It depends on my clients. For some, I’m presenting the state of the art. For others, I’m dragging them decades into the future. For the other others, they are making me learn and it is a good feeling.

I saw this movie. Did it involve bringing kids to outer space and an AI robot that just wanted to help?

Part of the discussion with US rail is that American rail carries some freight service and it would be better environmentally to maintain that service than go all passenger.

For profit companies have shown themselves as being bad at running freight rail, but the solution to public rail needs to include freight.

Yes. The MAGA group probably wouldn’t be as large, but they would still be there and very angry.

Part of the problem is that, while Marx writes well regarding the economic flaws of capitalism, he isn’t as good at writing about the politics of change.

When induced by the body politic, we see that some of the economic surplus can be reallocated to the workers provided there is political pressure. It can come in the form of state backed rights, progressive taxation, and even direct welfare payments.

It probably isn’t the perfect system Marx envisioned, but enlightened liberalism is able to make subtle shifts over time in a way that absolute monarchies can’t.

Yeah. I’ve seen great designers get noticeably frustrated when they can’t optimize the project to the level they could in school because there is a budget and maintenance factors that keep it from happening.

You also start getting into issues where that staff can vastly outperform other staff and it creates tension in compensation.

Thank you. I don’t hate you either.

I think people hate me more online than here, especially on Lemmy compared to Reddit. However, I find the people here who hate me are looking to hate in general.

Or we could see a reimagining of the EU as it transitions from a national led organization to a supernational one. We are already seeing some national heads make moves to support their party over nation in EU politics. It is possible that this continues as politics in the EU becomes more important than member nations, especially as the EU starts gaining increasing budgetary and policy power.

Germany also has an economy that is most threatened by China’s increasing manufacturing prowess, both within the EU and outside of it.

It is also becoming apparent that Merkel’s leadership was in just being able to maintain the status quo, something that Germany can’t do now.

Not really. I don’t call people not can I read in my dreams.

Generally yes. If I didn’t want it, I wouldn’t post it.

Yeah. I also find the relationship has a lot more dysfunction on Jim’s part than fans want to admit. Jim wouldn’t cheat on Pam, but Jim makes several life changing decisions without Pam and gets angry if Pam doesn’t go along with them.

The later Wesley episodes are good because you see him as a bright young man trying to do right in the world rather than a precocious kid who solves problems the grown-ups can’t.

The writers didn’t really know how to write the Crusher-Picard relationship(s) in the early seasons.

That would be the President’s plan.

Biden has given policy points, but he is largely limited as, at best, he is expected to have a tie in the Senate.

We are also seeing this get written by others since the first Trump term saw a vacuum in policy and this is an attempt to get people on board beforehand so Trump’s second term is more effective when he goes all dictator.

Lemmy was designed to be a place where communists would have a community. Some instances weren’t, but a lot of the original ones were.

Not since college.

After that, I had to help them out a few times.

That’s fine, but someone has to pay for it.

Squatting is only legal over time.

It is been a plan for a while in the USA to shift launches from government run to private run for over a decade. This is just an implementation of that strategy.