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This speaks to American's view on the rule of law and the lawyer's role in society.
One can easily imagine a different society where businesses favor law firms that have good relationships with the government as they expect the lawyers to help grease the bureaucratic wheels with various things, like getting government permits and favored protections from competition and torts.
@taiwan_girl said in It’s way too early but let me tell you what I like about this list:
The Democrat need to understand what lost them the last election. Not sure that they do yet.
Inflation, at least the perception of it.
You got a different answer in mind?
@89th said in It’s way too early but let me tell you what I like about this list:
If he adjusts his policy positions just enough, …
What are some of Pete’s policies you don’t like?
What AI subscriptions you (or members of your household) have, how prestigious are the models in your AI subscriptions. Left-leaning politicians will talk about government subsidized equitable AI subscriptions for all. Right-leaning politicians will talk about “vouchers” to let individuals choose AI subscriptions that they may not be able to afford on their own. The welfare units or voucher values bantered about maybe argued in terms of “tokens,” FLOPS, Watt-hours, or some yet to be defined AI units.
Can’t answer yet. Need to figure out a way (even a metric, a “unit”) to measure/quantify “disruptiveness” first. Doesn’t seem like the sociologists, anthropologists, historians, economists have come up with a commonly recognized one yet.
Hhmmm ….. imagine a parasite replacing one of your own organs and you go one “living normally.”
WaPo's analysis on signs that AI was used to generate contents for the report:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/30/maha-report-ai-white-house/
Trump says he plans to double steel, aluminum tariffs to 50%
https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-says-he-plans-double-steel-tariffs-50-2025-05-30/
Unfortunately not everybody cares.
People who are willing to believe (or at least not dispute) Trump‘s “many people say …” stuff are unlikely to care about citation and reference accuracy.
Even here, where we believe our regulars are more thoughtful, more informed than the general population, not every one thinks references and citations are important.
Didn't know before that such a library (and opera house) exists. It was purposefully built on top of the U.S.-Canada border in Quebec/Vermont.
Now it's a problem. 
American doctors look to relocate to Canada ...
Not sure what the number looks like for doctors migrating in the opposite direction.
@blondie said in Anyone else struggle with booze?:
There are entire chunks of my kid’s childhood I can’t recall.
Reminds me of some jokes that old people tell, something along the line of "if you remember the 60s (or 70s), you didn't live it."
Hmmmm .....
Court of International Trade halted Trump's tariffs.
New terminology for the market: the TACO trade.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-taco-trade-trump-always-chickens-out-what-it-means/