It's transaction fees that are the problem with credit cards.

"Now that same mob has blocked me for trying to bring an intellectually diverse group of thinkers and editors to the site," Translation: "That mob blocked my mob!!!!". Sorry he lost me there, I was sympathetic earlier, but he blew it with that.

Yes. There's no reason to force people who don't want one to buy one.

Like it doesn't make any sense. What does "ownership" do?

All software is licensed.

The flying system seems to be the same one used in Thunderbirds.

I think at one time they did say they had antigravity of some sort. Apparently all it can do is make the ship weightless, and you need rockets in order to make it move around or change it's velocity.

The moon base set, as well as a lot of the models, were built for continuing the show UFO which was pretty successful at the time. That however got cancelled in the USA, and they had to come up with some new idea that reused the sets. That led to this strange story...

and they'd have to pay income tax to raise the money to pay the wealth tax, too, so its' a double whammy.

While I'm generally OK with this we need to change the rules to stop them from accruing the wealth to begin with.

Orbital Factories are unlikely to employ very many human workers.

For used cars, at least, I would like to test-drive the actual one I am buying. It is not clear from the description whether this is possible though.

It works with subsidized phone plans. So not sure what you are trying to get at here.

on the grid. Use stationary batteries that you can replace without throwing out the car with it.

Apparently none have been seen over Epstein island

Look up what an "average" is

Every web site needs your phone number, every online order... Businesses don't take cash any more. Every web site tracks you and sells data to the brokers. Only Linux installs without an email address and phone number for 2FA and password recovery. Video games, every chat app (maybe not mumble?), every birdhouse camera, even the freaking doorbells want an account! Eye glasses are doing face recognition!

This fight was lost decades ago, and now we have to live with it.

Where the grades coming from? They're not a gospel, the grades are being decided by professors. So the professors grade lower, and then they're "observing" lower grades. Hypocrisy for media attention!