Utah is also a massive outlier when it comes to other Republican states.

Utah has a high percentage of its population with college education. It also has a relatively robust state welfare program compared to other Republican states. And, from what I’ve seen regarding comparative state politics, Utah’s political leaders appear to be relatively uncorrupt and able to plan long term growth.

Wrong kind of access point…

I’m a structural engineer. I might not have all the materials needed, but I could probably still design old masonry structures if needed.

And the industry has extended the generation cycle over time because the increased specifications aren’t generally worth it.

I feel like Ramsay’s benefit is helping people who have issues operating in the American financial system a path to solvency. His advice is horrible to people who can control their spending and debt, but it works for those with issues treating money as a number.

What else would it be?

Yes. Politics has divided part of my family deeply.

Don’t stop or talk when people are trying to talk to you in a public place, especially if you’re in a foreign country.

Some people want to talk about the rich, but it is also important to talk about the rest of the people voting for it.

There is a deep cultural mindset in a lot of conservative parts of the country where you’re only really supposed to take care of your own people. In countries with established ethnic groups, it is easy for the state to assume that the default person is within the dominant ethnic group’s kith, or very extended family. That assumption isn’t the case in the USA.

So, there may be an expectation that you support your kith or extended family, but it doesn’t map to a state because there are several ethnic groups, especially when you take into account that the acceptance of white as one group only came about recently. Therefore, the competing kiths don’t want an equalizimg economic playing field that a welfare state can provide. So, those systems don’t get built.

Also, somewhat tied into it, there is a lot of shame if a person has to go out of their kith for aid, like welfare or Medicaid. So, people will act as if they are not on those programs because of the shame. Worse, government agencies will make sure that using government welfare is known. For instance, a lot of school districts will have different ways of processing students on subsidized lunch programs over those that pay full price and parents won’t sign up for the subsidized system because of the shame.

An iPad is a tablet.

The problem is that most people use tablets as a media consumption device, so the need to update is far less than a phone. Even then, the smartphone market has cratered as justification for flagship phones have dropped. As tablets have a lower demand than phones, that market has completely dried up.

Kirk manned phaser banks.

Picard was a helmsman.

Transportation engineering.

While design is performed by a mix of public and private entities, most of the end clients are governments and they could have software developed and made free for use by their consultants.

Sisko had an engineering background. After all, he was a part of the team that developed the Defiant class ship.

It makes the existing situation worse for Trump. It could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back or another scandal to add to the pile.

Close enough. Which is why I think having a “purpose” is bullshit.

How do you want to define yourself? Who do you want to be a decade from now? Do you have goals?

If you can start to define your future self, you can define your present self as trying to target your future self. You can also change your definitions over time; after all you choose them.

I don’t have a meaning currently. The meaning that I was created for stopped being a thing since I was 3.

In this case, private equity isn’t the only villain.

Print journalism has been decimated over the last generation as it has become the expectation that the articles should be free. The money that used to support journalism is mostly gone.

The writer is focusing only in their own experiences, but the industry as a whole can’t support many people who blog as is it is their job.

Social media companies created algorithms to allow people to find content without having to look for it. This drove users and content creators to their sites and off the web.

For social media companies, a user’s value comes from having an account, so they have a vested interest in locking away content. For content creators, it is a lot easier to get noticed if an algorithm provides the advertising and some sites now allow for monetization within their walled garden. For users, they get content that never ends.

But you don’t need a fiat currency to operate a capitalist system. You also don’t need a capitalist system to implement a fiat currency.