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> Or is it the leader class in most western countries have no sense of duty , are effectively cowards, and are in it just to have a profitable, white-collar career ?

They are cowards who are just in it to enrich themselves by bribery, theft, and extortion.

You are looking in the right direction and not seeing just how far our society has gone.

was it that in prior years a reader could usually distinguish 1 from l by context. Even today, very few things cause me to need to te11 a 1 from a l.

(typo 0n purpose)

it matters when reading code and random string (what we now call passwords, though back then passwords were things you could pronounce, unlike say ywtr466Nh%vX).

It doesn't matter for much else.

Though it did make an interesting plot twist in the Mioscene Arrow

> US outspends all the other developed nations at healthcare, education, childcare and yet is behind them all in actual results with poor education, high infant motility and lower life expectancy

US healthcare and childcare are private, not government. Likewise I suspect much of the education cost is private colleges/schools, not government.

You seem to be arguing that the private sector is less efficient and more corrupt than the public sector.

looking for the snarky link between "blind googling" and blindness caused by drinking improperly distilled alcohol.

> There are no native water buffalo in Alaska.

yea, that just shows you how vicious those mosquitos are!

Well, brain science is pretty clear that the brain uses about the same amount of glucose (energy) all the time, resting or waking.

To contrast with for example your biceps, which will use a lot of energy when lifting something and then scale back down to near-zero.

So in terms of energy use, yes, the brain is always going at near full burn.

agreeing (strongly) that uber is better than taxi, and yet again on price it is because uber skirts the law-- drivers typically do not have commercial insurance etc and also uber subsidized rides for a long time with VC money.

I'm curious who is tracking the costs which have been incurred by DOGE. Say, for example, they claim a savings of X from firing a bunch of people, what is the cost Y from the hiring of contractors to fulfill the obligations those X people filled?

How much are they costing us?

a federal agency that doesn't follow the law should lose the protection of the law. Charge the ICE agents with attempted kidnapping of the immigrant and actual kidnapping of the judge.