The UK's privitizaton model was crap because it mandated service and only allowed operators to compete on price paid to the UK government, ensuring that all operators were lowest bid and trying to spend the least money on running trains.

Divorcing running trains from maintaining track seems to work better on price since railroads owners are more incentivized to have more trains run on their tracks to gain revenue. However, this system seems to only be tested on rail systems with competent rail operators, which DB is not.

I do think that divorcing owning the tracks and owning the trains is something that should be forced on American rail companies.

Yeah, it isn't impossible. However, I expect there would be a radical rethink of food supply chains. This would likely include more grocery stores adopting the Aldi/Trader Joe's model of fewer brands and selection of product since the cost of differentiation gets borne more by the store. There would likely be an increase in public markets with several vendors as each vendor is effectively a brand of food.

I think enshittification will hit and don't grocery stores will either stop offering container sanitization as a service or will start selling the service independently and incorporating the higher cost in shelf products. Grocery stores operate on thin margins, so I expect this cost to get transferred to consumers somehow.

I also think a lot of existing companies will fight this tooth and nail as their bottling and canning lines provide a massive barrier to entry for competition. I also think a lot of customers will fight this since it radically changes how they shop.

Yeah, that's how I look at a lot of products. There will be faults and there are some red lines that I won't cross, but I'd rather a company have done minor faults, be open about them, and fix them rather than be brand new and possibly hiding a lot worse.

Ok, but even communist run systems wouldn't require the massive sorting system of hundreds of different types of glass jars. At best, they'd force standardization so there are only a few jar types in the country and make all labels easy to remove.

However, what most likely would happen is everything is going to be bring your own container and the shoppers are going to be responsible for cleaning the old jars.

Glass jars aren't reused because of the infrastructure required to reuse them. The only glass I can think of which is reused outside of the point of sale are soda and beer bottles, and that is only usually at restaurants which will collect the bottles they use to ship back.

Outside of a massive sorting facility in every supermarket generating no value for the store owner, the only other way to ensure bottle reuse would be subscription delivery like milk used to be or hyper focused stores which only sell a few products like how grocery shopping used to be.

How is this more expensive than the Slate?

Is there a reason it has to be a Bible reader and not an open source e-book reader with her favorite translation on it?

You have to remember that some of the colonies were over a century old and suffered under most of that time under benign neglect. The colonists were responsible for a lot, including some military self defense.

Militias were the primary form of that self defense, locally raised military units under local control including self selection of officers. If a colony needed to raise an army, it would mostly get these militia units pre-assembled. A lot of the American Revolution was fought with these units. These units also generally held loyalty to the colonies/states they were mustered in, not a higher entity.

The founding fathers may have included protections for individual armament, but a lot of the intent was to ensure that the new states could independently raise armies of militias in the same manner they did as colonies.

The Bill of Rights was also only intended for the federal government. At the time of its adoption, the Bill of Rights didn't bind the states; individual states could regulate the formation of militias as the ownership of guns. This was just the federal government binding itself from doing so.

I didn't know about it until your comment, but my first thought was "was it rape?"

Yeah, but when Brian McManus from Real Engineering made a video which somewhat defends Kurzgesagt in their issue with YouTube, it shows that the filter issue isn't just a problem with Kurzgesagt.

I also feel like they wanted to experiment with aliens being more alien. It's been a problem that Star Trek's original aliens aren't that alien.

You know how some people have imposter syndrome? More people should have it.