Slowly but surely, my income is weakening. I used to be able to regularly put about $300 a month into savings a decade ago, if I stuck to ramen and minimized going out. Now I am treading water - not enough to save, just to sustain my lifestyle. I am expecting my ABLE savings to become completely worthless, if I don’t spend them or convert them into a currency that isn’t American.
“Decorum”.
They think drinking hemlock is the mark of civilized society.
I don’t want them to merely lose the midterms. I want Republicans to cease existing. Politically AND physically.
Iran could supply drones to Cuba. It would be one way to give the United States a swirly, and further increasing the value of the Hormuz. Why settle for being merely 20% of the world’s supply of oil, when you can shrink the pie?
That can apply to ALL of them. In one way or another, they are depraved, corrupt, ignorant, stupid, traitors, or YES. You could make a drinking game that is paired with Cards Against Humanity, and everyone at the table will end up dead.
Hm. A while back, I suggested that attorneys who represent in court switch roles after every case: Prosecution -> Defense - Prosecution, and so on. That would make attorneys more inclined to want a fair trial, because they know a court that purely favors prosecution will work against them when it is their turn.
In that vein, perhaps the attorneys can give a judge an upvote/downvote after a case is finished, alongside their reasoning for it. This is added to the judge’s dossier. When lawyers for the defense and prosecution are going to court, they could make one of two choices: mutually agreeing on a judge to oversee the case, or just one side preferring a randomly selected judge.
There would be issues with this, but I think it would also make it harder for bad justices to become a fixture. If lawyers consistently agree a justice is shit, that justice would eventually get fired for wasting time and money.
Yet another thing that needs overhauling. I think the solution is simple: while you are in office, you cannot run for a position. Once you have completed a full term, you are barred from running any position for one year. Once that year is up, you may run. This helps weakens incumbency advantage, alongside forcing politicians to do their job instead of splitting their focus.
Sure, it might not be efficient…but as modern capitalism and politics have demonstrated, “efficiency” is a fig leaf to cover corruption. The more important thing is to make it harder for greedy fools to run things.
I am counting two eggs in my case. SteamOS and CachyOS. Honestly, Linux doesn’t need ‘advocates’ like you, because you ignore other people, even when they give context. Seriously, you make Linux look like a religion, not a tool. 😒
I think SteamOS Desktop is what will tip the balance. People want a corporation with a familiar and quality reputation. CachyOS, Bazzite, Fedora, Arch, Red Hat, all are just weird entities that the ordinary person wouldn’t know.
As for myself, I will pick CachyOS or SteamOS, depending on what reviews say when comparing the two. I want flexibility for modding and some other power-casual stuff, but also want documentation and a large community of people familiar with my OS of choice. SteamOS is likely to be that choice, assuming that Valve doesn’t mess up.
Personally, I think the R&D times of planes and other mainstream gear takes so long, is because there isn’t genuine necessity. First and foremost, the MiC exists to enrich elite critters - actual defense of the nation is tertiary. The secondary is just to make fancy gear that looks neat for battle glamour, but lacks substance for warfare.
I suspect an actual peer-to-peer war between NATO and Dogey America would result in much faster development time. Also many failures, but necessity would force rethinking on how to produce weapons. I listen to many videos about plane development, and WW2 really stood out in how many fails there were, while the envelope constantly got pushed.
My prediction is that Europe would be much better than America when it comes to transitioning into a true war economy, because they have a less corrupted MiC to get in the way.
I am hoping these end up as ICE vehicles. 🔒 🔥
I hope that everyone refuses to serve in Hegseth’s Army. He wouldn’t put his life on the line for the troops, even if they happened to be Protestant.
If they are so desperate to die, they can do it by themselves and leave the rest of us out of it.
I think it would take nothing less than a radical overhaul of society to fix this snowballing of power.
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Having it so that individuals can only run a single company within a niche, and capping annual income to an absolute amount would be a very basic start. It would take even more to make such restrictions stick.
Corporations having wealth and asset caps based on their employee headcount & incomes, requiring that leaders have to be annually voted into their positions by their workers, their income voted by said workers, and so on.
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Our economics are made out of inherited junk and bubblegum. A clean sheet redesign is needed.
She shouldn’t have held any position at the bar in the first place.
As an American, please do so. Cuba didn’t deserve to be bullied.
If there is a civil war, I hope Trump lives long enough to prosecute it. I want my enemies to be wholly incompetent, it would save many innocent lives.
If America has a major revolution, I suspect many of the financial assets would turn out to be smoke and mirrors, rather than something of concrete value.
I am pretty sure that I would flunk IQ tests, and I have leftist preferences. Mathematics and other subjects of high learning are not something I really understand. While I appreciate neat things like electricity, chemistry, design, and AI, I simply don’t understand them to any meaningful extent.
That sucks. I would like to have a character sheet with +10 bonuses across the board, and a platinum piece to start my game with. Same goes for the rest of the neighborhood.