INCOME TAX + SS + Medicare + State Income + State and local Sales + Gas + property + plates + fees + utility franchise fees + workers comp tax + tolls +liquor taxes + other sin taxes + corporate income tax + a whole bunch of stuff
is going to come pretty dang close to the 51.1% for the median family.. The numbers can be moved around some, but taxes are paid something fierce. We just break is down into chunks that each seem fair, some of it falls on the employer, so it is hidden.
I'd take 51.1% total tax in a heartbeat to have really good government services. I'm paying pretty close to that for a system with few safety nets, few employee protections, and for insurance that has been pillaging the population.

Sweden isn't utopia. But I don't hear horror stories from my friends who are Swedish nationals.

Just loitering around the placed they were waiting for dialysis?

Some organism anchor in one place, and hunker down, relying on the external forces to spread their offspring. This has worked for plants for a long time. We have the ability to sense dangers that no other animal can, to plan an escape from a multitude of catastrophes. We don't wait around for misfortune to find us when we know it's coming. We don't stand in the middle of the street just because we will eventually die.

It isn't egotism to give the people a better chance at survival. We take the steps today so that there is a chance that we won't screw it up when it matters. Today we are the beneficiaries of the work done by the people of the last hundred years. It seems a waste to sit down on the railroad tracks and wait for the train to hit us. Doing this as a species is immoral cowardice.

Storm

And how did we make spider goats without psychics? I mean the cover story of genetic work is a good one, but clearly impossible.

It should have been "Do you feel more or less susceptible to the Dunning-Kreuger Effect than the general populace?"
but this put a little lipstick on the question.

While Dolly did take quite a few tries, cloning goats proved to be a whole lot easier.
That said, humans are probably trickier, as we have hidden estrus and a longer gestation process.

Um.. it worked in Wyoming, millions into a supercomputer to attract more tech companies.

You have a system that reviews the reviewers, allowing for weighted values of reviews. Not that slashdot users would have heard of mod points or metamoderating.

What I want are the full instructions on how to get software X to function on a known good configuration.
I'm talking ALL the instructions, as in I have a box with the minimum Fedora v 26 install, what are all the keystrokes that I will need to install this software. No assuming that I will have X set up some way on my machine, or that I've installed the right version of Mesa3D, or that vim is installed.

I don't want to find out that I'm hunting down some bug because yum install kerberos installed MIT kerberos instead of Hemidall kerberos.
I want this because almost everyone skip steps they consider obvious. The puzzle is so much easier to figure out when you can look at the picture on the lid.

Baah... The kicker is that The Doctor is like your uncle when your three years old. Sure the monster in the shoe-box is scary, but your uncle know's it's only a sock. boom now he's running from the monster too, all good fun. Figuring out how to stop a sock monster is fun, but not a real threat.
The Doctor has technology that is so insane that it dwarfs any problem he's in. Heck, the sonic screwdriver is probably much bigger on the inside, utilizing power that might rival a small star.
The plot holes are amazingly huge.. 2 companions get trapped in NYC past. because it's tough to get a Tardis to them, they never consider taking a plane to London or LA. Or having the long lived doctor just park early and just meet them in NYC in a few years. Now either the Doctor has horrible writers, or they are ok with the Doctor stranding his friends in a workable past.
The deus ex machina is the goal of most of the episodes.

Ok,
1. Ban corporations from politics. The government is for the people. No money, no lobbying.
2. Require "news" to be a purely independent enterprise (syndicated) with barriers that prevent monetary coercion.
3. Change the law drafting practices. So a complex law cannot simply be drafted by a corporation that create calculated loopholes. The people "hacking" the legal system really need to be stymied.
Any of the above would be a huge boon the country.

only the 8250, the 16450 and 16550 were slackers.

And I'd bet if asked if he REALLY understood Linux, he'd be saying nope.
There is something to be said for being comfortable with not knowing everything.

I snagged one of the keyboards a couple years back. Nothing else compares for typing. I have an old das keyboard, which is very good, and feels so much better for fps gaming. The F key lost some clickyness. but it's still an awesome choice to type on. The big kicker is that it has the windows key (nifty for moving windows on multiscreens) and a usb interface. It has a freaky long cord which can be handy. The loud clicks can be a bit rough on coworkers.

Good coding style can catch those mistakes.
A normal function
if (state=1) {do stuff;}
has some issues, but with a consistent style
if (1 = state) {do stuff;}
GCC will throw a compile time error that it obvious, rather than strange behavior that has to be hunted down.
Style is far more than tabs and spaces. When and how variables are initialized, do you populate them with error flags, do you have some byzantine check for correctness states. Or do you have a big pile of intermediate variables to determine the state. Do you have a assume true with a disprove, or assume false with a prove X as true.
style matters