I disagree with your take on tariffs. Our trade imbalance has been unsustainable for over 50 years. Ever since Nixon brought China into world trade, America has been mistreated. From trade barriers barring our products to abusive tariffs imposed by other countries we have been misused. The tariffs imposed by Trump are painful, but are attempting to correct decades and multiple administration’s malfeasance.
Your constant mischaracterizations of tariffs are short sighted and help liberals in their push for socialism. Please look at the big picture. Trump has only been in office 10 months. He is term limited and needs to correct the ship of state while he is in office. I’m not thrilled with Trumps emotional knee jerk responses, but continuing the past policies can not be allowed.
How do you put the Genie back in the bottle? Writers complained 1st as whole books either stolen or AI’d, the actors being “copied” then AI art, now music written by AI. What is the creative line between AI assisted and basically AI created? I would think lawyers replaced very easy except in trials. They want to limit AI from medical info yet it does seem to explain things much better than the docs in your 15 min visit and can give understandable meds info unlike glossy pharma ads. So good, bad, destructive, jobs will be disappearing so markets must shift and people’s expectations. Better decisions, even accounting for tariffs, shut down we do need to stop spending so much, though that will in itself cause more to lose their jobs. The snake eats it tail.
Maybe if new cars did not carry an average price of $50,080 (per Car & Driver and also Clark Howard), there would not be as much need for subprime loans and resultant defaults.
Some day, some carmaker is going to wake up from their accessorized stupor and design a vehicle to meet the needs of two-thirds of all buyers: Basic, simple, inexpensive but reliable, with good old-fashioned single-function buttons and knobs on the dashboard, and not outfitted with a Windows 11 PC control system and a menu-laden touchscreen. That carmaker will make millions.
The Dems and now Conservative Inc whining about “affordability” are a joke. Conservative Inc is more dangerous than the Mamdani Communist Dems. As the Trump economic regime of tariffs, tax cuts, Capex and initial job re-shoring begin to kick in - and it will - the commie Mamdani s and Conservative Inc will be relegated to total irrelevance. As painful as it has been for the Dems and Never Trump, the President has not been in office for a full year. It will be fun to watch. And hey Dems and RINOs, please, continue on with Epstein. Every time you try to soil Trump, another Dem will be named and investigated. Today it’s Clinton, Summers and Hoffman. Tomorrow? Who knows. Hahahaha. Trump is coming for you now. For real. He just sent salvo one. Salvo two is gonna be devastating. Bank it! From someone that knows the story and his-tory.
AI-generated music that tops the charts is merely the next logical step after "corporate rock", Auto-Tune, prefab TV groups like the Monkees and Archies, lip-synchers like Milli Vanilli, boy bands, and every other record that charts with an outsized boost from professional talent groomers that have little to do with songwriting skill or musicianship.
I would say sampling but that requires the creativity of what and how to sample, and where to put it. I guess you could say the same about prompting an AI but that seems like a lower bar.
What do we have to do to get these absolute morons on both sides to stop hollering about Epstein? When did people stop knowing how to live within their means? I am 71 and have financed ONE vehicle in my entire life. Which I paid off in three years. Everything else was cash. And I was poor.
I'm constantly amazed at the number of coworkers (20's-30's) who show up at the office with expensive Starbucks coffees, especially when we have a brand new coffee maker with multiple types and flavors for free! And then they complain about not having money!
Gen-Z: "OMG, why am I so broke all the time, this sucks, we need to tax the 1%, it's not fair, I never have any money........ Hey, wanna see a picture of the new costume I got for my dog for Halloween this year?"
America’s ‘poor’ have been made far too comfortable in their poverty. I worked by butt off, so did my husband, to be debt free and live comfortably in retirement, all the while watching ‘poor’ people spend on high priced prepackaged food, junk food, and utter nonsense items for themselves and or their kids.
I get it. My daughter whines and howls about not having anything to eat in the house, is always demanding food delivered via doordash or something. We made her get, so if she wants that junk, she can pay for it herself.
The $30 Starbucks run is a ‘necessity’ to so many! They say they work so hard, they deserve it. I have to bite my tongue with some family as what I think they deserve is a good swift kick in the pants! It is likely societal pressures contribute heavily to these irresponsible behaviors.
I hear you Kathy. I see a lot of poor people in my area of Florida, but I also see what they put in their carts at Walmart: 3/4 of it is unnecessary,at least in my world. We were poor in the eighties, raising three kids and I had to choose very carefully what I bought. These folks I see, young and old, seemingly poor are buying all kinds of crazy stuff.
Re: "Break Rust Walk - My Walk being No. 1 on the Country Charts"
Well, here it is.... the beginning of the end of massive amounts of money and royalties for singers/songwriters..
