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The U.S. is currently in a similar position to the U.K. in the Suez in 1956 and is sprinting into the position the U.S.S.R. was in Afghanistan in 1979. Americans watching network T…

Likewise for school districts in wealthier areas of the United States.

What’s especially frightening about this comparison is that post-Glasnost figures clearly show the U.S. was never even close to being surpassed by the U.S.S.R. economically or mili…

The existence of yet worse systems does not make the American system fair. It is not difficult to picture societies where it is not required to build wealth for 4 generations to ac…

This is why I question the article’s premise. There is no risk of liberal democracies implementing a UBI that supports anything beyond subsistence. Most people in developed countri…

I think the 10 U.S. metro number itself is somewhat arbitrary here. It’s impossible to say precisely without looking at all parties’ deployed warhead counts and operational plans, …

> Urban centers are not set up for large-scale rainwater collection. This is correct. Even in suburban areas, rainfall may be irregular and supplies to collect it (and render potab…

You cannot sustain a population center of any size on rainfall. For that, you need electricity to operate municipal pumps (which will likely be absent, as above - if not immediatel…

A full scale exchange would be much, much worse than Europe in 1918. Against a peer adversary, ABM systems can protect 1 city at the very most. There will be people on both sides w…

It’s easier for the top 10% to blame the top 0.1% and absolve themselves, in spite of the knowledge that this changes nothing. Americans especially are averse to the idea that the …

The civil rights movement broke the New Deal coalition and ended popular support for many of the policies that had maintained the socioeconomic status of working and lower middle c…

I honestly hope you are lying about your profession, rather than venting your personal frustrations with clients by arguing with people that you believe resemble them online.

> And there is another diagnosis that is blindingly obvious but i wont name it out here. I wonder why a self identified mental health professional would go to such lengths to deny …

“If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”

The current administration has established a pattern of making unsubstantiated fraud allegations against its political enemies. That is new.

The funnel for design is a little wider. Nevertheless, if you aren’t early in your career, I suspect you’ll find that most firms are not interested in people who do not have specif…

If you are in the US, you probably already know who the players in your area are and can approach directly. Frankly though, the small number of firms and positions is a sign it’s t…

> There's no benefit to a brain that struggles in modern society. Would you say there’s no benefit to the genes associated with sickle cell anemia? How about homosexuality? Schizop…

Equity remains a valid criticism of LCFF in California specifically. For one unremarkable observation in this area, see the following think tank report: > States often commission c…

The school system is downstream broader social issues here. It can be shockingly expensive to deal with the various behavioral problems that disproportionately impact students from…

Fear not - the American school system was built on and holds fast to the supposition that the affluent should be able to avoid any unwanted exposure to the problems of those less f…

Illiterate incoming freshman are the product of the public middle and high school systems, not the university system. For reference: > Beginning in Fall 2022, the number of student…

Keller's early experience of the world differed from typical in dimensions beyond language recognition.

If BlueZ was compelling enough, Android would tolerate it for the same reasons it tolerates the kernel. Nobody really wants to be in the business of writing a BT stack, and yet And…