Ah, but the problem isn't the idea of unions, it's unions as they exist in the US. Germany seems to have pretty good unions and labor law. American labor law was set up to build political machines more than to improve workers' lives.

Counterpoint: if you live in an area that begins to decline, renting means you have no albatross around your neck if you pick and leave.

As the saying goes, it's not enough to be smarter than every cop; you have to be smarter than all the cops put together.

MGI has a lot going for it. It's efficient as hell - cutting a check to every citizen once a month takes very few government employees. Everyone has free choice about how to spend the money. But there's the problem of assholes: what do you do when someone spends their MGI on crack? Do you let them starve or make them sleep on the streets? No, of course you don't, because we're not barbarians. So you introduce food stamps/EBT and subsidized/free housing. Pretty soon, you've re-created the entire modern welfare system, except that you now have MGI on top of it. Congratulations, you now have the worst of both worlds.

Renters do have a reasonable expectation of privacy within their curtilage, just as owners do - they have paid for exclusive, though time-limited, possession of a piece of property. As for filming guests in the home, ask a local lawyer.

You asked for an example. You got one. Move the goalposts much?

This might be how you think it should work, but that's not actually how it works.

I own a house. Name's on the deed and everything. In my house, I have a "reasonable expectation of privacy". But nobody who visits my house does, even if I'm not there. And in any case, you vacate your "reasonable expectation of privacy" the moment you tell anyone else about your secret.

Uh, no, they don't. It does require an intent to harm, but if I pull out a gun and shoot you in the leg, intending to cripple but not kill you, and you die anyway, I will correctly be charged with murder. And in this case, the perp is quite likely guilty of felony murder.

Sure. Sal Culosi. He's a long way from the only one, it's epidemic. Read pretty much anything by Radley Balko to learn more.

I think this is probably the hardest thing for post-internet people to understand. If you saw or heard someone make a reference to a literary work and didn't recognize it yourself (but could still tell it was referencing something), you had to track down someone who knew where to look. Reference desks at libraries basically existed to fulfill this function.

It's just what it sounds like. You take poop from one person and inject it into another person's colon. The goal is to transfer useful microbes. For obvious reasons, they generally try to use family members or spouses.

Which is why training in CPR/BLS (basic life support) is valuable - it explicitly teaches you to bypass the bystander effect and start ordering people what to do. When someone more qualified shows up, you can relinquish command, but until then, you're in charge.

No, you're probably doing it right. Most people don't push hard enough.

T&A = tits and ass; the implication is that men are seeking treatment because they aren't getting laid as much.

The problem with a two-stage system is the dew point and the distinction between absolute and relative humidity. There are nice cool springs in northern Florida that pump out water at a brisk 72 degrees F. Jump in them and you will cool off rapidly. But they cannot cool anything below 72 F, and at 100% relative humidity that isn't pleasant. In a dry climate, you can use two-stage coolers to do all the work. In a wetter climate, you can use them to reduce the energy demand of regular air conditioners, but you still can't use them to do all the work of making pleasant indoor air. You have to cut the relative humidity somehow, and that requires lower temperatures.