That sounds scary. I'm frightened now, and ready to turn to the government to protect me. I'm sure it won't cost too much liberty. Just a little.

Well I know where the editor stands on this topic. The problem is, I shouldn't.

Difficulty breathing resulting in the need to intubate? That could be Covid.

The MRSA, on the other hand, he likely caught at the hospital, as a result of the intubation and a weakened immune system.

No reason it needs to be any more than that.

I was just looking at Windows 11 and saying to myself, "What I really need is more ways to sign in to a Microsoft account." My life is now complete.

The C levels are the fall guys for the board members, who are puppets themselves. What you say is factual, but what it means is there isn't even enough public reaction to make the upper level fall guy fall.

I'm completely sure United Healthcare has been punished for this already. Aren't we supposed to be arguing red vs blue right now?

The point isn't whether a ban on Tiktok would have positive or negative consequences, or the severity. it's whether allowing the federal government to ignore the constitution is acceptable.

Sorry, Sweden took that crown decades ago and still holds it.

There has been a lot of talk about Chinese science being stolen, derivative, and outright made up but you can't fake these kind of results. It takes expertise in many areas, innovation, and a whole lot of hard work. I, for one, would like to congratulate China and the people involved for this outstanding achievement.

I've said it before. Whatever group or country puts a base on the moon and defends it as territory will own the moon. If they can maintain a monopoly on military force over the entire moon's surface they will own the entire moon. Whether it's for bragging rights, research. exotic isotopes, helium, or solar panel space. Treaties be damned. You own what you protect.

The anti-sex feminists don't like men fapping to women. The anti-sex conservatives don't like men fapping at all. So they get together to ban anything fappable. Replace fap with having sex with, staring at, trying to pick up, taking pictures of, etc etc. It's been happening for decades. It will keep happening until the conservatives lose their puritan roots.

how much is the cheapest TV today compared to the 90s

You can't eat your TV. You can't drive your TV to the grocery store. You can't take your TV into the bank and get a home loan, nor can you take your TV to a home seller and get a reasonable price. You can't hand it to the university and be handed back an education. You can't give your doctor your TV and receive surgical or even preventive care or the meds you need.

Your problem (other than the root one of spewing disingenuous nonsense) is that you're looking at the pricing in the electronics sector and pretending it's representative of the extremely high basic living costs I called out (which of course it is not) — nowhere did I say anything about either the pricing of electronics or the need for a TV to achieve a reasonable cost of living. Nor should you have. But here we are.

Allow me. He said, 'Wealthy industrialists control this technology, but don't worry: when the unemployment causes too much misery the miserable will revolt. After the torches and pitchforks we shall have heads on pikes"

"Women over 40 have the lowest birth rate" shouldn't come as a shock to anyone

Older does tend to mean wiser, after all. Well... okay, for some people.