[-] bluGill@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

At this point the culture had shifted to not value large families and so few even think it is possible while not having kids seems like a valid option. It takes years to shift this even with an effort to encourage kids.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 16 points 2 weeks ago

Not everyone who is right wing is voting for trump.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not telling as if word gets out people will do that. Just like lazy people now remove brown m&ms without doing the rest of the work.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

He lives in a small town. Odds are much higher they check.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago

depends on your state but generally fighting will cost you a lot oi time and you lose anyway - then the judge mad at the waste of time throws the max fine or even jail at you. Just plead guilty pay the $50 fine and move on - it probably will be that cheap.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago

Yes, but if you are really that bad off state 'i missed the notice because I am housing insicure. I have little money after rent so I ask the court to show mercy'. A lawyer can word that better but something like that. If this is a first offense they may let you off with a warning.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

Who would replace Putin. If you don't know the answer or you don't like the answer any better what is the point. The short list of people likely to replace Putin are no better. (If you put me on the jobs I'd be shot within hours by one of the people on the short list)

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 16 points 1 month ago

There are a number of people who want to raise a child but for reasons cannot have their own. I know several people with genetic issues that they do not want to pass on for example. There are also couples who despite trying just cannot have a kid (their doctors know more but that is private so it wasn't shared with me).
There are a number of kids who do not have family who can take them in. There are neglectful parents who are not taking care of their kids (drugs are often a factor). There are cases where mom and dad died (car accident?) leaving a kid with no family to care for them (no aunts/uncles and grandparents who realize they are too old). The above is a small minority, but will several hundred million people in the US, and 8 billion in the world it happens all the time. The only question is how to get the two together.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

What the US has isn't free market capitalism. It is capitalism but with government imposed rules that are harmful to the common person. Your insurance depends your employer and you don't get a reasonable choice - they put in $1000/month that if you go elsewhere you lose that. Of course what your employer wants and what you want are different. Your employer wants the lowest costs for something expensive, and they want you to not quit until they are ready to get rid of you. You want some service with that insurance, but you are not a player with power so you don't get that.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago

It isn't hard to exercise without fancy gym equipment. Every result you want from equipment can be done with body weight and minimal equipment you can make yourself.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 11 points 3 months ago

They have been building a lot though, many lines are supposedeto open. If they are enough is an open question of course.

They could plan and build a few more lines in the next few years if they wanted, but it requires vision and such that we don't see in the us so they won't. it is still possible.

[-] bluGill@fedia.io 11 points 3 months ago

People mostly didn't ride horses, they had the horse pull wagons but they rode behind. You rode a horse where speed was needed, but that meant you have a series of places to trade out your now-tired horse.

Even horse above is wrong - you probably had oxen to pull the wagons not a horse. Oxen ate a lot less and where a lot easier to work with in general so they would have been preferred. Mules, donkeys, or even goats may have been used as well. There are pros and cons to all choices, but in general the horse was the most expensive and used only where it matters.

The horse was used in the American west above the others though. The prairie soil needed a plow that was pulled faster than the others, and so a horse was needed to break the ground. Cowboys road a horse because in the case of a stampede a horse was tall enough not get you killed (assuming you stayed on it), and fast enough to divert the herd. The above is specific to the situation in the American west and doesn't apply elsewhere. (note the that cowboy stampede situation is similar enough to knights in battle that both would use a horse despite the disadvantages)

The reason we mostly think of the horse is once the plow caught on in the America west it was enough better that much of the rest of the world started adopting it. This needed the industrial revolution to be under way though, and of course the tractor and automobile were not far behind. Before the industrial revolution were thousands of years where the horse was a rich person's toy, most didn't have them and if they had animal labor in reach they would want something else over the horse.

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