Europe: “terrorized and colonized the world to get spices” Also Europe: “serves up absolute disgusting food like this”

What the fuck was it all for?!?!

I mean not really the white house released the math, you can verify each of the rates proposed and realize that yeah it’s not reciprocal tariffs, it’s literally making a tariff based on trade deficits and even where there are trade surpluses, i.e we sell more than we buy, he was still trying to put tariffs on those countries. It’s brain dead and does nothing but kill trade relationships and harm the economy. We do not have all the raw materials needed to produce everything in the US. Nor do we even have the capacity to manufacture everything in the US without the price of goods skyrocketing (not even talking about the time it would take to build up manufacturing facilities which just further deflates this whole ‘plan’) or the salaries of those workers falling so far below minimum wage the wealth gap would skyrocket past its already incomprehensible levels. There is one side using completely bad faith arguments and narratives with a group of people with so much cognitive dissonance that you could tell them trump said eating shit will make the economy better and they would eat it up in a heartbeat. Then you have another side just pointing out how completely brain dead these takes are but apparently there must be nuance and a global agenda to hide how eating shit makes the economy better. There is no “can’t see what’s going on” its just you willingly putting your head in the sand so you don’t have to realize how fucking stupid is to even have to argue about this.

Have they isolated the reality that we are also living in times where there are a plethora of factors that are decreasing people’s life outlooks? Depression also affects critical thinking skills. People are less inclined to practice critical thinking when most of their time is spent working for billionaires that are eroding our standard of living daily. I’m not going to be practicing how to be my best when the output of my work goes towards some rich societal parasite. And if that is taking most of my time when do I get to do this for myself when I’m tired after work? What about the fact education as a whole has been going into the shitter? If anything AI is masking how bad our current working conditions, work expectations, and dwindling education standards are truly affecting our falling critical thinking skills. I’m sorry but with all the external factors here I am extrenely skeptical of the results those studies are claiming to demonstrate, the controls to really isolate this down to purely AI being the root cause seems nearly impossible given the state of the world right now. But if you have links to these studies instead of random hearsay, I’d like to see how they isolated this down with controls on their study.

Edit: i see you posted down below and yeah i think this underscores my entire point:

“Furthermore, higher educational attainment was associated with better critical thinking skills, regardless of AI usage.”

So it’s not a factor of AI use its the fact our educational standards have gone to shit. And further more they are drawing results by comparing different generations and ai tool use dependence between them. Which doesn’t isolate this decline to be just due to AI. I don’t know this seems like a flawed study that’s claiming correlation to be causation.

You realize part of seeking asylum also can involve crossing the border without permission and is codified in law?

You do realize that if we invest in more mass transit, then the people who want to take the bus will. That means fewer cars on the road and less traffic that you have to deal with. If you like driving your car and the freedom it gives you, advocating for more mass transit is in your favor. Imagine your commute with 90% less traffic. Doesn’t that sound appealing to you? Dedicated bus lanes that keep the slow busses out of your lane, doesn’t that sound appealing to you? I don’t know about you, but I love driving, and to me, that sounds like an absolute win

They are saying we need to target where the debt comes from not that we need to bend a knee to the billionaires.

We do use fractional reserve banking whether its a great system or not and so to not trigger a depression or recession we need to be aware of not triggering a deflationary period which would occur by having a surplus in the budget. Instead of excess spending on military we should be investing/spending excess in public infrastructure like health care, mass transportation, and education which have means of generating wealth beyond resource extraction from other nations during war.

They are saying this is a two pronged issue, we need to tax the billionaires but we also need to make sure we still target the right critical investments of public infrastructure with our government spending if we are to see any benefit from it. Otherwise we end in a deflationary period where while you did tax the rich you also delfated the currency making each dollar worth more. I.e they become millionaires in name with the same value as the billionaires they were before all while wages become depressed and the wealth gap gets even worse.

Honestly daily charging isn’t the worst I just usually charge my watch when I’m in the shower and getting ready in the morning pop it back on when I’m done and I’m good to go.