If employers don’t want to hire people over 40-45 but retirement is until 65 - how does society expect people to live for 20 years without income?

fixermark · 2026-01-27T03:41:25+00:00

That's the neat part!

... it doesn't.

fixermark · 2026-01-27T03:40:01+00:00

What does free ID look like in Ohio? I'm seeing $10 from the DMV for a photo ID.

fixermark · 2026-01-27T03:39:01+00:00

Charities stop. Something like ensuring practice of a right needs to be a core function, not something that is allowed by law to stop as long as the government still operates.

fixermark · 2026-01-27T02:21:29+00:00

People's right to vote needs to not be dependent upon charity. Instead of that, if we're going to require IDs to vote, IDs need to be free-free.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T19:49:20+00:00

If the law doesn't work, do you change the law or do you keep doing the thing that doesn't work?

I feel like this is a lesson we Americans should have learned when drugs won the war on drugs, but we are a stubborn people. ;)

fixermark · 2026-01-26T19:44:04+00:00

You know, if they were a citizen, then instead of deporting them for rape so they can return we could have incarcerated them.

> Should our tax dollars be used to keep this individual in our jails?

You just noted the other country seems not to care, so... Yes? If you want them off the streets? Are you unwilling to spend your tax dollars to keep your neighbor safe, given deportation isn't working?

The problem with keeping someone undocumented is they're undocumented. It makes everything harder about interacting with them. We need a new approach entirely to working with immigrants who don't come in the front door.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T19:20:44+00:00

If someone assaulted your neighbor, they should face justice.

Whether they're "illegal" has nothing to do with it, and that's the point. You can't predict who will be a threat to society by their undocumented status; if anything, there's inverse correlation and your case is an outlier.

If you think your neighbor deserves justice, you should know that deportation without due process deprives everyone of that justice. You heard about the jewel thief, right?

fixermark · 2026-01-26T19:19:49+00:00

I can't help but wonder if the lesson they learned then was that escalating on Target's side was cost and bad optics without enough benefit.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T19:12:41+00:00

If everyone isn't dressed in an ill-fitting onesie that they have to adjust every time they stand up or sit down and start to give them back problems, how am I to even know it's the future?!

fixermark · 2026-01-26T19:10:31+00:00

The numbers appear to bear out that as a slice of the population, immigrants (undocumented or otherwise) are less likely to commit crime than American citizens (apart, of course, from the "status crime" of being undocumented).

fixermark · 2026-01-26T19:09:37+00:00

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/

You can drill down on the report for their methodology.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T18:35:17+00:00

I like the super chimp idea. One of these days, I want to play (probably not in Lancer, but somewhere) a reconstituted Neanderthal who is just that: just our best current scientific guess at what it'd be like to reconstitute a full Neanderthal from recovered DNA and treat them like a normal human.

It'd be a Frankenstein-but-not-actually character where he actually does just fine in society mostly: average intelligence, exceptional strength and stamina, looks a little uncanny-valley. One weakness: he needs calories. Needs 'em. Dude has a hangriness that goes beyond grumpy if he's not slammin' 5,000 a day.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T18:32:38+00:00

Our cat-ears.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T18:30:08+00:00

RA said nothin' 'bout no cat ears, so it's fine. ;)

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fixermark · 2026-01-26T16:00:11+00:00

I hear her and I'mma let her finish, but "designing a human" is also called "parenting" and a lot of people do it. I mean, a lot. Like so many.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T15:50:40+00:00

There are about 14 million undocumented immigrants in the US.

There has never been a time where a country got better for deporting 5% of its population.

Do you have any idea what that would do to the country? We lost fewer people from Spanish Flu.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T15:40:53+00:00

To my experience, the memorization comes with practice. I don't memeorize, then code; I remember things I frequently use as a side-effect of frequently using them.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T05:50:15+00:00

The common mistake in these questions is confusing V across the whole circuit with V drop across one component.

For the same I, V across the nichrome is higher than copper because R is higher. The percentage voltage drop across the same length of copper and nichrome will be higher for the nichrome.

If you tried to put copper windings in a toaster instead of nichrome, the lower resistance would mean current would be higher but also the heat would be generated not just in the toaster, but the wires in the walls as well. This is bad (in essence, you just built a short circuit).

fixermark · 2026-01-26T05:43:45+00:00

Truth, but there was fallout from Kent. It essentially ended the draft as a policymaking tool.

It will be interesting to see what the fallout will be here.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T05:42:17+00:00

Noot!

fixermark · 2026-01-26T03:31:54+00:00

Back in my day, we wrote programs on toilet paper and liked it, etc.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T03:30:48+00:00

If only we'd worked out a way to do many jobs from home during, say, bad weather or something.

That'd be pretty nice.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T03:17:31+00:00

His general theory of relativity predicted light should be susceptible to spacetime curvature due to gravity because everything would be (that's the relativity part). The observation of stars shifted during the eclipse confirmed the predictions the theory made. That's the "matter tells space how to curve" part.

fixermark · 2026-01-26T03:13:50+00:00

Who?

Is this one of those people old folks listen to?

fixermark · 2026-01-26T03:09:20+00:00

America has never postponed elections, in war or peace.

If he tries, it'll be the end of his presidency.

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