The administration said it received too much public and legal backlash for firing employees who did nothing wrong, so if their performance “declines,” fewer people will defend them.

Why is it still so damned high? Who are these people? Are there really that many jerks in this country?

Laying dormant in the Reagan and HW bush administrations? You fuckers watered the seeds that started this. You carefully fed them with welfare queen myths and the destruction of the mental health care system. You demonized poverty even while you created more of it. Now you ask are we the bad guys?

Ai is incapable of thinking new. It is pattern regurgitation. Maybe if we slowed down and rested and allowed time for the brain’s natural pace, instead of tech-speed, we’d be more creative. Also if everything we thought of didn’t have to lead to revenue, gee that might help too.

Amazon’s consumer business - even including Whole Foods pales in comparison to AWS. This is a very different game. That is B2B and we are entrenched without knowing. Who knows where the apps they interact with are hosted.