I have never heard of this happening in the USA. The closest I've heard of is some states enforcing grandparents' rights to visit their grandchildren, but I've never heard of any American government entity forcing children to take care of their parents.

Prisons are big business.

Not the USA, but several countries including China make elderly care the legal responsibility of their children.

I'm going to use your car analogy, but tweak it.

People are looking to sell their car and buy a new one. One car acts like their old car; it has automatic transmission and there is a network of mechanics to take the car to in case something breaks.

The other car has a manual transmission. The car requires regular maintenance to do done by the owner like weekly tuning of the timing belt. There aren't mechanics, but car clubs where people will give you advice on how to fix your car.

If you look at how RSS fell from use, there were two major issues. On the user side, users had to go out to find content as there wasn't an inherent way to search for content within the system. On the creator side, creators had to deal with advertising themselves to users and they had to handle the monetization by themselves.

Social media created the algorithm to find content and developed some revenue sharing with creators.

If federated media takes off, it will probably look like Threads or Truth Social, where control of a front end monetizes development of the platform.

There would be no merit at all.

I'm sure Zelenskyy would be more than happy to host NATO troops in Ukraine; it is a decision of NATO nations to not deploy to Ukraine.

If NATO troops were not invited, that would likely trigger a wider war. It would also mean that the Ukrainian government becomes a NATO problem; NATO isn't as interested in nation building since Afghanistan.

Yes. Democrats voted for Obama in 2008 and he presented himself as more progressive than Hilary.

Yeah, I'm not happy about that.

Magic: the Gathering.

It churns out a ton of unique settings and ideas for worlds.

Nah. Rewards cards live and die on transaction fees. They generally go to people with credit knowledge that know to pay off the card at the end of the month.

Let people consensually fuck others winningly.

Get work to implement it.

I didn't, but it comes off as preachy for a question asked in a community called "No Stupid Questions". A dumb question was asked about AI and the response was "actually, these are the things we need to be worried about because I'm very smart to worry about it".

That crew is as stuffed with mental issues as a Thanksgiving turkey is stuffed with stuffing.

This is Dr. Gabers Migleemo erasure and I won't stand for it!

Yep. That's a lot of words to try to seem superior to other people. Did you use ChatGPT to help you write it?

I know The Simpsons sends the grunt work to East Asia, but I thought that South Park is so simple that a US team can bang out production with the writing staff within a week.

And a diplomat with legs would be a valuable person to have on the bridge. There are a ton of episodes where they had to do an exposition dump regarding treaties and diplomatic relations. Having Troi do that would have been a lot more valuable.

I'm putting enough money away that I see myself retiring. At minimum, I would transition to a less stressful job about 10 years away from retirement and ride that out as I go to work less and less.

That said, I know I'll kill myself if my health degrades too much. I haven't decided what would happen if I run out of money.

They really should have made Troi a diplomat like her mother. While it makes sense to have a counselor on the ship, the counselor doesn't need bridge duty. In contrast, an empath who is a diplomat would have been really valuable on the Enterprise bridge.