LAPD: LOOK OUT! HE HAS AN ELECTRIC RAZOR! GET HIM!
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That's why you will not see a Cybertruck on the road in Europe.
That was the initial reason, now there's also the Nazi reason and the crappy car reason.
Apparently 70-80% of Americans live from paycheck to paycheck.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/living-paycheck-to-paycheck-statistics-2024/
This is why safety nets are important. In US you can lose your job, not get unemployment and lose access to doctor.
This. Unfortunately we are living in interesting times, and this administration counts on inaction.
These are also meant to be peaceful protests, despite what some night say, historically peaceful protests are more successful than riots.
Will that go with improving public transportation?
LOL, this meme has two layers, as they say "real sciences don't need "science" suffix in the name"
I see a lot of people blaming this on AI and raised interest rates.
The real reason for this stagnation is Section 174 of IRS code that was added by the 2017 tax cut bill. The section took effect in 2022 and was added to balance the budget.
This section basically doesn't allow to deduct cost of the software engineers and they are amortized over 5 years (10 years for international engineers). This puts some strains to regular businesses, but it kills start ups, as they are required to pay taxes even when they are still not profitable and might not even pay 5 years.
Lack of start ups means there is smaller number of openings which is lower mobility. Combined with amortization, it discourages hiring new people as again it requires 5 years.
I see this being dismissed and "it is definitively the interest rates and AI" AI is nowhere close to replace software engineers, in fact from the coworkers that enthusiastically embraced it I see lower quality of code. Interest rates actually came back to what they originally were before 2008.
The hiring issues started exactly when section 174 went into effect. I think the hiring craze in 2021 was only because companies realized that with slim margins in Congress a bill won't pass that will repeal it so they were hiring like crazy before it become a law. Indeed Democrats were trying to repeal it, it even pass the house, but it was blocked by Republicans in the Senate. Because God forbid they would help Americans and in turn let economy to look good under Biden.
Look for example at Ramapo 58 district:
Harris only got a single vote in a district that historically votes for Democrats. What are the odds. But maybe Democrats just lost popularity.
But then look at Senate
Now democratic candidate wins by 94.12% what are the odds?
And this is not a single district, there are many others like that.
Frankly after election there are two things that bugged me in California. There was a proposition that removed mandatory work requirement for inmates comparing it to a modern day slavery. There was no one who was willing to endorse vote against it (I suppose due to optics) yet the proposition failed.
When he visited CA after fires were already put down and made that spectacle with water dam, he also mentioned that he had a good feeling about next election.
I have a feeling that maybe CA voting is also compromised and this was a test for California, as trump winning here would be extremely suspicious, but no one will care about this proposition.
It definitively is, he similar to trump dies not have a filter. He just counts on things being ambiguous enough that won't affect him.
The whole reason for this suit is that trump is taking control of our own national guard through some obscure law so Newsom no longer can control it.