GumboPot
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re: JD Vance is so friggin weird
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 1:12 pm
Making biscuits with your daughter is not weird at all. But I have to ask, is JD wearing eye liner? It eyes look like Marilyn Manson eyes. ...
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re: I asked ChatGPT about the silly "debt ceiling". It's a pretty good explanation IMO.
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 1:10 pm
[quote]For at least the last 25 years I've been paying attention it has only been used as a political football.[/quote]
Right.
Even ChatGPT admits this:
[quote]The debt ceiling is less a practical financial tool and more a political construct[/quote]
And that is why I labeled it "the sil...
re: Vivek going up in flames
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 12:52 pm
[quote]I think that's an exaggeration, but yeah, it's a coalition movement and coalition movements always have some struggles when they actually gain power.[/quote]
Corporations want cheap labor, endless fiscal spending and dollar hegemony enforced by military might.
This goes against the nat...
re: Vivek going up in flames
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 12:48 pm
[quote]It can exist temporarily as an anti-Dem party, but when I have to actually create policy and govern across their grouping, they can't do it because it's at odds with each other.
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So let's give up to the communist Democrats who agree with each other because governing is hard. ...
re: Vivek going up in flames
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 12:39 pm
[quote][quote]Foreign born “engineers” are cheap.[/quote] Exactly. [/quote]
Plus these “engineers” carry extremely little corporate liability. If their design screws up it’s not taking out a neighborhood block. It’s just a software glitch and you update the software.
Engineers whose busine...
re: Vivek going up in flames
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 12:31 pm
Another problem is, these companies call these foreign born hires “engineers” but they are not legally “engineers”. It’s a big problem in the engineering profession. ...
re: Vivek going up in flames
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 12:27 pm
It’s not the “c” word. It’s the “m” word. Money.
Foreign born “engineers” are cheap.
If you want to prove out competency only hire electronic/computer engineers that legally can call themselves “engineer” by passing the Professional Engineering exam in their state of residency.
If you s...
re: I asked ChatGPT about the silly "debt ceiling". It's a pretty good explanation IMO.
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 12:08 pm
[quote] So in theory if a default happens out right pocket would owe our left pocket only leaving the dick in the middle without a handjob[/quote]
Billy Cannon gets prosecuted for printing dollars to cover his expenses. The Federal Reserve calls it monetary policy when it does it. But Congres...
re: Why is India not a StarTrek utopia if they have millions of the worlds most brilliant engi
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 11:48 am
[quote]Americans are lazy as frick, its time to enter reality.
MAGA has extremely conflicting ideals.[/quote]
I don't think this is the case at all. IMO most if not all of these tech companies have DEI hiring practices. The companies need a lot of electronic/computer engineers and because of D...
I asked ChatGPT about the silly "debt ceiling". It's a pretty good explanation IMO.
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 11:36 am
[quote]The U.S. debt ceiling is a legal limit on the total amount of federal debt that the government can accrue. It serves as a mechanism to control government borrowing and ensure fiscal accountability. However, its existence and purpose can seem paradoxical given that Congress regularly authorize...
re: My progressive family member from CO is convinced religious nationalism is to blame.
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 10:54 am
[quote]My progressive family member from CO is convinced religious nationalism is to blame.[/quote]
The blame for what?...
Bryce Underwood flipped from LSU to Michigan because of “education”.
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 5:16 am
Lol.
[embed]https://x.com/geauxtigers7189/status/1872061687626715190?s=46[/embed]...
re: Why is India not a StarTrek utopia if they have millions of the worlds most brilliant engi
Posted by GumboPot on 12/26/24 at 4:39 am
Temu engineers generally suck. They should have to pass the state professional engineer exam to work as an “engineer”. I bet 90% are not competent enough to pass the PE exam. Companies don’t care because they need the bodies and will worry about quality later....
re: Give me the best historical examples of a multicultural society lasting.
Posted by GumboPot on 12/25/24 at 11:03 pm
I can’t think of any. The not so weird thing is that when humans are forced to diversify and then are left alone to nature they will generally segregate into similarities....
re: Colbert cuts off Claire Danes in interview before she speaks of CIA and MSM Collusion
Posted by GumboPot on 12/25/24 at 12:13 pm
The producers were in Colbert‘s ear:
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re: Tulsi Gabbard
Posted by GumboPot on 12/25/24 at 1:07 am
[quote]It's amazing that the NeoCons have talked the left into a forever war. These were the same people who protested Iraq. Now they want war with a nuclear power? That's incredible.[/quote] :lol:
The Likud Party in Israel is running foreign policy in the U.S. ...
re: Tulsi Gabbard
Posted by GumboPot on 12/25/24 at 1:04 am
Tulsi has not allowed AIPAC or Israel to get total control of her like most DC Democrats and Republicans. So she’s good IMO....
re: The crew of Apollo 8 has a message they would like to send to you
Posted by GumboPot on 12/25/24 at 1:00 am
[quote]So they were really good at surviving the radiation belt.[/quote]
The Van Allen Belts are narrow at the poles. You minimize exposure from earth past the exosphere by traveling through the donut holes at the poles caused by the magnetosphere....
re: The crew of Apollo 8 has a message they would like to send to you
Posted by GumboPot on 12/25/24 at 12:53 am
When Astrophysicists theorize or discovered “The Big Bang”, it’s just Genesis 1:3.
It’s been there all along....
re: The reason Russia is such a “threat”
Posted by GumboPot on 12/25/24 at 12:42 am
The only economic threat from Russia is cheap O&G to Europe....
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