I wonder how much it costs every time they stop then start back up again.

As much as they can shovel at their no-bid contractor friends.

Taxing unrealized gain is wrong in most voters minds.

Property tax is already doing that though.

What is “a phrase you’d see on a Hot Topic tee shirt in 2006”?

A lot of them think it’s cool specifically because it annoys other people. It’s antisocial behavior.

And if it was like half the size instead of a pedestrian-killer 6000.

That season was such a step down.

Sears was actively hollowed out by vultures, and before that they were slow to modernize.

The grocery store nearest my house (QFC, a slightly nicer Kroger-owned regional chain) has tiny trays for the bagging area. Anything more bulky than a gallon of milk and a bag of apples turns into a weird game of Jenga.

It would be a lot easier to address those flaws in their absence.

No it’s a set of fundamental assumptions about the nature of the universe and reality.

If a company like McDonald’s thought it was worth all that they’d already be doing it.

It’s the Pareto principle in full effect, or the 1% rule. Only a fraction (sometimes a very small fraction) of any given population actually creates or iterates in a meaningful way. Most people are just copying their work, following along without understanding.

Supposed to be, but (like everything else) it’s incredibly underfunded.

This is completely unrelated, but I hope I’m dead before using “compute” as a noun sounds normal to me.

One is a way of thinking, the other is an interpretation of reality.

I’m sort of surprised there’s no conscious effort to counter that.

Nobody wants to be the company “wasting” money on training young coders. This is the inevitable decay caused by Capitalism.

Not even, it’s like five counties in each state with 70% of the total population.

Why should we turn 100% of our farmland into Republican states?

It’s most countries. https://www.equaldex.com/equality-index

I’m not giving my money to a homophobic enterprise.