Liz @ Liz @midwest.social

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Feathers only attach to skin

How much money you got for computer? But also, there's plenty of games that don't need a card.

Target shooting or trap and skeet.

Yep mine too after only a couple years. I knew it was going to be a problem when I bought the phone, but I do like the true black....

I would say they count as a car.

It is like being a YouTuber. People think it's easy money and then they make jack-shit with barely any audience all while working their ass off. Only a few get big, most burn out after lots of work and little success.

Tech I am excited for:

Better and larger color e-ink. I'm not excited for the software in this particular case, but the hardware is excellent.
The NocFree &, the only wireless, split, 75% staggered column keyboard I've been able to find (I would have preferred a full keyboard but I'll take what I can get) It should be great for disability accommodation.
Sony A9 III While the A9 III is way too expensive for me, this camera basically promises that eventually global shutters should make their way down to mid-level prosumer cameras, and I'll eventually get a used one or something. I just wish Sony didn't artificially handicap third party lenses.

I have a Framework 16 and I love it.

Honestly? I can't do the searching for you this time, but it's all the top results when you look for average wait times between countries. The data is easy to access. Pretty much all developed nations have similar numbers, with wide variation between specialties.

Sort of. The US medical system has multiple choke points, but an undergraduate degree is the least limiting. The bigger barriers are the limited number of med school spots and the even smaller number of residency spots. Med school is a whole discussion, I don't even think you should need an undergraduate degree, but whatever. The final filter is residency spots, which are functionally set by the government. They pay hospitals to take residents, and will only pay for a certain number each year. We gotta increase that number if we want to stop throwing away educated doctors before they can even get to helping people.

Apes are monkeys in the same sense that birds are dinosaurs. The meaning of the word monkey really depends on if you're trying to be "cladistic" about it or not. Apes and Old World Monkeys are more closely related to each other than New World Monkeys and Old World Monkeys. That is, Old and New World Monkeys split, and then some time later Apes and Old World Monkeys split. So if Old World Monkeys and New World Monkeys are both monkeys (seems reasonable) than apes must be too.

But, I often say that calling a bird a dinosaur is about as meaningful as calling it a tetrapod. So ape or monkey? You gotta define your argument space before you can have meaningful conversation.

An ape is a subset of monkey.

My suggestion is 5-member districts elected by Sequential Proportional Approval Voting. Quintuple the House and award seats using the same method in groups of five.

Ehhhhh, given the voting and representation systems we have, a two party system is a logical result, especially when all voters are rational.

I come just imagine sometime reading too much into it,, that's all.. It's the internet.

We can make trains speedy and quiet. Let's just do that.

We're arguing past each other.

My parents installed "Net Nanny" to keep me from watching porn or spending too much time on the internet as a middle-schooler. (Trust me, they're good and accepting parents.) Anyway, I figured out that all you had to do was not click "okay" on the startup-induced message window and Net Nanny never started the controls or timer.

Lol yeah that was pretty much what was in my head. Take an infinite summation of sin waves with higher and higher frequency. It's not clear to me that making the amplitude smaller is necessary, but I just woke up so .... I'll think about it later.

Edit: well I guess the wiki says it is necessary, but I'm still waking up, so I'll think about it later :P

I think you take my defense of the usefulness of the profit motive, and the wonderful things it's gotten us, as a declaration that it is the best external motivator and should be used in all situations. Of course not.

Your first paragraph is simply not true in the sense that even if everyone's basic needs were met (and we should create a society where they are) money would still be the main source of power outside violence. Most people are not satisfied by basic necessities, especially when given examples that better is possible.

Your second paragraph is an excellent example of the limitations of the profit motive, and it's why we should continue to fund public research and development in areas where the profit motive fails. We already do it and in fact we should significantly increase our funding levels. There are other areas where the profit motive fails (utilities, healthcare at the point of delivery, national defense, education, etc.) and I think we (the United States) should expand into internet and universal health insurance.

For your third paragraph.... What do you want? For humans to be better? They will nearly always go with the easy solution. It's weirdos who look at difficult problems and take the honest, long term, responsible solution at the expense of themselves or even just short-term pain. This is fine. You're not going to change human nature. I just don't know what kind of system you want to set up where money still exists, yet greedy short-sighted people don't exist or work their ways into leadership positions at companies? I think the current punishments they receive for their bad behavior isn't nearly harsh or immediate enough, but.... They're still gonna do it.

I have lots of improvements I want to make to the world, they just don't involve denying human nature when you keep the fundamental structure of the system they exist in.

Boy the concept of such a function is breaking my brain but I have vague ideas for how to construct one.