Also, awkwardly trying to keep an open mind makes sense to me, when the alternative is insulting the most powerful man in the most powerful country in the world, and your royal subjects. “We are apparently Kings of the Idiots, and your rich motherfuckers seem even dumber than our peasants, who just voted to shoot…

I think generally online dating works best if a girl finds profiles she likes and makes the first move. Guys get ignored so much that it strongly favors spammy scumbags if girls wait to be approached. I am a guy who got his current girlfriend by making a profile and being patient (basically forgetting about it for a…

I appreciate your nitpicking.

I think that is the Nordic model and you are right. I think if prostitutes are exclusively dealing with criminals committing crimes then that probably makes them poorer and less safe, but beats me, there should be studies and stuff. Sounds like a lot of people are biased and spreading dubious information though.

Is it really the Republicans stopping this?

Banning people from working is so stupid...

Generally it stands for Not In My Backyard. People who may support housing the homeless, but view them kind of like racoons, fine in their place but their place is not in the neighborhood, so you don’t want to go encouraging them to hang around by having affordable housing or feeding them people food. They might be…

I mean I kind of believe in trickle down economics, but overcharging sick people for medicine isn’t the kind of making money that trickles down, that’s Monopoly rentseeking. Inventing working medicines and selling them creates wealth that trickles down, but pricing them at monopolistic prices is sociopathic even if…

Generally

I see nothing wrong with that.

It doesn’t have to cover all living expenses anywhere in the country, or anywhere really, as long as it’s a Universal Basic Income it’s a UBI even if it’s just a dollar. A dollar would obviously be dumb, and cost way more in overhead than it would hand out, but every bit helps. And some people might have to move, the…

There is actually an ancient traditional way of fighting inflation. Kids these days act like they forgot about Volker but once upon a time there were things called interest rates that could be raised to fight inflation, and if people were overleveraged they went bankrupt because they sucked at capitalism. We can’t do…

I would imagine that they would make more Apple Jacks. And the benefit is that if the hungry people have Apple Jacks they can eat them, whereas Bezos can’t usefully eat 30 billion dollars of cereal. And they will probably get their cereal from Amazon anyway so Bezos will be fine. And the tax rate shouldn’t be 100%…

A carbon tax is the proper call in my opinion. Fix climate change and poverty in one elegant swoop. Pretty much eliminate other nonpygmalion taxes if you are feeling ambitious. Your doubt about our likely hood of enacting it is well founded I fear. Maybe Empress Ivanka or Chelsea or whoever puts the USA out of its…

I’m sorry, that’s not in good taste.

Well, it might have had a gun, er rabies. There is only one way to be sure. Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six. That said, I bet it wouldn’t have happened to a white raccoon.

What? No, waterboarding definitely has water going into your throat so you can’t breathe. It can kill you, and it’s a bad way to die. They usually stop before you die though so they can do it again. And again. This does sound similar though.

Has it ever been ok for a country to be as indebted as ours is? In human history?

I’m not sure breeding them for horns would perpetuate the problem, if people want to snort sustainably bred rhino horn that seems dumb, but if they want to pay enough to make it worth a farmers time it would support a captive population and possibly take some money out of poachers pockets.

I doubt it, I bet that they spend enough money while they are there to help the economy overall. There isn’t actually a shortage of things to do in Africa, it’s that the people who need the things don’t have the money to pay for them. Of course if the government then decides to govern in such a way as to maximize…