Solid post. #2 stings extra, extra hard when you learn that in the USA doctors spend on average somewhere between a quarter and half their time (studies vary) with insurance nonsense. We could potentially DOUBLE (or, low end, increase by 1/3 which is still insane) the number of useful doctor hours tomorrow, but we don’t. U$A

progressively making it impossible for trans people to exist

Do not adjust the gas tax for 33 years, do not listen to all the civil engineers telling you heavy vehicles do almost all road damage, and propose a tax with no method of enforcement. Brilliant leadership out of DC.

I know this is going to sound weird to 21 century digital boys living in our alt-facts dark timeline, but this is how politics is supposed to work. Where even the (formerly) fringe (now voice of reason- Overton’ed) lady recognizes obvious threats and we agree on material reality. Historically, being controlled by outside interests has gone poorly for nations, kingdoms, people just trying to hunt buffalo, etc…

I mean, what do you want us to do? Index tax taxes or make them percentage based so they don’t go 33 years being eaten away by inflation? Create a system that actually pays for the roads it needs to exist instead of saddling the future with massive debt? Not make it legally difficult to impossible for any alternative forms of transport to exist or at least be usable by sane people? That all sounds impossible. /s

Classic Fortune, sowing the seeds of blaming labor for every problem. Though, they should be careful because these Hynix/Samsung stories are showing the world how much the parasite class cheats workers. You suppose Micron workers who thought they had a good deal making high five-figures are looking at these bonuses and suddenly developing class consciousness?

Context for all you n’wahs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR-K2rUP86M

The Chinese probably gave them normal gifts, pins, and phones because why waste money on tech when top secret files are stored in the bathroom and POTUS tweets sensitive information?

Depends what you mean. If, as the commentators appear to be assuming, you mean you lost a yelling match with the worst person imaginable at lunch then no, not a great idea to change your mind. If, as someone who assumes you are a reasonable competent human would, you mean a specific point which has been thoroughly examined for some time, then yes, change your mind.

Sounds like a problem one of our super genius god brain billionaires should be able to solve before lunch.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but shouldn’t something generating the heat of several atom bombs be utilized as a heat source for making energy, instead of energy used to cool it?

Because outlawing vaccines can’t bring you a mojito by the pool? Also, while that’s a bold plan to eradicate the poors, all of human history up until vaccines were created suggests it might not work.

Facebook will announce some new feature, spin up a few million more bots, and have a glowing report for the investors next month.

Did Bernie read my Terminator fanfic? The one where the 1% are living it up on some islands with T800 butlers while the Terminators clear out the rest of humanity?

In Jon’s defense, Reddit was fairly good and useful (unlike Twitter or FB) at one point many years ago. If you’re not active there it would be easy to think things are still good.