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New comment by kojacklives in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

kojacklives — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:22:41 +0000

I grew up in an America that spent a lot to explain what it was willing to do for a Republic and ideals. The people who will quietly give a traitor an illegal 3rd term to avoid a more upsetting crises that could either save the Republic or just make it clearer it is over are apparently what the US actually is.

New comment by kojacklives in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

kojacklives — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:02:20 +0000

This sounds similar to holding up Ghandi as proof that violent rebellion is not necessary. Treating these incidents as proof about the current world presumes people in power lack the agency to examine history like the rest of us.

New comment by kojacklives in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

kojacklives — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:39:45 +0000

This is a nonsensical reform. Every check and balance is itself a risk, nonetheless one can not build a safe Republic by removing them.

The US thinks it is the check for Europe but this offers no check for the leader of a superpower such as the US.

(It's apparently a flaggable offense to believe a legitimate republic is measured by making sense even if making sense goes against Anglo Saxon sensibilities since Cromwell.. I guess we can call time of death on the city on a hill.)

New comment by kojacklives in "Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus"

kojacklives — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:46:09 +0000

True though there is the theory that it was unnecessary for the immune system to regulate itself in some ways because we were full of parasites.

New comment by kojacklives in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

kojacklives — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:55:06 +0000

They will probably (first) have to bounce off freedom.ccTLD for any ccTLD but .us.

New comment by kojacklives in "Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion"

kojacklives — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:21:07 +0000

Do sardines cause sharks or do sharks cause sardines? In what sense is the preference for the theory that sardines growth causes shark population growth a lump of labor fallacy?

New comment by kojacklives in "Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion"

kojacklives — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:08:35 +0000

This data supports my viewpoint just as well. Older workers are taking the lower effort higher reward jobs that Americans are healthy enough and happy enough to do. If we go by salaries a bunch of CEOs retiring would be a massive blow to salaries and propping up the US economy. CEO are paid by what the best CEO is worth as no one wants to believe they hire dud CEOs.

There's no explanation to me as to why this years attrition from the labor force is much more meaningful than any other years, but there is a notable loss instead of gain of millions of workers willing and able to do any job instead of any convenient job.

New comment by kojacklives in "Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion"

kojacklives — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:06:35 +0000

I don't really think retiring boomers play the same role in the economy. I think a ~3 million immigrant gap is pretty significant: https://theworlddata.com/net-migration-statistics-in-us/

because the jobs they do enable a lot of BS jobs, go unfilled and actually need to be filled to create other job growth while someone in the labor market for a long time is likely in a comfortable job that will be realized to be unnecessary and already replaced by disruption from newer lower pay equivalents.

(Also GDP is in USD which means it is down 30% in many senses.)