HobbitFoot

Sure, but a lot of decisions regarding policing happen at a local and state level. There needs to be electoral consequences at these positions for real reform to happen.

Cool, but the Barcelona local government isn’t increasing prices; they are reducing supply.

That’s right, a reduction in supply increases prices.

They don’t care. They’re trying to indicate how unwelcome Sarah McBride, the first trans woman elected to Congress, is.

What percentage of Gen Z voted for Trump, though? Everyone seems focused on the election numbers as of they represent all voters when they don’t.

I wonder if Somaliland will ever get recognized.

Yes. The conditions of maintaining a veto doesn’t relate to being a member in good standing.

There is also the loss of mental acuity with age. I’ve seen a lot of people mentally regress as they hit their 60’s.

You also have people who may not be aware of how some systems work because they’ve never had to deal with them while the rest of the world has. I’ve seen people this year struggle using my car because they didn’t know you have to press the brake when you push the start button, as their cars still use keys.

Given that supply is being removed, it is likely that demand will adjust to the new hotel supply.

Cruises are usually worse for a city than hotels economically.

At least with hotels and short term rental, tourists will linger and spend money on the room and dining. That money isn’t spent on the community when people cruise in while tourists still use the tourist facilities.

It depends.

If you rely only on tourism, you’re commuting to a low wage economy. However, some cities have used tourism as the base economy to springboard to high value industries as the tourism amenities end up getting used by high earning locals.

They were supposed to buy InfoWars to keep Alex Jones on air. Obvious satirists The Onion weren’t supposed to be the winning bid.

I was able to handwave it away with the future robot injecting deus ex machina into the wound.

Yeah, but a lot of that comes from the legacy airlines in the US becoming low cost carriers.

I won’t be surprised when it happens to the EU when more flag carriers go bankrupt.

The story and ideas were great. I loved the abortion. Michael Fassbender was appropriately creepy.

However, this is the movie where the Prometheus School of Running Away came from.

Guess we got to build that telescope on the far side of the moon, then.

The problem is that they are awful, but consumers are very price sensitive when they buy tickets. You get what you pay for.

You also get the problem where people will start companies with other employees that are ride or die because they had significant equity in the company. Once you approach anything like Amazon’s size, the potential equity people can get has been severely diminished.

You also have a lot of founders who get to that position are workaholics who love focusing on their building empire. For them, it is hard to imagine how people wouldn’t want to dedicate everything to building an empire like they do.

I have never heard of this happening in the USA. The closest I’ve heard of is some states enforcing grandparents’ rights to visit their grandchildren, but I’ve never heard of any American government entity forcing children to take care of their parents.

Not the USA, but several countries including China make elderly care the legal responsibility of their children.