@ericjames_x@JeremyTate41 Wrestling with the BIG issues is important, but waiting until 30 postpones kids (& grandkids) too long I think. I married at 26.
@DominicJPino FDR wanted to maintain a link between SS taxes paid & benefits received to “immunize” SS against claims that it was “welfare” rather than an “earned” benefit. That has largely worked, so retirees now consider SS to be earned - tho the math never made sense.
@caroljsroth Demonstrating the ability to calculate the monthly payment on a loan balance at a given interest rate & loan term should be a prerequisite for qualifying for a school loan. If one is too uneducable to learn that, very unlikely the person is smart enough to benefit from college.
@AJamesMcCarthy Really incredible that a giant pressurized sphere of hydrogen undergoing fusion puts off a pretty steady rate of heat and light - and has done so for millions of years.
@ZaidJilani At least one of the reasons that Elon bought twitter was so that actual news liks the Hunter Biden Laptop story couldn't be suppressed by twiiter flunkies. Post-election polling showed that enough 2020 Biden voters would have voted differently had they known to re-elect Trump.
@jackmirkinson For how long should Bezos have continued to dump $$$ on this charity project? If someone else wanted to underwrite the operations, I'm sure Bezos would have been happy to sell the paper.
@AriannaEditrix@EvanFeigenbaum@WashPost Regardless of whatever else is true, if your salary & benefits cost your employer more than the revenue you generate, you're a prime candidate to be let go.
@Streamstraw@EvanFeigenbaum@WashPost "greedy tech boss"? If Bezos hadn't bought the paper & subsidized for more than a decade, the WaPo would have been out of business a long time ago.
@luckystrike_44@DJL06824@KurtSupeCPA Moving isn't easy at any age. It can be especially hard for people who are 65+. You have more stuff that has to be moved, and less strength & endurace to move it yourself - so moving requires more of your capacity & money.
@IMAO_@jarvis_best I don't really know about AI using water directly, but of course it uses electricity - & generating electicity requires turning water into steam for almost all power sources.
@ZeekArkham There was a video of a guy walking around Harlem asking people if they had ID. They all said "yes". He also asked if they knew where to get an ID if they didn't have one - & they also all said yes, giving the address of the DMV.