In a balanced budget, taxation exceeds spending, like it did at the end of the Clinton administration and just before George W. Bush went to war. The highest federal income tax bracket at the time was about 40 percent. What broke the budget was a misguided attempt to stimulate private business by cutting income tax on the richest American taxpayers.

That created a problem for dial-up users and laptop users back in the day. That was solved in two ways. First, Valve fixed the bug in early Steam that was causing it to fail to store purchase receipts for offline mode. (Users at the time were experiencing this as a need to be online for switching to offline mode to work.) Second, the home Internet market as a whole phased out dial-up, and even in areas not served by fiber, cable, or DSL, dial-up users largely switched to satellite Internet.

Unless it's something like DuckTales Remastered that gets delisted from Steam after a couple years on the market. This particular game was an adaptation of a Disney product identity, and Capcom's license from Disney had expired.

Agree with all your points.

It's possible I might have missed these, but they're also major considerations with COVID:

1. It causes scarring of tissue, especially heart tissue. That's why COVID sufferers often had severe blood clots in their bloodstream. Scarring of the heart increases risk of heart attacks, but there's obviously not much data on by how much, from COVID. Yet.

2. It causes brain damage in all who have been infected. Again, we have very little idea of how much, but from what I've read, there may be an increased risk of strokes in later life.

3. Viral load is known to cause fossil viruses in DNA to reactivate silenced portions. This can lead to cancer. Viral load has also been linked to multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue, but it's possible COVID was the wrong sort of virus. These things can take decades to develop.

I would expect a drop in life expectancy, sometimes in the 2040-2050 timeframe, from life-shortening damage from COVID, but the probability depends on how much damage even mild sufferers sustained and what medicine can do to mitigate it by then. The first, as far as I know, has not been looked at nearly as much as long COVID has - which is fair. The second is obviously unknowable.

I'm hoping I'm being overly anxious, my worry is that I might not be anxious enough.

hmmm.....you are really Stephen Miller in real life, yes? Here's a test. Look in the mirror. If you cannot see your own reflection, then you are Stephen Miller. If you can, then maybe some meds could help you.

Have you investigated the concept of sarcasm recently? I commend you to it.

You want to pay for your healthcare but not someone else's? Have you have ever been introduced to the insurance industry and the price of, say, a mere ambulance ride let alone an invasive medical procedure. By the way, you won't mind paying for Ma and Pa's healthcare right? Oh, but they are covered by Medicare. Demand your Medicare payments back because you'll fund Ma and Pa's healthcare yourself.

> Every doctor youâ(TM)ve met could probably become a software engineer. Same for most lawyers.

I dont know how many doctors or lawyers this guy has met, but I'm guessing zero.

I have yet to find a single doctor or lawyer who could learn to code.

F-off Comrade. Stick to fellating Putin.

It isn't that they require being represented that is the problem. If all they did was vote like normal people, we'd be fine with them. The problem is they have enough money to buy the pols. I haven't yet seen a fix for that, but it does create a doom-loop.

"I think the goal of the US is to bring more manufacturing back onshore." Bullshit. The only reason la Presidenta decided to declare economic war on the rest of the world (except for lovely Putin and Israel) is because then he could act like a "dealmaker" fixing the problems he caused. Only the Maggots are stupid enough to believe it is about bringing manufacturing onshore.

The easy tell is that if they managed to do that, they would not have the people to staff that manufacturing now that la Presidenta is ejecting anyone who looks non-white. And the left over whites either will not work at low-level manufacturing jobs (low pay) or for the kind of jobs (very few of them) modern hi-tech manufacturing entails because they've been wallowing in stupidity for too long and are proud of being dolts.

Clarence Thomas would fast track the road to Hell if he thought he could make buck out it.

He doesn't respect science because he set up his own Ophthalmology board in Kentucky because he could not pass a real Ophthalmology board test. He has never had any respect for science....or reason for that matter.

Again, you don't appear to understand the scale, nor the demographics. True, I am sure there is more civil aviation infrastructure in the US than Europe, and probably more private aircraft ownership as well. But vast swathes of the populace can't afford private plane ownership, nor the cost of a rental car once they get to their destination, needed because of lack of mass transit. Imagine that.

Also, we don't have the passenger rail capacity nor culture to use it that Europe has. Our long-distance passenger rail service, while exclusively Federally-owned, is prohibitively expensive. It is very common for train tickets to be more expensive than airfare. The poor either drive their own cars, or less often, take a long-distance bus, if one is available for their destination. Again, once you get to where you are going, there more often than not isn't public transit, so car rental.

Lastly, there actually are Americans that enjoy driving. Cars are very much more a part of our culture than any other. Insane? Perhaps. Certainly a citizenry that allowed Trump to be elected a second time has a screw or two loose.

Idiocracy in action.