You're right but it's more than just fear of change. The people who abuse the status quo and therefore have the most to lose if such a chanhe is implemented also own all the major media outlets. They would unleash a storm of disinformation and propaganda that would blackball any measure even remotely reminiscent of this for three venerations the very moment it was seriously proposed by a politician. Not to mention a smear campaign against said politician, possibly including fabricating evidence of criminal activity.
That would be a very fair assessment if the entire system weren't rigged for the benefit of corporations and the very wealthy. Mitt Romney said thay "corporations are people too" so I'd like to see them get death sentences as well.
Actually, it's reportedly true that Ghislaine Maxwell owned or owns a horse named Bubba. So maybe Trump did suck off a horse, but I personally hope it was Clinton just because of the damage that would do to MAGA and the GOP.
Speaking of, there's VPNs or you could use PIHole to block Microsoft's telemetry and AI ips.
That game of cat and mouse would get very tiresome very fast and Microsoft would win in the end. Better to hope for new vwrsions of Tiny11 or one of those debloater scripts to disable the AI features entirely, but they'd probably be reinstated with every update. Maybe use a hook to re-run the script after every update? I don't even know if that's possible in Windows.
Thankfully I've been Microsoft free for years now so I don't have to know. Linux is a blessing.
I agree, but exactly zero large media organizations agree as well. Journalistic integrity is bad for business. That said, when a huge corporation is profiting by turning people into addicts and killing them, I have no sympathy. Let the FDA and DEA worry about which opioid deaths are whose fault while the courts lay each and every one at Purdue's feet. The odds that they deserve it due to some other as-yet undiscovered shenanigans that they're likely to get away with are as close to 100% as makes no difference.
And how do you propose the people crunching the numbers separate these cases? Most addicts will lie about how they became addicted, choosing whatever story they feel paints them in a positive light. Most families of deceased addicts will stick to the same story, either because they believe it or because they too want to paint their dearly departed as a victim rather than irresponsible. Practically speaking, there is no way to get an accurate split between who was addicted to prescription drugs first and who wasn't.
It's called "propaganda". And they're not wrong in that that was the image the USA projected and a lot of the Western world bought - regardless of the merit behind the image.
According to one Epstein e-mail, Putin has photos of Trump "sucking off Bubba". What makes the story really amazing though is that there's a nonzero chance that "Bubba" is Bill Clinton.
Congratulations, but not everybody is capable of reaching that conclusion on their own. Like you said, having good parents is a huge part of it. Good teachers too. But some conditions, like depression, bipolar and others, include low self-esteem or excessive self-blaming as a symptom, which in many cases totally precludes reaching the same conclusion as you unless a grown-up tells the kid that what's going on isn't their fault.
Now, if the grown-ups are actively calling the kid out for behaviors that are the result of an unmanaged condition, the prime example being a kid with ADHD or ADD who has trouble paying attention in class, and especially if they're assigning negative traits to the kid based on those behaviors, such as telling them that they're lazy or antisocial, then they're just making everything a lot worse and that kid is likely to self-blame for years, even after receiving a valid diagnosis.
It makes a huge subjective difference for the person afflicted, and I say this from experience. Like OP said, it's the difference between "I have a disease that causes X symptom" and "I'm a bad person for displaying X trait". And that is the difference between proactively finding ways to deal with X versus blaming and punishing yourself for it, which in most cases will only reinforce X. So in addition to the person having greater self-respect and self-love and thus a greater quality of life, it also helps them to manage their condition, even in the absence of treatment.
The odds that your dishes will get done are higher if you understand that the reason you're putting them off is because you have a condition and you need to be extra dilligent to compensate, as opposed to you telling yourself that you're a lazy piece of shit who is too worthless to do something as simple as washing the dishes, and by the way, remember last week when you let the dishes pile up for days before doing them? Yeah, here you go being a slovenly swine again because that's all you're ever good for, you waste of oxygen. Nobody loves you and you're going to die alone, so what's the point of doing dishes anyway? Just keep living in the filth like you deserve, you disgusting animal.
That's where my head used to take me pretty consistently before my diagnosis. Doing the dishes, making my bed, every simple chore brought down a cascade of self-humiliation and judgement, which in turn strengthened my executive dysfunction to the point where entire days would go by without a single productive task being done, no matter how small.
Now, I have trained to remind myself that completing the task is much better than dreading doing it, so I do it. I can't credit the diagnosis alone for this, as I'm also on medication. But a proper diagnosis is the first step without which none of the others can be taken.
To be perfectly fair to the Cheeto gremlin, which is a good deal more than he deserves:
Since he has been constantly surrounded by sycophants and yes-men for a long time, it is quite possible that he actually believes the economy is doing great due to nobody having the spine to tell him any different. All day every day it's "everything is going great, sir" and "you're the best President the planet has ever been graced with, sir" and "size doesn't matter and the female orgasm is a myth, sir".
It's still his own fault for creating such an environment with his incompetence and his fragile ego, of course. But he might honestly believe his own bullshit in this case.
Rentals are expensive because boomers have been choking the housing market.