On one hand what you say is true, but it misses some potential nuance which I would like to believe the OP intended, not that I have any faith.

Appearance is a proxy for hormones. This should not be surprising since hormones' effect is to alter the function of cells. The Russian fox breeding experiments tell us that as you breed animals to be tractable you are actually changing their hormonal balance, and they also change in appearance at the same time.

It's well known that e.g. hair growth in humans is governed in large part by hormones, so this speaks directly to what's being discussed.

What you say may actually even be playing a part here; it's possible that there is some sort of cultural shift that is causing men who have a hormonal advantage in the breeding department to be less favored as partners, perhaps perceiving them (rightly or wrongly) as more likely to be abusive at a time when that is increasingly seen as unacceptable. (And if so, yes, good! But it's not the morality or even the reality that causes the shift, but the perception, hence the sentence.)

IME they love taking care of the great-grandchildren, just not the children or grandchildren. We were all scared to shit of our grandparents except for the oldest kids. All the youngest were judged against their standard.

The problem isn't average or even median home prices, it's the bottom prices. In some markets this is very much caused in large part by airbnb but mostly it's venture capital buying starter homes and turning them into rentals, and going on to collude on the prices.

Oh good, a bigger debt.

That part's true. 1 out of 3 is OK in baseball:

They have to house all of those kids. They have to clothe them. They have to take them to things. GA and SNAP don't pay for those things. Welfare does, but since Clinton's welfare reform act of 1996, that only lasts for five years.

Thanks to shutting down all the programs that used to keep them busy.

If you want this fixed, then you educate people and make birth control available. But Republicans are opposed to both public education and birth control. They therefore clearly want there to be more kids running the streets causing trouble. Why would you vote for that?

Press of what kind?

Thanks, Obama.

IKYKWIM.

I'm not continuing this conversation with you until you acknowledge your failure to read what I actually wrote, because I won't have any belief that anything I say might change your mind about anything no matter how wrong I've proven you to be. Thanks.

... if I use some shitty tech to bootstrap better tech then is that somehow bad? I realise there is more to this than that, but it seems like a terrible argument to complain coal power is being used to manufacture solar power.

That's good news for people in California, who therefore have a right to a refund under our state warranty laws. Other Americans are fucked because they don't have a right to a refund, only replacement. In California we even have the right to choose.

By my understanding this is also grounds for at least a partial refund in the EU, as the goods are not in conformity with the consumer sales contract if they do not comply with the description given by the seller, which in this case includes remote functionality. But they're not entitled to a full refund like we are. We Californians further have the right to a refund from the seller during the warranty period, we never have to go to the manufacturer.

Please explain what that has to do with anything I wrote in this thread, where I talk about using it to CHECK legal briefs, not to WRITE them. You're doing a worse job of reading than a LLM.

Maggots like AD think things ARE going real fucking great right now.

This is all the same shit the Republicans have been telling us for decades that they wanted to do, all of it. LITERALLY all of it. And they are here for it.

A few long time republican voters are now realizing that it's not a good plan. The vast majority of them still believe the invisible hand of the free market is going to make everything all better as soon as they get rid of all the woke.

That's a pretty pathetic number considering how little purchasing power that gives you in any developed nation.

It must have been worn out and/or dirty then. No controller in history has ever had a better D-pad than the NES. It was positive, precise, and reliable. You could also slam the controllers around, bounce them off the floor, throw them across the room or whatever (yes, I was an angry child. in my defense I played a lot of ninja gaiden) and they would keep on working.

Enjoy your drift, clowns

Do not know much about U.S. budgets do you. Programs like this are not what is bloating the budget. The main drivers are SS, Medicare, Medicaid, and DoD.

Of those, DoD ($842 Billion in 2024) is getting an increase due to la Presidenta figuring now is the right time for the Golden Ass Defense Shield. But it is silly without Canada being dealt in. Too bad he's pissed off Canada so violently that they won't buy American goods thus imposing a peoples tariff. la Presidenta has no depth perception. This gormless gargoyle still believes Putin wants peace deal.

SS ($1.5 Trillion in 2024) has a pop. problem. American have stopped having babies.....something about too expensive The Covid damage to the supply chains caused the last major bout with inflation. Now it will get a new jolt from the tariffs that are within weeks of really increasing retail prices; it takes time for them to work through stockpiled goods. And we'd have been fine if we allowed in more immigrants but la Presidenta doesn't like brown people and white people (although weirdly not the Africaaners) know better than migrate to America. And Congress refuses to raise the caps on SS taxable income. Right now, income over roughly $180K is not SS taxed. Neither are capital gains SS taxed. Gotta protect them rich folks who fund the pols.

Medicare ($1.52 Trillion in 2024) and Medicaid ($890 Billion in 2024) have unique problems mostly due to the rising cost of healthcare. Our dear healthcare "companies" fight to preserve their hold over this part of the economy and squeeze Americans out of their life savings should the unfortunate happen. Meanwhile those lovely migrants, who contribute quite a bit in taxes even without being citizens are being exited from the country because la Presidenta cannot put two and two together.....intellectual depth of dime.

Discretionary Spending....which is everything else ($950 Billion in $2024) "In Fiscal Year 2024, the US federal government spent $6.75 trillion. This spending resulted in a deficit of $1.83 trillion, as revenues totaled $4.92 trillion"

There you have it, Want to talk about bloated budgets. You need figure out how to reduce DoD, reduce healthcare (cutting the expenditure does not reduce it, it just makes people pay more...and those least able to afford it), and you need to reform SS by increase it tax take and means-testing (I didn't touch on the latter but it too needs to be done). Discretionary funds science, rules and regs so those nice companies don't poison you, the judicial systems, police, etc, etc. etc. and there are a lot of etcs.

The bullshit about the "budget" is bloated has the same problem with depth perception as la Presidenta. And in the new Big Stupid Bill, several drug companies preserved their ability to not have Medicare force lower prices on them. Of course la Presidenta went along with that....although it isn't clear he understands squat about anything. When asked who in his administration approved canceling Ukraine arms shipments, he is comment was (paraphrasing), where did you hear that, I would have known about it. That was three days after FOX News Dolt in Charge of DoD (his official title) canceled shipments.