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American politics became Americans nightly entertainment, its a saturated behemoth with an insatiable appetite. It will not be long until election campaigns are non-stop. There's simply too much money in this game.

Small towns and cities need to look at other means to survive than to try and bring in some large employer or factory. Those can be boons, but banking on industrialists or some keystone sort of solution is a sure way to fail.

I grew up a few minutes from Youngstown. These areas should focus more on small businesses, agriculture and other things that make a lot of sense with what is left there. Met with a ton of corruption at the local level, I don't see much of anything happening without a real and renewed interest in participation and accountability in our politics.

Thank you for this, and all of your work. There are many places you've shot and produced like this that we will never be able to get to, and this is a true joy to spend time in.

Im certainly living in a bubble, but I've always had the option through my 401k provider to adjust my allocations among a very broad range of options.

Data in what state? Does data need to be stored long-term to be used in analytics? The outcomes of those analytics is the data that is needed and would need to exist for a time, but the day-to-day, I don't know why you would expect all that to hang around.

Google isn't making money from selling actual raw user data, its selling data about that data.

No expert, but I would imagine that decreased cost to manufacture (as factories are getting built and established), improvements in its total output (and generally the technology behind them), and longevity/durability.

When have we not been seen as disposable. The common man has been reduced to just a cog in the machine, with the exceptions being our concerted fights for what little protections we have.

Mobility is great but when on .001% of the entire global population gets to do it, and they get to do it much easier than anyone else would have (sometime skirting laws and requirements that normal people would).

The rich and elite get special treatment, when they should not. It leads to more unfair conditions.

One interests activist is anothers journalist, is anothers anarchist, is anothers communist, is another rebel, etc.

Journalists face the firing squads on all sides when someone or something in power is being called out.

The Federal Government or the policy makers in control of it, seem to believe that privatizing things is an approach for making them redundant, in a way.

Until we can step back from the belief that private corporations can solve every problem, we will be stuck with long-standing, and wasteful systems/situations like this.

There are many who know and understand that decision, and still move back, so they must (at least some) be factoring things like this into the decision to move back. Perhaps they feel that they can make a difference or perhaps some other reason, but the numbers in the article show that they are going back.

The individuals come together to create a society with rules. To be a part of society one must follow those rules.

Ethics, to me, have a place there, and it would be better in all cases to establish those rules or norms in your society, or your culture, rather than regressive actions like banning something.

And you cost more because you are subject to these rules and regulations. Amazon will abuse the lack of rules and enforcement on this, just as everyone else that can will do so until we write and codify a law that prevents or discourages it. Sadly, this is how these things tend to work.

Blaming a temporary administration for the problem gives them a new enemy every cycle, keeping you distracted from the larger issues and problems.

Maybe I am off here, but I do something a bit more simple

``` def issue_command(self, command):

        if not str(command):
            
            response = None
            
            logger.error('Command argument must be string')
        
        else:
            
            response = os.system(command)
            
            if response != 0:
                
               logger.error('Command returned non-zero status: {}'.format(command))
                
               exit(1)

        return response

```