You know, if I had all the FICA money that went to the Feds on my account over the years, either with interest applied or inflation-adjusted with a reasonable real interest rate added, my personal savings would be even healthier than they are. The reason people like me don't want to have Social Security and Medicare stripped is that we have been forced to pay for these all of our working lives, and we think we deserve at least something of what we paid for.

Sorry, but you were robbed. You didn't "pay in" to anything - you money was taken and given to your grandparents (as well as being spent by politicians to buy votes).

You can justly complain all you want about how unfair this is, and you can try to take up the issue with the people who actually robbed you, but you have no right whatsoever to inflict the same robbery on your descendants. They aren't the ones who robbed you, so they aren't responsible for it.

You also had your entire life to prepare for retirement, and at ample warning going all the way back to the 1980s about how the system was financially unsustainable, so if you didn't heed the warnings and aren't prepared now, that's also not your descendants' fault.

Funny how they've have forgotten they will get old one day too, and get screwed over by their own policies.

The will rediscover the value of personal savings, and won't rely on a Ponzi scheme for their retirement plan.

The generation who doesn't vote is busy building technology which renders the politicians' mandates increasingly-impossible to enforce.

By the time that generation is done, it won't matter what the politicians say anymore because math will trump force.

That's the possibility that should really terrify the Boomers and make them clamour for increased surveillance - the possibility that their grandchildren might have both the means and the desire to avoid paying the payroll taxes which keep the Boomers' monthly checks flowing.

and from recently released documents he was 100% correct

It's shocking exactly how easy it is to verify this fact and how little difference that has made to the narrative.

Clearly the people who continue to verbally attack McCarthy aren't attacking him for being incorrect - they're attacking him for being right.

conspiracy theorist here. i've got nothing.

Really?

I would have thought the description of how the copilot behaved would have brought out some MKUltra speculation by now.

Schools are boredom generators which teach students to loathe and fear learning.

Putting coding in the schools is a great way to plow salt into the fields and demoralize the next generation of programmers.

Fuck blue LEDs.

Amen.

Why isn't this headline, "Game Theory Called Into Question for Failing to Predict Observed Examples of Cooperation?"

Virginia class boats will also be SLBM platforms. Just don't have any yet.

Read again; I said "capable of being configured". What I said means that some of them will be configured as trident missile boats, not reconfigured after construction. That being said, it is possible that a boat could be reconfigured as well. Some of the Ohio class boats have been reconfigured as SSGNs, carrying a massive load-out of tomahawk missiles instead of trident missiles with some of the tubes reconfigured to support SEAL deployment.

The Virginia class is also going to replace the Ohio class "boomers" - Virginia is modular and capable of being configured for every submarine mission needed today.

Don't assume that anyone involved with Bitcoin since the beginning had any illusions about how it would be received by the incumbents.

Bitcoin early adopters are more prepared for the conflict than the incumbents, because they knew a fight was coming before the incumbents knew Bitcoin existed.

And since there are precious few "jobs" available to neckbeards

...until the nerds invented Bitcoin.

is obvious