Given our current education deficit, we’ve already had to import quite a bit of talent to keep up with being a first world country.
Example: when was the last time you encountered an Indian doctor?
Given the plans to make real/higher education accessible only to the wealthy, we’re going to need to import even more talent.
As someone currently on extended vacation, enjoying several national parks, I would suspect national parks will be gutted for natural resources.
My God, how I miss Warren Ellis.
If you can swing the training, even at the CNA or EMT level, there is healthcare. Purposeful work. Knowledge that helps your daily, and is never entirely useless. If nothing else it will save you from spurious trips to the urgent care or emergency room, or tell you when to use the urgent care instead of the emergency room, and save you money there. Even before ACA there were shortages. There’s potential here for fallout as with everything else, but if hospitals can retain nonprofit status I don’t see much changing in terms of need.
For now anyway, until nonprofit status/benefits get yanked, hospitals pay part of education upgrades. They typically offer better health insurance too, if you stay in their corporate system and don’t have kids.
I’m sure there’s other purposeful professions that don’t have an impossible buyin.
I usually recommend trades. Building something with your hands, again with a skill set that carries over into your household, has purpose. But with immigration policy, a sizeable piece of the grunt work force may be kicked out, so I’m not sure what will happen there but I suspect house building will slow down.
Wherein I look for the assassin scaling the side of this thing.
Facebook messenger. Every keystroke is recorded. Go ahead, as for your data from Facebook. Every keystroke is logged.
Facebook Messenger is the worst way to be communicating right now.
Now is the time to migrate yourself and your people to WIRE or Signal. Your messenger people will likely only move once, if ever.
One way to encourage this is by simply refusing to be available by text on anything but WIRE or Signal. They will eventually give in and use it. You can still FaceTime, and for free, via Signal or WIRE.
I cannot emphasize this enough. Do NOT make it trump. His health will likely take him out before that.
Bring it on to point directly at 2 people: Musk and Vance.
We actually will see those two in 2028. Stop focusing on the distraction. All Trump is right now is a distraction.
Trump isn’t the direct problem, RFK is. RFK is batshit and somehow still managed to receive up to 15k votes in some states. And then trumps lazy potato ass throws RFK a job favor not caring how it plays out since RFK won’t be touching his health.
Flu is a uniquely adaptive virus. It’s why we don’t have a universal vaccine, and why King picked it as his death virus in The Stand. That said, like with H1N1, they can batch those vaccines out rather quickly.
Extra info regarding general yearly flu shots: There are a lot of flus. If two different flus meet in the night a third type of flu will be born. So each year, science runs the odds and picks the 3 most likely flus and puts them into that year’s flu vaccine. They’re pretty good at getting it right. Even when they’re 100% correct, flu #4, #5, or #6 can still get through. The biggest misconception is thinking “the” flu or “the” flu shot references a single virus is it’s entirety.
As with most things human, it’s a probability game.
H5N1 vaccine can be produced and handed out rather quickly, as they were with H1N1.
Now I’m trying to figure the bottle and cologne ad for Orange Potato Musk.
Sure, but is that climate change per se or from being in the middle of hurricane central? Probably both, but again, the hurricane is visible. And while there are more, hurricane central keeps voting red which could be an indicator that they don’t buy or care about climate change.
A job is not a hobby.
There is nothing wrong with responsible gun ownership. A handgun was specifically created to be easily carried.
I’m fond of the Walther PDP, but you do you.
Always research state and local laws first. This includes what could happen to you should you use it in your house vs not in your house and so on.
If it’s not visibly happening right now, then they won’t believe you until their house is underwater.
It’ll be interesting to see how much the Allies game kicks up in the next 2 months now that the Orange Potato and Elon Musk were elected President.
I hope it’s effective.
They said they wanted a two state solution. Trump has always been a burn it to the ground guy on that topic.
Biden is Kamala’s boss, so she toes his line while VP, that’s how the job usually works, unless you’re Cheney.
So playing the odds at least there’s a chance of survival with Kamala. With Trump it’s just nuked, but without actual nukes.
But hey, Kamala wasn’t good enough so let’s go with the nukes👍
Once again, human spite has the force to move mountains.
This is real.
It affects more than that. A friend of mine works for a small business, with immigrants. One does have a criminal conviction in his past, 50s, left gang life 2 decades ago to clean up his act and be there for his children. Likely gone after the orange potato is sworn in.
After analyzing the 20% increase to component costs due to tariffs and possibly having her work visa staff expelled, she told my friend to get a side job, because she wasn’t sure what was going to happen. That was last week.
This week I get a furious wall of text about imminent job loss because ALL orders from this small Business were put on hold “to wait and see”. There is a paycheck to paycheck factor with small businesses pushing to get ahead. They also lost production, materials, and savings when meth heads broke into the business, stole, and started a fire. Insurance, yes, but it still cut in. So cushion is gone.
So this week, it’s I can’t pay anyone if I have no orders for the next 2 months, so find a new job, I’m filing bankruptcy at the end of the month.
Immigration IS one piece of this puzzle. And now, people are losing their jobs, one small business is going bankrupt, and the orange potato isn’t even sworn in yet. All the ripple effect of anticipation.
Also, this business owner is Conservative. Not MAGA, there’s a difference. Fiscal conservative type, voted Kamala because it was in favor of her business. Tariffs and immigration were all the talk, I’m told, pre election.
Food production business btw. No farm fields, indoor production.
Normally I like collecting stories, but in less than a week it’s been pretty depressing fare.
Ah ah ah, Trump says he’s going after anyone on social media labeling things as misinformation or disinformation, those words are to be banned from social media platforms or face the wrath of the DOJ.
Per the 1A speech with the giant all caps green crayon subtitles.
There’s a lot to unpack in it and it’s less than 10min. Hatch Act. He says he’s going to use the DOJ on anyone trying to enforce it.
Idk, there are good things in NYT. The Ezra Klein podcast is particularly thoughtful and exploratory over a variety of topics.
CNN is very lowest common denominator.
National Review isn’t a reliable “news” source. It’s more like a version of the old supermarket crap like the The Enquirer, only with a politics lean instead of People Magazine lean.