No, it means you're going to wait longer and pay more for work that depended on undocumented workers. Which means you will buy less. I think you really do not understand that the availability of affordable labor creates whole markets for things that wouldn't otherwise exist.

For example, if you remove all the highschool kids from an town, it does not mean lawn care professionals claw back jobs and higher pay for mowing lawns over the summer, it means a bunch of consumers exit the market for lawn mowing entirely because they were already not going to pay Professional Lawn Care and Plumbing Co, BEFORE the sudden lose of a bunch of workers.

You're literally fucking with an end of the economy that has no replacement. It's the same reason killing the used car market doesn't lead to more new car sales the way you'd want. I don't want anyone, immigrants or young people, or elderly, anyone, to be exploited or abused, period. We do not have too many workers in this country, that is fucking ridiculous.

And then housing, OMfG seriously, do you have any fucking idea the scale of what you're talking about? We're still just crawling back to not even pre-pandemic levels.
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Why do I have to look shit up for you people.

I thought _every_ convertible did that, because the windows seal with the roof of the car. An old Ford Mustang is definitely not high tech.

I've driven one on a dead alternator and dying battery, you just push the door open, the glass is pressed into a soft rubber seal and pops out a little less than gracefully. Obviously the dead battery and alternator are the bigger concern because you're not going anywhere.

Who complains about window motors on a convertible ffs?

What you have there is a really good argument for seeding your commercial shipping industry with reserve naval officers in case of widespread war which requires commercial fleets to aide the war effort. Or natural disasters, etc.

THAT is strategic as fuck, badass, and in absolutely no way justifies the existence of any of the other service academies. All of the other ones are vestigial limbs. It's like if some of us had tails. Would I cut it off, hell no. Is it good for something, sure I mean we all need good balance. Would you be looking for reasons to make more tails? If we were doing this all from scratch do you need one?

The United States Marine Corps has a better leg to stand on for getting its own service academy, and I'll straight up call that retarded and gay right now. It somehow, magically, manages to retain culture and traditions without some special clubby school for a fraction of the officers. WOW! But hey man if you came through Annapolis, good for you bud, I have friends that swing that way, nothing but love for y'all seriously.

There is absolutely no reason to create a new service academy other than some dumb legacy building bullshit. It does not fit your merchant marine example, because what in the hell do you even need a bunch of reserve space force officers for, at fucking all, and you're not going to tap them to run space oil tankers for the war or pickup refugees from the Moon.

So what in the hell is it for then, a four year STEM focused BS, steeped in the traditions and values of ... the space force? Do you fucking need that right now, I mean ever? What is it exactly that you get out of this that you don't from Texas A&M ROTC graduates for example.

When you say people are poisoning the blood of our country it does sort of color you a shade of evil that it's hard to come back from by doing things like questioning our constitution's plain text birthright citizenship guarantee, calling people animals, garbage, and making up stories about them eating cats and dogs for literally no reason other than bigotry and hatred.

Then going from barking about the debt and foreign intervention to ... more debt and foreign intervention, trying to build himself monuments. Why should I take him at his word?

He is legit the most fucked up president we have ever had, so everything looks like TDS. Maybe if you made a good faith effort to balance the budget or actually lower federal spending.. instead of creating another fucking service academy?? For the weird branch of the military he created ... which is still mostly civilians.

Their track record is terrible and it's owned by a cult. ... but you'd probably call that a bonus huh.

Then why are we paying more for everything? Debt is at a new high, the cost of debt is higher, groceries are high, gas is high. When was the last time you took your family out for lunch? How could removing workers even help the economy? I don't think this was thought through all the way.

Not to mention you're on the hook for developing all of the production which doesn't happen overnight.

What idiot told you majority means all? 55/45 is a majority, dumbass.

Rentals follow housing prices which are moving because of lower demand and higher mortgage rates.

That's why it's playing out over the whole country. Dumbass.

Meanwhile, what those evil liberals think should happen to YOU is... that you be given healthcare and a general social safety net.

They've been launching dummysats from Starship for a number of launches now, so I'm not sure why you think they're "forever away". The only reasons they've been using dummysats and not actual satellites is 1) Not wanting to risk more valuable payloads thusfar, and 2) wanting to keep Starship suborbital (e.g. trajectory that reintersects the atmosphere) at just under orbital velocity until they can verify deorbit reliability (failure to do so would leave that massive ship falling onto a random point on Earth).

If they were to choose to, they could start launching payloads on all subsequent Starship missions, even if they're not yet ready for reliable recovery or quick reuse. In fact, given the killing off of Falcon 9 in Florida, one can presume that's the plan (if not immediately, then soon).

Um... no they're not?

