Bugdozer

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CA public school teacher. Here to think through how we organize to get our communities through this.

The competition between native and foreign labor in the Northern States, has already begotten rivalry and heart-burning, and riots; and lead to the formation of political parties there which have been marked by a degree of hostility and proscription to which the present age has not afforded another parallel. At the South we have known none of this, except in two or three of the larger cities, where the relations of slavery and freedom scarcely exist at all. The foreigners that are among us at the South are of a select class, and from education and example approximate very nearly to the native standard.
The non-slaveholders, as a class, are not reduced by the necessity of our condition, as is the case in the free States, to find employment in crowded cities and come into competition in close and sickly workshops and factories, with remorseless and untiring machinery. They have but to compare their condition in this particular with the mining and manufacturing operatives of the North and Europe, to be thankful that God has reserved them for a better fate. Tender women, aged men, delicate children, toil and labor there from early dawn until after candle light, from one year to another, for a miserable pittance, scarcely above the starvation point and without hope of amelioration.
Our people partake of the true American character, and are mainly the descendants of those who fought the battles of the Revolution, and who understand and appreciate the nature and inestimable value of the liberty which it brought. Adhering to the simple truths of the Gospel and the faith of their fathers, they have not run hither and thither in search of all the absurd and degrading isms which have sprung up in the rank soil of infidelity. They are not Mormons or Spiritualists, they are not Owenites, Fourierites, Agrarians, Socialists, Free-lovers or Millerites. They are not for breaking down all the forms of society and of religion and re-constructing them; but prefer law, order and existing institutions to the chaos which radicalism involves.
Trump's executive order would allow US citizenship 'to turn on and off' over state lines, says New Jersey solicitor general Per the Associated Press, New Jersey’s solicitor general Jeremy Feigenbaum described how the administration’s stance - that the birthright citizenship order should only be blocked in the places that sued - is unworkable. He noted that people move to New Jersey from other states all the time. If they were born in a state where Trump’s order deprives them of citizenship and then move to New Jersey, they’d be eligible for benefits available to citizens but wouldn’t have been given the social security number required to access them. Feigenbaum warned that never before in history has the country allowed “people’s citizenship to turn on and off” when you cross state lines.
Andrea Flores, vice-president of immigration policy at Forward US, told the Guardian that the Trump administration’s attempt to strike down nationwide injunctions risked leaving the US with “a patchwork system” whereby birthright citizenship was accepted in some states but not others. By limiting the effect of the district court’s nationwide injunction, she said, “it is possible that an unconstitutional order can go into effect in 28 states. And so that would create a different scheme, where, in one state, say, in South Carolina, if you’re the child of an immigrant, you’re not a citizen, but in North Carolina and you’re the child of an immigrant, you are a citizen. So it would create a patchwork citizenship process.”
When running another test called SimpleQA, which asks more general questions, the hallucination rates for o3 and o4-mini were 51 percent and 79 percent. The previous system, o1, hallucinated 44 percent of the time.
Moreover, analysts, shareholders, and Tesla’s own management worried about the potential financial knock-on effects of paying for the social network. In a 2022 financial filing, the company had previously outlined the risks of the personal loans made to its chief executive, “which are partially secured by pledges of a portion of the Tesla common stock currently owned by Mr. Musk. “If the price of our common stock were to decline substantially, Mr. Musk may be forced by one or more of the banking institutions to sell shares of Tesla common stock to satisfy his loan obligations if he could not do so through other means,” the company wrote. “Any such sales could cause the price of our common stock to decline further.” In essence, investors and the company itself were fearful of a domino effect. If Musk failed to pay back his loans, he would have to sell his Tesla shares. And if he sold off his Tesla shares, the company’s investors could be spooked and sell off their own shares. That would drive down the share price further, leading Musk to have to sell off more shares at an even greater discount to create the necessary cash to pay off the loans. And so on and so forth.
Elon Musk retweeting a post calling recipients of government support “the parasite class”
“Cybercash,” they said, would let people take their money wherever they wanted through anonymous transactions; as the wealthy fled high-tax jurisdictions, this portability would starve the welfare state. They combined this observation about capital flight with a speculative argument, drawn from epigenetics, that humans had entered a more rapid phase of evolution. The result, they said, would be the emergence of a hypermobile superclass of high-IQ individuals, who could remotely coordinate placid low-IQ workforces while stashing their wealth far from the grasping hands of governments.