Except that spammers can curate that set of posts and comments similar to legit users.

Recycling copper is already cheaper than mining a lot of cases.

Manhattan has an entire network of steam transmission.

There is also a lot more driving in the USA, even in a decent transit area like Chicago.

The City of Charlottesville has a master plan which includes infrastructure upgrades and expanding their business network.

https://www.charlottesville.gov/1666/Transit-Strategic-Plan-TSP

It sounds like the people suing don’t want to ride the bus.

Yeah. Trump can buy off police departments by giving them carte blanche over their personal conduct.

They had to follow orders, but they did it in the minimal way possible.

They made sure the military looked like crap on parade. A lot of units weren’t in dress uniform and the marching was noted as sloppy where it looked on purpose.

Very little modern military equipment was used. That the US Army pulled out a Sherman tank shows what the military wanted to show off.

Also, over loudspeaker, they played Fortunate Son, which is an anti war song about how the rich don’t have to go to war but the poor do. That is not a song I would expect to hear at a military parade.

This was not a parade where the US military was showing off.

I think the big issue for Trump right now is the military. If you read between the lines of January 6, the military purposefully skipped the chain of command in allowing for the deployment of national guard troops. I wouldn’t be surprised if the military cut the President out of the chain of command at that time, especially as they got every former Secretary of Defense to defend their actions post instruction.

Trump and Hegseth have been trying a lot of carrot and stick incentives to get the military on board, but the recent Trump Birthday parade shows that there is still a deep disdain on serving Trump. You also have a lot of military strategists who likely see the writing on the wall regarding supporting Trump; Trump can’t give the military anything close to what the military already has.

Trump can clear out the civilian government, but the military is a lot harder to crack.

The problem with that is that you generally have to fly with an ID and a name; a name you need to provide when buying plane tickets.

I don’t see how the face scan let’s them do anything beyond what they already can.

The audience wins out over time.

Unless you’re Paul Rudd.

On VHS…

A lot of old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, The Lion King, Rocky Horror Picture Show

Things like that.

A lot of people used to be miserable in families and relationships. Now they can be miserable alone.

This was a serious answer.

Like most other countries, expect that a lot of people only treat what they can afford. A lot of Go Fund Me sites have been created due to expensive medical treatments.

The problem is that wealth inequality in the USA has an age component.

Boomers are far wealthier than previous generations at their equivalent age as a percentage of national wealth. They are also incredibly sensitive to taxes as their retirement depends on managing wealth.

In contrast, Gen X and millennials are poorer than Boomers at their equivalent age and mainly contribute to the economy with their labor.

It isn’t a perfect divide, but there is a wealth divide that represents itself somewhat as a generational divide.

Not really. I’d argue the dot com bust was worse due to the quantity of websites that died because they didn’t actually have a business model.

What we’re seeing is a tech industry where all the tech is on the right side of the S curve and trying one last stab at a technology that may be on the left side.

This has been Silicon Valley’s MO for generations.

There is astroturfing, but there is also a lot of propaganda and story curation around the protests.

Like the rest of my body, I use a loofah. I have enough mobility to get to my entire back from one arm.