It's at times like these I turn to my man Alexei:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyQGrq-Y7gg

They expect single Americans everywhere to be celibate. Except themselves, because that's different.

Florida will sink either way.

The Trump administration has been trying to brand anti-Tesla protests that damage cars as "radical left Terrorism."

Trump says violence against Tesla is domestic terrorism

Being quite dim and narcissistic, Trump may not be aware that he's consistently doing Putin's bidding. If Russia can get intermediaries to put the right words in Trump's ear, they could play Trump while letting him believe he's just having his own brilliant ideas.

He should use more. Parts of his brain are still encouraging him to move around and do harmful things. He needs to be more comatose.

Yes, part of the authoritarian playbook is to train the populace to disengage from politics.

Or painfully doesn't care about the costs to other people.

You forgot the endless pages of trick questions you have to periodically step through to get into Windows. One wrong move and you owe Microsoft money every month.

Society invests in the education of its people, and the return is a general benefit to society from its people being more educated. It is not necessary for every single individual to give something tangible and obvious back in order for society to benefit from an educated populace. If you apply the criterion that every individual must give something back, it always turns into a requirement that they give back something tangible, usually money or labour, and the next step is to abolish education in philosophy, the arts, and possibly the more theoretical or exploratory parts of science. The result of this is an impoverished society, not an enriched one.

For it to be a good deal for society to pay for education there only needs to be on balance a benefit to society. That leaves room for the arts and all kinds of human curiosity and creativity that doesn't yield an immediate tangible benefit. We contribute together, not individually, and some contributions are very indirect. Still, societies benefit from the arts, philosophy, and people with curiosity. And this system can tolerate some people not contributing anything much at all. The investment is in quality of life for the society as a whole.

Maybe what I'm doing right now? I mean, it could be.

Up you go, and soon it will.