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Even if it's a wash dollar wise, staying employed often means you get healthcare and retirement benefits AND the career progression that ideally comes with long term stable employment. Trying to hop back on the treadmill after a 5-10 year absence often has a huge opportunity cost on your lifetime earnings.

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It's illegal to grow alfalfa in Saudi Arabia. That's why Fondomonte Arizona was created by the Saudis to grow alfalfa in the unregulated and easily paid off state of Arizona.[0]

[0]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/16/fondomont...

At least the farmers have to pay something. At least one company gets all the water it can for free in California.[0] Not a bad deal for a bottled water company!

[0]https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/la-times-today/2022/02/...

> A lot of these tracks were also recorded over unlicensed beats/samples

That's the killer, right there. For example, the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique probably could not be released today as it samples an incredible number of other artists.[0]

[0]https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7kI8XoDoiHcrG0aGmtvq1g

> use of a saxophone in modern pop music

Ahh, the halcyon days of damn near every 80's Top 40 hit.

Enrique Iglesias was called out by Howard Stern for crappy vocals in his concert 23 years ago (good lord!).[0] Enrique explained that they overdubbed some of his songs so much in concert that you couldn't tell he was deliberately singing off key, that is until someone gave Howard Stern a copy of the mic feed.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98UWTDFaEYo

Sully's 'Miracle on the Hudson' is (largely?) attributed to his skill as a glider pilot.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549

Less bots and troll farms, perhaps? That may also be a consequence of overall user activity dropping like a stone.

Don't forget the drug war. Miami wasn't built up just for local Floridians.

> Mexico has it's problems

Like being completely compromised by the drug cartels and effectively a narco-state?[0]

[0]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/mexico-s-former-defense-...

You must be new here. Many companies keep ex-C-levels nominally employed as 'consultants' so their stock can vest (which is typically the bulk of their compensation) and avoid any expensive/public lawsuits. It's paying them off to quietly go away without spending any cash.

We tell them to build. There are planet scale transformations underway and we need another incarnation of the WPA to help mitigate the impacts.

For example, the pine bark beetle is ravaging the forests of the Sierra Nevadas. Millions of dead trees just waiting for the next PGE power line to drop or lightning bolt to strike so why not head out with a few thousand young bodies and start felling that timber and getting it to mills?

What about some sea walls? Forget waiting for giant cranes and pontoons, how about people start dropping cement rubble in the ocean around coastal communities, one dinghy at a time? The coral is on its way out, time to reinvent some of that Roman cement and mitigate the hurricanes' impact.

How many roads could use some form of a retaining wall in the event of a deluge? There's got to be thousands of spots in the US alone. Wire covered rubble? Gabions? Deadman walls? Whatever works!

The list goes on and on.

Well, we wouldn't want the Okinawans and Yokohamans to kick us out, after all.

My friend who was killed by a repeated drunk driver might have argued otherwise. If you can't drive responsibly, it's in society's interest to make sure you never do.

>Someone apparently felt that was worthless.

There is a significant probability that mom was tired of hearing "I'm gonna move it out of the garage, soon" and just said to hell with it.

>It's harder to reverse-engineer an unconscious process

Aside from some basic life support systems, don't almost all movements start with conscious effort? Whether you are deliberate about the exercise or not, you practice and practice until you develop 'muscle memory' where it becomes unconscious: walking, dribbling a basketball, holding a G chord on a guitar, etc.

600+ tribes in North America and there is no evidence of pre-contact written language for any tribe north of the SW desert border.

There are so many tipping points and cascading effects at work that I doubt we have any real understanding of everything that is happening at the macroscopic level, nor even if we did could we battle everything everywhere all at once. I suspect whole swaths of humanity are in for perilous times ahead as the speed of the variances will outpace our collective ability to adapt. As the wizened Tool once sang[0], "Learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay".

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CehYA3omb5o

It's not just conversations around the dinner table. It's also how you get started vis a vis introductions to the right people, prized starter jobs and educational pathways that may not be widely known (eg, an internship at ___ will set you up for a job later at ___).

Simple? Not if Furiosa is programming the start sequence.[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq5rQlfEcjY

Some people may view this scene[0] as overly dramatic, whereas I think it's perfectly understandable once it happens to you.

[0]https://youtu.be/nJ_pVgV1EZQ?t=216

I once had a wasp hiding near my center console start stinging my arm as soon as put my arm down as I started driving. Fortunately, I was still in my residential neighborhood so I was able to pull over and jump out of the car without causing an accident but it's easy to imagine the poorer consequences had I been a little further in my journey.

As long as they never leave Russia, they're fine... for now. But even Snowden knows Putin's imminent fall from power could upend his extradition protection.

The typical American's biggest monthly expense is housing. Owning a house drastically reduces your monthly expenses. If you're young, out of work or on a fixed income, minimizing that expense can have an enormous impact on your quality of life and the choices available to you.

The generational wealth kicks in when your heirs can assume your mortgage free lifestyle, generate monthly income from it, borrow against it, or sell an asset that has likely appreciated in value (sometimes greatly) since it was purchased ages ago.

I personally avoid living near interstates. The noise, the pollution & the walkability around them generally suck. YMMV.

If that interstate was never routed through that neighborhood, would members of your family be financially better off today? A fully paid off house unlocks a lot of financial freedom for the current occupants and potentially generational wealth for future family members.

Because the US has systematically disenfranchised ethnic minorities over the course of its history. Any time there was a non-white person or community that was starting to become prosperous, the power of the state could be used to crush them. At times it was overtly murderous[0], but as that became unfashionable, it was relegated to more subtle methods. Some of the most blatant examples include:

- Want an interstate in your city? Run it through a black or brown neighborhood.[1]

- Want a stadium? Build it in a black or brown neighborhood.[2]

- Black folks got a nice property? Just take it from them.[3]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre [1]https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-... [2]https://americanhistory.si.edu/pleibol/game-changers/big-lea... [3]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/01/bruces-beach...

> What caused them to crash?

Because nobody has figured out an autopilot that doesn't shit the bed once in a while? I'm betting on taking a nap in the backseat is just a universally bad idea when nobody is driving.

Ostentatious displays of wealth. The well connected often want you to know how well connected they are.