Sure. The reason for stupid ideas, like Lysenko, taking over is lack of competition, which is inherent to communism, In a capitalist system people are searching for ways to make money for themselves, so there are enough competing ideas being tried out with private money. If the money runs out before profits are made, the ideas stop. When government can keep subsidizing bad ideas they don't stop, they just keep getting bigger and more stupid.

Well the car companies gotta do something, they've all (in the US) lost billions trying to convert to EVs....and no one in the US wants them.

They overshot the perceived demand...and have to retool to go back to ICE to keep selling cars/trucks in the US.

Something has to give with losses like that.

They did it in the pre-release software knowing that the issues would get picked up by the tech press. Remember this was Windows 3.1 era. Most Windows/Dos users were not internet users.

People relied on what they read in things like PC Mag and Byte, yes even corporate IT decision makers. Microsoft knew that those sorts of publications would leap on the opportunity to test pre-release Windows, would actually try it out on a variety of PC hardware and DOS versions. These were monthly publications at most and would be unlikely to give space to a second review until after the RTM version hit store shelves.

The message would be clear, for a smooth experience on the new Windows, you better plan an upgrade to MSDOS 5. I know a lot of people jumped from MSDOS 3.x to 5.0 at the same time they bought Windows 3.1[1]. So it worked..

By the time everyone figured out Windows 3.1[1] was just fine on DR DOS, they'd already switched MSDOS or already paid to upgrade to MSDOS 5, so Digital Research was not getting the users back.

Interesting....I've never heard of such a thing,,...a minum energy building....?

LOL...I doubt I'd survive there long...my tube amps alone likely would have me thrown out of such an abode...

So be part of the owner class.

You can get treasury's that pay almost 5%, you can get CDs that pay more. You can buy index funds.

Got one of those 3% mortgages, good stop paying anything but the minimal monthly and start buying debt at better rates with that money.

Even better rent your current place and move somewhere cheaper, you work from home anyway right?

The simple realty is the current generation of American's largely likes to complain they are not winning but they can't be arsed to play the game.

That is also interesting given the source.

The EIT (earned income tax credit) is more or less UBI. It is probably the most effective program we do have in terms of improving people's economic situation. Okay it is 'means tested' so it is not truly universal but functionally it works similarly in practical application.

Given the other arguments about income insurance etc, I am not sure why we would not look at EIT expansion, including state level implementations, and maybe temporary enhanced credits for classes of displaced workers. We have a thing that works, why not do more of it?

Again I come back the source and my suspicion is there are not enough strings attached, you got a job and stayed in the work force isn't enough, I am sure she wants to make sure you take some sort of Green/Woke/Nonsense job...

"ailing economy"

1) with near full employment
2) consistent consumer spending
3) stable interest rates
4) slightly elevated but certainly not alarming inflation levels
5) solid market growth year of year
6) easy access to credit

literally the only problem this economy has is consumer sentiment and regardless how people answer the polls its evidently not even enough to make them stop spending. If it wasn't for all the "negative covfefe" people would recognize the economy is doing great.

Its a bunch of ex pols grabbing money so they can have nice job where they don't actually do anything.

They will write up some policy position papers (well they'll have chat GPT do it) and make some websites where companies like MS can put their logos. The companies get pretend they are doing something for PR reasons for a few million, literally less they retaining a handful of salaries would cost them.

It is just 'learn to code all over again'

Grifters gonna grift.

You can't just hang a window AC unit out of one of your windows?

That's easy, does't require any apt. Modifications....

Thank you good answer.

We do not want "mob rule" here in the US...and if we didn't use the EC to more proportionally allocate vote weighting....then basically NYC and California for the most part would dictate who was president....and ignore the vast middle of the US.

Here in the US, you are a citizen of your state first and then of the United States....the state is what affects your life the most directly...and each state is diverse in its population climate, land types and laws....so they need to be more represented on a state level by the president...the Congress has a house with proportionate representations as a part of this too.

Most of us do NOT want a national ID.

If it can misused, it WILL be misused and we all know that...at least to date we do.

The US has a single centralised government with a single currency, Europe is not.

You've partially right....we have a single currency, but we do NOT have just a single centralized government.

The Federal govt. is and is supposed to be somewhat weak...and its few enumerated powers are in the US constitution....

The real power that actually governs the people for the most part, resides in the individual states. That's how we have VERY varying laws in many respects.....there are some cases the SCOTUS has had to take over the years, mostly on equal rights, etc....to establish that are constitutionally the same across states, but for the most part, everything that affects a citizens' life daily is governed by the laws of the state they reside in....so, financial laws, tax laws (state and local)...etc can all vary by state.

Most states have sales taxes..some do not. Some do not have income tax and others do...some states require car inspections annually, some to not and even those that do, vary in what they check..most do not check emissions if I recall correctly....

So, the US has. Federal govt that manages the currency....and is a singular face to the world....but internallly it's largely a mishmash of state laws that change as you cross state borders...

More importantly, we keep seeing stories touting X number of megawatts of generating capacity for a new wind or solar farm -- but never a word about how much power that installation is expected to generate averaged across a year; the "installed capacity" tells you how much power it will generate under ideal conditions, but you could have a solar farm with a generating capacity of 1GW, and it's going to produce nothing at night. Similarly, a wind farm will produce no power when the wind speed is below the minimum for turning the turbines, or when the wind speed is high enough that the turbines have to be feathered to protect the generators from overspeed. Wind and solar installations typically have an average production close to a third of their installed capacity, so that 160k MW of solar and wind capacity would be each producing less than 55k MW in practice over time -- and require a considerable GWh storage capacity to supply demand when the wind and solar installations are not producing. If you have a solar farm that produces power at a rate of 100MW over the course of a day, half of that power would need to be diverted to charging battery storage to produce power at night when the solar farm isn't producing power, so the deliverable power of an intermittent source like wind or solar will be even less than it's actual production, because it needs to divert energy to the storage system that will back it up.

The US - within living memory - used to be a high trust society.

Of course, no, it wasn't perfect but I grew up in MN. You could leave your car running outside a Target on a bitterly cold January day and it wouldn't get stolen. In the small town I grew up in, it was pretty common to 'run a tab' at the local grocery so if you needed to stop and get stuff but turned out you forgot your wallet, etc they'd just note your name and the amount and you'd come back in (usually as soon as you could, as it was embarrassing) and pay off your tab.

But then...the Somalis came along with millions of other illegal and legal migrants from LOW trust societies.....and helped ruin this.

It's easier to be a high trust society when the member of the society are more homogenious , and live and think alike largely.

Then why did the US give up paying in cash?

Err....we still pay in cash over here....I actually try to do MOST of my local domestic shopping in cash.