My wife meant to take my name, but then we never did the paperwork. So we just left it.

It can be, when it isn't hamstrug by stupid regulations.

In the US the government tends toward being ineffective because it typically isn't allowed to do much on its own. For almost everything it hires contractors to execute a function and then serves as oversight for the contractor. The only real exceptions I can think of to this outside of the military are the postal service, the forest service, and the FAA. All of which are pretty notably effective considering the depth and breadth of the service they provide, and provide high quality, long term employment.

You know what I don't want when I search for an email Microsoft? I don't want your fucking suggestions about what I'm looking for.

I'm convinced conservatives would vote for a potato if you put it in a Nazi arm band at this point.

If only there were some kind of wear resistant coating we could put on bare metal, to protect cars, since they spend thousands of hours in moderately harsh environments over the years.

You could even make them colored, specifically resistant to the things they're likely to encounter on the road, and sun damage. Or maybe it could come in clear, if you want to show off the metal? You could probably even put many layers on it so it lasts a long time if one gets damaged!

Too bad we haven't invented something like that.

Saw a video from Denmark I think where everyone is biking everywhere and the metro station has an enormous numbered rack for depositing bicycles for storage. The entire thing is spotless, well maintained, and has zero graffiti.

All I could think is that in the US the fabric of our society and the integrity of the social contract is so degraded that even if we somehow had the political capital to build it - it would be destroyed by individual anti-social behaviors. And we'd certainly never have the wherewithal to maintain or repair it.

My cyberpunk solution is that once you cross the billion dollar net worth threshold, it becomes legal for a team of any size or an individual to register with the billionaire hunting office.

If a registered person or group is successful in killing the billionaire, all of their assets (including any managed by a trust on their behalf) are seized, liquidated, and distributed to the group.

Anyone paid to protect them, anyone affiliated with an organization paid to protect them, or anyone (regardless of affiliation or payment status) within a certain physical proximity to the billionaire is fair game.

New Year's Festival. Mandatory day off for everyone except emergency services

Text can be ambiguous, if only there were some kind of image that would could reliably it indicate the emotional context of your statements.

You know, like JIF animAted pictures

Imagine you own a couch you can sit on for forty hours a week, and it's decoratively on display in your living room, but generally completely unused.

You're not going to want to pay the same amount to be able to sit on it less, even if you never do.

The analogy here is that management basically sees you as furniture they literally own. They don't want to give up ownership of that time for any reason.

Exactly this.

Non violent mass protests work because the implicit threat is, "make the changes we're demanding or we'll drag you out here and beat you to death."

MLK was only effective because of the alternative of dealing with Malcolm X.

I was recently able to achieve the Pinnacle of my movie going career with a little planning ahead. Went and bought tickets to Evil Dead Rise, then it ended with enough time that if we waited for the credits to roll most of the way through, we could walk right into the Mario movie, and then did the same into John Wick 4.

And because the theater will let you choose your seats, all you have to do is check before you go how full they are and if you really want to know, check maybe thirty minutes before the next movie starts, and see what seats are available. They're usually static web pages, so you can just have a tab open and refresh it. Then there's no conflicts... you just walk in and sit down in seats you know are empty.

Theater employees don't give a fuck, they're too underpaid to care.