Google is not having a good week. Their stock has tanked, along with the rest of NASDAQ. They were declared a monopolist in a U.S. District Court. And now comes word that they disclose search histories to the government. You probably already suspected that, but it's now shown to be true. If you use Google, don't access the search engine straight. Use a different interface.
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I read this article on "What should we do with lazy and ungrateful migrants?" The author agrees with Trump, but he has to say "At the risk of sounding Trumpian". What is wrong with echoing Trump's policies? Maybe they are the reason why Trump is supported. This is like when other people preface a statement with "Now, I'm not a Trump supporter by any means, but...." Who gives a sh#t?
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Moar! Moar! California fast food workers want to be paid a $30/hour minimum wage now. Imagine that? For unskilled labor. Good luck with that passing.
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Homeless camps next to your property? You could have a problem, as this person discovered. Further evidence that we can't have nice things anymore in Portland is the fence going up around the Lan Su Chinese garden. Kinda spoils the serenity and tranquility feeling, doesn't it?
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Seattle is running out of jail space, so they want to rent out the SCORE facility in Des Moines. And the Des Moines residents don't like it. Who can blame them?
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"For a ‘quality’ education in Oregon, the price tag tops $13.5 billion." Everything is just beyond the horizon. Just a little bit more money and everything will be fine. Haven't we heard that enough?
Soon, you can get legal psilocybin edibles in Oregon. Just what we need – more substances to abuse. Like we didn't have enough. Now its psychedelics. Just great.
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It won't be that easy for China to invade Taiwan. Nice explanation. Plus, I hear they have missiles aimed directly at the Three Gorges Dam. That'll keep China busy.
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Calling someone too old is "ageist". I have two problems with this essay. The first is that the author falls into the trap of many lefties. If you call someone X, you're an X-ist. The desire to categorize someone, so you can dismiss him from serious consideration, is a common Lefty tactic. I refuse to buy in. The second is the sentiment that it's wrong to say that something can be "too THIS" or "too THAT". Like "too Asian" or "too female". Well, sometimes things are too much of something. And we have every right to call it out. The problem with putting Diversity hires in charge is that once they are in a position of power, they hire more like them solely because of an irrelevant identity characteristic, such as being female, etc. Suddenly, no one else can have a position in that power structure. It's all that one minority thing. We've seen it everywhere, and people are afraid to call it out. We see it in Oregon's government leadership, and even in Washington D.C. Yeah, diversity was cool at one point, but no longer. We need to recognize this and call it out. With regard to age, sometimes age is indeed an issue. It wasn't really Biden's age that we complained about. It was his dementia, Trump is fine.
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X/Twitter is moving out of San Francisco. More taxbase loss for the city. They're moving to South Bay, but I predict Elon Musk will move them out of the state entirely. One step at a time.
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