I didn't know id Software was still a thing, especially after John Carmack left. What are they even doing now?

Sounds like some good learnin', but Republicans, "Conservatives" and MAGA don't really want a well-rounded, well-educated electorate who can think for themselves, especially if it would disadvantage those in charge.

Over the next quarter or five-ten years? 'Cause U.S. companies only really seem to care about the former, while the Chinese seem to care more about the latter.

To be fair, they don't all hoard all of it; some buy really, really expensive yachts - and slightly less expensive backup yachts for those yachts - or media companies, like TikTok and Paramount, a Nth back-up mansion, or donate money to the President for favors, etc...

Don't worry, all the cuts and changes by RFK, Jr. will even things out. /s

Where would we deport them to?

That will just mean media is no longer produced in New York.

True, but I figure it'll be built into the next version of Microsoft Flight Simulator.

I was paid $35 per donation, and was allowed to donate up to three times per week.

So, $105 / week or $5,460 / year.

That would be about $10k / year in 2025 dollars.

The clinic was a ten minute walk from my workplace, so I'd walk there and back on my MWF lunch breaks.

People will have to pay $20/month for a browser w/o AI. :-(

Was the test available at the time? Did other sperm banks check for this mutation?

Way more than that. It was 200 babies, not 200 attempts. The success rate of artificial insemination is about 20%, so that's 1000 squirts.

I was a sperm donor back in the 1990s.

The donors aren't "random".

They are screened for general health, genetic defects, and academic achievement. I had to show my college transcripts, provide a blood sample, and have a medical examination.

TFA describes a screwup that only happened because a test for the condition wasn't available. But many other tests were done, so the odds were still better than an old-fashioned insemination.

Many of the recipients are women in nuclear families, whose husbands have fertility problems.

"The previous management replaced the stairs at the entrance of our building with ramps because ramps allow more people access and are the norm for all new buildings being constructed. Stairs are more professional than ramps so were are tearing out the ramp and putting stairs back in."

Yes. Fucking asshole.

I can understand fiscal conservative viewpoints. What I can't understand is why conservatives in general are (very nearly) all so nasty.

(a) Declare bankruptcy.
(b) Use money to buy - I mean, lobby for - I mean get pardon. (Will work for 3 more years)
(c) Successively rename company: "MacroStrategy", "MegaStrategy", ... "MAGAStrategy".
(d) Goto "a".

Yup. Meeting emissions goals too hard? Roll them back. Safety regulations hard? Roll them back. Pensions cost too much? Cancel them. Pollution limits too hard? Ignore them. We're in a stage where the only acceptable level of profit is "all of it" and no other consideration is considered.