People don't set up cool-looking characters in videogames, exercise, dress well, or put on makeup for others, but for themselves.This is the same. The strangers do not matter. They are not the point.
Oh, come on! Don't say it out loud! Just prepare quietly. Subrepciously redirect him to a Jet charted to go straight to the Hague. And I don't mean the nearest airport. I mean landing right by the freaking door of the International Court.
The dentist I use now is also a maxillofacial surgeon.She discovered that my previous dentist was completely ignoring issues that would have left me toothless, lose part of my jaw, and even kill me with meningitis.And the guy had made a TAC that clearly showed it all. Dude was laser-focused on getting just implants and more implants to rack those bucks, let tooth repair be damned.I was lucky that the infection was kept perfectly isolated for years in a granuloma, because my freakishly high pain threshold kept me from noticing it at all.I'm not going to a 'dentist' who just studied 'dentistry' ever again.
I was never told, but I always assumed it was to orient yourself without looking, and that's where the index fingers go when hands are resting on the keyboard.
They vote whoever their priests tell them to vote for, because apparently, church-state separation was something made up by woke liberals or something.
Power plants produce power. That's an utility. A public service.
Public services can't be privatized, or they inevitably enshitify. And they can't be fully under government control, or a bad government can also ruin them, like when right wingers take over and start destroying public services to excuse privatization.
Without a benevolent AI like in the Culture books, the next best thing is public ownership with independent public oversight.
Generation IV power plants can be designed so that they are physically incapable of going into meltdown. And the technology is getting better and better at reusing the waste.
So, of course, one would prefer a nuclear power plant.
If anything, we really need to update old power plants and replace all other non-renewable plants with cleaner power, renewable or not.
UBI isn't about stopping working and not earning more money. It's about giving everyone a minimum so they can be picky, and jobs have to offer conditions that are literally better than nothing, as 'nothing' now comes with UBI.
There are also places where 1k is more than enough, and those places tend to be depopulated.
They want a future in which only they own property, and everyone else has to rent even the freaking air.