FriendOfDeSoto

I can't remember. As you can tell from my lengthy historical summary, I'm old enough to use that as an excuse.

I have recorded songs off the radio onto cassette. I have made mix tapes. First off records, later CDs. There was a general trade going on at school among friends. Somebody would get a new album on tape or on CD and when the owner had listened to it enough times it would make the rounds so people could record it for themselves. Musical socialism.

I have made Minidisc mix tapes as well. I went as far as recording concerts from VHS onto Minidisc. Adding track names was harder than T9 texting and took fucking ages.

I ripped and burned CDs, some of them are still stashed away in an attic somewhere.

I don't remember the infancy torrenting service that we used around the turn of the century. It wasn't Napster. I also made mix tapes of downloaded songs onto CD. To play more easily because there weren't any iPods yet but everyone had a stereo.

Now I stream the music I used to steal. Can't feel great about it because I know the artists get next to nothing for it.

I miss having a good stereo. Now it's crappy phone speakers or compressed Bluetooth shit.

I'd argue he isn't a great leader; he is a successful one. He gambles, he takes chances, and is swashbucklingly lucky throughout his career, even when he gets punished, until he meets and follows the lead of arguably the better leader between the two of them, Jean-Luc Picard, in the nexus.

TOS was quite woke in its day. There is still an awful lot of sexism on that Enterprise. The treatment of Spock is quite discriminatory. You could argue his unilateral decision that appears to be salomonic more than covered by actual law or regulations to maroon Khan and company on Ceti-Alpha 5 leads directly to the death of his own son, of whose existence he didn't really know because his mom knew better than to stay in Kirk's orbit. While you could say that an orderly private life isn't a prerequisite to being a great leader, I think Carol Marcus knew he'd be trouble at home and at work and that's why she wanted out.

He was very often in the right place at the right time and only made decisions that were later judged not to be entirely wrong. He had the charisma of a great man right until he oh-my'ed loose his mortal coil. If there had been an HR department between the music room and the colorful food cube dispensary there would have been need for the admiralty to get involved. He is a beloved character for his brazenness and faults.

It's nice that an American company will enforce a 24-hour cooling-off period for the installation of a few 1s and 0s on a device I already own.

They wouldn't do this for the purchase of a firearm.

This biting satirical take is brought to you by a disillusioned Android user seriously thinking about switching to an iPhone. If a walled garden is inevitable I might as well go where most stuff gets developed for first.

How can anyone answer this unless you vaguely doxx yourself?

I wish this petition the best of luck. I would like them to succeed although I fear this effort will be in vain.

Wouldn't it have made sense to choose an image from the actual show though?

That is what a 🤖 would post.

I see your bullshit and raise you horse manure. Speaking from an administrative point out view, it is indeed harder to run a program like that spread out over a much larger area with a much larger population to deal with. A complication in the US is also in differing state laws. This probably wouldn't work EU-wide either.

Also Finland didn't start from a large pool of homeless people due to mental illness or medical bankruptcies because there were other social safety nets spun before this one to catch a lot of the people before they became homeless.

Blame the US for not trying. I do too. But "economies of scale" are not going to help a program that for it to run well cannot be run like a business.

It's much harder to get large swaths of the public addicted to opioids due to pesky red tape from Brussels. And there are far fewer veterans you can abandon to their battle PTSD in tent camps.

I read about a Finnish initiative to just get everyone they could find on the streets of Helsinki without an abode into apartments, give them money, and help them sort out their lives and get them into jobs wherever possible. That's socialism bordering on communism to American ears. That's quite lefty even by European standards, sadly.

In America's defense it's easier to do in a country of 5 million people than in one of 340 million. That's not a reason not to try though.

I would personally put excessive gun ownership and exaggerated desire to make use of them above Fahrenheit. The current administration as well. Obesity and addiction to opioids also, come to think of it. And I have a feeling I'm forgetting a few other issues.

You could make an argument that the cultural undertones of hardcore individualism and striving for selfish monetary success lie at the bottom of a lot of those issues. And maybe a desire to want to go their own way informed the opposition to Celsius and the metric system as a whole. I would not make this choice the poster boy for what's wrong with the US though.

Both temperature scales are made up. Both are workable. Both come from Europe. Where if it wasn't for enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon (events far away from the New World) we might still also measure in cubits, pounds, and regional tworps. Horses are still measured in hands, deer in points (I think, not sure about that one). The Brits still delight us with mph speed limits on their motorways and body weight measured in stones. Worldwide the more commonly used calories are a member of team imperial, not metric. Bicycles and screen sizes are more commonly measured in inches in Europe as well. Celsius had put 0° as the boiling point of water initially so we're all using it wrong, I say with tongue very much in cheek. The US opposition to going full metric is a bit dumb but not unique at all. The Japanese measure apartments in tatami mat sizes.

What's intetesting about the US imperial system of measurements is that if you scratch under the surface it is mostly if not all of it propped up by the metric system. Lawful definitions of how long an inch is and how hot 98.6 °F is are expressed in terms of the metric system as the worldwide standard. So they are at the core fully metric, they just don't know about it.

It's been a decade since I had to worry about such things. I remember reading that breast milk is - when available and plentiful - the preferred method. Formula is always second best. But this is a numbers game and I think the lab coats don't say formula child will suffer consequence A as a result. It's always there is a 5% higher chance of catching this or that (and I pulled that number out of thin air). But this is the margins I think I read about when it mattered.

Child #1 got supplemented with formula 60/40 at first; child #2 never had formula. Child #2 has spent more time in pediatricians' waiting rooms. It's a numbers game where you can do everything "right" and still not "win." Big air quotes on those terms.

If you are a new parent or are about to become one and you're reading this thread and you're freaking out: please take a deep breath. You'll figure this out.

I share to a certain extent your skepticism towards the good book and religion as a whole. I don't think your letter j argument holds any water though. The first uses of the letter j were as i's to make them more legible in handwritten words. And it took time until scribes started using it as a separate letter. The sounds they meant to connote already existed. Julius Caesar was just Iulius Caesar. I agree with you that religion can be used as a tool to control the masses. Just don't make any logical leaps based on English spelling in particular, which makes no fucking sense to begin with.