Willbeer

@willbeer.bsky.social

Chess playing Japanese fan. Soon to be high school math teacher

One of the appeals of working for the Federal government was job security. Folks were willing to take less pay for security. Now that is gone. Chances of recruiting anyone is now shot.

Lets see if I remember my history. The US put soldiers in Lebanon and we're greated with a big bomb killing hundreds. US put troops in Saudi Arabia and were greeted with a bomb killing more than a hundred. What is likely to happen in Gaza?

In Europe the government workers don't put up with much nonsense. If someone tried to do what Musk is doing, the whole country would be shutdown with strikes.

On my DT dastardly deeds bingo card, I think there will be a plan to sell the national parks to his billionaire friends so he can cut the government workforce.

DT has no intention of improving anything. Having crisis is his objective. The, when conditions worsen, he can call the reason for failure is that he did not have enough power to overcome his enemies. Therefore, the solution is to give him more power.

What will be the consequence of tariffs on Canada and Mexico? ... Black markets. Right now it is difficult to keep out Fentanayl, next will be bunches of products to by pass the tariffs.

Trump is going to execute his standard method of "Gish Galluping" by introducing some many illegal actions at the same time the system becomes overloaded.

I find the response to "AI" in the literary academic community interesting since in the technology and manufacturing arena we have been dealing with the consequences for decades. Welcome to the jungle.

When Americans are forced to build iPhones and televisions at minimum wage so they can buy a $5.00 tomato Americans will decide they don’t need so many iPhones and televisions while they grow a tomato.