And I'm not sure where you are pulling the "if you are that powerful" from.

(The preceding comment was a parody of Great Man ideology)

I would demand a medium sized enterprise or two from the privatization website in exchange for defection

I'm going to have to ask you to place your dot on one of four quadrants so I can hurry up and assume everything else you've got to say

State subsidization has also dived off a cliff. Why would they when they know people will take out loans to make it up? (Neoliberal answers only!)

For one, you can have a second screen and Google the answers. It's a little bit harder in person.

I'd really like to see a system of online learning where extension offices are built out into testing center networks. This still disenfranchises people sadly, but staves off some existential questions about what passing an exam even means now.

Anything can be learned online, with enough drive and determination

But if you're that powerful: why bother learning from others? You could simply leave and create your own community called name's Gulch.

My only experience with this is the bootloader is just as locked down as the OS. It's been a while, but I'd sooner buy a x86 netbook instead.

The problem is you legally don't have the right to "terminate for any reason" when it comes to a number of protected classes, but these laws make it so we have to rely on you being stupid enough to create a massive trail of evidence (easy part with small business tyrants), but also litigate it for potentially years on end - harder

If you live in a state with a bottle deposit. The $0.05-0.10 is paid with the government aid, but returned as cash to the redeemer. It's a poor and laborious return on investment, but doesn't require actually hustling to sell water like that to tourists.

Every cold war era fear over sleeper agents has been realized with COVID-addled losers having their brainworms activated by rainbows and self-destructing their meaningless lives with nonsensical violence

I've seen this first hand a good few times - believe me or not because I don't want to be too specific about my experience. You've got to be super desperate to pour out a 40 count of bottled water for $2-4, but people with nothing else but SNAP/EBT/etc funds will do it.

It's sad and wasteful, but it's also such a marginal thing compared to the Sacklers making the opium wars look like a prank that I don't see how it can even brought up in the same conversation - except as deflection.

I'm sorry but this is definitely shit you only say when you're very far from the action. Would you want your grandpa drafted and sent into a minefield to "dissuade the aggressor"? Grandma and the children too apparently, better dead than governed by another neighboring authoritarian shithole?

I think I'd rather just flee with my family to a country right next door that has a nuclear deterrent and NATO membership. Literally why would "they need to all fight to the death instead" be your first thought? I can't imagine it coming from a position where you think Ukrainians are as human as you are.