Being a developed nation is a moving target.

The expectations of what being developed means changes as new technologies and standards of living evolve. Additionally, you have to maintain your past investments in infrastructure, education, governance, civil rights, and community.

You can't just build a developed nation and then stop investing in it. The US stopped serious investments in itself back in 1980. It's been coasting since then. We are just starting to see the wheels come off. In the last 40 years there should have been trillions of dollars put into infrastructure, education, food development, healthcare, civil services, and community needs. Instead, that money was taken by the rich and the nation plundered.

Dark times ahead, as Gary has discovered.

Lolz. You have nothing to work with post Stormy Daniels talking about how he paid her for sex while being married to you. You either stood your ground then, or you're a highly paid doormat since.

You're just as culpable as him for the damage done to our nation.

My latest round is Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, Railroad Tycoon II, Plants vs. Zombies, and a bit of TF2.

We still bust out the GameCube to play MarioKart Double Dash.

I recall they only stopped producing Z80 chips recently. They're still in lots of manufacturing and embedded systems, but it's a small enough market to coast on a warehouse of them for the next decade.

Nein. Nur nein.

See, I don't care if someone doesn't want to end their own vows. You can make a vow to do anything. As long as it only involves you, then you do you.

Everyone else, though gets to make their own decisions for themselves. If they don't want to continue in a legal marriage contract, they can leave it. That's a personal choice and they live with the consequences of that choice. Split the wealth, work out kids, and move out.

I wouldn't wish a divorce on anyone. Been there, it sucks. Even if it's the right choice, it sucks. But sometimes the suck of the divorce is less than the suck of staying, so people can choose to leave a relationship. That's what adults do.

Trying to force your ex-partner to stay is because you're a coward. Face your own life and the voices you made.

Doesn't make room for my knees. Also, passing the buck to someone else is just making me the last asshole in the chain.

The important piece of this to me is this: She made $1 mil on OnlyFans and $42k/year as a teacher. She wants to be a teacher despite making plenty of money from other sources. This tells me that unless you have other evidence of impropriety she's someone we want in the classroom. It also reinforces my stance, along with plenty of other studies that have been performed, that a universal basic income won't stop people from working.

Pay people better and we'll just keep working because we like it. It's part of being human, but we shouldn't be suffering to survive at the same time.

The prior president pardoned a family member who was blackmailing and raping people, then appointed the same criminal to be ambassador to France. I don't give a fuck what President Biden does now. We're a country of criminals and oligarchs now.

According to the US Supreme Court, a US president cannot be prosecuted for crimes (if they're related to their official duties, but whatever goes, I guess). This means that Canada is faced with the fact that they're being attacked by a foreign power with a ruler not beholden to the rule of law. If they give in, they're going to be conquered by a king who is not bound by a national constitution, legislative body, nor courts. This is an existential threat to their freedom as individuals with rights.

"American Nazi Party Leader Condemns Foreign Government for Classifying Nazis as Nazis"

STD's aren't diagnosed (mostly) just by looking at people. That's exactly why they're so tough to eradicate.

Wear protection and protect yourself. You did just fine here. If he is unwilling to be up to your safety needs, then he's not worth keeping around.

"It turns out not burning a bunch of fossil fuels leads to less pollution"... news at 11.

The really dumb part of all of this is that people have just accepted cars as the default mode of transportation for so long that it's hard to even envision a world without them. They're normal, despite being expensive, dangerous, horribly inefficient, killing people actively (crashes) and passively (air pollution, plastic in our lungs, parkinsons/dementia, obesity, and more), and directly contributing to isolation in our communities. Every car we can get off the road, especially in our cities, makes the world a better place.

Georgia apparently would rather put 10 year olds into debt than feed children. It's the best they can do as Christians.

I love the ticket systems in places like Berlin, Helsinki, Heidelberg, and Tampere. They don't use turnstiles at all, just occasional onboard ticket checkers.

It's so much faster for large groups of people to move through the stations so it keeps people moving instead of piling up at a ticket machine, even ones as fast as those in London.

You don't need officers standing guard at turnstiles, just extra onboard sweeps to keep most people honest.

Even better is a whole free system like some cities are going to. LA is having a freeway widening project happening. If the money for that went to their public transit system, they could make it fare free for 20 years at the same price point as "just one more lane, bro" of freeway that will still be a parking lot anyway.

Oh, what's that? The Dems caved for promises that the proven liars wouldn't end up keeping? Bravo to everyone and enjoy your new insurance premiums, peasants.

Strange that once you start having ways to make people identify themselves the government would expand it's use! Who would have foreseen that?

Elections have consequences. This is just the latest step in the FAFO process for Idaho.

First, it was the clinics in the North Idaho, and now the rot is moving southward. More and more women and children will be affected by this attitude of anti humanism that focuses on declaring women property of the state.

Women in Idaho should be looking to move somewhere that doesn't consider them owned by the legislature. Good luck to you if you're stuck in Idaho. The scenery is beautiful, but the rights are contracting.

Hey look! Let's just raise a huge middle finger to what's left of our ecosystems.

How did it go? Yes, humanity was destroyed, but for one moment we maximized profits!

PLEASE put a stop to insane car sizes. I'm from the US and our cars, SUVs, and trucks have gotten so huge it would be humorous if not for the thousands of extra children it's killing each year.

In the words of the Australian health minister: is it how the US is doing it? Don't do that.