Well, yes, there are trades. But the data shows that non-degree workers *as a whole* are earning about 25% less than they were in 1980.

You probably don't know any trans people personally. I grew up with the same beliefs about transgender people you have, until I actually got to know some of them. As impossible as it is for us to understand and as nonsensical as it appears to us, it's clearly not something most trans people choose.

It's OK for people to be different in ways we don't understand. Nobody has a duty to make sense to *us*. In any case, only about 0.6% of the population identify as transgender. Even if you completely outlawed gender reassignment surgery an gender-affirming care, it wouldn't budge the fertility needle even assuming trangender people decided to have children -- which they won't.

Of course, there's a counter example for any theory about people in general, so there's probably someone out there who chose it as a lifestyle. But that's just not the norm.

Also, employment is a lot less stable than it used to be. When I entered the workforce in the early 80s it was still common for people who were retiring to have worked for the same company all their lives. Young people now live in a gig economy; if they *do* work for a company, often they don't know how many hours they'll get from week to week.

And while things like TVs are cheaper than ever, essentials are often far more expensive. Median rents for a studio apartment in the US were about $250 when I got out of school; today they're $1200. If you have income twice the poverty rate and you follow the advice we were given back then to spend no more than 20% of your income on housing, you'd be looking to pay $483/month in rent. In most of the US even if you have roommates you'll be spending over $1000 per month.

Today it's more economically important to have a degree than ever. While wages for new college graduates have increased only modestly, wages for non-college graduates have dropped since the 1980s. Let's say you're thrifty and decide to commute to a state college. Your four year costs have risen from $3,200 to over $44,000. So families in their prime reproductive years are burdened with debt; it takes years to overcome that and to raise.

We often take poor families to task for being irresponsible and having children they can't afford, but the fertility rate in families below the poverty line isn't that high and it's remained steady for decades. What's happened is that the fertility rate at 200% of the poverty line has crashed.

Most women, with access to contraception and abortion, are doing what we told them is the responsible responsible thing. But if they *all* did it, it would be a demographic catastrophe.

Does AOSP not support Chinese input?

BTW, Heliboard is available from Izzy and is open source and does good (non-nudge) prediction locally.

It's too bad that it took DoT to enforce the most basic tenets of commerce law when ostensibly that's the Courts' job or even the FTC when courts fail.
Good to see corruption only wins 99% of the time!

That's likely only the beginning for him. Roman almost certainly requires all his employees to pray at the shrines of Ron Paul and Ayn Rand on a daily basis as well. Roman's religious devotion is key to everything he says and does.

So, this confirms why Huawei was banned. Blame the uk since they worked with Huawei to secure their products...until the USA ordered the UK to stop doing so and instead ban Huawei.

I missed where it said anyone was spying. In fact, I'd be amazed if this wasn't being exploited by the CIA (et al) more than anyone else - after all, they're the masters of spying.

...don't tell everybody!

Jacobsen's Algorithm wasn't widely implemented until the 90's and you know it.

It works out to $638/per registered car.

...when it's a happy announcement for most people. Biden fans on social media are pointing out "Two big Biden deliveries for the working class, same day: overtime pay required, and non-competes forbidden. Of course, the MEDIA ignore it."

The sniffiness would be more annoying if they weren't basically correct. The FTA is "Biden's FTA", much, much, much more than the DOJ is "Biden's DOJ" because of independence traditions that Biden respects. Neither change for workers would have occurred under any Republican administration. This is a very, very partisan issue and the American Democratic Party delivering the stuff they say they'll fight for.

But "overtime" is not a string of letters I can find on the Times or Post this morning. Only one mentions "The FTC" banning noncompetes, as if it would have happened under any administration; and that, in a story about a prompt lawsuit opposing it. Slashdot, above, credits "The US" for the win.

I think some recent focus groups had working people looking blank when asked if Biden has done anything for them. That's on the Democrat communications people, of course, but, man, the news media do hate to help them.

One human pyromaniac with a bic lighter can probably do more damage.

I'm picturing a robot powered dog sled.

Woksters? I see the proposal to take smartphones - and screens in general - from teenagers and adolescents as being a very progressive thing to do. I can see how some people might be opposed to it becoming any sort of law, but I see the suggestion as being solidly rooted in evidence. I'm reading "The Anxious Generation" right now myself, and the studies that the book is based on have exceptionally clear results.