I can only imagine his medical team is made up of various mad scientist types as any decent healthcare professional should be refusing to treat him. Do no harm. ✌️😉

The youth are more susceptible to algorithm propaganda. The ones that didn't get sucked down the right wing rabbit hole took the Palestine protest vote bait.

The President in particular is very much a figurehead, he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had - he has already spent two of his ten Presidential years in prison for fraud. Very very few people realize that the President and the Government have virtually no power at all

You get a wee bit more time before sunrise wakes you

I used to love eyebuydirect, especially the replacement warranty. But their quality is lower and needs the warranty while Zenni is less expensive for higher quality 😁

Get your stormtroopers the starfish cloning, trooper loses an arm, wait a week and two troopers

My little dog hates the rain. Sometimes he asks to go out when it's raining and I'll just open the door, he'll take one look outside and go tuck into bed.

This comment will be sad if you don't engage with it.

Im having trouble parsing your first question, but I'll take a crack anyway.

I'd probably calculate tax based on what a vacant unit is available for, if it isn't available could do something like last known rent adjusted for market or calculations based on property value.

The idea being they'll list it for rent at a reasonable rate instead of keeping it off the market or keeping rent high in order to fill units.

Some dudes fourth property or a CEOs second apartment aren't the problems with housing though. It's investment capital grabbing properties and doing nothing with them. Buildings standing vacant because they weren't profitable enough. Empty lots we won't even let the homeless camp on.

A number of these properties are essentially abandoned, forgotten about by bankrupt companies where ownership is on an unsorted piece of paper in a filing cabinet. We've got an "affordable apartment complex" out here the company stopped building on quietly after the publicity ran out and it was no longer cost effective.

Resources hoarded and wasted for the rest of us to fight over scraps.

I usually get people asking for my number or socials when they're interested, asking out tends to happen over electronic communication after that.

My process is basically

1. Casual conversation- if you don't hit it off naturally here, let it go.
2. Reciprocal flirting
3. Exchange contact info
4. Develop friendship
5. Ask out directly
6. ???
7. Go back to 1

I also get told I'm very attractive in various verbage near daily so 🤷‍♀️

Idk, just be respectful and don't be pushy if they're trying to let you down (and pay attention for if they're trying to do it gently)

I'm brought to mind of the concept that any movement must have a peaceful branch for the system to acknowledge and meet demands for change as well as a "violent" branch to drive the opponents to the bargaining table. And within both of those is a need to take care of the community to enable them to continue to protest for change.

I think where these protests will succeed or fail is community coming together to take care of each other, with a safety net so many more people will be able to participate and make their voices heard.

Or in a resource based economy, production would be decided by the needs of the community at various scales and not driven by sales or profits.

I think the ideal is a system that provides UBI, Nutritious food distribution, needs based housing, universal healthcare, and job services that provide aptitude testing, training and placement.

If 30% can meet our needs, the other 70% should be sufficient to provide the system and framework and enough left over for consumption, luxury and still have room for meritocracy advancement.

What's the current wealth distribution? 10% holding 85% leaving the rest of us 15% only half of the 30 we need.