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From now on, I want you all to call me Loretta. 😂

It’s generally antipodal to neurotypical and used to indicate someone on the autism spectrum (or even bipolar and related conditions in some cases), but I agree with your primary point. No, it doesn’t seem to fit here.. at least not until more information is provided.

Oh, well so long as YOU’RE sure, then I guess that’s evidence enough for me!

Actually, it’s always both because 1) there are billions of people on the planet and 2) there’s no single one person deciding. Since different people feel differently about the topic and neither are supreme galactic emperor free to donwhatwver they want, it’s always both. I’m glad you’ve got it all figured out, though. I’m sure that’s a very comforting feeling to have such simple solutions to such complex issues.

It’s not a technical problem. It’s not even a financial one. This is about ethics and morality. Your suggestion that it’s so supremely simple is either disingenuous or painfully ignorant, neither of which encourages us to engage you further in a meaningful way.

Yes, it just would be going slower. We’ve been seeing climate impacts since the industrial revolution. This isn’t new

Looks like we can expect an announcement tomorrow. OECD countries agree on 15% floor https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/politics/global-minimum-tax.html

Agreed. Good analogy. It’d be the same if we in the US began using Euro. Not technically “our own”

Yeah, but… Is that technically their “own” cryptocurrency, or is it just using / adopting someone else’s?

What do I think? I think it’s too simplistic to be useful and likely wrong as a direct result of that fantasy level simplicity.

So, you want to engage in advanced genetics experimentation where you convert someone born with XY chromosomes into someone who instead has XX chromosomes and you wonder if education beyond high school is required? Forgive us for not taking you seriously.

I wouldn’t waste one of my three wishes in such trifling matters, but YMMV

Only partially and based on insufficient data

The support of large swaths of the voting populace

Right. I was more attempting to add that it’s in the lower courts where this particular rubber is really meeting roads.

Cause your opponents to underestimate you. Achieve desired outcomes in the backend while superficial people focus on your buffoonery. Navigate through the echelons of power as people dismiss you as incapable. I'm sure there are others. Those just came IMMEDIATELY to mind when reading your simple question.

Exactly. Folks must avoid conflating the act with the actor.

This issue applies also at the very courts TheVat referenced as a solid majority of those judges have been installed with brutal swiftness and ruthless efficiency by McConnell et.al, and they are in large part quite ideologically aligned with the right... Trump himself installed 3 (THREE!!!) new justices to the SCOTUS. Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others... and I do find myself in hell, so feel the need to keep going.

New data about how deeply police killings in the US have been undercounted for decades. Source here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01609-3/fulltext Summary: A core message here: “Currently, the same government responsible for this violence is also responsible for reporting on it,” and that's an obvious conflict of interest which results in needless problems like these.

Former Fed chair and current Secretary of the Treasury in Biden’s administration, Janet Yellen, is advocating for exactly that that. It would definitely help

Far right extremism and fascist tendencies are certainly on the rise, and the GOP is gladly helping it along to win power through primary votes. I’m not suggesting the left is perfect, just that democracy is under threat and roughly half the country seems glad to push it over a cliff in the name of freedom.

I feel the same way about this OP, TBH

Hopefully today you can also learn acceptance

That’s a good point. The Fed will be raising rates next year so this will likely change ever so slightly, but I suspect not enough to notice any measurable difference.

Thx