Welp, I’m out. This has gone way beyond why OEM stuff is better/intellectual property theft/quality issues to a misguided rant with someone picking and choosing logic to follow.
If you give a sh!t about this country, or the planet in general, get on board with this whole fact that economic and population growth can’t continue forever. The old American Dream is gone. There are stark contrasts to the situations from the 1950s Neocons and Tea Partiers harken and want to go back to. Which I think is funny because deregulation and profiteering, which they support, keeps them from exactly that.
You know, there’s that whole ecological collapse and climate change “hoax” that something like 97% of the scientific and engineering community, myself a member, agree isn’t a hoax that may make the planet unlivable in vast areas by the time my kids are grown, if I have any. I’m pretty sure 97% is a consensus.
Once we come to terms with those things maybe we can discuss the future of the United States.
Anyway, hope I don’t get banned for that bit of discourse. I have a new person to add to my ignore list too.
If you give a sh!t about this country, or the planet in general, get on board with this whole fact that economic and population growth can’t continue forever. The old American Dream is gone. There are stark contrasts to the situations from the 1950s Neocons and Tea Partiers harken and want to go back to. Which I think is funny because deregulation and profiteering, which they support, keeps them from exactly that.
You know, there’s that whole ecological collapse and climate change “hoax” that something like 97% of the scientific and engineering community, myself a member, agree isn’t a hoax that may make the planet unlivable in vast areas by the time my kids are grown, if I have any. I’m pretty sure 97% is a consensus.
Once we come to terms with those things maybe we can discuss the future of the United States.
Anyway, hope I don’t get banned for that bit of discourse. I have a new person to add to my ignore list too.