You don't speak for all leftists.

Signed, a leftist.

I agree with the sentiment - co-workers should not be knowledgeable of one's health requirements.

The problem is that there is no option to break from the race. Even if we are wheezy, we must run yet.

Thanks, did you know your username is a Dutch phrase meaning "headhunter"?

It could also be Norwegian, meaning "cup snails."

Texas has made an issue over their independence and God-given right to be Texas, in defense of ~~their~~ the right to own chattel slavery since their first secession. From Mexico. In 1836.

Texas reconfirmed their desire to die on the hill of their divine right to own people, by seceding from the US in 1861.

After the civil war, Texas was a haven for the Confederates - and their ideology has been fomenting ever since

They've been talking of secession openly since at least the 1990s.

I think this is the first time since the civil war that other states have involved their national guards in support of a hotbed issue that could lead to a secession.

Edit: correction to grammatical error.

I look forward to buying an EV with a usb-c charging port.

Might also be the very American perception that you're a bitch if you drive anything smaller than a battle tank.

So dealers don't want to stock anything but Ford F150s

We're probably like 3 or 4 main timeline events away from this becoming a legitimate state policy - and it's not much longer before it is made into a reality TV show for public entertainment.

He really would have done well as the lead in a fictional Michael Jackson biopic that's an alternate retelling of how his life took a turn in the mid/late 90s, when he discovers that he's actually in the Matrix and is the one. And instead of Annie, we're asking "Neo, are you okay? Are you o.k. ne-o? -- Sha-mona"

The demented level of factory farming had nothing to do with human overpopulation, but everything to do with human culture's demand for animal products that are entirely unnecessary for survival. If we change our culture to eliminate animal products, we will eliminate a huge source of wasted resources and labor. Think of how much less plant agriculture would be required if we didn't have to feed 33 billion chickens, almost two billion sheep, a billion and a half cattle, a billion pigs.

If we just grew food we can eat, instead of wasting land, effort, and resources both directly and indirectly supporting animal agra, we wouldn't have such huge problems.

"But baaaaaaconnnnnn." "I can't liiiiiive without eeeeegggggs." "Cheeseburgers taaaaaaaste too good give up" "it's because there's too many huuuuuumanssss"

I am skeptical of such a "great wealth transfer."

This argument presupposes that a significant portion of boomers will actually have wealth to bequeath. Yes, boomers as a class control more of the wealth - but how evenly is this wealth distributed amongst individual boomers? Of the total wealth controlled by their class, how much is owned by any individual?

I suspect that the median boomer does not own very much as an individual. Think of this: How many boomers own their house/car(s) outright? Have a high value 401k, IRA, or a pension? (do pensions even exist anymore?) How many have anything saved for retirement? These are the things that constitute inheritance for most people, and I doubt that the majority are sitting on such a dragon's hoard of treasure, if you will.

What's worse, this argument must also presuppose that the collective wealth of boomers will be available to pass down - and will not be entirely consumed by medical debt, elder care costs, or a combination of the two.

Even if we set the first issue aside by making the (very generous) assumption that 98% of boomers have managed to obtain the highest tier middle class level of wealth - mortgage paid off, no other debts, solid retirement savings, max social security etc - how much will be left after years of paying for routine health maintenance, acute hospital admissions, general elder care, nursing home care, etc. How much goes to inheritance/estate taxes (in states that have it), legal fees that are common at end of life, ...and lest we forget, funeral costs?

For these reasons, I find it foolish to assume Gen X and Millennials will be economically buoyed by inheritance. Some will, sure. But most won't.

I mean, being President should be a real job too, but that kind of ended in 2001 when we hired a moron. Obama would have done the job if the GOP had let him, instead of being so obsessed with his ethnicity.

...ideological colonization...

Wow, that's rich, coming from an institution that historically shipped zealots around the world to proselytize.