Obama was the perfect transitional president in office during the shifts of power going on in the USA.

While many rightly say the USA has always been a cesspool, it was fundamentally changing due to the global economy changing. He was very careful to not interfere, while he projected a sense of Camelot and calm.

Basically he was fiddling while Rome burned and that worked out well for him.

There is no way people can be asked about confidence without explaining which goals; and once those multiple, contradictory and insane goals are fully explained it would invalidate the poll.

My opinion of a liberal is one who thinks change can happen by hoping a central authority figure will fix it.

Some liberals think no change is needed as long as authority is followed.

The key idea is that both types are authoritarians, and need to follow rules and orders

Hah I learned c++ in the 90s and never felt shame for messing up an allocation.

I think when this happens, I have a puddle of memory, the spilled ram “lubricates” the pointers, which often rub against each other. The wasted memory acts like oil does to a rusted chain. It’s helping push the program through the finish line.

Yes, I am having fun here

The world is strange and people are clever, keeping secrets about their research projects. On top of that there are a lot of unexplained and even unknown natural phenomena. The galaxy is vast.

None of that will be clarified by this government

Most people who read and write the comments here are frustrated because there is no known mechanism to have large scale change in the USA. Only minor victories that are easily lost to time.

I am worried about food in the countryside too, if anything breaks down too far. Most rural people in the USA have lost the skills to grow their own food. And most farms in the USA ( that are not owned by companies) are now owned by families that inherited them, and they don’t have as much knowledge as their grandparents, and would have difficulties .

So, yea, food insecurity if many parts of those very convoluted supply chains have trouble

The global economy is new, so much has changed

4 generations ago most of the food that people ate grew within 20 miles, now a good chuck of my food is grown on four continents in dozens of countries.

This and every single thing in my house and car has supply lines stretching over a million miles when the travel of every single item, and their materials are added up. Literally, tens of millions of people helped make my items

Banking is literally hundreds or thousands of times more complex than in my grandfather’s time.

And my entire career is based on technology and infrastructure I read only hints about in science fiction books as a kid.

Not op, and as far from an economist as possible. But I think there has never been a situation like this, ever, in the entire human race.

I have no clue what will happen but I deeply feel most will have wrong predictions

Japan only attacked the USA in 1941 because of an oil embargo by the USA

This video is probably the start of a very disturbing trend. Given most of the administration’s previous crimes with children and women, they can and will keep pushing the envelope to include what they personally enjoy

200 million dollars

Almost an hours worth of graft and bribes paid to the trump admin and their business partners

The only way the United States can be reformed as a nation is by non democratic socialism being imposed .

But as federal oversight grows weaker I think some states will try, on their own , to come up with solutions to avoid their citizens from being so harmed by the corruption

Many hate mail in ballots because these are not as easily corrupted.

The more people will cast their votes on privately controlled and unregulated voting machines, the better it is for the wealthy.

Some states have no such devil machines. In which case the restricting of participation is a bonus

I don’t use slow query log, I once heard many years ago this causes my services to slow down after being turned on.

Not only that, it sounds woke. I use astrology to help me find the big meanies. While some find this ridiculous, there is a lot of sales energy targeting this to executives!!

While you are correct, NASA cannot send people to high earth orbit without endangering the astronauts. The crewed missions are dead in the water, but many do not realize this.

This situation exists because while NASA has increasingly severe political issues; the organization still has enough integrity to scrub the missions each time they are close to launch.

Other countries and private companies can later send astronauts safely. Nasa will require changes in American politics, that are not realistic, before they can get new ships and goals

It may be difficult to self host for many years without significant downtime. I have some repos over 20 years old, and have gone through several boom and bust cycles myself.

Ha! When I was young I had to find work going uphill, in a recession and snow.

While all these bills, that have the backing of a tiny minority of lawmakers, seem good. It’s only performative art which fools some people to think the government is still valid.

In at least one airport they are checking ids and being more of a threat