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I don't see a way to optimize it without replacing the system that measures success/survival by personal enrichment above-all.

I tried calling to reset my password, which pointed me back to the website. The only other option is to reset it by mail. Amazing.

Edit: and to top it off, the reset password page references a security question & PIN, without ever asking for those. >If you do not know your security question or PIN, you will need to contact customer care to reset your password.

Edit 2: I just created a new account with a different email without a hitch. I got an email to the original address saying that there was a change to my account settings, leading me to believe that creating a new account simply changed the email address. Still no email confirmation though.

To expand your metaphor: it's like judging a dish solely on the balance of flavors while not noticing that the restaurants have started changing the smell of the air, the firmness of the seats, the relative humidity and temperature individually.

I agree with the sentiment of your comment. Not only is the concept of property a recent construct, but so is binary gender, binary sexuality, and binary sex.

There’s no need to have market based competition to keep costs down. Look at USPS for example. That operation is run without a profit motive, serves literally every zip code in the US (by definition), and runs healthily year after year (except for the part where Congress imposed arbitrary pension funding requirements[1] and private capital interests have been chomping at the bit to buy up all the real-estate holdings).

They also don’t have UPS’s problem of not putting AC in their delivery vehicles.

[1] https://ips-dc.org/how-congress-manufactured-a-postal-crisis...

Not-so-poor people playing a game well that results in massive benefits? A mere distraction.

>Build enough and all houses are affordable.

There are more vacant units in the US than homeless people. There is some nuance in how the market functions - it happens to be profitable for large private landlords to set prices higher. The market does not exist to optimize the number of people who have housing, it exists to optimize the amount of money that landlords can make.

And 'affordable dystopian' housing? Only 20% of the units are required to be affordable. Who knows what private developers will come up with to maximize their profits. So, dystopian? Probably. Affordable? Just a little.

The compliment to "workers aspiring to join the owning class" is that the biggest risk a capitalist faces is the possibility of being thrust back into the working-class, and having to actually work for a living, as opposed to living off of profits derived from the labor of others.

Not that I disagree... but this is roughly describes how the US was established.

Have a lot of cash on you? Cops can steal it without a warrant :)

iOS has an option to display I/O labels on these toggles too, and as it turns out, not everyone knows that I/O refers to on/off. I found out about this when I had to explain to a friend that those symbols meant open and closed respectively on the vents in a car.

So, for abortion to be a eugenics project, they should be arranged by some central governing body - a "board of eugenics" or "baby optimization committee" if you will - and not simply done by the choice of each pregnant person. Maybe you could argue that a high-level propaganda campaign could have the same effect, but that's beyond the realm of the legislative or judicial branches of government, and possibly beyond government entirely.

I think the biggest implication of any type of abortion being outlawed is that it subjects all pregnant people to the potential violence of the state on behalf of anyone close enough to know about their pregnancy. Add to this the massive grey areas introduced by the base rate of miscarriage, drugs that can be used for multiple things including abortion, what defines a threat to the life of the mother, and you've got a recipe for endless justifications for violations of privacy, bodily autonomy, and completely arbitrary prosecutions of uterus-havers.

The former is a consequence of the latter. At least in modern times. Also don't forget that our notional foundations for democracy are rooted in a slave-society. I don't know how that's 'fair' unless you disregard the slaves.

And of course most people have no business in running a government: most people have no experience governing! Most people are subjects in mini-dictatorships (employees of employers).

What's really notable is that she hasn't pulled out of the political sphere entirely, which is just _what you do_ when you're the spouse of a Supreme Court Justice.

:)

I used to take it in the morning and evening. After stopping for a bit and restarting, I noticed I was waking up super tired and having intense dreams. I stopped taking it in the evening and confirmed that other people have had the same experience.

FYI I take it in a tincture, and I have not experimented with different brands or preparations.