Nah. The worst idea is identifying another ethnicity as making better tasting meat and saying that it isn’t an issue to eat people outside your kin or kith.

Then you subjugate the population as breeding stock to create food for your society because the superior humanity shouldn’t concern itself with the treatment of lesser peoples. After all, if they didn’t deserve to be eaten, then why do they taste so good?

My worst experience in Word has been adapting a state based Word document to municipal use. The state knows what it is doing and uses styles as a great way to organize the document to provide direction.

Then the fucking county had a 60 year old secretary create a wrapper for that document and it fucking breaks everything.

That’s a pretty good list you got there.

That sucks. I feel for you.

Inside, nothing noticeable.

Outside, also nothing noticeable.

Kind of.

Due to historic low taxes for the wealthy, they have been able to use their capital to build on more capital, pushing up the value of assets.

Rich people hoarding wealth is part of the reason why housing prices are so insane, but it isn’t the reason why groceries cost more.

I would look at how your peers would see it.

Things I can see coming ahead:

Parts of the world are left to let nature take it back as insurance companies continue to pull back from certain markets. For instance, I expect Florida to depopulate and a lot of the settlements to remain to become hardened against hurricanes and sinkholes.

Automation comes after a lot of skilled white collar and blue collar workers. The one industry that grows is elderly care, which has a limit on relevance as people stop having money when they get old.

Schools with human teachers become rare as states start pushing remote education options to handle budget shortfalls.

Most major metro areas have massive AI supported surveillance systems to reduce crime. It works, but it is also used to stifle political dissent. The use of the systems are not tied to political ideology of the government but to the wealthy wanting to live in a monitored place.

AI for cars & trucks becomes common. Cities still build for mass transit as the infrastructure to support automated taxis chokes the roads.

No matter the politics of the current government, most governments in the future are well controlled vaguely nationalist and designed to protect capital from the population.

You chose to write a response in a different language than the rest of the thread then critique my translation.

It isn’t a contradiction but clarification. Your response implies a binary truth where only one statement can be correct. I’m noting that both statements can be correct at the same time.

Before you try to think I’m going to argue otherwise, cartel violence doesn’t justify an American military response.

The current administration may be trying to manufacture consent for a military operation, but cartel violence in Mexico has been an issue for decades. This has included the assassination of Mexican politicians.

Older siblings usually mature faster because they are typically pushed to be responsible for younger siblings in some form.

Why was that a mistake?

Picked a wrong week to quit smoking?

Letters are only for those cross-continental, cross-oceanic relationships.

Letters were commonly written for people in the same city. Some posh neighborhoods in major cities would have hourly mail service.

I wanted to design bridges. I design bridges.

Depends on if this is work or not.

If it is work and I’m pressed for time, I usually start to interrupt them and give a summary based on what I know and ask them to fill in any gaps.

It can be disorienting for some staff because I can tell that they practiced trying to lay out everything perfectly so that I can understand them and that they have problems trying to parse everything out to create the delta between what they know and what I know.

If the USA was going to pick another language, it would be German.

A lot of initial theory was written when the idea of complex markets and how they functioned was a relatively new idea. Compared to previous economic systems that were implemented, capitalism involved a lot less government involvement.

Crony Capitalism came about as an idea when established companies found it was cheaper to buy off the government for a better regulatory environment.

In theory you can have capitalism without crony capitalism, but it generally requires political power to be very diffuse and not concentrated in certain industries.

I feel like part of the problem was that Microsoft tried porting instant messaging and video calling services into the Office suite for decades and it didn’t stick. I remember previous attempts like Skype for business and Lync, with few people in the companies I worked at incorporating it into their workflows.

It took COVID and full remote work to push people into using a program like Zoom over SMS and phone calls. Once most of corporate America switched to using Zoom for conference calls, Microsoft had to rush out a new product that could unseat Zoom quickly.