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Point to ponder: A (small, but potent) bunch of Middle Easterners got very interested in blowing up the USA.

Why did they not blow up Canada, or Mexico, or China? Do you think the US military actions might be a reason?

That's because the US already took over and genocided the interesting parts of its continent (+ Hawaii), and used covert operations to install friendly dictators across the hemisphere when it needed to maintain "democracy".

Foreign affairs is one of the few enumerated central/Federal powers, so I don't understand your point.

The US occupied Iraq for over a decade, and installed a new government. The US spent a little time in the Balkans and Somalia and then gave up. There's a difference.

How many thousands of employees, including executive roles, does a company need before it is an international company?

If you don't believe in someone robbing your house, or killing your family, should you just shrug your shoulders and move somewhere else?

Maybe there's more than one part of the military, and the resilient internal communications network part is different from the wedding-bombing part.

China is far more stable than the US.

How can you say that the "military" get credit for preventing conflicts while at the same time not get blame for being the muscle of colonial oppression.

The market sets the value, obviously. Social welfare is great -- Medicaid, Unemployment, SNAP, WIC, etc, but shouldn't be paid directly by employers to recipients. Why should an unemployed person getting a low-value job suddenly shift all their welfare support burden from the state to their employer?

From the 1950s, when the marginal rate was >90%:

https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-rich-1950-not-high/

> per the Piketty, Saez, and Zucman data ... The average tax rate on the 0.1 percent highest-income Americans was 50.6 percent in the 1950s, compared to 39.8 percent today.

From 1979 onward: http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/...

Highest effective tax rate, before Reagan's reforms, was 37% of the income of the top 1%

Municipalities aren't like states of the Union. Municipalities have no power except that which is granted to them by the state. There is nothing legally stopping any state government from passing a law tomorrow to change how municipalities are run.

Because not all jobs are that valuable. This is essentially replacing welfare by minimum wage, and why should welfare be administered non-progressively through employers instead of the government tax and redistribution?

Should it be illegal do do low positive value work?

Do you have a source? The numbers don't back you up.

Min wage is the single-person poverty level, and is much higher now than when it was enacted.

There never was a 90% tax rate. That was a marginal rate, and there were massive deductions.

Source for that claim?

Minimum wage has been $4-10/hr (inflation adjusted) throughout its history in USA; only about as high for the single-person poverty level ($6/hr for single, $10/hr equivalent for a family of 3)

https://bebusinessed.com/history/history-of-minimum-wage/

Binge On biases video over gaming and apps and videochat. That alters consumer choice significantly.

That bureaucrat is the appointed head of the FCC appointed by the President and implementing a law enacted by Congress. He's not a lone wolf.

Carbonated water.

Why put sugar in water? Water is great.

Fruits are artificially evolved to ever higher sugar content. They are better than candy, but they are also dangerous in excess.

People chew and brew coca like coffee and tea

If you don't finish off that calorie budget with some protein and fat, you're in trouble.

There's an age at which drinking a sugary soda becomes difficult...

Are you insinuating that since carrots have sugar content, we should eat cupcakes with abandon?

There's a lot of confusion around nutrition, but the badness of sugar and goodness of water is just about the most consensus we have.

School is a place of education and development.

The idea that "sugar" === "fun" is exactly the misconception they are trying to fix.

> government cheese, flour, potatoes

None of these are healthy staples!

Healthy staples are beans and whole grains.

Ketchup vegetable wasn't "education"; it was political football with school lunch funding and minimum vegetable requirements and trying to feed kids when they'd simply throw away any salad they were served.

Is 7 minutes good? If you have a multimaster redundant systems, you don't need failover.

Instagram, GitLab, Netflix all down at the same time. Coincidence?