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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

You break up monopolies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I get it, but lots of signs do not mean lots of votes. Where the highest population densities are in the Atlanta metro, you'll have lots of Harris votes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

60 percent of Georgia's population live in the Atlanta metro.

Take a look at this map from the 2020 election and you see why it's tight in GA:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Good for America if it holds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

NC hasn't been more blue than GA for years. NC has long been lean-Republican and Georgia a toss-up. I suspect GA is trending lean-Democratic and NC trending toss-up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

If you're not able to pay your employees a living wage, your company does not have a viable business model and you need to either change it to a viable model or shut down the business.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Guess they are both interested in winning Nevada and willing to let everyone else pay for it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

And the more we discuss it here, the more it legitimizes Trump's AI argument. He's laughing all the way to the ballot box.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Europe as a whole is not a lot smaller than the US, so I think many of the same efficiencies can be achieved. China has also been able to do it very efficiently and is basically the same size as the US. Granted, they have a much larger population and more potential customers, but it can definitely be done.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I've heard this before. What a baby.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You can have both. Europe has a great mix. So awesome to have the option to take the train or bus. They also have awesome road infrastructure in most places. Try comparing an American freeway to a German freeway. You feel like you're in a third world country when you come back to the roads in the States.

 

Many voters have tuned out — or priced in — Trump's baggage and legal issues to the point where he's now favored to defeat President Biden in November, according to RCP's polling average.

A Suffolk poll out Wednesday found that 49% of voters now approve of Trump's job performance as president — matching the highest point he ever reached in office. The big picture: Financial Times columnist Ed Luce calls this phenomenon "the banality of chaos."

Trump's candidacy is "so far off the charts it is almost paranormal," Luce writes, but most of the former president's controversies no longer break through to the public.

In 2018, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon argued that the best way to neutralize the media — which he labeled "the real opposition" — is to "flood the zone with shit."

 

I've also seen US teachers spending hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets to stock classrooms.

I spent a lot of time in European schools and I've never heard of teachers having to stock their own classrooms or fundraise for things like playgrounds, etc.

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