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keep_left's JournalI hope it's just to recover from a medical procedure.
But if it is a permanent thing, I'm going to miss her more than any other radio personality I've listened to over the years. However, I can't deny the unrelenting passage of time; it only makes me pine even more for the Air America days. I really hate to say this, because I'm a bit superstitious, but I've been making a special effort lately to listen to Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy in particular. Theirs are two of the longest-running left/liberal radio shows on the air today, and nothing lasts forever. 
"The Children Yearn For the Mines!"
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-children-yearn-for-the-mines
There are at least three "journalists" at LindellTV...
...for whom Pillow Man appears to make payroll on a regular basis.
In addition to the two already mentioned, Lindell's first hire was Emerald Robinson, formerly of NewsLeast...er...NewsMax. DUers may recall she became such an embarrassment that NewsMax fired her after one too many outbursts at White House press conferences about antivax conspiracy theories, etc. Too crazy for NewsMax...now that's really saying something. 
"Joe Scab" is Joe Scarborough, right? If so, you're...
...absolutely right about him. While I'm willing to cut the mature Joe Scarborough a bit of slack (his views do seem to have moderated over the years), he was definitely part of the infamous Congressional "Class of '94", led by Newt Gingrich. In many ways, Gingrich was a John the Baptist figure; he certainly prepared the way for the absolute wreckers who are part and parcel of the Trump regime.
I recall Noam Chomsky having some strong words about the "Class of '94" (from Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian, Common Courage Press, 1996, p. 151).
And when our one network failed (Air America), we basically gave up.
Air America should have been just the beginning. Most of the left/lib stations out there are highly local (usually community radio) and have limited reach. We need to think big when it comes to media.
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Makes sense...
...and we've certainly become really good at killing each other. Whether or not the concept generalizes to other civilizations remains to be seen (assuming they exist, or existed)--but then again, I wouldn't be surprised. I think Carl Sagan referred to this as "technological adolescence"; he considered it extremely dangerous if a culture couldn't evolve quickly out of this stage of development. One might as well give a gorilla an atomic bomb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Drake_equation#Fermi_paradox
No problem.
We have some fabs here, but fewer and fewer of them. Those at the commanding heights of the economy (gov't, Fortune 100) are very worried about TSMC's location (Taiwan), next door to a rather unfriendly neighbor. It wouldn't be as big a deal if TSMC didn't supply the lion's share of the world's most advanced semiconductors. The "CHIPS Act" is a late attempt at technological parity on the part of the USA--perhaps too late.
We do have a lot of the "industry" here, but not much actual fabrication.
We mostly have a lot of offices. I think this is largely due to the outsourcing craze of the '90s; we offshored most of our semiconductor fabrication, mostly to South Korea and Taiwan. The most sophisticated microprocessor fab is TSMC (Taiwan), which is a near-monopoly when it comes to advanced semiconductor manufacturing. It's going to be hard to catch up (which is what Biden's "CHIPS Act" is about).
I work in audio engineering, and I can tell you that even when it comes to the lower-end of technology that I use (e.g. discrete transistors), it's been at least 20 years since I've seen a "USA" stamp on a single electronic part.
As I grow older, I think more often of a scene from a movie...
...that I hope isn't an ultimate and final truth about us.
"It's in your nature to destroy yourselves".
"Semiconductor space"?! WTF kind of drugs are these people on?
You want to make semiconductors in the USA again? That's going to take a lot more effort than just slapping tariffs on your competitors. Furthermore, the Trump regime has made it clear that it intends to blow up Biden's CHIPS Act. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act#Subsequent_development
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