A problem here is: how many people with 20+ years on their mortgage are suddenly owing more than the house is worth? If my house’s value were to drop by half tomorrow, I’d be stuck and unable to move because I would still need to pay as much as the previous values in order to move somewhere else.
I don’t know how we fix that, but I don’t think it’s an insurmountable barrier to making housing affordable.
They’d given us enough bread and circuses to prevent it. What surprises me is that there weren’t any copycats - perhaps they were foiled by increased security or just not reported on.
There was a sign right there telling them what not to do and they still failed.
Your first point is so huge IMO. If you can’t enjoy being at your own home then trying to have some kind of fulfilling life is going to be a steeper uphill battle than it already was.
Been on the dating apps recently. The number of people who present “travel” as their entire personality is unsettling. Every photo somewhere exotic, every prompt answer is about traveling. It makes me wonder what they’re all running from. I don’t disagree that vacationing can be enjoyable, but there’s more to life.
And don’t get me started on the people who try to say that “traveling” is different from “vacationing” and that what they’re doing is travelling and not vacationing. Egads.
I went to a megachurch as a teenager. The kind with seating for thousands but still had two Sunday morning service times because everybody couldn’t fit into one.
The preacher loved to talk about how Christians are a persecuted minority.
Er, what? On what knowledge or experience are you basing that assessment of their claim? The ratio can vary widely depending on the specific job, but they’re not wrong. I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner at a psychiatric hospital. My previous role at this facility was in the ball park of 2-3 hours of chart time per 1 hour of patient face time. In my current role it’s more variable, but it’s still around 2 to 1. Mind you, that’s not all just typing notes or checking boxes - both roles necessarily involve a fair bit of reviewing of records too. And I’m not counting coordinating with the care team, communicating with family members, staff meetings that don’t pertain to patient care, mandatory training time, etc. etc…
On automation, I can’t speak for others but I don’t see much automation of my job happening before we have artificial general intelligence, which current “AI” plainly is not. Even using AI just to do automated visit summaries wouldn’t be useful for me given how much time I spend talking with patients about the content of their hallucinations and delusions, which is something a LLM simply can’t understand in any meaningful way that would allow for a logical/useful summary.
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Right, we know he’s racist; it’s the dead or alive part where we have uncertainty.
Yeah, one of the things that made me doubt my religious upbringing was the preacher repeatedly saying that Christians are a persecuted minority to a Sunday crowd of some 3000 people, in a church people nicknamed “Fort God” for its massive size, in a town where “on every street corner” really isn’t much of an exaggeration. In hindsight, it was laughably ridiculous.
Also, the literal military-worship on Sundays near Memorial Day and Veterans Day was a bit jarring even to the young, good-little-Christian me.
A lot of people I see on here lambasting Americans for not acting really don’t seem to grasp how hard it is to think about solving systemic problems when your every waking moment is consumed by worrying whether you’ll be able to feed your family today or keep a roof over their head tomorrow. Much of the US lives one or two missed paychecks from destitution. The fact that the standard of living generally is higher than in many countries doesn’t mean your kids are eating dinner tonight, and it certainly doesn’t mean you have leisure time to think about complex ideas like systems of government or equitable tax policy, let alone educate yourself about them. We have few safety nets, our culture actively maligns those who use them, and those in power are actively trying to eliminate them.
A revolution under these conditions will only happen when sufficient masses have lost all access to basic needs.
But haven’t you heard? All cities are crime-ridden hellscapes full of immigrants who will steal your job while also being lazy and collecting welfare, and who are brutish rapists/murderers but also sickly plague carriers, and who… don’t always speak English. 😱
Orphan Black: it’s hard to say much without spoiling it, but it’s one of the best series I’ve ever seen, and Tatiana Maslany’s acting is incredible. It’s
Battlestar Galactica, which others have mentioned already.
Stargate SG-1: my favorite show of all time. It’s the sort of scifi that makes you hopeful about the future of humanity. You don’t absolutely have to watch the movie first (it’s not as good as the series IMO, though worth watching) but it lends to more understanding of who some of the characters are.
Dr. Seuss. I really don’t know why, but that stuff is creepy and disturbing in a way that almost nothing else is. All of it. The art, the writing, the themes. I literally just can’t even.
Depends. Particulars vary by state, but if such a claim was made then the court would likely order a psychological evaluation. In my state, if they determined that because of a mental illness he was not competent to stand trial or lacked capacity to appreciate the (legally) wrongful nature of his (alleged) actions at the time of the alleged crime, then either the charges might be dropped or he might be found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. In either case, that often (particularly for violent crimes) results in judicial commitment to a psychiatric hospital. Which can often result in a longer term of confinement than the prison sentence would have been.
How embarrassingly juvenile.
washing yourself down with iso alcohol. Get a good scrub in. Then get that inner cleanse with a stiff shot.
But maybe grab the ethyl for the inner cleanse.
Wtf does that even mean. Pedal make go, steering wheel turn. What do I need AI for?!
I was hoping for Roy Wood Jr. I was sad when he left.
It said a protected bike lane, so relatively safe, and only irritating to people who really love sitting in car traffic. Facilitating alternative modes of transportation makes car life better by reducing traffic. Not to mention all the other benefits.
Next you’ll tell me trains are a bad idea.
And immunity can wane over time for some. I had to get the MMR series again when I started nursing school because I tested negative for rubella antibodies.