If the goal is to reduce speeding, road design plays more of a factor more than cameras.

A fine means that it’s a revenue grab.

Vince Gilligan was born in Richmond!

I hear this argument a lot. “Voters should be trusted.”

Voters gave us Trump.

Once you have power, you don’t want to let it go. It doesn’t matter if you are elected every two years or every four. You have power and as you stay in office you accumulate more and more power. In theory it’s to help your constituents but in the end it corrupts.

We can decide that that people shouldn’t be career politicians. We can go encourage these people that they can still serve the public by doing other things besides holding office.

I’m on record saying Sanders should retire.

He fought the good fight. The best thing he can do is to endorse someone young to take his place.

We need more young people to get into politics.

Depends on the purpose of the safe.

I have a fire safe for all my important documents (life insurance, will, birth certificate, etc).

It has a nice handle so I can move it if I need to.

Depends. How hot are you?

I’m going to hard disagree on NC.

If the original publisher decided to dump their IP, and someone else has a good enough idea to make money off of it, they absolutely should.

BY-SA gets you the same vibe and encourages the new IP to keep making new content and allows others to do the same.

The generation that gave us participation trophies and then complains about our generation being given participation trophies.

This fucking timeline…

Pardon power and the jury nullification.

The Acquired podcast went over this history very briefly in their Epic episode and it’s so crazy how close we were to having universal healthcare.

Tl;dl:

• during WW2, wage controls were in place due to a large demand of workers but very few people available due to being in the war
• unions and companies alike were looking for ways to make their positions and companies more attractive.
• government permitted benefits to augment salaries. Some companies started offering health insurance.
• back then going to the doctor was NOT the bankrupt causing thing that is today and was considered a fringe benefit
• larger companies were able to offer better incentives due to healthcare benefits
• add a few years of corruption and “market forces” and you have the system we have now

So blame wage controls during WW2.

Oh and the Brits were facing similar forces when they were starting to stand up their healthcare system but decided instead to hire people to build a robust system so everyone didn’t have to pay anything at the point of sale.

Yeah, it really was that simple.

The problem is selling the law to the lower middle class because they all believe they can get this rich and the tax will affect them.

I’d rather have a higher than it should be limit and reach the 0.01% obscenely rich than have the law beaten to death.

$5 mil is somewhat achievable. While bad, they aren’t as bad as those who have $5 BILLION in assets.

Someone who have $5 million has more in common with the poor than those who have $5 billion.

Inheritance beyond a set amount should be illegal. Billionaires passing on billions of dollars is just wrong.

$100 million cap on all inheritance. $500 million cap on total wealth. Anything beyond that is taxed at 100%.

Any attempt to “donate” the money to a family-controlled “charity” triggers a tax on the entire wealth at 90%.

Unions were the compromise between violence against the capital from the working class.

Because it allows conspiracy theorists maximum flexibility to wrap whatever pseudoscience into whatever objections they get as replies.

So yeah…like prison labor, it’s a symptom of late stage capitalism.

Overseas sweat shops “benefit” from currency imbalance where the US dollar, British pound, etc all go farther. So a kid at a Bangladesh sewing factory might be getting paid a dollar a day but that’s enough to pay for several days worth of meals.

The problem here is capitalism and I’m not saying that slavery is good. It sucks all around.

So yeah…like prison labor, it’s a symptom of late stage capitalism.

Overseas sweat shops “benefit” from currency imbalance where the US dollar, British pound, etc all go farther. So a kid at a Bangladesh sewing factory might be getting paid a dollar a day but that’s enough to pay for several days worth of meals.

The problem here is capitalism and I’m not saying that slavery is good. It sucks all around.

Blind squirrels eventually find nuts.

Like knowing that there are pedophiles in the Epstein files.

The fuck? Why would the medical staff oblige? Why not just say “no”?

Fwiw US based providers have similar issues with prescriptions. Doctors report lower patient satisfaction scores for patients who don’t walk out with a prescription. It’s why antibiotic overuse is a thing.

It doesn’t surprise me one bit that doctors over-prescribe injectables in a country that sees them as a treatment.

I agree with your vibe, especially supporting local craftsmen. But buying American a bit more complicated than looking for the “Made in the USA” sticker.

Some “made in the USA” stuff is prison labor. These companies are profiting off of prisoners. It’s better than slave/child labor overseas but it sucks all around.

Another aspect is that politics around the “Made in the USA” are merky. Final assembly can occur here in the US but it doesn’t mean that it was “made” here.

I went into a deep dive a few years back and found that because of various loopholes, American branded cars are often made in Mexico and then “finished” in the US whereas most foreign brands are assembled in the US.

All of this to say: until we escape late stage capitalism, it’s hard to know for sure how to best support Americans.