No. With socialism, you’re spending other people’s money until you eventually run out and can’t achieve your goals. With capitalism you’re extracting other people’s money and if they’ve run out you arguably achieved your goal

That’s great. The only thing I’ve found to work is keeping my hair really short. However it takes multiple haircuts to heal, so it’s been a real challenge to cut my hair short enough on regular enough intervals for enough time to work

Seems pretty straightforward: he should have taken reasonable step to return it to the person on the id …. Especially since it was such a life changing amount …

That really needs to change also. That made sense back when it was just recording something in public that a random officer could have seen, but it’s no longer the same thing. No police force could have such large scale comprehensive surveillance and recording based on what an officer could have seen in public .

The fact that you could even have an officer overstep his authority to stalk someone one nationwide for personal reasons, is not just a failure of privacy safeguards, but proof that large scale surveillance is not the same as “what any random officer could have seen”

There needs to be a threshold, beyond which a warrant is required

Screens are already getting too big for one handed operation, and the main use case for a folding screen is get a bigger screen, with more moving parts

Every once in a while I think back to how convenient my old flip phones were and wish for something that small with a modern sized screen, but I can’t see that happening and I don’t miss hinge failures. Moreover I wouldn’t want to go back to thicker phones

I guess you could be thinking of phones with two screens so you could do basic functions without unfolding but it seems like a lot of complexity. It’s great if that seems useful to you …… admittedly I already bought into both a watch and a tablet so see less need for either a small secondary screen or a larger screen

I already have a similar enough situation. I’ve worked for several startup companies where part of my compensation is stock options that promise to make lots of money if. It’s not guaranteed so I’ll just continue normally until the time is up and I find out.

I mean, usually it is worthless, sometimes you feel cheated, but once I got enough to buy a new car

Fwiw I’ve been telling my kids to reject the UNsubsidized loans (the ones where interest starts carrying immediately). But that only works because I’ve managed to save the money to pay that share in addition to the normal share

No it’s just predatory. As long as students believe college is essential and that is the only way to get it, the loans are predatory. It doesn’t help teens to understand if they don’t have a choice.

As someone who cares about my society, I believe it is essential for all students to have access to post-high school education, and as more than just job training. We need more people who can think better …. It’s in our own best interest to invest in our future: let’s make public universities/trade schools free to all who are interested

An ICE raid?

I think of it as I want the smoke detectors to work even when the building is engulfed in flames, in the hope that it will save some lives

I don’t know if this counts as bad. It was an excellent movie, intentionally camp. And it worked

The biggest surprise like that for me was Talladega Nights. I almost refused to see what looked like such a bad movie but I never laughed so hard

Hell there’s room for a huge dystopian movie about this. Start off with mikes and miles of rusted out shut down factories, maybe do like the Star Trek one energy where there used to be a car manufacturer industry long ago and far away…… maybe segue into the endless droid army from “Geonosis” and a shot of gilded age oligarchs laughing while looking down from Elyssium

That’s excellent! Better now than last year when I might have had lingering feelings over cybertruck - just like that first crush you can’t get over no matter how toxic they are

Seems counterproductive though. It’s one thing to abuse illegal immigrants desperate for a job and who are not allowed protection, but once you terrorize them, seems like the remaining workers are more likely to have options

Because we want whatever parts of our government not being actively interfered with to work correctly? Because it’s yet another charge that should be levied against whoever let that happen? Because historians will have a fun challenge trying to compile a complete list of illegal activities by this administration, and how they somehow made themselves above the law? Yet another point against Mitch McConnell as the second worst person in history to sabotage the us?

Dammit, where are the charges against whoever allowed that?

That’s so cool! I wondered how those worked

After decades of sliding right, We finally have a chance to shift that Overton window slightly to the left and people are second guessing it?

Adolf Hitler killed himself in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945, as Soviet forces closed on the German capital.

Maybe we should keep funding the illegal construction of a bunker where the east wing of the White House used to be …. Let the parallels continue!