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The problem is that you're comparing numbers from before Trump's presidency, but the understaffing of FAA ATCs goes all the way back to when the Reagan administration fired all ATCs to break up the union and forbade the FAA from rehiring any former union members.

The FAA has been playing catch up with training enough ATCs to meet demand ever since, which isn't helped by a sequence of bad decisions made regarding ATC training schools.

You're supposed to feel the superiority, not taste it.

If I were asked to give up 10 years of my life I would rather choose to give up the final 10 years than 10 years in the prime of my life.

There's one elephant in the room that's not being addressed:

Training an AI on GPL code and then having it generate equivalent code that is released under a closed source license seems like a good way to destroy the copy-left FOSS ecosystem.

> If robots/AI work out and we do have 100% spare time then you’d hope there would be more of this sort of thing.

If robots/AI work out we will need to use 100% of our spare time to work what few jobs are still available to humans so we can earn enough money to pay rent.

That money is better invested in providing affordable family housing. Even if IVF is available no one is going to actually have kids if you do nothing to make it economically sustainable to start a family.

Do we really want to rely on IVF to solve the fact that people can only afford a family home once they're well into their 40s? It's insanity if you ask me.

It's always a good idea to disguise your identity collection as "age verification".

In fact in sectors like the game industry the pandemic resulted in a massive hiring boom. The layoffs only materialized after the pandemic was well and truly over.

Security just isn't their vibe, that's for nerds.

This isn't a simple operation, killing a foreign head of state is about as clear of a declaration of war as you can imagine. The law was introduced to put a check on the president's use of military force, it didn't give the president the power to declare war on another country.

The dramatic difference is that Biden had Congressional approval to ship weapons to Israel and Ukraine.

> I'd suggest you read about fascist Italy to get a sense of what fascism is. So far I haven't seen Democrats repeatedly kicked out of cars in Times Square after drinking a bottle of castor oil.

January 6th had all the hallmarks of the black shirts marching on Rome. And ICE is definitely pulling people out of cars and homes in Democratic cities. But I guess everything is fine because they're not making them drink castor oil.

Immigration enforcement is necessary, but these actions clearly have less to do with people's immigration status and more to do with political reprisal.

> Trump said that he wouldn't look to be reelected for a third mandate.

They'll always say they'll follow the Constitution to legitimize themselves, but their actions don't reflect it.

> The Iran war is mainly a consequence of the Israeli influence on US politics; it has nothing to do with fascism, and it is in continuity with the previous administration.

It has everything to do with fascism, not because of its motivation, but it's lack of democratic approval. This administration has a clear disdain for the democratic process.

I sincerely hope there was some secret vote by Congress that we don't know about.

> So yeah, populism likely, a plutocracy (evidenced by the role of AIPAC in elections) but not fascism.

I would've agreed with you if we were talking about Trump's first term, that was clearly just populism. This second term goes far beyond what any populist leader has done in Europe.

> Let's not waste the meaning of words by throwing them at any occasion.

Honest question, but if this is not fascism, then what is? Aren't you also wasting the meaning of a word by refusing to acknowledge any application of that word?

> Dario Amodei published an essay warning about potential dangers from powerful AI — including domestic mass surveillance (which he brands “entirely illegitimate”)

Why is only domestic surveillance by an AI dangerous? I guess Europeans are not worth protecting from the dangers of AI?