Maybe don't collect data on a billion people of it cannot be done without violating people's privacy.

Never mind all those DVDs from the mid 2000s that rotted on the shelf. Good luck getting anyone to replace those..

Physical media does not provide any sort of certainty you'll be able to enjoy it a decade from now and don't say "but make backups" the value proposition of making a backup as in a real redundant copy to sit on self somewhere (or hardisk ... whatever) vs for piracy just isn't there. The time plus the cost of the media does not let that make sense for something you paid less than $20 for in the first place.

There are already provisions for 'hair cuts' and similar theft.

Dodd-Frank gave the FDIC the ability to treat similar seniority creditors differently in resolutions, for 'systemic stability' which is not well defined. So if you have a bond in a failing bank and the current administration does not like you... to bad....

Temporary though it might be the pandemic legislation (cares act? I think it was) also created force majeure where if you'd owner financed a residence and the buy decided to just not pay, dear old Uncle Sam say to bad, you can't foreclose and get your property back.

I for one don't think if the shit really hits the fan and gold buried in the yard or bitcoin wallets on USB keys will do anyone holding it much good but rest assured, 'they' will absolutely steal your money. They already demoed this now twice in as many decades, and things did not even have to get that all that real.

"She's got huge tracts of land!"

Wait....is that, is that...Sir Lancelot I see in the distance, running towards our castle....?

It is not the case that 9.1% of the population is without power at any given moment, it is that over the course of a month (30 days) at some point in that month 0.1% of the population experience a power outage.

That is not a reasonable representation of the U.S. power grid - the statistics have been misrepresented or misinterpreted by you.

Ironically, the countries all doing so well went ahead and completely destroyed their infrastructure 75 + years ago, whereas we maintained a power grid that has evolved in-place for the last 100+ years...

You know the definition of a woman don't you?

A life support unit for a cunt.

Unfortunately, the pleasurable part of that equation always comes with the other unpredictable part.

Please, elaborate - as I understand it, the R administration is kicking ineligible recipients off Medicaid. If you are healthy, have no dependents, and no special, extenuating conditions, you are removed as ineligible. Likewise, if your status in this country is, as the kids say, "undocumented", you have no place on Medicaid.

There are federal funds to provide charity care, but that's separate from Medicare.

Nah...I'd rather have a DOG....

They have personality, and actual affection.

U.S. is 350M people, EU is 450M, if you want to get your parties in a bunch over Ukraine, exclude it - oh, wait, Ukraine isn't part of EU - so let's compare EU to US, relatively speaking, how often are there power outages in the EU?

I recently visited Italy, apparently they chose to do things like not run AC on very hot days - perhaps because their citizens are used to following gov't orders they all simply go along with gov't policies and mandates regarding power usage?

...Take a jumbo across the water...

Like to see America...

Buy some solar panels, dig a water well, invest in a septic field - the choice to subscribe to the corporations you clearly despise for power, water, and sewage treatment is just that, a choice.

Wait a minute - the U.S. power grid serves 350 million people, the EU has about 450 million people - not a perfect match, but possibly comparable.

We can talk about power outages in Germany cs a similar state in the U.S., but we can't compare German power grid to the entire U.S. power grid (Germany has about 1/4th the population of the U.S.).

Let's try and compare similar population/geographical bodies, OK?

Sure, I'll concede that at least once a month, somewhere in America, suffers a "major power outage", based on either duration or population impacted, but can anyone reasonably argue that the EU has fewer than one "major power outage" per month? Really?

This is really a pointless metric...

Wouldn't a simple belt clip do, like they have on pocket knives?

Hmm.....somehow I'm seeing the future.....with iPhones and other cell phones, coming with a belt clip on them, and now they are classified at "wearables".....no?