jazz musicians were in Africa.

Cultural traditions have cross-pollunated without mass migrations on plenty of prior occasions. The Silk Road didn’t need to move legions of displaced people in order to bring food, clothing, and music into the Mediterranean. Neither did Dutch traders need to flood into Japan in order to convey their art and technology.

The idea that you need a mass resettlement in order to mix musical traditions doesn’t bare out in practice.

Cool, I never made that claim.

How do you think Africans came to be in the New World?

They probably needed to immigrate to a western country to invent it

Brits didn’t need to immigrate to the US in order to learn about American rock music.