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I'm guessing he's worried about his assets being seized once his involvement with criminal money laundering for Russian mobsters comes to light. And emoluments. And using his position as an elected official to enrich himself by having the secret service stay at his properties paying exorbitant amounts above market value. And so on.

As we gain productivity, we force people out of if the workforce and get the remaining to do more than they did before using the new capabilities. What we should be doing is letting people work less.

Instead we make the "best" people work more and force "the worst" out entirely. This, then leads to the gig economy where people are working all the time just trying to get by and a growing shadow population is people who are not even really in the workforce.

It's a race to the bottom here, folks. We built this world through a shared consensus that the rich get richer and if you're not rich you're either unlucky, lazy, or both. That was based on wealth being derived from physical force. You can't fight the big guys with the clubs and bear skin armour so you try to stay on their good side and get by.

It's time to go beyond that. It will require people to not treat each other like crap if they get half a chance, though, which means we need a few generations to be without childhood trauma so they can grow up to be people who don't lead fear based lives. It's going to take some time to get there, and a realisation that that's the only way of the hamster wheel.

Work to live.

Edit: we have built a world where we measure success by money. This has meant we are all in pursuit of it all the time, even if we don't want to be. The rich get richer by driving us to do more with less, which marginalizes those who cannot be a productive part of that. We supress our compassion because it isn't making money. People suffer. Those of us who can contribute subject ourselves to a different kind of stress so we can enjoy a few hours of leisure here and there but we never really are free of the shackles of our employer. If you advance to a management position you are forced to evaluate and possibly fire people you could be friends with. When hiring you are evaluating how well people bend the knee. It's not a great world we've made for ourselves.

I can tell you have never interacted with an angry Canada Goose.

Plus you save on reglazing one or more windows.

This is why people say Chicargo.

This is literally the only reason he didn't use "strongly".

The accountants that were promised they would be made programmers. There's dozens of them.

I'll allow it

Good point. I'm Canadian and it didn't really enter the picture. It would have if my father wasn't able to stay at home. It was very difficult but wasn't costly. Sending him to a long term care facility would have cost a small fortune.

The cyber.

This could have a transformative effect. So many people have no idea what's been going on with this lately.

Hi, I am from a family with a lot of autoimmune conditions like Crohn's, Ankylosing Spondylitis, MS, and Alzheimer's. My father started to "lose it" in his late 50s, retiring a little early. He lived a long life until early 90s but the last ten years were hard on everyone. But my mother took care of him and we will tried to help.

I was 38 when our child was born. I was very concerned about passing on anything and he probably is going to have Crohn's or IBD.

But here's the thing. All of my family has done our best to live our best lives and yes it isn't the best physical condition at times but we have loved, taken chances, l made mistakes, had laughs, etc. That's worth it.

I've also known people who were ironman triathlon champs having heart attacks.

Only you can decide on kids. That's not why I'm here. I'm here to tell you the chance that you or they might have Alzheimer's doesn't have to be the deciding factor.

Also, there are pilot studies in Alzheimer's vaccines and other treatments.

The Moon said it might join NATO so they had to hit it. They really had no choice.

This sounds way more important than people wearing different clothing than you'd expect reading to children in a library, but you guys know best.

Here's what happens. Say you have three businesses providing roughly the same service in your area. They know you are going with one of them.

If they compete too much on price is a race to the bottom. There's a point at which one or more companies are losing money to compete. The ones with deeper pockets starve everyone else out then start raising prices.

Now, let's assume these three are the ones that made it.

They are not allowed to collude on price. That's illegal, they would be acting like a monopoly. Can't have that so they passed a law.

What's allowed? Publishing your pricing online. What's crazy is the other companies can see this so it's kind of light all three can still meet and compare pricing.

Because of this, you'll be paying about the same no matter where you go. You might be able to find a reseller that provides the connection but no real service. That's fine, but most people aren't using that.

You might find services bundled with other services like a mobile phone plan, tv packages, etc. That's even worse since they call use "price confusion" to make it look like price diversity but no one is letting anyone else eat their lunch.

All of this should be yelling at you full volume that this business is a de facto monopoly so therefore should be regulated heavily or run as a government utility.

I thought that was obvious.

You are taking a contrarian position to get attention. If you didn't care you wouldn't bother with this at all. Anyone can see this.

Just my opinion but you can teach children not to do this.

You patiently but firmly get them to clean it up when they do it. They don't get to do anything else until it's done. They will stop doing it.

You don't do it if they were panicked, half asleep, or not feeling well and if they need help doing it, you help, but you don't just let them walk away from it if it happened in the normal course of events (and yelling "you peed everywhere again" doesn't count).

This is the kind of thing you have to do. It's easier to just yell at them and clean it yourself. It's actually much easier.

When I was a kid there was only one openly trans person I would ever see. A man at the library who wore women's clothes (to put it in the terms we would have used then). They didn't try to be feminine beyond the clothing. Very occasionally some makeup. Legs were not shaved etc.

I was at the library on a weekly basis and saw this person all the time but it was just this one person. My mother told me not to stare or make fun of them and that they weren't hurting anyone and could dress how the pleased.

Now, some forty or more years later I frequently encounter non-binary people, trans people, etc. I follow the same method my mother taught me. They are just people living how they want.

It is interesting to be that William Gibson had trans characters in Johnny Mnemonic, for example, written in 1981. That's around when I would see that person at the library.