I'll grant that public school isn't doing great in the U.S., but private school has it's own share of problems in the U.S.

I would argue that healthcare would be a good candidate for a public option. Many factors confound market economics in health care.

But in addition, we really need to bring worker's rights into the 21st century.

I was responding to a post claiming it can't work because of behavior. It makes sense to address the argument given rather than something else.

Or, it means that well rested and happier workers are able to be more productive in 4 days than workers who are drag-ass tired and grumpy can be in 5 days.

Firing some workers will just make the rest of the drag-ass workers slower and grumpier.

And yet we TRY to stop murder with laws. Anger is a fundamental human emotion, and it naturally leads to violence and then murder. Yet for some reason we feel we should have laws against it...

If you were to advocate that we remove laws against murder, battery, etc I would at least grant you that your position is consistent, but I would not join you in advocacy.

It could be argued that our attempts to ban murder have failed, since murder still happens. It could also be argued that we can sure cut down on murder with laws even if we can't fully abolish it.

Perhaps we should now work on economic exploitation. Or we can lynch the bosses and landlords. Personally, I'll advocate for the first option.

Side note, I do not believe a purist version of Communism is likely to work, mostly because we as a people just aren't that good at organizing and planning. But I do believe we can move closer to it in some form for the benefit of everyone.

Smoking had a masking effect. In the past, if a person diagnosed with lung cancer ever so much as looked at a cigarette, that was the go-to for blame.

Now that fewer people have ever smoked, they still get the lung cancer, only now there's nothing to blame it on.

That's not to say that smoking doesn't increase the risk, just that that increase was never as great as it was made out to be.

Well, I'll grant that the marketing for that will certainly have something to do with a cat box...

Given the rate of "progress" with QC doing prime factorization of arbitrary compound numbers, not only will I be dead by then, everyone who will have known me in my life will be dead. And if you add the criterion that QC must be cheap enough to make it worthwhile to crack my secret messages, there's a fair chance that everyone who would have known anyone who knew me in life in life will also be dead by then.

And no, I do not believe in doomsday prophesies.

Meanwiile, without any form of cheating, a 6th grader will be a lot faster than a quantum computer, and they'll do it for rewards that cost way less than the operating cost of the QC.

Practical quantum prime factorization is all the way up to (some) 2 digit numbers and it only took 20 years. Lately, scaling of quantum computers seems to have hit a wall. MS's meetoo quantum chip turned out to be a mock-up, Google's imminant announcement of the largest QC yet is now a year overdue and silence from the hype machine is ominous.

So I guess this is Aptiv trying to cash in (or perhaps cash out) before the bust.

What about LONG term income and price changes?

Wages haven't kept up with inflation for decades. Various social norms pressuring people to have kids have been eroding the whole time due to the simple impracticality of it.

OK, open the hanger, here comes the airplaaaaaane!>/p>

His name is Paul Yura. I'm pretty sure Nick Bannon is not rsilvergun IRL.

Now finish those nummy strained peas.

It's right here in the comments.

The person who would have coordinated the alert with local authorities is gone. His position has not been filled because a lateral move would make the new guy "probationary" (and we know what happens to those under Trump).

But in this particular case, with the chain of cause to effect well established, the names of each of those kids should be tattooed on his face in blood red ink, mirror imaged so he can be reminded every morning when he gets up.

The alerts are supposed to be localized to the area where they can do some good. When I get an alert about something on the other side of the state at 3 A.M. It has missed the mark, unless that ever so rare silver or possibly white Honda drives through my bedroom window (which can't happen for at least 3 hours given how far away it is), there's zero chance I will see it.

Now, if they displayed the alert on the signs over the interstate, they would better target people who might actually see it.

Their pricing is already high for streaming, but that's apparently not enough for them. If you actually try to sign up you find that they pump the price > 33% more with "fees" for various things they advertise as benefits of their streaming, and so push the price to over $100/month.

Somehow it doesn't surprise me that they want even more money under the table after that.