And yet child beauty pageants will still be up and running.

Pretty sure it depends on local jurisdiction. In some places the shop owner would be required to call the police to trespass someone. In others, the owner of the property has nearly the physical authority of a home owner in removing people.

I don’t think epicanthic folds would be considered evolution. Most human changes are in our immune system and sense of smell.

It would be impossible to build today by any means. Not because of any technological problem. Physically it could be done rather quickly, as others have posited. The problem is that you could never combine the political and economic will to complete it.

It’s the same reason it would be easier to colonize Mars than to fix climate change. There’s a half dozen robots on Mars that will do whatever you tell them. On Earth, there’s 7 billion assholes who think they have a better idea of what to do.

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2022/11/social-security-reform-options-to-raise-revenues

There’s a ton of right wing sites that would tell you eliminating the cap is a complete waste of time horrible for the economy, bringer of the end of days, etc.

Bezos, like many ultra wealthy, most likely paid himself some token amount in wages. Many CEO’s used to pay themselves $1, just to say they had an income. They have accountants that decide how much he should claim as wages, just to maximize the returns from Social Security, without paying into it any more than needed.

Removing the cap would go a long way, but it’s not enough by itself. We’ll still need more people, or a time machine with a fertility clinic in it. From what I can tell, boomers seem to be thinking we’re going to find that time machine somehow.

Get a deer chaser sprinkler. They’re cheap and easy to set up.

I think armor that makes you blind might just give your opponent time to figure out where you’re not wearing armor.

Long before wages create affordability, they have to out pace inflation. It’s going to take a long period of wages slightly beating inflation for the public to be happy.

Or we could have another recession to make prices drop, but wages would lose ground to inflation when it returns.

No one claimed white people were short on idiots.

I’d be happier if there and actual identity control system in our credit system. Identity theft is stupidly difficult to clean up.

Now try to get them to pass a minimum age for marriage.

The boat turned off without being told to turn off. With dual generators, and dual auxiliary backups, they lost power to the whole boat. That’s not including the main 55k hp engine. Bad fuel can take out an engine, not 5 of them running from different tanks all at once.

Is it really a claim when there’s direct evidence to the fact?

If not for Reagan, then Newt never would have been elected. Id not for Nixon, then Reagan never would have been elected.

It a continuous line of fail that goes back to the founding of the country.

Overall the efforts never stopped, specific ops tend to get aged out on a regular basis. There’s always something, it’s just usually someone else after a few months.

Need has nothing to do with it. The Biden admin is prepping for Taiwan to be taken by China. Throwing cash at Texas just helps with political messaging.

The problem is that for too many years everyone in power only sees GDP as a measurement of a happy population. Because the two do correlate, a lot. We’re finally reaching the end of that correlation, which is usually when the rich take their profits and leave. As in leave everyone to die, after starting a war and taking all the resources.

It doesn’t have to end that way, but it will.

Food and fuel are both included in CPI, they’re left out of core CPI because they’re noisy. Food CPI alone for the past year is at 2.2, and gasoline is at 1.3.

Also for the latest release, core CPI is 3.8, while including food and fuel it’s only 3.5. Because the cost of fuel oil and utility gas were both over 3 percent negative.

This just seems like a stupid time to be pressing legislation like this. I don’t even disagree with it myself. I just think it’s idiotic from a political perspective. The Dems can see the GoP struggling with the fall out of Roe v. Wade, and they still want to step into this fight now?