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I think you just redefined a marriage. The function of marriage legally is all those “legal affairs”.

That’s also pretty true for people, unfortunately. People are deeply incapable of differentiating fact from fiction.

My guess is that the vending machine is not owned by whoever put this up and the operator indicated they will be by to empty it.

73% of Americans are overweight. They’ll be just fine if they eat out less.

I mean, you can say the same about every form of entertainment. Music? Majority is crap. Movies? Crap. Sports? Crap. Books? Crap. Video games? Crap.

That’s not close to average life expectancy in the US.

Welp, civil war, escalating to nuclear war, starting 2026? See you all there.

Just to be clear, I am not on the side of absolutely free market, but we have to recognize when certain policies are causing harm than good. For example, part of the increase is due to increased code regulations, but this is a good thing because it insulates (heh) consumers from from a number of hidden risks that the average consumer won’t self-mitigate.

It really is not. I’m not saying there are no other economic challenges, but the vast majority of housing costs are effectively caused by this.

Here:

The median home price in 1960 was around 20,000. In inflation adjusted 2020 dollars that would have been close to 200,000.

This puts the price per square foot prices within the $100-150 range.

In 2020, the price per square foot was in the same range.

Wages have remained largely static. To be clear, this is NOT a good thing as productivity has skyrocketed, but is beside the point for now.

Effectively, the reason why people cannot afford a mortgage is massively influenced by the average size of home.

Cars make this fact even worse. On the mid to low income side of the economic spectrum, car ownership can easily cost 30% of household spending. A two car garage easily adds 10%+ to home costs.

Average new home in 1960: 1300 sq/ft. (without garage)

Average new home in 2020: 2600 sq/ft (+ 2-3 car garage)

Average household size in 1960: 3.4

Average household size: 2.5

Number of households with 2 or more vehicles in 1960: 22%

Number of house holds with 2 or more vehicles in 2020: 59%

Ya’ll, I don’t know how else to explain this - the reason home ownership and cost of living is expensive is very straightforward. We don’t build or accept smaller homes, we don’t build enough of them, and we spend far more on vehicles.

Edit: if you want affordable housing, advocate (aka vote, canvas, donate) for candidates in your local government that support -

• Zoning and regulations that benefits smaller home sizes.
• Zoning that permits denser and missing middle development (for less need for vehicles)
• Zoning that permits mixed use development.
• Land Value Tax
• Reduced or eliminated parking minimums
• Bike infrastructure.

IMO a tankie on the left is just a pure anti-west authoritarian cosplaying as a communist - the communism is largely window dressing and they are generally perfectly happy defending Russia (obviously not communist) or authoritarian nonsense from China and other communist countries.

This is apples to oranges. Fusion is not the same as fission. We simply don’t know the economics of a viable fusion reactor.

However, we do know fissions cost is heavily driven by safety and regulation. It is very reasonable to assume that fusion’s requirements in this area are distinctly smaller.

For mobile: there isn’t a widget to create a note from a template.

This is a proportional interpretation. The cost of data storage has absolutely plumetted since, say, 1990.

Disingenuous attribution of a local environmental variable to a national crisis is pretty pathetic. Oregon isn’t even exceptionally high on the opiod death rate.

Also that the average house was like 1/3 the size of new homes today and a large portion of families had one car or fewer.

You have to leave incentives for people who are the ones who are going to create the jobs for all those people trying to climb the ladder.

Oh my god, FUCK OFF

This was literally the first thing I said about the “unbreakable windows” for the cyber truck. That is NOT a good thing in an emergency. This is just one example.

Oh fuck off dude.

Something like a 6-8 leg mech will likely be extremely practical:

• Can climb stairs and other obstacles
• Can manipulate the environment (open doors, move objects, etc.)
• Can jump (very well, if spiders are a good baseline)
• Redundancy (losing one leg doesn’t prevent the mech from continuing)
• Can go prone