I keep reading west Virginians understand the impact on coal jobs of automation over the decades. Even if coal were to come back, the jobs won’t.

A little bit of searching through the data shows West Virginians are the least productive coal miners, most labor required, least automation. Even if coal were to come back, jobs won’t be going to West Virginia nor will mines pay well for lack of productivity.

The economic case against coal is open-shut. Even if you disregard the environment, coal is not coming back.

The funny thing is apparently US coal production had a huge drop during trumps first term and actually increased a little during Biden’s

• https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/coal-production

But it’s not coming back

They are mostly foreigners. Until the next pandemic hits, trumps cuts probably hit the world’s most impoverished, most oppressed people the hardest. It shouldn’t make a difference that they’re not Americans since people are people, but it does.

I imagine it’s the same as with hitler. It’s not just the inherent racism, but it’s harder to care as much about people the farther they are geographically or culturally or nationality.

I’m not trying to encourage this but I think it’s realistic

Maybe, but they may lose more customers than they expect ….

There are privacy based devices for “always listening” voice assistants coming on strong

• https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

I already use Siri with a button for a lot. recently it seems able to recognize more of my smarthome devices and it will now prompt to forward more complex queries to ChatGPT

I’m really down to the intercom feature being the only reason to keep Alexa - I can’t control the devices my kids use at their mom’s house

Interesting timing, where I’m seeing the opposite. All my Amazon devices suddenly can’t turn on a simple light switch, and one appears to have somehow factory reset.

However Siri works perfectly. I use a button rather than wake word, but then it dies actually turn on my light

Yes, the economy has been good by the most common statistics, and by direct experience of many of us.

However our increasing divisiveness also means too much of the population sees the opposite, or too many people are manipulated by outrage and emotion rather than fact. It’s hard not to call this politics, but it sure seems directly related to politics of each state.

Yet this is all so politically driven.

For example, there were many minimum wage hikes during Biden’s term, lifting the lowest wages. At the state level. In blue states. Politicians in the states that needed this most blocked both federal increases and those for their own states. How are those politicians not the ones getting the blame?

As another example, legislation signed by Biden resulted in many additional business benefits in factories and trades. This would have created many new jobs, especially in some of the most low wage parts of the country. But not until the factories are built. And political changes where the government won’t follow through with its commitments means many of these will no longer be built. Why isn’t the administration stopping these new jobs getting the blame?

The economy was doing well, but as we see in these comments that it’s tough to communicate things like

• inflation is back near normal: all the increases since Covid suck, but prices shouldn’t increase that fast anymore
• businesses and stock market doing well, even though we’re not republicans
• working hard to contain avian flu, even if it means eggs will be expensive for a few years
• huge investments in bringing manufacturing back to the US. Factories being built. So many new jobs … in a few years
• huge investments to bring back new technology leadership we threw away. Factories and labs being built. So many new jobs … in a few years
• finally making good progress limiting carbon emissions. Avoid the worst parts of climate change
• huge investments in rebuilding ancient falling apart infrastructure, we can’t keep putting it off … even if it likely wouldn’t actually fail in our term
• great international cooperation toward peace and security
• saving literally millions of lives of the poorest humans, saving untold misery, devastation from disease, starvation, abject poverty
• improving health care coverage for millions of Americans
• first steps toward getting excessive educational inflation under control.
• first steps toward rebuilding a network of intercity rail connecting us all
• and many more

Yet this is already a wall of text many would ignore

tailed buttplugs were totally designed for pets

Now o want to see them try to debate this

So a furry suit made from human hair is ok? Asking for a friend

Right, Canadian geese that are still migratory will be heading to Canada soon

The written article also doesn’t say it would be better if everyone got measles. I listened to the interview long enough to see the article is quoting him accurately and fairly. At least for that.

Then he spent probably too much time talking about vitamin A, and I didn’t listen to the rest

It’s really just a lying outrage headline - from the written article

Here in Massachusetts it’s been found in wild birds, including geese. However I don’t know if the geese were still migratory or had stayed

It’s strange that Canada isn’t having the same issue: epidemics don’t usually respect borders