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To: miraje who wrote (1454788)	5/2/2024 7:36:15 PM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By longz tntpal Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576167

Palestinians calling Jews Nazis on college campuses. Drag queens telling 3 year olds to question their sexuality. Did anybody see this coming 10 years ago? It is too unbelievable. You knew we were sliding in a bad direction, but 1/3 of Millenials identifying as LGBT. WTF! They did a PSYOP on the American population and 40% have succumbed to government induced mental illness. You can see it with the people on this thread. Mental illness has overruled all other faculties.

To: miraje who wrote (1454788)	5/2/2024 9:00:38 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 1576167

To: miraje who wrote (1454788)	5/2/2024 10:57:17 PM
From: Mongo2116	4 Recommendations Recommended By Doren Eric pocotrader rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1576167

If they go down so does the 9 or more RED states they subsidize.......you know the ones with shit economies and a drain on the Blue states that subsidize them

To: miraje who wrote (1454788)	5/3/2024 5:02:28 AM
From: Doren	Respond to of 1576167

> restaurant menu prices CRISIS! I must be SERVED!!!

To: miraje who wrote (1454788)	5/3/2024 12:03:48 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Recommended By Bill PKRBKR Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576167

Miraje, two thoughts: First, as I keep reminding people, California isn't rich because it's liberal. Instead, California is liberal because it's rich. Why is California rich? These days, it's because of tech. And to be sure, tech has enriched the lives of billions of people all across the world. But the downsides of this tech-based prosperity are the following: - Growing wealth inequality, even in a state that is supposedly liberal like California - Astronomically high cost of living - A sense of arrogance that you see among California's libtards, who think they can pursue all of these job-killing and prosperity-killing regulations because, you know, California has the 6th largest economy in the world. And second, as we have seen from the batshit-crazy protests all across college campuses, social media has fueled and amplified people's extremist tendencies. And California profited from all of this, both ideologically and financially. With the current AI craze, I can only see this trend accelerating, not reversing, as AI will only help exacerbate every single factor that I brought up in this post. Tenchusatsu P.S. - Yes, I am also part of this problem, given that I live in California and I'm working on technology that will help drive AI.

To: miraje who wrote (1454788)	5/3/2024 2:03:42 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576167

Miraje, that reminds me. One of the BIGGEST job-killing regulations that Sacramento passed was AB5. Many people liked the freedom that came with contract or "gig" work. As someone who has several contract engineers working for me, I like the freedom that I have in being able to hire these contract engineers on the spot whenever I need them. Yet the sob stories about poor workers who have to Uber 60 hours a week without enough safety regulations or health benefits got to the dumbass busybodies in Sacramento, so they passed this dumbass law. The law is so bad, many industries had to lobby to get exceptions carved out for them, including ( source: NOLO) physicians, surgeons, dentists, podiatrists, psychologists, veterinarians insurance brokers, underwriters, premium auditors, risk managers lawyers architects, landscape architects, and engineers private investigators accountants registered securities broker-dealers and investment advisers direct sales salespeople (must not be paid by the hour and have written IC contracts) manufactured housing salespersons individuals engaged by an international exchange visitor program recognized by the U.S. Department of State, and competition judges, including amateur umpires and referees. Yet too many other contractors either lost their contracts or had to rework their contracts in order to avoid the heavy hand of Sacramento. For example, the libtards don't like it when any contractor stays with a single employer for more than two years. Then said employer needs to hire the contractor as a full-time employee, but that also means the pay has to be reduced because the employer is mandated to provide all sorts of benefits and all that. My wife in particular got the business end of that. She's at a point in her career where she'd be better off working remotely outside of the state of California. Too many potential employers won't hire contractors from California because of AB5. She's only staying here because of me. Tenchusatsu