The first half, sure.

• Why talk or negotiate with someone when you can start with a shakedown?
• why let someone talk to you as if they were your equal, when you can start by threatening them, to ensure proper respect/obsequiousness?

I really don’t see how Trump has any plan beyond that, any ability to make deals beyond shakedowns

Sort of like a failed Cubano

Cottage cheese and apple butter is a traditional Pennsylvania Dutch (I believe) combination. It works really well well together. Anyway the more intense flavor of the apple butter over sauce, probably does the same as your pickled whatever

I’ll have to try that sometime, but Mac and cheese goes great with each type of hot sauce I’ve tried so far

I use better technology: wire fruit basket. It achieves the same goal of exposing your banana to air circulation, but the last one can lay down

Those are all excesses of capitalism, which don’t need to happen. Capitalism is only economic: we should be able to expect the self-interest of the political realm, the cumulative self-interest of voters/consumers to check unfettered capitalism. It usually does, but this balance has been tipping over time

There is indeed a wide range of systems of capitalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

I fall more on the side of:

In mixed economies, which are almost universal today,[111] markets continue to play a dominant role, but they are regulated to some extent by the state in order to correct market failures, promote social welfare, conserve natural resources, fund defense and public safety or other rationale

No, the goal of capitalism is to use a profit goal to harness the human base emotions of greed and lust for power. It has no other goal, no right or wrong, but is merely a tool. It should be a tool. Capitalism serves merely short term profit.

Government creates the market, issues regulations to establish competition, fairness, transparency, contracts, currency, legal frameworks. Government expects to last longer than a contemporary CEO: is it too much to ask that they regulate the market with a long term perspective? Government is elected by the voters: is it too much to ask that they regulate the market for the good of those voters whom they desire to re-elect them ?

Our system of checks and balances seeks to harness similar base emotions to prevent fascism and other abuses of authority by giving each politician a realm where they wield the most power. No matter how unscrupulous a politician.their lust for power drives them to placate voters sufficiently to get re-elected, drives them to limit the ther branches of government from encroaching on their prerogative. No matter how egocentric a politician, no matter how much he holds himself above others and above the law, he is driven to prevent others from cheating more than himself. How craven and spineless must you be that even this isn’t enough to make the power hungry stand up for their own greed? Isn’t enough for the corruptible to use the force of law to bring down the other corrupted?

But somehow capitalism bought government. The most egocentric bowed to a personality cult. The power hungry found it easier to manipulate voters than to placate them. The corruptible commit their grift in public

Capitalism is fairly well understood, as is its excesses. If we use it for the good of society we all benefit. However if we use it for the good of only a few or if we let it use us, we end up in the current dystopia

I do like that analogy of republicans as the early photosynthetic microorganisms drowning in their own filth. It leaves us room to hope that evolution will build a worthy successor that thrives in clean air and bright sun

That capitalism is good. There is no economic system more efficient at progress

It’s government that’s the failure. It’s Governments responsibility to shape the markets so capitalism benefits society and they have failed miserably

You’re way overthinking that. The far north already has mineral resources opening up, and potential shipping passages. They’re ready for exploitation long before catastrophic climate change hits

Yeah but we’re clearly no longer using the Constitution

This is probably a red vs blue thing too. There are plenty of rural conservative parts of NY with much lower cost of living than NYC

Yes, but didn’t red states reject that?

Yeah I think every states Medicaid is similar. It’s partly funded by the feds but only covers the lowest incomes

You need to figure out how to include all those of us paying into expensive private healthcare - including employer contributions

https://masscare.org/

At a glance, looks like it would cover anyone working 20 hrs/wk in MA

I did say yes, but they’re 19 and at college …… there’s no point in objecting when they’re at home

If you wouldn’t really want to do programming, don’t. That only gets worse for a lot of people. It’s something I enjoy and have done well at, and it can be tempting given the number of jobs and growth, and good pay. However the people I know who are most miserable are those who weren’t especially interested in the work but the jobs and the money.

I’m sure you could do programming, and you’d deal with it a few years, but it’s a specialty that not everyone will enjoy, and you may just get more and more miserable.

I Personally believe not enough people start from the other side, the subject matter interest. Pretty much every field needs programming or technical skills, and data science is exploding across many fields. Definitely an option to consider is whatever subject you like, but the technical skills to bring the automation or the data analysis. That going to be huge!

I imagine there’s a significant chunk of users who don’t know or care how to properly open their server up to the world and are relying on the Plex proxies

That seems like the obvious place to put a subscription that won’t get people upset. Or maybe it’s in the presentation.

When HomeAssistant started a subscription, they renewed their commitment to opensource, added new remote features with obvious costs under subscription while still letting you do it yourself, plus made it clear this funded continued opensource development. I happily pay this and haven’t been disappointed. Did Plex fumble a similar opportunity?