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The horrible culture of the US is Sauron. All the racism, exploitation of immigrants, sexism, genocide of the native peoples, colonialism, deepthroating of capitalism, and other terrible aspects of society are what lead to Thiel being who he is.

Hopefully people will price their content out of reach of the bot-scrapers, effectively stopping them.

No matter who he sees himself as, his actions are those of Saruman.

I normally enjoy some fireworks every year, but have zero interest this year.

18 all year round, keeps my junk in place if I toss and turn.

Of course not.

I have been voting against Republicans for nearly 30 years and still have yet to see Dems hit the brakes. They do let off the gas some of the time, and since they are the only ones who have a chance of winning they get the vote by default.

If voting wasn’t so quick and easy where I live it would be difficult to convince myself to put in the effort. It should be this easy everywhere.

Engagement!

Racists watch them because they agree with them. Anti-racists hate watch them to know what the racists are up to.

Even republicans don’t want fascism

Yes they do.

your presumption is that you’d be a better therapist, not a worse one, if you have more shared experiences with the client. that’s not something current evidence supports.

That isn’t something I said or what I meant. Have fun arguing with your strawman.

Who did it better?

NASA did all the work to establish the concept of space flight. NASA is also held to more stringent safety requirements because they are a government agency, which drives up costs. NASA blowing up a rocket on takeoff is seen differently than a private company, which just costs more. Same as medical equipment vs similar non-medical equipment, getting from 99.99% reliable to 99.9999% is a cost multiplier.

Not to mention the cost to send stuff to space via private companies is subsidized by investors. It is a made up number, like all the cab 2.0 company pricing when they first started ignoring laws that applied to cabs.

It isn’t more efficient to do everything privately. It just looks that way if you ignore all the government funded research and investments hiding costs.

Also I’m not talking about communism. I’m just talking about government vs private, and if you can’t wrap your head around that then call it socialist.

Depends on benefits, hours per week, and whether it is a negative for future employment.

Mine is petty, but is due to having an internal voice when I read. When commonly used words are misspelled, like using loose instead of lose, I ‘hear’ it pronounced as spelled and it drives me nuts. Homophones like their and there don’t annoy me nearly as much.

I also mispronounce words learned from reading that don’t follow normal phonetic patterns that I’m used to, like melee, so I do understand why people mix up loose and lose. It is still painful to read.

Or they can’t figure out typos where one letter is just an adjacent key and the sentence makes it obvious.

People can work together without requiring stocks or formal governments. The ‘government doing everything’ requires citizen involvement, which would be spread among the community when centralized wealth isn’t overriding public influence. There are a ton of government agencies that improve things and innovate, have you not heard of the Large Hadron Collider that was built by the European Space Agency (ESA) and European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) which are both government agencies? NASA and other government agencies pioneered manned space flight. Government agencies improve and innovate all the time!

Honestly, the stock market is the real issue with stocks. The idea that people should get rich is another detriment to society, because accumulation of wealth to have wealth leads to negative outcomes.

Damn. I thought it may be the proprietary, bug and exploit ridden, hacked together shit such stuff by governments often is.

Nope, it is the proprietary, bug and exploit ridden, hacked together shit such stuff by private companies often is.

I accidentally hit characters and assume they all see me ‘typing’ for the next 12 hours until I notice.

It is literally our current system where we pool taxes to pay for large projects like parks and sidewalks and plazas and public fountains and water utilities.

All the capatalist and socialist countries do it.

For example imagine ur in a desert with 1000people and your all dying of thirst and it costs 1000currencies to build a well to get water. But the richest person only has 100currencies. Nobody can afford to build a well and now everyone dies. With stocks that means that everyone can put a couple currencies in and in return get a shair of the water.

With ur proposal how in the hell would u build a well? Where do u get the 1000currencies u need to build it?

Functioning governments exist to help manage pooled resources.

The Avengers was the 5th movie. Winter Soldier was an expansion on the already expansive franchise.