>If you specify that it should

Who is the "you" in that sentence? Everybody is hyperventilating about AI...just like they did about every technological leap forward. Yes, it'll destroy some jobs but it'll create way more jobs.

>Most of the work that software engineers do has been done before. It’s all just web forms and fairly simple algorithms (yes I am over simplifying).

You're describing coding, not software engineering or software design.

>I think it's common knowledge what happened to the Native Americans

You'll think so but you'll be wrong.

> land rights mean nothing if you can't militarily defend them...almost all countries were founded and certainly expanded on bloodshed and taking land away from others.

Ha...you're one of those. It's OK we raped and killed the inhabitants of the land...we had military power and they didn't. Everybody did it.

>but if you want to put the US into context then you really should travel to other countries.

I was born and raised in another country and I've been to others.

>I think it's fair to say that we're far better than many other countries.

That, as they say in American sports, is loser talk. You don't compare yourself to worse countries, you compare and hold yourself to higher standards.

>Lastly, if you want to nitpick everything where if one thing somehow invalides everything then you won't find anything positive about anything. You can't even admire jazz - an American-invented form of music - because someone will point out that it developed as a result of slavery.

It's not about nitpicking, it's about being honest. You can enjoy jazz even while knowing its racist backstory. That's being an honest adult. You can admit that the United States is a great country with a lot of horrible shit in our history (old history and recent past).

>It's two bullet proof walls that pull out from the corner of the room, meaning that entire square area must be absolutely empty.

It's not empty. It's a forever shrine to the gun god of America. Can't put a table and chairs there, can't put a bookshelf there (in Florida, there are no books anyway), can't use it as a play area...it's just empty.

>We do many things well (ex: national parks)

I suspect if you look into the history of those, you'll find horrors you never knew about. Do you think ALL those land were just there waiting for us to come along? Just there with absolutely nothing and nobody already there?

https://timeline.com/national-parks-native-americans-56b0dad62c9d

I think Americans tell ourselves that this is the greatest country in the world because it's the only way we can survive living in this hellscape. And if someone came along and said "guys, we can improve" or "guys, America did some horrible things in the past", we just can't listen. But to listen and admit they might be telling the truth is to force ourselves to take a real hard look at our country. And none of us is ready for that.

BTW, prior to just now I had never thought about the history of national parks. Then I was responding to your comment and decided to Google "national parks on Indian ground" and boy, was I not ready for the results.

>The RASR can be deployed in 10 seconds

But how long does it take to herd a group of scared children into the shelter? What's the protocol if some do not make it in quickly enough? Do you hold the door open for them or leave them out to die? And if your child is the one left out to die, are you ok with that? Will the kids be doing drills on how to quickly leave everything and get into the shelter? Who will pay for the therapy for these children?

Oh this isn't the solution. This is just the latest failed faux-solution that America will turn to instead of what has worked in other countries.

>Things like investment firms who want to know what is going on and react in real time.

Were these investments firms using the API when it was free?

>Just stop using it, and then touch grass.

It's not mutually exclusive to use Twitter and to "touch grass".

Also, Elmo doesn't have that many developers to spare. He's starting a costly war that he doesn't have the resources to fight. Kinda like what a person who refuses to pay his bills and would rather be sued by the King of England!

But Elmo is a stupid man who has loan interest payments coming up.

>that results in elections being less secure.

That's their goal. Just like when they say "government doesn't work; elect me and I'll prove it to you".

There's really no reason to make something as important as voting be subject to the lax security on personal electronic devices. And we don't need it. The expansive use of mail-in voting during the COVID presidential election in 2020 is proof that measures like early voting, no-excuse vote-by-mail etc are good enough.

This is what happens when you let morons write your law.

Not the 5 in Memphis, TN. They were immediately fired and charged with murder. I suppose them being Black is just a coincidence. But if I were a Black cop in America, I would not assume the murder carte blanche applies to me.

>Tl;dr: off duty cop tried to stop someone for driving recklessly

by shooting at him recklessly.

In Stand Your Ground states, you can do that. Just make sure there's no video and the victim is dead. And of course, being the right color helps too. But mostly make sure your victim is dead.

Because the outside is open now.

I find that podcasts are like baseball: best listened to WHILE doing other things. If I'm taking a mid-day walk around the neighborhood or I'm doing yardwork or maintenance around the house, a podcast is the perfect companion.

Sometimes that's not quite how it works. Right now, there's a gold rush in that space for customers. They want to sink their hooks into the most customers and deprive their competitors from doing the same. So they are really aggressive with the ads...like offering $200 in "free bets" for you and a friend you refer once that friend deposits/bets as little as $5. They may be frontloading their ad expense in the knowledge that any customers they acquire now will more than make up for it.

Yes, that's it. That's what happened to me. Someone logged into my account, placed some ridiculous parlays that didn't hit. Please refund my account. Have I changed my password? No why would I do that? Fine, I'll take "free bets".

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lol

Imagine buying a super expensive super-bike and deciding the one thing missing is that it doesn't have 4 wheels. So, you proceed to shoehorn 2 more tires to your super-bike because you have more money than sense.

>It just doesn't happen amongst devout people.

Who is devout? Truly? There's no way to know. And thus there's no way to know what motivates religous people more: a true love for their fellow humans or a fear of eternal damnation. When you have a carrot and stick, it's impossible to truly say which motivates people (more). In fact, if either of them is the motivator that's not a win for religion either.

Whereas with atheists, there is no promise of heaven or hell.

>a religious person's aim is the highest possible good: the salvation of their own souls firstly and then the salvation of their neighbours.

Most religions claim we are children of God. Right? And most of them preach love. If as you say, a religious person's aim is the highest possible good, how do you square that with all of the violence and death that's been done in the name of religion? And usually by the most devout religious people. After all, the casual Christian who goes to church only on major holidays is not running around killing people in the name of Jesus. It's the hardcore, devout religious people that do it. It's the Catholic priests who were raping altar boys. It's the Canada churches who were forcibly trying to rid indigenous children of their culture and upon whose church grounds bodies of innocent indigenous children have been found.

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012100926/graves-found-at-new-site-canadian-indigenous-group-says

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/06/24/bodies-found-indigenous-school-canada-240926

Now you may say atheist also commit atrocities and you'll be right. My point is that there is no morality credit to be automatically given to religious people.

Do you think non-religious people and atheists are necessarily immoral? Or less moral than religious people?

It's a purer type of morality because it's not achieved/enforced by a fear of eternal damnation.