This is inaccurate. The piss goes on Americans and America.

He helped align Iran to Russia during his first term and does the same with India now.

Yeah https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/politics/julian-assange-plea-deal-biden-administration

That’s because you’re assuming trump is working for USA’s interests.

Capitalism no doubt sucks, but our other inventions suck even more unfortunately.

Well, Americans picked an expert at bankruptcy, so he is doing what he is best at.

I learned that somebody already did such thing: http://stopice.net/ and it existed before this app even.

stopice.net? Yeah that looks like much safer alternative to iceblock

I think it might be simpler.

All the app could do is to report location of the user to ICE.

While people might be interested to show up to ICE raids, immigrants might also want it to know places to say away from.

Since the app is on the phone the location can be tied to the phone number and since they are going after documented immigrants they might have phone numbers from their applications.

I think this should be a mobile website instead of an app is the goal was privacy.

The problem with phone apps is that they already have access to personally identifiable information.

I would much prefer this was a mobile friendly website.

Which is ironic, because another (less spoken) reason of NATO and building the army is to scare the opponent so it will think it is not worth to attack.

The mere fact of taco saying that the US won’t help in case of attack from Russia increased chances of a war.

They might not even have that much time

Right, because Ukrainians had a choice. It was either surrender and be exterminated or fight.

No one in Europe wants to be at war and prefers to concentrate on economy, but if one side goes full imperialism the only thing is to be prepared for war and hope they will decide that is not worth to attack.

That’s the only sensible thing to do, they are not even hiding about using their resources:

The operations should be assisted by a tough, hard-headed utilization of Russia’s gas, oil, and natural resources to bully and pressure other countries.[9] The book states that “the maximum task [of the future] is the ‘Finlandization’ of all of Europe”.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Content

That’s why you will not see a Cybertruck on the road in Europe.

That was the initial reason, now there’s also the Nazi reason and the crappy car reason.

LOL, this meme has two layers, as they say “real sciences don’t need “science” suffix in the name”

I see a lot of people blaming this on AI and raised interest rates.

The real reason for this stagnation is Section 174 of IRS code that was added by the 2017 tax cut bill. The section took effect in 2022 and was added to balance the budget.

This section basically doesn’t allow to deduct cost of the software engineers and they are amortized over 5 years (10 years for international engineers). This puts some strains to regular businesses, but it kills start ups, as they are required to pay taxes even when they are still not profitable and might not even pay 5 years.

Lack of start ups means there is smaller number of openings which is lower mobility. Combined with amortization, it discourages hiring new people as again it requires 5 years.

I see this being dismissed and “it is definitively the interest rates and AI” AI is nowhere close to replace software engineers, in fact from the coworkers that enthusiastically embraced it I see lower quality of code. Interest rates actually came back to what they originally were before 2008.

The hiring issues started exactly when section 174 went into effect. I think the hiring craze in 2021 was only because companies realized that with slim margins in Congress a bill won’t pass that will repeal it so they were hiring like crazy before it become a law. Indeed Democrats were trying to repeal it, it even pass the house, but it was blocked by Republicans in the Senate. Because God forbid they would help Americans and in turn let economy to look good under Biden.

Reminded me when I first heard Smashing Pumpkins - Everlasting Gaze