Because it’s now completely disconnected from the reality of the actual economy. It has been for a very long time. It has to do with how much money is funneled into the wealthiest hands.

Sorry to hear. Hopefully you bounce back regardless of which direction you take.

What a dystopian nightmare we live in right now. Remember when politicians told us we have choices in our healthcare? I guess it says something that insurance CEOs are so hated that they need armed body guards and we’re so happy about “all our choices”.

I don’t think they’re mature. I think they’re just monopolized to the point where they don’t need to innovate at all. And I don’t see this as a net positive because these companies are so gigantic that they will drive down salaries and benefits for the rest of the middle sized and smaller sized companies. The other problem is that any company that gets this big now has the purchasing power to eliminate competition further cornering the talent pool and the tech market. These guys are the new oil barons of our time and their oil is our data. Not sure how to see this as anything but negative.

One person with no power vs one person with all the power.

Yes. I try to buy local.

We participate in it with stock purchases. We voted for politicians that have systematically broken down American society this way.

It’s pretty clear that billionaire owners of publicly traded companies will do whatever is needed to continue the “number goes up” philosophy of American capitalism. It’s the rot that underlies the whole economy. This isn’t to excuse Zuckerberg but this is America as a whole. The need to increase profits takes priority over bucking fascism, pulling back on vitriolic public discourse, stuffing hyped AI products into every crevice of tech, and pursuing monopolistic business practices. It’s all baked in. And it makes everything worse. No one is attempting to address which is why America is absolutely doomed to collapse. No one is willing to even have the conversation about corporate control/influence of government as well as the philosophy of delivering shareholder value.

No fucking way.

Maury determined that this was a lie.

As opposed to… what?

All of it is. Or pushing copilot into all Microsoft products like anyone is using this shit.

This is the danger of Ai that Elon Musk and Sam Altman warned us about.

If you’re going to say something really stupid at least look into before you open your mouth.

https://www.newsweek.com/how-trump-pushed-netanyahu-agree-gaza-ceasefire-2016926

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/pressure-from-trump-helped-the-gaza-ceasefire-deal-come-together-but-will-it-hold-13289754

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-837184

This glib self congratulatory nonsense is why Democrats will lose forever. Democrats got owned because they spent 8 or 9 months telling everyone that they were working tirelessly on a ceasefire. And what this whole fiasco is proving is that Biden could have stopped it with a phone call but he didn’t. And the polling after the fact shows that would be democratic voters stayed home because they were absolutely disgusted by their party preaching morality doing the right thing while perpetrating/enabling one of the most repugnant acts of slaughter against a trapped population. It all stopped with a phone call from Trump. Whether it was just a temporary pause for the inauguration or a pure attempt at culling the violence in the middle east (it doesn’t matter). It just proved that the Democrats are absolutely full of shit and willing to spite their own constituency to keep oligarchy money flowing.

lol. I mean. It was inevitable considering every other shit meta product.

This, wedged between the US brand of isolationism of pulling out of climate accords, WHO, and the impending tarrifs are going to be much worse than anything brexit did. The US is looking at a complete collapse in the world ushered in by the incompetence of liberalism and the nihilism of tech oligarchy.

No.

As someone that’s spent over a decade working in US healthcare, I can easily say it’s exhausting for everyone involved. It’s busy work. Especially if you are not providing direct care. Everything else is extractive fluff that makes cost of care more expensive, burdensome, and just dumb. And now with VC companies wading into healthcare everything is becoming even more expensive, even more dumb, and greedy.

There’s a shit ton of liberal denial on this. Trump did make it happen. Not because Netenyahu bent the knee to Trump. But because Trump bullied Netenyahu. And had Biden not been a psychopath, he could have picked up the phone and stopped the senseless slaughter of Palestinians on day one.

This is not to say that things are still going to be extremely bleak for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza but Democrats fumbled the ball on this and ensured themselves a loss.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-biden-election-poll