In the USA, some politicians or leaders have been able to get away with the most egregious and unbelievable of crimes, again and again simply because the orchestrated them, but they are not the one that actually committed them. Someone else in their network was the one actually doing it, even if they orchestrated it and pulled all the strings like a sly jester. Because of this, you see people in positions of power that should require high moral standing and exemplary personal accountability, who are just corrupt, and openly bad people. Take Matt Gaetz as an example. He's been accused of some pretty awful things, and despite that, was elected to the House of Representatives, and later appointed as attorney general, the highest position of legal authority in the USA. There is nothing moral or upstanding about this person.

So how in the world are the future generations of the world supposed to know what is right or wrong, if those concepts don't even exist anymore? If you can go do all sorts of horrible things and then get elected as someone who represents the entire country, what kind of message does that send to the rest of society? That there's no accountability, that breaking the law is okay as long as you get away with it, And it also gives someone else out there in the world someone to look up to and to aspire to be more like. It gives people who make bad decisions and icon to admire and idolize. It allows other people to seek similar positions of power, and other corrupt people to vote for them, creating a very vicious cycle.

But the actual stupid question: How our younger people supposed to know what's right or wrong anymore then? Our entire belief system of right and wrong was formulated based on doing the right thing no matter what, and having punishments for people who don't. Seems like the world has moved away from that, and there is no more punishment, even rewards for people who do terrible things. I don't understand how the younger generation is supposed to learn and understand

By "skilled immigrants" I mean people with advance degrees (PhD, MD, ...) holding all types of highly technical and managerial positions.

Asking this because skilled immigrants, at least in theory:

1. knows, and has first-hand experience of how much bullshit one has to go through to immigrate,
2. has enough bargaining power to move to another immigration-friendly country,
3. let's just say that the upcoming US policies don't seem to be friendly to any immigrants at all...

But then US tech and research are supported largely by the same skilled immigrants. So I'm curious how that is supposed to play out...

Sorry this is a bit of a strange question.

P.S.: I'm... not asking for a friend. I've been constantly worried for the past two weeks; I try not to rush to conclusions, so the fact that I'm still worried concerns me. Double quotation marks because in the US it's literally the same government agency that manages all immigrants no matter how they got in the country (highly skilled worker, family of citizen, asylum, literally just crossed the border, ...)

Why not just have an easy button that you can click saying Do Not Allow Reply All?

I know that there are some ways you can limit reply-all availability, like in the URL linked here. But there's a note: If recipients open this email in other mail applications except Microsoft Outlook, such as opening on web page via web mailbox, they can reply all this email.

I'm semi-tech savvy but I'm no programmer. It feels like it should be easy to do, so either I'm totally wrong or email services are really missing out on a great thing they could do.

I’d argue it’s an objectively true statement that, of all the people alive today, Putin has singlehandedly caused more death and suffering than anyone else. The gap between him and whoever is second is likely orders of magnitude. Yet, when I read discussions about him, Russia, or the war in Ukraine, I almost never see the kind of hateful, nasty, and mean comments directed at him that I regularly see aimed at Trump, Elon, or even ordinary Republican politicians. Why is that?

Bonus question: Why be so nasty about it in the first place? There’s nothing wrong with criticism, but I struggle to understand the need for such meanness. Even when I agree with the sentiment, reading comments like that feels toxic. It poisons my mind too. I don’t like being angry, and I avoid it for practical reasons as well. Anger clouds my judgment, and I think it does the same for others and thus should be avoided.

I try running, stair climbing and stretching every day and I try not to eat to feel full up. I don't know if this is a stupid idea, but I'm sure dieting involves feeling moderately hungry, which is what I do now.

Sometimes, after a long hard workday I feel so hungry I eat a lot for dinner, meaning I don't have to have breakfast before I start working out. I don't know if this is also a stupid idea. Do you have a small breakfast before starting your work out in the morning before going to work?

A variation of this involves eating only whole grains at night before going to sleep because sometimes that's the only thing at hand.

Should I change anything?

Currently, Google pays Firefox's bill by having them set their default search engine to Google.

This will no longer be when Chrome is in the hands of another party. DOJ is currently advocating for this forced sellout.

So will Firefox be no more after that?

I live in the USA, and our future seems more bleak than it ever has. Is not about politics, although politicians do have an impact on it. It's really about our quality of life, and cost of living, which has not changed for the better, it seems, in a really long time. The cost of living keeps going up higher and higher, and much of our country still believes that even with increased cost of living, there is never any reason whatsoever to pay people more. So for instance, a job that paid 10 bucks an hour in the year 2002, that same job might still pay $10 an hour now. But I think we all know that the cost of living has dramatically gone up from 2002 to now.

Even White collar jobs though seem to be threatened to now, which is not something I've ever seen before. Positions like analyst, engineer, business intelligence, revenue management, whatever you want to think of. Any corporate office job, people are suffering. The cost of living is absurd, buying a house is simply out of reach unless you have dual income and it better be nearly six figure dual income....

I just don't see how Americans at large are going to survive the next 30 years?

This question randomly popped into my head some time ago. I haven't really found anything on Wikipedia relating to masochism outside of sex, but since sadism can be non-sexual, why could masochism be too?

I mean, I see "leaked" videos of protests in authoritarian countries like China and just wonder why they dont just like make a backdoor that disables videos from being recorded. Or use some sort of 0-day exploit that installs malware on their phones and disable cameras.

I mean, I can't be the only one that thought of it, right? Surely someone in the government would've thought of it.

Wonder why such tactic isn't being used.

This is a sidewalk grip where it ramps up from the street. I noticed that all of them have the same melt pattern. Low traffic area when no one was out.

Just curious if anyone knows why

Like, do you extend the lease? Return the vehicle and try aiming for a different dealership?

Not promoting criminal activity just generally curious.

I just decided to start asking this instead of 'what do you do?' when meeting people. Figured I'd try it out on you folks.

And while I perfectly expect joke answers, this is also a serious question.

Like say Politician A is a somewhat decent politician that's little bettor or worse then the ones before, but Politician B wants to take away the general people's rights so that corporations can get richer and richer. Corporations band together to make Politician A look like the spawn of Satan with every thing they ever did put under a microscope and blown out of proportion if not outright fabricated, while everything Politician B does is completely buried and debunked by bribed people who are claimed to be experts in their respective fields. What would that look like? Like what's an example of a claim and an example of the actual truth behind it?