And the last check, which is “we the people”.

Can’t wait to find out it was just a guy in a suit.

If he really thinks they won’t come for his Medicaid, Social Security, and federal pension, he hasn’t been paying attention.

Not to mention economic uncertainty can eat into that money in other ways (like increased prices from tarrifs).

The issue with your stats is it includes non commercial flights, but most people will only hear/care about commercial airline crashes, and 2025 has had a rough start - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft_in_the_United_States

Working in the field I think there is two things AI will make an impact on:

• Going after low skill white collar work (basically further automation of semi-skilled labor)
• Being an excuse to undercut high-skill white collar labor wages.

However, I suspect we’ll get a lot of the issues we saw with “outsourcing” where the end result is businesses pursuing cheaper outputs without concern for quality.

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3967135/dods-2024-audit-shows-progress-toward-2028-goals/

Either way, IRS ensures people pay their taxes. Only people who benefit from less IRS agents are those making enough to owe taxes (the wealthy).

If you just want lower taxes, then that would be an issue for congress. Fewer IRS resources just mean the rich get to steal more.

Thanks for jumping in on this. I just think OP has heard DRM bad and not thought about what DRM means. Once youre asking for a service that does everything for you, DRM doesn’t really play a role.

I could see an arguement for open playlist formats or something so you could move your account history around, but there is a limit to how useful or practical that would even be.

I mean I understand and support DRM free media, but I literally don’t understand what OP is asking for. If they don’t want to own/manage the music, then what part would be DRM free?

How would you define a DRM-free online service? If you aren’t managing your own files, why would DRM free matter?

Thanks, OP seemed more curious about the technical aspects than just the absurdity of the comment (since pretty much every business uses SQL) so hoped a more technical explanation might be appreciated.

Sure, basically any time you have a many-to-many relationship you’ll have to repeat keys multiple times. Think students taking courses. You’d have a students table and a courses table, but the relationship is many students take many courses. So you’d want a third table for lookups where each row is [student_id, course_id].

This stackoverflow post has a similar example with authors and books - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13970628/how-do-i-model-a-many-to-many-relation-in-sql-server#13970688

If SSNs are used as a primary key (a unique identifier for a row of data) then they’d have to be duplicated to be able to merge data together.

However, even if they aren’t using ssn as an identifier as it’s sensitive information. It’s not uncommon to repeat data either for speed/performance sake, simplicity in table design, it’s in a lookup table, or you have disconnected tables.

Having a value repeated doesn’t tell you anything about fraud risk, efficency, or really anything. Using it as the primary piece of evidence for a claim isn’t a strong arguement.

Thats fair, it’s a bit nerve racking (especially right now with everything going on). If you’ve got a good interest rate on the account then you’re at least not loosing too much value, but the main reason to invest is that money looses value over time (due to things like inflation).

Not a fiduciary or anything like that, but double check your at least getting at least 3% on your savings accounts, otherwise you’re basically throwing money away.

So what do you invest in then? It feels really hard to find any opportunities outside of the stock market.

He’s voted no on a couple of nominees, but he had been the senate republican leader. Not being able to sway more people would lead me to belive he’s either on the outs or doesn’t care enough.

Don’t disagree just sharing context and info.

I never agreed with him, but he’s at least an American. Maybe not the same ideals, but it’s clear he has some standards.

Always thought John McCain would be the last person I said that about.

They’re actually playing a reverse card here and it’s sorta brilliant and stupid at the same time. A lot of these lawsuits are claiming the DEI policies are illegal because they are promoting certain groups over others.

There are a number of cases popping up like this and it’s probably an attempt to get it in front of the Supreme Court to kill protected classes or something - https://www.yahoo.com/news/missouri-sues-starbucks-over-dei-231002340.html

You want them to do that regardless of the how the country keeps track of individuals. The point of all that asking is to make sure they have the right patient for the right procedure.

You don’t want to have something amputated or removed unless you have to.

I mean I could save the US trillions by just shutting everything down, not sure if that results in “savings” though. Suspect there is a reason that money was allocated by congress.