Further reading: Musk's other unstated reasons for shutting down Falcon 9 in Florida (Behind The Black)

TL/DR, the author thinks that SpaceX shutting down Falcon 9 launches from Florida was secretly a magnanimous gesture by a charitable Elon Musk to boost the competition:

I therefore honestly believe that SpaceX’s decision was not entirely based on its own internal needs. Those needs certainly were the main motive, but based on Elon Musk’s passionate dream of making the human race multi-planetary, as well as his repeated willingness to help his competitors when they needed SpaceX to launch their satellites, I believe he recognized that SpaceX’s dominance could be hurting the rest of the rocket industry, and that the instant it made business sense to clear the field for these competitors, he was quite willing to do so.

LOL.

Yes, I remember way back when Mike Pence had nearly absolute unchecked authoritarian power.

CAIS: Male or female?

Swyer Syndrome: Male or female?

What is "sex" (let alone gender)? Of the numerous axes, each with their subaxes:

1. Genetic:

* Karyotype (including mosaicism and chimericism)
* SRY presence / absence
* Gene presence, expression, and functionality (SOX9, RSPO1, WNT4, DMRT1, FOXL2, WT1, SF1, DHH, CBX2, AR, SRD5A2, HSD17B3, CYP19A1, etc)
* Müllerian inhibiting factor (AMH/AMHR2) expression and reception
* Epigenetic regulation (imprinting, methylation, chromatin remodeling)
* Androgen expression and reception

2. Gonadal

* Gonadal Type (ovaries, testes, ovotestes, streak gonads, dysgenetic gonads)
* Gonadal Function (steroidogenic capacity, gametogenic potential)
* Gonadal Position (abdominal, inguinal, scrotal/labial, absent)
* Germ Cell Presence/Absence (oocytes, spermatogonia, none)
* Gonadal Hormone Secretion (androgens, estrogens, AMH, inhibin)

3. Hormonal Axes

* Androgen levels (testosterone, DHT, androstenedione)
* Estrogen levels (estradiol, estrone)
* Progestogen levels (progesterone)
* Gonadotropin levels (LH, FSH)
* AMH levels (high in males, low in females)
* Adrenal androgens (DHEA, DHEAS in CAH)
* Hormone sensitivity (AR mutations, ER mutations)

4. Internal Reproductive Structures

* Vaginal Canal (depth, presence of cervix)
* Ejaculatory Ducts (patent, atretic)
* Wolffian Duct Derivatives (epididymis, vas deferens, seminal vesicles) - present, absent, or partially developed
* Müllerian Duct Derivatives (uterus, fallopian tubes, upper vagina) - present, absent, or partially regressed
* Prostate/Skene’s glands (size, functionality)

5. External Genitalia Axes

* Phallus structure (clitoris, penis, or intermediate)
* Size (micropenis, clitoromegaly)
* Urethral position (hypospadias, normal)
* Labioscrotal folding (labia majora, scrotum, bifid scrotum, fused labia)
* Vaginal opening (present, absent, urogenital sinus)
* Perineal configuration (distance from anus, midline fusion)

6. Secondary Sex Characteristics (e.g. post-pubertal)

* Breast development (Tanner stages, gynecomastia, absent)
* Body hair distribution (androgenic vs. non-androgenic patterns)
* Voice pitch (androgen-dependent deepening)
* Muscle/fat distribution (male vs. female typical)
* Bone structure (pelvic width, shoulder breadth)
* Larynx size (Adam’s apple prominence)

7. Reproductive Functional Axes

* Fertility status (fertile, subfertile, infertile)
* Gamete production (spermatozoa, ova, none)
* Menstrual status (eumenorrheic, amenorrheic, dysmenorrheic)
* Spermatogenic capacity (azoospermia, oligospermia, normal)
* Ovarian reserve (normal, diminished, premature failure)

8. Neurological & Behavioral Axes

* Brain sexual dimorphism (SDN-POA, BSTc, corpus callosum)
* Gender identity (congruent or incongruent with anatomy)
* Sexual orientation (androphilic, gynephilic, bisexual, asexual)
* Prenatal androgen exposure effects (CAH-related behavioral shifts)

There is no "single thing called sex". It is a vastly multidimensional space. The parameters in this space are *correlated* but not inherently causal. If you define purely based on any one factor, you come up with ludicrous consequences like pregnant women being classed as men or whatnot.

Furthermore, each subaxis has varying degrees of (A) malleability, and (B) impact on daily life. Some are highly malleable, others not at all with current technology. But it just so happens that the subaxes that impact daily life the most tend to be the most malleable, while the ones that impact it the least tend to be the least malleable. For example, the presence of SRY is not at all malleable, and yet it's also entirely irrelevant to a person's daily life. Yet curiously, "sex essentialists" always try to come up with their definitions based on subaxes that fall into the latter category, not the former category.

For the concept of "other sexes" (your words) to exist, you have to be able to have an essentialist definition of what one's immutable sex is (otherwise, the concept of there being some immutable "other sex" is incoherent). So what is your balance of the above axes, how did you reach that as being the most logical conclusion, and how would you respond to someone raising the case of someone who fits one sex within your definition but is flipped on most / all of the other axes?