I disagree with your take on tariffs. Our trade imbalance has been unsustainable for over 50 years. Ever since Nixon brought China into world trade, America has been mistreated. From trade barriers barring our products to abusive tariffs imposed by other countries we have been misused. The tariffs imposed by Trump are painful, but are attempting to correct decades and multiple administration’s malfeasance.
Your constant mischaracterizations of tariffs are short sighted and help liberals in their push for socialism. Please look at the big picture. Trump has only been in office 10 months. He is term limited and needs to correct the ship of state while he is in office. I’m not thrilled with Trumps emotional knee jerk responses, but continuing the past policies can not be allowed.
How do you put the Genie back in the bottle? Writers complained 1st as whole books either stolen or AI’d, the actors being “copied” then AI art, now music written by AI. What is the creative line between AI assisted and basically AI created? I would think lawyers replaced very easy except in trials. They want to limit AI from medical info yet it does seem to explain things much better than the docs in your 15 min visit and can give understandable meds info unlike glossy pharma ads. So good, bad, destructive, jobs will be disappearing so markets must shift and people’s expectations. Better decisions, even accounting for tariffs, shut down we do need to stop spending so much, though that will in itself cause more to lose their jobs. The snake eats it tail.
Maybe if new cars did not carry an average price of $50,080 (per Car & Driver and also Clark Howard), there would not be as much need for subprime loans and resultant defaults.
Some day, some carmaker is going to wake up from their accessorized stupor and design a vehicle to meet the needs of two-thirds of all buyers: Basic, simple, inexpensive but reliable, with good old-fashioned single-function buttons and knobs on the dashboard, and not outfitted with a Windows 11 PC control system and a menu-laden touchscreen. That carmaker will make millions.
The Dems and now Conservative Inc whining about “affordability” are a joke. Conservative Inc is more dangerous than the Mamdani Communist Dems. As the Trump economic regime of tariffs, tax cuts, Capex and initial job re-shoring begin to kick in - and it will - the commie Mamdani s and Conservative Inc will be relegated to total irrelevance. As painful as it has been for the Dems and Never Trump, the President has not been in office for a full year. It will be fun to watch. And hey Dems and RINOs, please, continue on with Epstein. Every time you try to soil Trump, another Dem will be named and investigated. Today it’s Clinton, Summers and Hoffman. Tomorrow? Who knows. Hahahaha. Trump is coming for you now. For real. He just sent salvo one. Salvo two is gonna be devastating. Bank it! From someone that knows the story and his-tory.
AI-generated music that tops the charts is merely the next logical step after "corporate rock", Auto-Tune, prefab TV groups like the Monkees and Archies, lip-synchers like Milli Vanilli, boy bands, and every other record that charts with an outsized boost from professional talent groomers that have little to do with songwriting skill or musicianship.
I would say sampling but that requires the creativity of what and how to sample, and where to put it. I guess you could say the same about prompting an AI but that seems like a lower bar.
What do we have to do to get these absolute morons on both sides to stop hollering about Epstein? When did people stop knowing how to live within their means? I am 71 and have financed ONE vehicle in my entire life. Which I paid off in three years. Everything else was cash. And I was poor.
I'm constantly amazed at the number of coworkers (20's-30's) who show up at the office with expensive Starbucks coffees, especially when we have a brand new coffee maker with multiple types and flavors for free! And then they complain about not having money!
Gen-Z: "OMG, why am I so broke all the time, this sucks, we need to tax the 1%, it's not fair, I never have any money........ Hey, wanna see a picture of the new costume I got for my dog for Halloween this year?"
America’s ‘poor’ have been made far too comfortable in their poverty. I worked by butt off, so did my husband, to be debt free and live comfortably in retirement, all the while watching ‘poor’ people spend on high priced prepackaged food, junk food, and utter nonsense items for themselves and or their kids.
I get it. My daughter whines and howls about not having anything to eat in the house, is always demanding food delivered via doordash or something. We made her get, so if she wants that junk, she can pay for it herself.
The $30 Starbucks run is a ‘necessity’ to so many! They say they work so hard, they deserve it. I have to bite my tongue with some family as what I think they deserve is a good swift kick in the pants! It is likely societal pressures contribute heavily to these irresponsible behaviors.
Ditto, sez this 78 y/o man.
I hear you Kathy. I see a lot of poor people in my area of Florida, but I also see what they put in their carts at Walmart: 3/4 of it is unnecessary,at least in my world. We were poor in the eighties, raising three kids and I had to choose very carefully what I bought. These folks I see, young and old, seemingly poor are buying all kinds of crazy stuff.
Thank you.
Have a great weekend everyone.
It’s communion this Sunday, the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ given for you.