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Money. Donate. There isn’t a near term world where money won’t matter in giving you a voice, so you should use it.

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

That is really not true.

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

Limited visibility, limited comprehension, limited attention, and limited risk aversion.

It is definitely picking up very quickly currently. Far more common in the last couple years than before.

I can put my credit card number in any transaction directly, and so can anyone else. Digital payment can provide a random one time card number (at the expense of privacy, admittedly). Physical cards are absolutely not safer.

… Sodium Ion are already being sold in EVs.

I’d actually go with something like microfiche or nanofiche. Human readable (with some support from a microscope), lasts and incredible amount of time, and can be used as a very safe backup.

Attempting a coup is much harder with an opponent on the executive branch. The only reason the last one was close was because Trump was sandbagging the response. The only way one succeeds now is if the military facilitates the coup, aggressively, IMO.

This thread demonstrates the idealogical purism and lack of pragmatic political expectations from leftists and progressives. There is literally nothing the Biden admin can do that will ever be enough because it doesn’t match some rosy fucking dreamland that only lives in your heads. Descheduling is huge, and signals the end of 100 years of madness with cannabis laws. If you want more, then we need to have more legislative power to implement it.

This is a fucking win, dumbasses.

What you are suggesting is a legislative action. The nation needs to provide enough legislative power to happen.

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.

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

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 guaranteed child welfare (including universal lunch) is 100% consistent with any major political idealogy that is internally consistent.

Libertarianism? The whole basis is the personal choice, autonomy, and the ethics of consent. Children fundamentally cannot consent. They still, however, individual agents. They simply are in a state where social order defines their outcome. As society, we must then take this to maximize their outcomes and ultimately their personal liberty - when they reach an age where they can operate with it.

Therefore, we have to choose between depriving others of a relatively small resource, or depriving children of a major resource: the nature of their ability to participate with full autonomy and personal liberty.

The choice, in my opinion, is very clear.

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.