federal food benefits were cut off due to the government shutdown.
No, they were not cut off due to the shutdown. Payments had not been stopped in any prior shutdown and didn't have to be stopped in this one. Trump and Republicans specifically chose for this to happen to put more pressure on Democrats. They don't care if Americans starve to death, while Democrats do. They are starving Americans because Democrats are trying to stop Americans from losing healthcare.
It's much worse than that. He's a proponent of the "prosperity gospel," which says God directly rewards a person's faithfulness and adherence to scripture with worldly success. So if you need help, that means you have not been a good enough Christian, so it would be against God's will for his church to help.
Meanwhile, revenue is up 38%. Over 10 million paying users. The shareholders are happy. The venture capitalists at General Atlantic and Drive Capital are thrilled.
The users? Deleting the app in protest.
How is revenue up if users are leaving en masse? I would understand if they said profits are up. Are they shoving more ads and raising prices faster than users are leaving? Because Netflix has shown that is unfortunately a viable strategy for a rather long time. Sure, it might eventually kill the product, but they'll get years out of it.
I was really hoping that the AI they would be talking about would be the specialized algorithms known to have real, beneficial effects, like the one that basically solved protein folding. But no, they are talking about LLMs making policy, which sounds genuinely horrifying at this stage.
"Just as Al Qaeda wages war on our homeland, these cartels are waging war on our border and our people."
What? When has Al Qaeda attacked the US homeland since 9/11?
I didn't say benefits were not cut off. I'm challenging the assertion that the mere fact that the government is shutdown is the cause of funding being cut off, like the phrase I quoted implicitly assets. The shutdown alone is not the reason funds for SNAP were cut off, and my proof of my assertion is the fact that funding has never been cut off in previous shutdowns.
This means someone must have chosen to execute this shutdown differently on purpose. Republicans are in charge of all branches of government, so they are the most likely culprit.