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Perhaps guard the boarders so not nearly so much is crossing. Would also help stop human trafficking. Just a thought.
Meet people that have have done a lot of drugs? Some can still function. Others, just can’t. Had an owner of a successful tech company see it fall apart because he couldn’t make decisions anymore. Was a really nice guy,…
I have yet to meet a person. Whose personality didn’t completely changed after being on marijuana for a while. Every single one of them said it didn’t affect them.
Disability straight up laughed at me. I should have gotten a lawyer, but I couldn’t think straight or effectively communicate for a couple of years.
Might be more fun to only check so often ir somewhat random ally. Human nature often it takes a moment to realize something is off. Bear walks into tavern. Some panic, others are slower to react / notice. A very drunk…
There is also Superman’s key. Made of neutronium. https://dcmovies.fandom.com/wiki/Fortress_Key_(All-Star_Supe... Last I tried to calculate (poorly), if you were to touch it. You liquify and be sucked into it just…
“I’m not addicted, it doesn’t affect me.” Every addict I know. Seen a number of people slowly change from it until they are no longer who they are. Never in a good way. Seen some who got off it. One because her husband…
Got injured (brain). Airbnb and Uber eats is how I kept my family from being homeless until I recovered enough to program again. Huge advantage being able to go at my own pace when I didn’t know how functional I would…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron Excellent story about the government not allowing anyone to be too smart or beautiful. Example. If you’re smart, you wear head phones that emit random loud noises so you…
I mean it’s not like we upended all of society over a lab leak recently…
Owner hired an extremely “senior” developer. Was told to let him do his thing. After he spent 3 months building a web app, I asked him how he wanted to deploy it. Perfectly straight face he said we would take his…
Hired into a place that had a crazy active astrology slack channel. Those people would believe anything as long as it wasn’t traditional mainstream. Of course they also told me how upset they were to hire a white man,…
Get some audiobooks. Epic fantasy / sci-fi or whatever. See how you are doing tasks when a good portion of your mind is preoccupied. I’m probably 20x faster since it stops the day dreaming.
The point of these type of articles is for rich politicians to be given more power over peons and an excuse to raise taxes endlessly. Science has nothing to do with anything here.
Government / regulatory capture is a really bad thing. Businesses that can use the government to shut down competitors is bad. None of that is free market. Companies that are indistinguishable from government are bad.…
Hint. Free Markets is why we have a thriving middle class. All counties that attempt to eliminate and replace it end up collapsing. Venezuela is the latest example of a socialist paradise where the children now eat out…
Read Basic economics by Thomas Sowell. It’s gives a fantastic understanding of supply and demand, what wealth is, how it’s created, etc. Why some places prospers, and some don’t.
Until someone sneezes and all the power is released at once.
There are web sites for doing this.
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Perhaps guard the boarders so not nearly so much is crossing. Would also help stop human trafficking. Just a thought.
Meet people that have have done a lot of drugs? Some can still function. Others, just can’t. Had an owner of a successful tech company see it fall apart because he couldn’t make decisions anymore. Was a really nice guy,…
I have yet to meet a person. Whose personality didn’t completely changed after being on marijuana for a while. Every single one of them said it didn’t affect them.
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Disability straight up laughed at me. I should have gotten a lawyer, but I couldn’t think straight or effectively communicate for a couple of years.
Might be more fun to only check so often ir somewhat random ally. Human nature often it takes a moment to realize something is off. Bear walks into tavern. Some panic, others are slower to react / notice. A very drunk…
There is also Superman’s key. Made of neutronium. https://dcmovies.fandom.com/wiki/Fortress_Key_(All-Star_Supe... Last I tried to calculate (poorly), if you were to touch it. You liquify and be sucked into it just…
“I’m not addicted, it doesn’t affect me.” Every addict I know. Seen a number of people slowly change from it until they are no longer who they are. Never in a good way. Seen some who got off it. One because her husband…
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Got injured (brain). Airbnb and Uber eats is how I kept my family from being homeless until I recovered enough to program again. Huge advantage being able to go at my own pace when I didn’t know how functional I would…
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron Excellent story about the government not allowing anyone to be too smart or beautiful. Example. If you’re smart, you wear head phones that emit random loud noises so you…
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I mean it’s not like we upended all of society over a lab leak recently…
Owner hired an extremely “senior” developer. Was told to let him do his thing. After he spent 3 months building a web app, I asked him how he wanted to deploy it. Perfectly straight face he said we would take his…
Hired into a place that had a crazy active astrology slack channel. Those people would believe anything as long as it wasn’t traditional mainstream. Of course they also told me how upset they were to hire a white man,…
Get some audiobooks. Epic fantasy / sci-fi or whatever. See how you are doing tasks when a good portion of your mind is preoccupied. I’m probably 20x faster since it stops the day dreaming.
The point of these type of articles is for rich politicians to be given more power over peons and an excuse to raise taxes endlessly. Science has nothing to do with anything here.
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Government / regulatory capture is a really bad thing. Businesses that can use the government to shut down competitors is bad. None of that is free market. Companies that are indistinguishable from government are bad.…
Hint. Free Markets is why we have a thriving middle class. All counties that attempt to eliminate and replace it end up collapsing. Venezuela is the latest example of a socialist paradise where the children now eat out…
Read Basic economics by Thomas Sowell. It’s gives a fantastic understanding of supply and demand, what wealth is, how it’s created, etc. Why some places prospers, and some don’t.
Until someone sneezes and all the power is released at once.
There are web sites for doing this.