I was right there with you until you decided to be cute with this "cybertrukkk" - why ruin your credibility with such stupid name-calling?

Citations?

Who's trying to legalize child labor?

Who's trying to eliminate OSHA?

Names, links please.

A BEV semi tractor with 500 miles range from Tesla weighs about as much as a conventional diesel semi tractor, give or take about 1,000 pounds. Given the BEV semi weighs the same, and truck weight limits are the same, the BEV semi can haul just as big a load as a diesel semi, the issue is range - a BEV can go up to 500 miles on a full charge, the distance a Diesel can cover before needing to refuel is greater.

People don't live in parking spaces 'back east' like they do in California. The parking issues in big-cities aren't related to squatters taking up residence in parking lots.

WTF are you on about?

How did we 'cut' spending on higher education?

Do you mean making less money available for student loans?

Do you mean cutting state funds to public universities, resulting in higher tuition costs?

Are you actually pretending that enrollment in higher education has gone DOWN since the year 2000?

I can't understand your claim, please explain - with citations, not just 'hand-wavy' statements.

I stand corrected, the U.S. workforce is about 10.0% unionized.

https://www.bls.gov/news.relea...

I question that number for US Union participation:

Every federal gov't worker is unionized
The majority of teachers are unionized
The majority of auto workers are unionized
Everyone in/on broadcast industry is unionized
Everyone in/on motion picture industry is unionized
A significant portion of commercial building workers (steel workers, electricians, masonry, etc) are unionized

I think it's a small percentage of the overall workforce, but 10% seems low. It may be correct, but...

I don't know, but I wonder:

Cloudera said it couldn't find American workers for the jobs at, say, $200K, so they had said they needed to import foreigners to fill the jobs.

OK.

But does that mean that Cloudera is obligated to offer/pay the foreign worker the same amount ($200K)?

I could easily *imagine* that Cloudera could claim, "While we couldn't find a qualified US workers at $200K, we found a qualified foreign worker that will accept $150K"...

Could that be the case?

What they really need is a constant stream of non-Japanese speaking workers to "seek asylum" in Japan, so they can fill these low-skill jobs Japanese workers just won't do...

Schools are making factory workers? Then why did so many schools drop auto, wood, metal, etc classes?

The worst thing the educational system has done in my lifetime was, I think, was perpetuate the lie "every child can and should go to college." How many lives were ruined by schools/teachers telling unprepared students to go to college, only to fail and incur massive student loan debt.

Bullshit.

Teachers need to teach children.

We used to have curriculums that teachers were supposed to teach, but over time, they strayed from covering that material, so states started achievement tests to measure the effectiveness of school's programs (note, most state achievement test scores are not included in student records, they are about the school). Then teachers started complaining about being forced to be 'teaching to the test'... YES! The test captures the required material teachers are supposed to teach (and some teachers stress out their kids before state tests because their funding is impacted).

The important thing is that students be asked to independently reinforce/demonstrate their mastery of the subject matter. This does not have to be taken home and done - this could/should be done in a study hall setting during the school day.

Uh, if you want a simple way to play games, buy physical media, not digital downloads.

Game companies could simply offer low-priced physical media for folks that already bought the game online. Problem solved...

WTF, why do expats need VPN access? Do video games have country codes like DVDs?

Your entire argument is negated by the existence of starlink.

How did they digitally download a game without internet access?

The fix is to buy physical games, not digital downloads.