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Yes. That's part of the math. That's how Ford handled the Pinto. It was decided how much the lawsuits and fines would cost for the exploding cars and since they'd make more selling exploding cars than they'd lose to civil suits or government fines they went with more money and let people burn to death.

I can easily envision execs at for profit hospitals running the numbers on whether a new more percussive strategy would pencil out to raise profits. They're not in the business of providing healthcare, so it's just about net profits, your well being be damned.

It's crazy how hard it is to show Americans that public transit helps with so many issues in our communities. We've had generations of people now who have never even ridden a bus. Our cities were demolished for cars so we're building our way out of a huge infrastructure deficit in the face of a populace who doesn't understand just how damaging cars are to everything around.

I didn't say it was easy. I know how much it costs and it's not an easy proposition. Given the alternative of living in a state where a woman denied her body autonomy I feel that it should put some serious pressure on finding a way to get out of the state when they can.

I, too, have moved states before (on a grad student shoestring budget), and also have have opportunities to move to Europe, so we did the math on the move cost. I've also got adult children who have moved with little more than a packed car trunk and a low paying job at the destination.

The US has such low wages that we don't have "fuck you money". That's enough money on hand to just quit a job and/or move when things go wrong where you're at. The more the rich depress our take home pay the harder it becomes to drop a job or fight against oppression by moving away from it. We're in a bad spot as a nation in many aspects and having too few resources to move when society decides to own your uterus is just one of those problems.

Why women stay in those "some states" is just crazy. Why men who care about any woman in their life don't work to immediately move out of these anti-humanist states is beyond me.

The president can't ban vaccines in the US. Congress can pass legislation banning it and then the president can sign it, but the power lies with Congress here. I know we're moving towards a more powerful Executive Branch, which is bullshit and a path to having a ruler instead of an elected official. Even the language used here is deceptive and designed to speak in terms of a monarchy and any real patriot would fight it tooth and nail.

No gods. No kings. We won't be ruled again!

It's not a city. It's a parking lot hellscape.

It's a sea of asphalt surrounding the occasional building. I'd never live there in a million years, and due to the car emissions from places like this burning our atmosphere, people won't be living there in 30 years (or fewer).

They had to change their venting and airflow system for that building after it formed a cloud and rained inside. When your room can have weather systems, I feel you've entered a whole new category of 'room' by definition.

I got lucky at a conference. They got us a VIP tour of the Boeing Everett factory, which walked on the assembly floor. It was a phenomenal experience. The sheer scale of the operation, the size of the planes, and the detail work was astounding.

I did.

I was there 5 months before heading back to grad school.

I had one interview where they literally got me to fix their Sendmail server while I was there.

If you're a professor with a doctorate in Germany, the official way to refer to you is Professor Doctor [last name]. If you hold two doctorates it's Professor Doctor Doctor.

Professor is also a serious and registered title in Germany. You can't just start a school and start handing out professorships without oversight and approval.