What if SpaceTime was found to be a field (emitted by mass)? A field that has an electromagnetic possibility.

Interestingly, both boys and girls are heavily influenced as children. Boys are influenced not to cry. You seem them cry fairly often up until about puberty, but even before puberty, they already cry less often than girls do. That is a direct effect of the social programming that we subject our children to.

Girls are taught to be pretty princesses that will carry babies. Of what use is detailed intricate thought when your entire reason for existing is to be an attractive mate? Maybe we should look a little more closely at exactly what we are subjecting our children to? I get all sorts of creeped out when I am watching modern children shows. Sooooooo many assumptions about gender roles despite verbiage designed to appear to say something different.

You have to get them before they are two. By the time they are two, they are already inundated with stories about what role a female can play. How many three year old girls run around calling themselves a pretty princess? Where do they get such ideas? The cartoons and kids shows that are being used to distract the children so the adults can do whatever adults want to do.

I have seen this play out in front of my eyes dozens of times in my lifetime. :(

Executives taking a pay cut? LOL, they would actually have to believe in what they are doing rather than merely virtue signalling for money. The grift was not profitable enough is all.

There is an interesting thing about 'poverty in America'. You can't see it when it is right in front of your face. They are dressed like you, they have a phone and a car like you, they don't really behave like you, but you won't interact with them much to actually realize the difference. The main difference is that they are not really making it and sometime soon, they will be homeless. It might be something simple like their car getting towed unexpectedly from their paid for spot. They need $300 that they just don't have right now. Sure, it will get refunded later, but they need to have to that $300 right now... and they don't have it. So they get fired from their job because they had COVID and missed some time previously, so there is no time available now.

Think about stupid shit like that cratering millions of lives over time.

You should be grateful for your position in society if I did not just describe your position.

(bonus: the poor are fat. Fatter than the wealthy. It is not because they get to eat like pigs, it is because their food is filled with chemicals that make fat adhere to the body. All so you never see sagging skin and bones on the starving. The poor are hidden very well in our society.)

The term 'good enough' is purely a judgement call. We attempt to base that call in Reality; however, the actual reality is that the thing you are trying to do is imperfect.

Imperfection can be a problem or not, depending upon your point of view. If you have a list of requirements and those requirements are all met, despite the lack of perfection, then 'good enough' is called... but who makes that list of requirements? Who decides that the imperfections will not materially affect our experience of the issue?

Good enough is good enough when you are a manufacturer and you build a billion devices and find that less than 1% defect rate is good enough; however, to the purchaser, finding 1% of what they bought is garbage may not be good enough.

Good enough is not good enough for everyone. It is a judgement call. How could it be good enough for everyone?

Change the location of where your VPN drops you out. They, Reddit, are likely filtering out unauthenticated users from your exit location for legal reasons.

Proton works amazingly well. Between it and WINE, Linux gaming is pretty good (as long as your hardware configuration is good and fully supported by properly functioning and configured drivers)

I have an all AMD setup. In theory, it is the simplest and easiest method for getting good results; however, the reality is that having an Nvidia card ends up working much more smoothly and reliably... and you get the bonus of having AI processing power.

If I have hyperthreading enabled and running a stock Linux Mint distribution, then all cores go to 100% usage while the mouse is moving. Disabling hyperthreading turns this down to a max of 30% usage across all cores. Go go troublefree Linux gaming!

It works fine as a second factor. As a primary and only factor, biometrics (who knew that biometrics wasn't a word? When did Mozilla decide this?) is not really a lock at all.

Even worse, there isn't even a crisis at the border. The crisis is entirely internal. Someone is paying those illegal immigrants for work. Find them and prosecute them and illegal border crossings go to almost nil.

But then, who will work the agricultural jobs and other low level jobs for less than subsistence wages?

The percentage of society needed for the military has indeed dropped dramatically. So that prophecy came true. Here is another prophecy for you:

Ultimately, it will be one man (not a woman), controlling the entire armed robotic army, oppressing the entire world. Assuming the human race does not end itself prior to that ending.

Good. We are reading from the same book here. Reality must be observed and dealt with, not emotions and feelings.

There is at least 1/3 of the population in a healthy society that is unable to work. This group will be comprised of children and the elderly. Both groups are a net negative on society when viewed from the "immediately useful" category. We can easily discard the elderly as they have already served their purpose and no more use will be had out of them. But that still leaves children. They *might( be valuable in the future, but there is no guarantee.

So, should we let those immediately useless people die from exposure and lack of resources?

From a utilitarian perspective, the answer is yes. The kids that makes it should be stronger than those who didn't. Discarding the elderly will also save a fortune in medical care.

But what does being so utilitarian do to a society (unless good propaganda is used)? Well, who cares what the elderly think? They will be dead soon. So that doesn't matter... but what about the little boy who just loves grandma? What happens to his world view when he sees his grandma being discarded callously?

But let's get to where we are right now. Should a shopkeeper hire more help when their business starts having more customers? The obvious answer is: Yes. But, currently, the shopkeeper can not afford to pay a person enough to actually live. Rent and food cost more than the profits that the shopkeeper is making.

Or to look at it another way: Should a relatively unskilled 9-5 job pay enough to provide food and shelter to a person?

If the pay rate is only enough (which it currently isn't) to maintain one person, what about the third of society that we discussed earlier that can not work?

A modern day Holocaust without the Zyklon B.

If you REALLY want to play that game, Return the homes that the settlers took, then we can start talking about releasing the hostages.

Do you see how stupid that game is to play? BOTH sides need to back the fuck down. Both sides are committing atrocities that beget more atrocities. In a sane world, the entire world would hold both parties down until they can figure out a solution to their issues. But here we are where random people are cheering on different sides, which is ultimately a vote for more atrocities to be committed.

Work towards peace, not winning. Peace *IS* winning.

International relations.

Running the health systems is completely the purview of the Provinces. The major requirements of the Canada Health Act are mostly in terms of what services are offered (so that we don’t have a nationally fractured system where basic procedures aren’t universal).

Other than that, there is the health transfer from the Federal Government down to the Provinces — but the Provinces aren’t supposed to rely solely on that transfer to fund their health care systems. And that money typically doesn’t come with any strings attached (other than it be used for healthcare).

Crumbling systems are entirely the fault of the Provinces. The licensing of Doctors happens at the Provincial level (albeit by the various Provincial colleges), training and education happens at the Provincial level, hiring of Doctors and Nurses happens at the Provincial level, and the construction of hospitals happens at the Provincial level. And those are the parts of the system that have been failing, and mostly because successive Conservative Provincial governments have been starving the system.

Yaz