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I have the feeling that the whole trade war starts from a pile of nonsense.

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windsmurf:

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--- Quote from: technix on May 25, 2019, 05:55:28 am ---I actually stopped watching TYT contents - while it is factually sound it is a bit too biased towards the left. While I am a left-winger I want to try understand why right-winger do certain things.

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Yeah they sometimes go on a tirade which I dislike, especially Ana. 
One show I watch religiously is Rachel Maddow.  Lots of factual info and usually good interviews.
I do read Reason.com and wsj.com for some balance.

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Is she still telling you about Russia? It's good that someone still watches her though. TYT are horribly biased and backtrack anytime they catch any flak(not apologize, don't admit wrong-doing, just backtrack or pretend it never happened). As for Justice Democrats... Saikat Chakrabarti is literally the guy he's supposed to not be.

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Lately its been about Barr and his quid pro quo actions with Trump... and the CIA informant inside the Kremlin who will likely be executed when Trump forces information to go public out of the CIA surrounding the origins of the Russia election meddling investigation.   

Saikat is what happens when a genius decides to devote their talents to the benefit of society over personal enrichment.

bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: soldar on May 25, 2019, 09:34:00 pm ---Wow, that's a pretty skewed and self-centered view. I'm glad it is not common.

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I have a feeling that what the Chinese need is a warm welcome.

Welcome to the West, have a seat, make yourself at home. Never mind the trade wars, we do that all the time among ourselves. You'll soon get used to it.

soldar:
Yeah, that was quite an arrogant and ignorant post.


--- Quote ---"Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."
- Rudyard Kipling
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windsmurf:

--- Quote from: technix on May 25, 2019, 07:36:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: rstofer on May 25, 2019, 07:15:59 pm ---In terms of employment, we are already tracked due to the requirement to pay into Social Security, Fed and local taxes, and so on.

Today, those deductions are taken from everybody's wages and paid into SOMEBODY'S account.  It just may not actually belong to the employee.  There are processes for detecting fraud in Social Security but it takes a while to catch up.  But all that stuff happens AFTER the employee is hired instead of catching the fraud right out of the gate with eVerify.  It's actually the Republicans that don't want eVerify because it will have an impact on illegal farm workers and farmers have a pretty big lobby.

It is the productivity of the farm workers that make our farm produce competitive.  That and subsidies...

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Given the geography of US, why don't you automate the thing? You already have some of the best robotics companies in the world who needs orders, electricity is cheap and the land is flat allowing the deployment of huge machineries. Replacing those temporary farm workers with robots means they now have no reason to enter US whatsoever, and since robots are not humans they are not subjected to those laws or even labor laws in general, and the wage of a single engineer plus machine maintenance is way cheaper than the wages to the farm hands too. What do those farms produce anyway?

Even in the hilly part of China there are automated farming going on. What used to be the job of half the village's residents of the week is now one engineer/drone pilot's job of the day.

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That's currently being worked on, but its still more cost-efficient for the farmers to just hire illegals.  Particular crops are still challenging for machines to harvest without damage to the products without further robotics/AI development.   

Speaking of robotics, this is a cool video on how cloud servers are manufactured:
https://youtu.be/nzpyG0cSMLg


windsmurf:

--- Quote from: apis on May 25, 2019, 07:46:03 pm ---Yes, but the Overton window doesn't matter in this case. It's still objectively wrong to say EU is a leftist organisation. It's like saying war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength... it's doublespeak no matter how they want to spin it. Facts are facts.

The Overton window is about making extreme opinions more mainstream, like wanting to build a wall to mexico or that the US should start trade wars with Europe and China.

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I think this left-right linear scale is obsolete. We need a multidimentional scale with new classifications.

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