The listening and speaking exercises are helpful and worth doing regularly for beginners trying to get an "ear" for an unfamiliar language.

Oh dear, I didn't realize I said that if you can't solve everything with a single solution that we should give up. If I did, I'm terribly sorry because that would be completely wrong of me to say!

Manchester United F.C. is an Association football club established in 1878.

Stocks are kind of crazy at this level. You basically can get a credit line (like an LAL) for around half of the stock you hold. For some in the tech field they might have 1-5 million in assets they are treating as retirement. But can borrow from it tax free to write a check for a $2m home. Exactly the sort of shit that messed up the real estate market in the SF Bay Area. The rich don't have the same rules as the working class.

It's speculation. AI may become the biggest shift in the market and society in all of human history. Like telephone, internet, smartphone, and tractor all rolled into one massive paradigm shift.

I believe the intent of AI startups is to be in early to capture a slice of a potentially massive market. But I am less confident that the winners will automatically be the early adopters.

I'm white so I will probably just get pepper spray or taser at the most extreme.

But if I had a darker skin tone in the wrong neighborhood with the wrong cop, my life would really be on the line. Illegal choke hold or shot are a pig's favorite.

Various fascist factions will openly fight to control the White House. Actual votes or popularity won't matter. The winner will be the one who is the strongest, the most violent, and the most willing to commit brutal acts.

Amendments are desperately needed.
To address Citizen's United ruling.
To take the decision of abortion away from court ruling.
To clarify, one way or another, the intent and application of the second amendment.

Under the current political climate, there is essentially no way forward. This country can no longer adapt, it is at a dead end.

Internal development with the draft specification is already on everyone's roadmap. Product release of many vendors will be the same year as the final spec.

Science works one step at a time. I suppose if you are interested into getting to the root cause of things, then consider funding research and give out grants instead of waiting for there to be a business motive. (So like a normal country and not like the US approach to everything)

No, it's dirt cheap and and a medical dose is tiny. You are really paying for the processing and testing and not so much for the material.

Association football

For some 30% of US voters, it is a victory bell. Authoritarianism and fascism isn't some accident that happens in a vacuum. No, there has beem enough popular support to sustain the rhetoric and actions of fascists and bring about their rise to power. These guys aren't going away in 4 years, not without a fight.

Why would an individual police officer give a shit about how much the taxpayers have to spent to fix his mistakes? The million dollar injury and death lawsuits all over America hasn't altered standard practice or reformed police departments here, is there something special about policing in the UK that it would work there?

I don't have to play these games. But it is likely for any game that is competative. It would be like going down to your local basketball court to play a 2v2 game and having to get a drug test. Might happen if it ever gets easy enough to do a drug test because nobody likes cheaters.