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Bullshit cruising or loitering ordinances that should have never been passed would probably be the excuse cops use in many areas

I won't support any streaming service that has a sub+ad tier. Ads with no sub or sub no ads, anything else is incredibly greedy and the same as cable TV.

Good, lower OECD birth rates means member countries can open the borders more for immigrants looking for better prospects, better compensation and benefits for jobs in high cost of living areas, and less stupid hiring processes. Every labor shortage is a capital shortage. Also notice how CNN quotes executives and no labor leaders.

I find Frank Zappa's opposition to censorship pretty inspiring and hope this trend continues:

"The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it's moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that's happened during the Regan administration is steering us right down that pipe. [...] When you have a government that prefers a certain moral code derived from a certain religion and that moral code turns into legislation to suit one certain religious point of view, and if that code happens to be very very right wing, almost toward Attila the Hun."

I wouldn't disagree about lying police, authoritarian judges filling for-profit prisons, etc but what felonies do I commit every day?

If I learned anything from Carlsen-Niemann we're going to need to check their butts.

In the books I think the shire does end up getting attacked after Sauron is defeated in the post war Battle of Bywater.

My two biggest are probably Sol and voids. I wish I could directly observe the phase transition as you approach the star's core, understand it's corona patterns and behavior, observe deeper to predict CMEs, etc it's just so close and present in our daily lives and still very mysterious. For the voids I'm not sure maybe because it's defined by its boundary more than its contents, but they are pretty common and some are huge and it's just difficult to study something that is defined by its lack of something.

Every labor shortage is a capital shortage. If you compensate better for pretty much any job people will work them. It's employers trying to shift the blame, but if they want 500 widgets but can only afford to employ enough staff to make 50 widgets it's not the employees fault they didn't get an extra 450 widgets for free, labor doesn't work that way.

How about this one?

He should maybe turn his chair so the window is behind him for better lighting