Yeah, there are clearly issues with COBOL but it's been running without hiccup, more or less, since the 70s. The very fact that it has not changed in this time is key for maintainability; imagine using Python or Java and having some arbitrary update break the entire social security system, plus changing the way the code works forcing all engineers to relearn and refactor everything.

New =/= Good

Don't assume that the money is staying in the US. If it were me, all of this money would be laundered into an anonymous offshore account.

Reminder: no one exposed by the Panama Papers was ever prosecuted.

By 1850 they owned all of Europe, and by 1913 they owned the entire world (by virtue of merely owning all white countries’ banks), yes.

It's interesting that this coincides with the completion of global interconnection, not unlike how a virus spreads further if people travel.

I imagine, at the village or even city level, Jews were pariahs know to all because of the heinous shit they did, which would have limited their ability to fool people. Once travel to other countries and continents became feasible, suddenly they could pull their schemes on totally unsuspecting foreigners, like the African slave trade or the Opium Wars.

That's where science is your friend.

You can calculate the circumference of the world youself using the same methods and observations the Greeks used. You can observe the movement of the Sun relative to your position to determine the shape of the world using simple geometry. You don't need to rely on "experts" for any of this if you have a proper classical education, which teaches you how to think.

Reality is not created by what we're told but by what we, as divine beings, perceive for ourselves.

The question now is, will it be enforced?

Hold my beer while I go find out.

Even if you do believe it, this demonstrates exactly why it must be legal to question history. If you see this, and the law says you can't question it, of course you must conclude that nothing else you've seen necessarily stems from facts.

I don't deny the Holocaust because of all the evidence, I deny it because doing so is illegal.

Uncharacteristically coherent, good work my friend.

What's the cope? Obviously the vaxx was something between a global ponzi scheme and the worse crime against the human race in history, and the MAGAtards know it.

So, what? Was it Trump doing his best in a difficult situation? Was he tricked by Fauci? How are they rationalizing this?

When it's Satan-worshippers doing it, we call it a Cohencidence.

To be fair, this conspiracy theory has been around for a decade, at least:

Political operatives, at least some of whom are foreign agents, are inflitrating various public institutions to render them incapable of functioning properly by replacing competent workers with loyal croneys.

This is just the latest disaster caused by the biggest, and most obvious, conspiracy in the West today.

Something, something, government prevents monopolies of precious natural resources?

Same thing is happening in Canada. TPTB have recognized that there's a huge wave of dissent so they're having the current regime do everything they can to be seen as the bad guys, while the "populist" candidate does and says pretty much all the same things, but quietly.

DEI

That's literally the policy of putting money towards stupid stuff of which you expect no positive result.

complain about every issue individually

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Capitalism would workfine if usury were banned.

To be fair, he did say this back when you were required to be a socialist (at least) if you wanted that blue check.

I'd classify him more as an opportunist.

Good thing Elon knows what's the greatest good for me personally, and everyone else, and can acheive it all simultaneously. Otherwise, this would come off as pretty tyranical.

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This time is critical for Trump supporters to hold him to account. The victory energy is still high and can be focussed on this issue. If everyone puts the same passion into opposing H1-Bs as they do into celebrating, I bet he'll change his tune like Elon.

Unless he's prepared to conpletely drop the populist facade already.

I'm an anti-semite; they can all get out.

Lol, yeah, that tracks

On one hand, I think that having to learn everything for ourselves has made millenials much less worried about uncertain times because we know we van figure things out.

On the other, I wonder just how much knowledge we've lost due to pointless hoarding.

I stopped working for my Dad when I realized he was only ever using me to save on taxes.

I'd been doing jobs for him since I was twelve, but he never trained me on anything. I was told to do something (usually clean up) and yelled at if it wasn't done correctly. I figured that this was just how work was (and, yeah, pretty much).

It came to a head when he outright refused to train me. I was working part time for a contracting business he had, prepping the work area for the main machine and feeding it, while he ran it and did the finishing. He was starting to feel his age and had some medical incidents that made it hard to work so I offered to learn the rest of the job so I could take an assistent and do them without him, and he could focus on advertising and paperwork. First he told me he didn't want to risk messing up a customer job, and fair enough. But then we had an opportunity to do a job on his own property, so I asked him and he just says "I'm going to do it (the job)".

I realized he never had any intention of training (or raising) me to become as competent as himself, that he was actually jealous of me and saw my success as a threat to his position.

After that I said fuck it, I'll find someone else to work for who actually wants me to succeed (which I have, multiple times) and never worked for him after that.

Edit: On the actual mentors, I didn't meet them until my mid thirties, in trades. I never saw anything like mentorship in STEM.

Usually I would only work for a company for a year or so just to get it on my resume and find a place paying better. When I started at this company, I had gotten my first raise (12%) in the first four months. I was specifically chosen to work with the pro crew; the one that would be tapped for particularily difficult or sensitive jobs and the crew chief was my favourite boss ever. He'd been doing the job for decades and knew it inside and out. He had all sorts of tricks and tips but, more importantly, an attitude towards work: "it takes as long as it takes, but we're a premium company; it has to work, and it has to look good". He never cut corners to get out early, always made sure to leave sites (read: the customer's homes) in mint condition, and encouraged us to answer any questions the customers had, even if it meant taking a bit longer.

The company thrived and I worked there five times longer than any other place I'd worked. Until the boss sold and it went under new management.

I really don't see the difference between crypto and fiat currency, except that with most existing cryptos you can't just print money arbitrarily.

My big worry is that they're roll out their own coin in which transactions are centrally regulated, meaning they can do what ever they like; from denying specific transactions, to having money expire, to printing it. But that's exactly what you have anyway, if you rely on digital currency (credit/debit cards). We saw this in Canada; they can just turn your savings off and that's that. Why do they need crypto?

And went where? They don't disappear (or relinquish their power), they just buy a house in the Caimens or Ireland to dodge the taxes.

Any attempt to tax the rich will disproportionately affect the middle class who actually pay for roads and hire people. I'm not against making their lives harder but do not make the government stronger to acheive it.