By voting. The US has set term lengths at every level. If the leaders are not fulfilling their job properly, they get fired.

For representatives it’s every two years.

That requires having an informed and active constituency though, which we do not have.

Yeah the article doesn’t actually say that at all. That appears to be pulled straight out of OP’s ass.

However, if that’s the installed cost, and per kW, then that’s insanely cheap. Solar where I am is about $2500 per kW capacity installed. $25 per kW would be dirt cheap.

It’s not capitalism per se. It’s the lazy, stupid populace that allows the system of regulatory capture we have.

The fossil fuel industry also gets a metric fuck ton of tax payer funded subsidies. That’s not capitalism. That’s a quasi state economy.

In a true capitalist system, we’d see more competitive forms of energy taking off, like solar and wind which are cheaper than fossil fuels at this point. But because the government keeps fossil fuels going, we’re not getting off them.

The defense budget is entirely irrelevant to healthcare. We already spend multiple times the defense budget on Medicare and Medicaid, and another several times as much on health insurance premiums, copays, and coinsurance.

We could have universal healthcare without touching the defense budget at all, and it would still be cheaper than the system we currently have.

No it’s hard. There’s absolutely no question about it. And I love lifting and working out. It’s hard.

But that’s also a product of a sedentary generation where physical labor is not the primary means of making a living.

I grew up in a blue collar family and did it myself until I joined the military. Physical labor is hard.

My dad, my grandpa, and most of the rest of my family didn’t have a choice. Making money and raising a family is hard. They all did it with hard manual labor. Plumbing and being mechanics and doing paint and body work. They didn’t need to exercise because they were lifting weights all day as a job.

Most of us don’t do that today. We drive to work, sit around at a computer, drive home, and then sit around being exhausted mentally. I get it. It’s hard to say “go lift weights for fun” or “ok now go run 5 miles.” It’s a lot easier to be exhausted and healthy when your day job is physically intensive because you knock out that basic requirement. You go home tired but physically fulfilled.

I’m in an office now and I hate it. I miss being physically exhausted just from work. I miss when going to the gym was extra trying to grow more and not just a necessity to not rot into my chair.

It’s hard to go to the gym now when I’m mentally exhausted doing shit I hate. I hate that the office drains my energy doing bullshit.

It’s hard. That’s not a knock on people today. But it is still necessary. And there’s no easy button like for everything else. You can ozempic your way out of being fat, but you can’t ozempic your way out of depression. Antidepressants are far from an easy button and often cause more problems. Being skinny doesn’t fix it the same way as working for it does.

Ugh. Yeah that’s a bitch. Cheaper than a legal fight but that’s not helpful if it crunches the budget.

But if you can swing it, it will only be a long term benefit. Especially with kids.

I get that. He definitely has a style that not everyone likes. But there was a lot of thing that were in the book

I thought were critical plot points that got glossed over in the movie.

Yeah. I’d hate for some dumb legal shit to happen over nothing. Best to just get it done and a clean slate with no legal issues at all, even if it is a pain in the ass.

It’s also a lot of legal rights and privileges. And in many places it’s also a default inheritance. If something were to happen to her, you would have no rights to make any decisions. Her husband would. Her assets would become his.

Even if you aren’t interested in being married, it’s in her best interest to actually finalize the divorce to avoid a litany of issues.

It definitely is. Part of why I like miniseries more than standalone movies for deep stories. You can do a lot more in eight or nine hour and a half episodes than one 2 and a half hour movie. And with all of the flashbacks in the book, you could have nice clean stopping points for a miniseries, and really go into detail on those.

Bro. Broooooo.

The book is phenomenal. The movie is amazing, but needed to be at least 3 hours longer to cover everything in the book.

The book explicitly goes over it.

It’s lab grown clones of Grace’s own tissue. He calls them “Me-Burgers”.

Well, because the lack of proper categorization and enforcement, those emotos ARE legally ebikes in a lot of places.

I’ve met my federal representative in person a dozen or so times at her office locally, and been to 6 town halls, both in person and virtual teleconference town halls. My state House rep I have met a ton. He’s extremely active in the community.

Your first point is the big one.

Everybody wants an easy button for everything. Exercise is hard, requires consistent effort over time, and the results are subtle and take a while to see.

Lol yeah that’s the issue. You cannot expect people to put rules on themselves like that if nobody is going to enforce it. It truly does fall to the constituency to be the enforcement by voting them out when they abdicate their responsibilities.

No, he didn’t. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was passed and signed into law by Bush a month before the 2008 election even happened. The only thing you can really say is that Senator Obama was one of 70 yes votes on the bill in the Senate.

Obama signed the American Rescue and Recovery Act of 2009, which was heavily focused on stimulus and assistance to individuals and working families. He also signed Dodd-Frank which put a ton of new restrictions on the banks.

Basic facts matter.

It should be, yes. The good ones are already doing this, but there absolutely should be some requirement to make the lazy ones actually do their job.

And, ideally, we’d have an active and informed constituency that keeps their representatives honest. They should be terrified of being voted out because their constituents keep their feet to the fire.

Oklahoma has had Service by Publication for over 20 years.

Most places have Service by Publication, including Oklahoma.

She would need to file the petition, and then run a legal notice in a paper that serves that county, and that would count. Doesn’t matter if he ever actually sees or responds to it. She will have fulfilled her legal obligation for service.