Yes I love having my parents close, free baby sitters who would pay for the privilege.
Fortunately they also took good care of themselves and are not popping expensive patent encumbered pharmaceuticals.
In addition they invested wisely and saved to cover their expenses for retirement.
They did well to support multiple children who are very successful and more than capable of returning the favor of caring for them in their old age.
It is a blessing.

It is sad to watch families who will not take each other in, nor support each other.
I have been fortunate and blessed enough to put a roof over a few people's heads that were not my biological brother or sisters and help get them back on their feet.
It is very rewarding, and if the government stopped trying to steal from me I am sure I could do more.

There are people who need help, some legit, others perhaps less.
The government is about the worst entity I have seen for the job.
Maybe your religious faction gets power, but then eventually things swing the other way and all that power you shored up is used to slap you around.

Why do we need the government for healthcare or retirement?
If you believe the people should group their money together to pay for those who have less, why wait for the government to do it?
Why do it by force stealing money from others?
If it is such a good plan then people will be happy to pay in and contribute in many ways.
If you do it privately than no elected clown can come in and take it away, abuse it, pervert it, because you own it and control it.

The consolidation of power in the government is so foolish.
But sure, you are just one election from making everything alright.

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment scam that pays "profits" to older investors using the capital collected from newer investors rather than actual business earnings.

Social Security pays older investors with new investors capital and has no actual business earnings.
Social Security is 100% a Ponzi Scheme.
But semantics are semantics, who cares what we call it?
You just do not like calling it a Ponzi Scheme because Ponzi Schemes are frowned upon for producing not earnings and are unsustainable.
Well at least Social Security is honest it steals from new investors to pay old investors with the promise that it will have the power of the government to continue to extract "investment" from new investors.

Sadly, your fix for Social Security is to find more people to steal from or steal more from those already being robbed.
Sounds exactly like how Ponzi himself would keep his Scheme going.
More immigration sounds great, but it will not fix Social Security, eventually you run out of money to steal sooner or later.
Same with raising the cap, you cannot go above 100%.

Since a lot of American make income through investment, they are not special, they are wise and rich setting a great example for an investment that produces earnings.

Helping people save for retirement is a great idea. Doing it with Social Security is not the way.

Americans are not free from their Governments.
Perhaps more free than most in other countries, but tyranny still abounds from all parties in rule; and seemingly getting worse.

Americans are not slaves to their corporations as you point out later, they are not owned by the corporation, free to leave, and compensated for their labor; all freedoms a slave does not have.

It is a false dichotomy to imply that an American's choice is to work their entire life away or wonder homeless, hungry, and cold.
The abundance and opportunity all around in America are wonderful, and increasing.
I know far more people with roofs over their heads, full tummies, and warm face, hands, and feet who love their job, enjoy great work life balance and others who proceeded them who have retired in luxury.

The most miserable people I have met take government handouts, and are essentially impotent children stuck in the "system".
A hard days work, earing what you are given, are strangely more rewarding and satisfying than free handouts.

Its not perfect by any means, many struggle and plenty are unsatisfied.
However, it is hard to find anyone living below the level of luxury I had growing up.
I watch the guy on the street who is shaking from whatever drug high he is coming down from come in and have a meal I would have salivated for growing up.
He then sits down to a computer 1000x more powerful and more connected than what I could imagine back than; it is amazing!

"Endless growth" is your delusion, not mine. But we have hardly exhausted what this universe has to offer for our expansion. I would expect any economic structure to fail if it does not find a steady state. So far socialism has shown itself to fail first on multiple occasions and only survives with a capitalist's "investment"; see your beloved Social Security for instance that depends on the earnings of the very economy you are condemning.

I have seen firsthand how government “help” can keep people stuck. Where I volunteer, the mission is not to keep people comfortable in addiction on the street; it is to help them get clean and off the street. Many of the staff were once unsheltered themselves. Now they help others rebuild their lives, without a penny of government funding.

Yes, greed is a problem. Fear, spawns the quest for power leading to greed. Socialist programs like Social Security spawned from fear, grab power, and greedily demand more and more.

You have cause and effect reversed: capitalism is the cause of our seemingly endless economic growth.

Social Security is one of the many cancers that demand more and more while giving nothing back...like a tumor.

Social Security is fundamentally flawed, like all Ponzi Schemes; throwing more money at it will only delay the inevitable.
You will simply want more and more to prop up a broken scheme.

If I could opt out now and stop paying into it yes please!
Not like there will be anything to opt out of once I am eligible.
Ponzi schemes are bad, eventually you run out of new investors stupid enough to throw money in.

Time to grow up and stop sucking on the government titty. But sadly everyone just wants Uncle Sam's breasts bigger and more people dependent on him and whoever his European counterpart is. You are welcome for the visuals.

The baby step is very significant to me. Because if the study did not account for other factors known to correlate or actively contribute to strokes and death by heart attack then it would be pretty weak and easily dismissed as correlation is not causation. If the findings are true that, there is a correlation between xylitol ingestion and strokes and death by heart attack outside of any other known factors, then it immediately calls for action. Foremost for those who consume xylitol to consider cutting back or abstaining until further research can be done. In addition it provides focused motivation for some postmortem analysis for xylitol and testing on what mechanism might cause the increased risk.

