@georgetakei wow! When I was a kid, the Mets traded Strawberry to the Dodgers, and I and a buddy drew signs of green ooze dripping from Strawberries for when he showed up at Shea..unfortunately it was a rain out and he was a no show! But glad to see Mets fans haven’t lost their nerve!!!
@arstechnica This is another tragic example of how humanity over and over again destroys some of its most beneficial creations only because some - unfortunately - intelligent individuals play unfairly and abuse a system to gain a personal advantage. And just like game theory tells: in the long run everyone has to play unfairly or otherwise fault by default... classic lose - lose
A fix? Most likely impossible without a huge crisis as the gatekeepers benefit from the current system.
@arstechnica Rocketry is hard, the fact that SpaceX has it down to an (almost) fine art, makes it easy to forget for many, just how incredibly difficult the engineering is...They'll have this solved and sorted pretty quickly to everyones satisfaction,, to that I have no doubt.
@rbreich
And, just for the record, the vast majority of advanced Western nations who have all those safety nets that the US lacks aren't Socialist either.
Even here in the UK, the best EU can hope for is One Nation Toryism, even from the current Labour administration.
@rbreich It has perplexed me for a long time when people say "tax the wealthy" but they balk at a flat tax where everyone would pay a percentage without loopholes.