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  • Biden took a protectionist action by blocking a Japanese company’s purchase of a major US Steel company. Trump took further protectionist action by tariffing foreign steel.

    Now both of those may have backfired because the market manipulation prevented outside investors from modernizing US steel production facilities, and protective tariffs by definition raise prices.

    In effect it is less competition and crappier product for US consumers.













  • I agree that what they did is ridiculous. The macro story should be that the two major parties rig their primary processes in order to sideline potential challengers to the machine apparatus.

    The takeaway is you have little to no ability to influence the national candidate selection unless you’re a major player in an early primary/caucus state or you’re a billionaire PAC donor.

    Even if they had a “real” primary the DNC would’ve cooked it so Kamala (or whoever the DNC elites picked) got the nod. The Obamas, Clintons, Pelosi, Bloomberg etc. already made the decision at that point and what you or I wanted was never a factor.



  • This is bullshit. There are many people hired with the job title “Software Engineer” who don’t sit and generate code, and for a number of reasons.

    You could be on a hybrid team that does projects and support, so you spend 80% of your time attending meetings, working tickets, working with users, and shuffling paper in whatever asinine change management process your company happens to use.

    I have worked places where “engineers” ended up having to spend most of their time dicking around in ServiceNow/Remedy/etc. instead of doing their actual jobs. That’s shitty business process design and shitty management, and not a reflection of the employee doing nothing.