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Not sure how you can justify the pied-a-terre tax by claiming it fights against antisocial behaviors. It just is another funding stream.

Typically, all single payer medical cost schemes are based on government facilities and intervention. Many Americans have little faith in their government to do anything, much less handle there medical care costs. This is why the employer model still exists.

Americans are different - they see themselves as not Europe or Asians - and they are proud of that. The "rugged individual" is still an ideal many cling to as part of their identity.

I almost pulled the trigger on a Prologue; so glad I had second thoughts. Even though it was essentially a GM product, I've only ever owned Hondas, so I thought "Well, at least I can get service at my Honda dealer".

Charging in the US (other than at home) is still the biggest issue for me. I do lots of traveling, and waiting 30-45 minutes to charge even at a Level 3 charger is a PITA. If I had a J std charger, then it's even longer. This makes my monthly 8 hour trips one-way another 2 hours - this sucks. Sorry - I'll keep my 2005 Honda Element with 445K miles. Another engine would be cheaper than less than a year of car payments. And it's pretty much indestructible.

Joanns died b/c of two things - they stocked items no one really wanted, and they doubled down on that by opening way too many stores.

With a focus on fabric and yarn, they would still be here - maybe. Handcock Fabrics went the same way and they died. Hopefully, someone will take a clue and start a new focused venture. Buying fabric over the web is horrendous.

I think that was the previous posters point - any teaching on a moral issue will ultimately have overlap with real world issues.

A homily about gambling would be right in line with religious teachings - the timing is really what is at the apex of your post.

Or more likely, the safety measures were bypassed because they were a PITA. You can put all of safety measures you want on equipment, but humans have this insane mindset of faster = better. Yes, that includes top to bottom of companies.

The subsides were during Clinton and Bush 2. BMW and Mercedes were here long before Biden and Obama. It makes good sense to manufacture your product in the area it is sold - that's the real reason for their mfg base establishment.

Not only the direct jobs, but also the other support ones - automation, suppliers, maintenance, facilities work, etc.

You see a lot of this in US Korean places (at least outside of Atlanta). The robots are a novel touch.

The NYT has obviously not been to Atlanta, especially in Duluth, where is the heart and soul of Korean food expansion - so much so Google Maps lists it as Koreatown.

This is a worldwide trend - new markets are available everywhere. As a capitalist society, we should embrace the new entrants.

As was the administrations of Clinton and Obama. The real issue is they (whomever is currently in power) can do these things, and there's nothing we can do to stop it from happening.

Really love your work. Used to work for a microwave components (passive and active + measurement) house back in the 70s and 80s, and still miss it.

One item not being discussed is this took place during the last administration - not Trump 2.0. None of this is new - it's being going on for years.

The larger question is why is the US Government giving Columbia $400M when their endowment is $14.8 billion with a 11%+ RoR? That's 1.6 billion/year.

https://endowment.giving.columbia.edu/endowment-performance-...

2005 Honda Element w/AWD. Carry anything with ease.

Not sure why this is news - it happens every time a big one comes across the state. When Michael hit, we didn't have gas for a week.

It's more about tricking HE machines. Instead of the Smart Water setting, use the large. Always use the Deep Fill setting (if the machine has one). Always use the double rinse - gets rid of the detergent residue.

I've not tried hacking one, but given the relatively simple controller, it doesn't seem all that hard.

Exactly why I use multiple financial facilities and keep a good amount of cash on-hand.

I wonder where he would have ranked George Hamilton's portrayal in Love at First Bite or Lauren Hutton in Once Bitten?

But for decades, the US economy has sold SFH as just that. Every time I go to the bank, I get solicited by a bank employee to take out a HELOC.

Others, though, see increased higher density housing as more traffic, increased crowding in existing schools, and lowering property values. At least in the US, higher density housing in the surburbs is seen as a negative, even if there may be some benefits, however nebulous.

In exurban Atlanta, my home has been broken into 3 times in the past 4 years. I was home for the last one; I was alerted by my Ring doorbell and the crook never got past the front hallway. While I live in a city with a (relatively) large police force, they can't be everywhere all the time. Once I called they were there in 30 seconds but the person was gone. I don't have a gun nor do I wish one, although I understand why so many people here do have a firearm.

I've no idea who it was nor do I care. I imagine most people , like me, just want to protect themselves, and are not on a hunt to single out POC. I like I'm able to use technology to at least give my and my family a chance to be safer. Do I have cameras? Yes. And I check them. having the knowledge regarding people who come to your home uninvited is a powerful tool.

From my perspective, it's interesting a black woman invented the concept, but it matters less than the actual technology. Ingenuity comes to people , not x-kinds of people. I imagine that's not a view most YC folks share but it's probably more in line with the vast number of US citizens.

As if earthquakes, wildfires, and mudslides are something people look forward to.

But property taxes are local. Raising them only supplies more revenue to the local area. For the US, also, one needs to take into account many states have limits on property tax rates and revenue raises in general, such as millage rates have to be fully balanced with spending, which in turn, has limits. Excess rate increases will simply make those areas less valuable, which will push people to even lower taxed areas, which, at least in the US, are even more rural areas, thereby increasing the concern for climate change and a reduction in population density.

Unless, of course, you live in an HOA which requires you to not leave your clippings on the lawn. If only there was a place round here where there wasn't an HOA!

What I did when I needed to bridge the gap: https://www.stlfinder.com/3dmodels/milwaukee-to-ryobi-adapte...

Human nature - it is a b*tch. Let's face it - as you say, most people are looking out for themselves; they rarely, if ever, think about the cashier or stock clerk who's working 3 jobs and still not making it. And it's not a "screw everyone else" sort of attitude, it's more of not even thinking about it because they're absorbed with their own lives.

Only when folks are faced with how such a reality affects them, such as when a company lays them off and they have little marketable skills after toiling away in a throwaway job for 10 years, do they actually give any real consideration to how others live - because they now are facing the same sort of conditions and giant concrete roadblocks.

If only we had gone all in on Beanie Babies. We cleared $20K+ selling BBs on the side of the road that year. I wanted to spend our whole savings and hire people to sell them for us - we were buying them out the back doors of Hallmark stores. Wife didn't. But we still made enough to put down a sizable down payment on our current house.

It was a crazy time. Crazy people fighting each other for cheap stuffed animals.

Same at my company. We're a small BU at a large multi-national, very flat whereas most of the other BUs ave lots of overhead - they fill lots of DI-type jobs with these folks.

Biggest issue is corporate expects us to produce the same Power BI type of output with deep slide decks for corporate level meetings with no extra resources. Our BU just got an award for best financial performance within the corporation yet no one ever asked how - we've been busting butt for long time, making and selling product instead of making higher-ups feel important while our CEO goes on MSNBC shows spouting off about how the DI crap is making the company so much better. Lots of created make-work.

I'm no right-wing nut. My co-workers could be the UN - but we don't care about that; we just do our jobs - we're good at it and making things cheaper and easier.

So glad I retire in less than 2 years. I checked quite a while ago. Been building my side hustle so once I go I'll be good. I do feel for those who I'll leave behind - it'll only get worse and less work will get done. M hope is they persevere.

The only store in my area which doesn't seem to be affected by massive shortages is Whole Foods. Guess the Amazon supply chain is fairly robust.

Not sure about your location, I see about a 50/30/20 (white/black/Hispanic)racial mix at my Atlanta Bass Pro gun counter, which about matches this counties’ demographics. People just want to be able to protect themselves; don’t take Brunswick as the norm for everywhere.