But I do personally have skin in the game as I enjoy chewing xylitol gum. I find it to be an enjoyable treat that I considered guilt free in terms of no calories from sugar, and even better perhaps killing cavity causing bacteria that would be fed by sugar, all while giving my mouth a cool clean mint freshness. So it is a bummer to find that those benefits may have a very negative side effect in the long run.

I hope your skepticism is true, and some researches are trying to hide behind a weaselly association; but hopefully the scientific process will play out with another party or two conducting similar studies and research while others further the research and starting cutting people looking for xylitol in the veins!

Yeah I was looking to defend chewing my Xylitol gum since I am generally low risk for heart attack and stroke. I was going to assert it is just unhealthy fatties who are going to die of heart attacks and strokes anyway and chug Xylitol instead of eating right; they are skewing the data. However:

It would be nice to know if massive amounts of Xylitol in your system cause your blood to plaque up and clog pathways increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke. Or if the "real" sugar people are at it again running around and sprinkling Xylitol gum at the morgue on corpses with the tag "heart attack" or "stroke" on their toe like dirty cops who just shot a guy by accident and sprinkle some cocaine and meth on him.

I think you are right, the issue is license plates; they make us too easy to track.
I do not believe legislation outlawing the requirement for license plates has much of a chance; but perhaps a compromise?

I propose a e-ink license plate supported by the state.
The e-ink licensee plate rotates license plate numbers on a regular basis so that a camera system like flock would generally not see the same number on your vehicle twice, and as a result would not be able to easily confirm it was the same vehicle.

On the states end it would be possible for law enforcement to look up the vehicle by submitting the license plate number and the date time to a system.
However, accessing this system would require personal credentials identifying and logging specifically who is access the license plate; as well as immediately notify the owner of the license plate that they were being tracked by law enforcement in this manner.
The officer Bob stole officer Jack's credentials would still hold Jack responsible as well for his credentials.

Law enforcement will be required to work completely in the light, any secret access would be grounds for throwing out any connected legal cases connected to obfuscated access to license plates. I believe this would be the hardest part, and the government would secretly work to circumvent and argue it can work covertly. As a result the systems would ideally be operated by third parties outside the government and vetted externally for such circumvention.

But even if we eliminated the requirement for license plates you will need to fix that distinctive dent on the front right bumper of your car.
In addition we must all drive red Honda Civics, make sure to rotate the hardware addresses on our tire pressure sensors, vehicle built in 5G modem, smart phone, Bluetooth headset, and any other device screaming an electronic signature.
Oh and please make sure your tires are all inflated to the recommended pressure exactly; or better yet deflate and inflate them to random pressures within the acceptable range to skew your signature, as well as rotates the tires each time before you leave your garage.

Be sure to wear your wig or hat, sunglasses and fake mustache so you are not easily identified through the front windshield by facial recognition.

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He would enjoy it, open his front window curtains wide, and walk around naked in his living room of course.

Of course his front yard would then be known to be safer than a dark alley for committing crime, since no cop wants to view the video feed and the Ai just sees blurs due to the auto nudity censor.

Since you mentioned mouse clicks along with keyboard strokes I would have assumed further upstream than the keyboard if the two issues were related.
However I am skeptical it is intrinsic to Windows since I have never encountered nor heard of such an issue.
My keyboard was literally $3 from micro center (they seem to attract liquid and the water proof ones were no fun to type on) and never misses a keystroke in Windows, Mac OS, and Linux with a KVM in between.
It sounds infuriating, I would probably have tossed the whole rig for another Windows machine if I was stuck using Windows.
I am confident it can be resolved for you.

What else about Windows do you find inferior?
Genuinely curious, been poisoned by years of Microsoft hate myself, but my actions speak louder as I chose Windows over and over given the choice; same with most everyone around me who is not just trying to make a statement and actually wants to get things done.

On one of my Mac OS machines I use a Windows keyboard which places the Command Key (windows key) a bit further left and helps, but still to your point the Ctrl key for copy and paste is more comfortable.

But command+v and command+c is one of my favorite things about Mac OS out of the box. I hate trying to copy from PowerShell Windows or Terminal in Linux; I generally end up terminating my process by accident a few times before I remember I am not on Mac OS.

I think you are correct on the Windows UI being snappier. I would blame the fancy animations and transparencies for that on Mac OS perhaps.

I have never seen a missed click or eaten keyboard stroke myself, no v's instead of what I want pasted; perhaps it is your hardware?
Do go on all day, I would love ammunition against Windows, you have provided me with nothing I can reliably cite or reproduce.
I go between two Mac OS machines and a Windows machine on a daily basis and find the Windows machine to be the much more pleasant experience.
I paid a hell of a lot more for the Mac OS machines as well, and would be happy to retire the Windows machine; but given the choice when all three can do the job I sit in front of my Microsoft OS.
My main complaint would be Windows seemingly streaming who knows what out of my machine back to Microsoft, and if Mac OS is doing the same for Apple they are at least better at hiding it.