What do you have against massages? I find them relaxing.

You get ads even if you pay for the more expensive ad-free subscription.

At least those seem to be rare, only at the beginning, and they let you skip, but it’s frustrating that you have to do that at all.

From the article:

On Tuesday morning, The Liberty Hotel said it has finished an investigation into the incident and “the security officer is being suspended from their position.” It said all staff are being retrained “on inclusive practices and guest interaction protocols.” The hotel is also making a donation to a local LGBTQ+ organization.

He’s following you, about 30 feet back.

I know that this is an ongoing thing between these 2 countries, but it always makes me nervous when I remember that they both have a nuclear arsenal.

Some judges are allowing people to request to attend Zoom hearings because of these interruptions.

We want people to attend their hearings, but getting arrested for showing up is sending the wrong message. Especially so for for those who have a good case.

They should just make it so that whatever they announce as their “earnings” to their stockholders should also be the amount that they are taxed for.

This is why you don’t take on odd jobs from people contacting you remotely.

If your only job is to forward packages/letters/money sent to your home address (or to pick up packages from nearby addresses) and you get a cut of the money, you’re probably a mule for money laundering.

If your only job is helping others from another country (they will like about where they’re actually from) get through interview/hiring processes, you’re probably working with countries like this.

If they want to use your name for a job application, you don’t have to do any work, and they will send you most of the paycheck, you’re probably working with countries like this.

It’s “constitutional” because they’re accusing the “money” of being used illegally. There’s no actual person being accused here, but if you want to get your money back you’ll need to prove it’s innocence in court.

It’s ridiculous. At least the Institute for Justice has been winning court cases against this, but there’s still a long way to go: https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/

Edit: typo

It’s not something unique to capitalism. In communism you can easily have tons of monopolies as well.

Regulation is definitely a good thing. Competition among companies is a good thing.

A friend from Italy told me that they keep the best cheese for themselves and export the rest.

Direct link to the study:
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.70072

The maximum age for the President, or someone in the Senate/Congress should be based on a percentage of the average livespan of everyone in the country.

It’s adaptive and also incentivizes them to make choices which will benefit everyone’s health, rather than the health of the elite.

While shadow banning is an option, it’s also a terrible idea because of how it will eventually get used.

Just look at how Reddit uses it today.

What’s considered the “worst” vs “best” news source will always be an opinion for any individual user. You can’t expect everyone else to share your same values.

Some users may value their privacy more than others.

Some users value news sources based on how much information their journalists are able to provide.

Some users hate clickbait titles and so they avoid those.

Some users prefer smaller news sources that most others haven’t heard of.

For some users, the first thing that comes back in a search result is the best source.

Some users take the time to compare the information on the various sources through something like ground news and they try to pick the one that captures an interesting bit of information.

Well… I can tell you who didn’t do it.

To be fair, what we specifically have is a republic, although we do have democratic voting to elect our representatives.

Some of those representatives take the stance that they can choose whatever they want best, regardless of what their constituents want, because they were voted in.

Other representatives take the stance that they should vote for whatever the majority of their constituents want.

This reminded me of that video when the covid lockdown caused the air to be so much cleaner that a mountain range could be seen from ~200km away:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nazeeu3yZkg

This has got to be my biggest pet peeve among most news organizations. Most links on their articles just go back to an older page on their own website instead of pointing at the actual source.

China has enough air pollution that the smog from Los Angeles blows over from there

I think you meant to say:
“China has enough air pollution that the smog from there blows over to Los Angeles”