I feel like you are going to hit a wall regarding streaming rights costs. Also, based on overhead costs and scaling, it will probably encourage fewer music streamers instead of more.

With Uber, they started with ride sharing and slowly nudged its way towards being a car-for-hire business. The reason it worked was because no one really liked taxis and didn’t want to defend that monopoly.

Today, cities are trying to regulate places like Airbnb to reduce their presence in major cities, but the only real hate towards Uber and Lyft has more to deal with employee pay.

Or you had several companies try to start their own streaming services from scratch and thought you needed a ton of new shows to fill it. Disney+ could have easily gotten away with archived Disney Channel shows, all the animated Disney cartoons, the old Star Wars & Marvel movies, and the Simpsons. It didn’t need a lot of the new shows, no matter how cool they looked.

If graphics were with it, people would pay for it.

The fact of the matter is that exponential graphics capabilities requires an exponential input of developer and asset creator budget. Given that there is a ceiling on game prices, it isn’t worth it going for higher fidelity games when the market isn’t going to pay for it.

The only alternative to an elected legislature (parliaments are different from congresses) is either direct democracy or one party rule.

I find it easier to respond to long emails because I can have all the documentation for the old email up and the text for the new email. Phones don’t typically have the screen real estate to do that.

But that requires the public voting. In Mexico, it also requires planning out judicial succession as the executive branch has term limits and I expect this would get propagated to the judiciary.

The problem is that there is value in legal systems producing consistent results, especially when it comes to the kind of law both sides can spend millions on. Without consistency, the legal system backs up more than now as rulings are so wildly different that it makes sense to play the lottery with the courts. That causes cases to sit even longer and defense costs to raise higher for smaller participants.

And if the system doesn’t perform well for those less advantaged, courts aren’t the best place to defend making this systematic change. At best, it acts as a relief valve to pushing actionable political change.

You can get an incompetent evangelical ghoul voted into office. How do you think most county magistrates get voted in?

Several states have elected Supreme Court Justices. Across the states, it has been seen that rulings are generally more inconsistent.

That said, Mexico has civil law instead of common law where legal precedent carries a lot less value.

Yes!

But this is really more of a crude simulacrum that can parrot out recorded bits of a person’s life on command.

The Heritage Foundation released one that includes several former Trump staff and the current VP nominee; it is Project 2025. You aren’t going to get anything more precise out of Trump or his campaign.

Harris released her full platform and it is ok. I’m sure people want her to do more, but I don’t know if she has the votes for it.

I don’t think you are going to get a full policy update because the policies in Project 2025 are so bad and the Trump campaign doesn’t want to run on it. That’s why Trump is running on the idea he will stop immigrants from eating your pets.

Yeah, and China’s behavior is very alien compared to the Soviet Union.

Soviet-American relations were created across multiple levels specifically to make sure each side understood the other to help prevent misunderstandings that could lead to war. Some of those communication channels are still functioning today.

In contrast, China chooses obscurity.

A lot of veterans will raz new hires this way. One reason is to establish the social hierarchy. The other reason is to teach the new hires to not be gullible dipshits.

Not quite. Cheap money is more that a loan doesn’t cost that much money to pay back. It isn’t the treasury loaning out the money, but individual banks judging based on inflation.

So start going after the fencing network. Make it risky to hold a stolen phone.

It feels weird to have someone else pick my nose.

I would think that it might not serve a government purpose, but it could serve a social one.

For a lot of societies, care of the elderly is supposed to be performed by the children. A marriage has the implication that care isn’t just for their own parents, but the in-laws as well. I expect a divorce like this servers that familial connection, people no longer have to care for their in-laws.

Ain’t nothing wrong with that.

It is a pleasant major Western city, with all the pluses and minuses involved in that.