not sure I have seen this type of comment when we - for entertainment of the masses more so than anything else - slapped a $100k fee for H1B to be delivered in manila envelope to Mar-a-Largo.
The "good luck getting that passed" is where the problem lies, there is no "America First" that anyone actually wants, the entire "America First" is missing "Americans Last" in that slogan.
Definitely the first two, but the latter is not particularly common at most firms. It's hard to put in the type of thought that you need when you're working that much. It's not slinging power points.
in other words, it just becomes the cost of doing business.
the individual user is now priced out and cannot speak candidly and anonymously, while large, wealthy orgs simply price that into their market-capture and consensus-building techniques
It takes a truly abnormal degree of intelligence/deviousness to manipulate global narratives.
That doesn't mean you have the basic bare minimum intelligence/decency to at least try and leave the world a better place than you found it; a concept most 'simpler' folk understand with a minimum of guidance.
The Epstein class are 'intelligent' enough to rationalize away their misdeeds in all sorts of ways, sometimes even intentionally - but not intelligent enough to realize that they're doing so, or what they're losing.
the laptop is gonna have some local code, maybe a lot, but if I'm doing legitimate "big data" that data is living i the cloud somewhere, and the laptop is just my interface.
[rolls eyes]
lots of anecdotal evidence suggests donnie t like stimulants, esp. the kind that you can put up your nose.
reply