If the essentials of life are all shifted to “welfare capitalism” the power of class and capital to subjugate is greatly diminished. Add in mass union membership and it gets even better.

Not really. It’s entirely possible to pick and choose. We chose a socialist model for fire department because the capitalist model proved disastrous. Many countries successfully did the same for healthcare, retirement, and all sorts of things. At the same time, capitalism is great when you want a million choices on TV to watch or a grocery store with a whole aisle of different types of cookies.

To me, the difference is the impact of failures. If someone starts a company making a new type of cookie and it proves not to be profitable, it goes bankrupt. Unfortunate, but ultimately not a big deal. If someone has cancer and curing them isn’t profitable, you can’t just give up. That person’s life is more important than profit.

People argue back and forth whether capitalism or socialism/communism is a superior system and they are all wrong. Those concepts are just tools. Saying one economic system applies to all situations is as silly as saying the only tool you need to build a house is a hammer.

Mmm…coconut oil.

There are dozens of us!

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I’ve seen enough HGTV to know the answer is always shiplap.

Falling in love is not a choice. Staying in love is a choice.

Honestly, I gave up on dealing with bed adhesion issues on fine parts and just use a glue stick on the bed.

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It’s a gacha with squad tactics style mech combat. It doesn’t feel like you need to pay to get the units you want. I haven’t been hooked on a phone game like this in years.

Amusingly I got a spam call last week that came up on caller ID as “Obama 2012”.

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The chemical most places use for drycleaning is perchloroethylene, or perc, which can contaminate groundwater if not stored or disposed of properly.

I used to operate a drill rig for taking soil and water samples. I learned to read all the utility markings and to spot the telltale markings of previous drill work. I can walk around an urban area and tell you where all the gas stations and drycleaners used to be just based on a look at the pavement. In that sense I can “see” things others can’t.

The idea that eating carrots helps your eyesight came from WW2 Britain. It was an intentionally spread lie to cover up for the fact that they had radar.

There are scholarships for people with POTS and disautonomic disorders. Get your grades up and work towards going away to college.

Most arguments for using Hitler’s DNA end up supporting the eugenicist trash Nazi scientists espoused. There is little practical use for it.

More like it illustrates environmental policy. Pretty sure that is the Oak Street Beach curve on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago. The curve has needed rebuilding to accommodate changes to water levels for many years. A $3.4 billion rebuild of that whole section of the lakefront that will add more land between the building and the lake has been going through an agonizingly slow approval process. When it finally gets done it will add more park space providing ample room for bike traffic as well as car traffic.

You’ve probably already tried this, but TrizULTRA + Keto flush worked wonders for my dogs persistent ear itching.

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Just squirt in a bunch of the liquid, massage behind the ear for 30 seconds, let your cat shake its head, then wipe the ear with a clean soft towel. Do that daily for a week and it hopefully will make a big difference. Then you can do the rinse weekly or even monthly after that to maintain.

As a geologist from Illinois, I wish we had some Igneous granite. In my field camp we cored 500 feet of glacial loess.