Aging boomers are costing the healthcare system a lot of money. So there's a need to increase tax revenue to cover the cost. When an immigrant comes to the country they immediately start working and therefore immediately starts paying taxes.

A lot of it is down to how lopsided the demographics are with an overly high percentage of retired population.

In economics you can't solve one problem without creating others. But the problems solved are bigger than the problems created. And housing problems are a temporary problem. As boomers start dying off, the situation will correct itself, housing will be freed up and healthcare costs will decrease.

The Prequels were more world ruining movies than world building movies.

I'm not the guy you replied to, but MS fonts are kinda free to download. Not free enough they can just put them into a package but there's a defined method for downloading them. Most distros have a package that will automatically do this. On Debian it's ttf-mscorefonts-installer which will download the fonts and install them when it gets to the configuration part of the package install. You can probably search for a similar package for your distro.

Yeah there were some animal rights people that ran out onto the field at a ballgame I was at. The fine for running onto the field is $5000. There were two of them, so that was $10,000.

TV broadcasts don't show people that run out onto the field since they don't want to encourage it. So the only people that saw their banner were people at the ballpark. Someone shouted "get off the field you hippies" and the whole section laughed.

They probably should've just donated the $10,000 to an animal shelter.

It's just how internet activist groups work. Most people aren't motivated to improve things for their cause, they're motivated to prove to others in their group how zealous they are. The more outlandish and untrue the things they say are, the more they prove their loyalty to the cause and the more points they'll get from others in the group.

It's the same pattern of behavior for every internet activist group. Whether it's a vegan group, a socialist group, a MAGA group, an antivax group, Qanon, whatever. Promoting the cause doesn't really matter, it's about promoting yourself to others within the cause. Which is why you see insane lies about every kind of contentious issue. They aren't trying to convince you, they're trying to convince the others in the group how dedicated they are to the cause. "I'm willing to lie to help the cause!" gets a lot of points from the people already supporting the cause.

He threw out the receipt after declaring it as a business expense.

Maybe get a beret? But will it look weird if I wear a beret with my Che Guevara t-shirt?

Yeah that's what bothered me about it too.

Indiana Jones survived being shot multiple times, almost got his heart ripped out, encountered weird magic from various artifacts, survives a nuclear blast but then suffocates from being trapped inside a fridge. The End. Bum da buh bum bum da da da!

I prefer to cancel the apocalypse.

Or if there must be an end times there should at least be giant robots.

Closer to 1C at the moment, but here's a graph if you want to compare temperature changes over the last century.

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/?intent=121

The trouble with going back further is that there wasn't global coverage of people keeping accurate records of temperatures in times past. So they have to look at things like tree rings and make comparisons with historical records. Obviously it gets a little fuzzy going back more than a century. But here's an xkcd that gives a summary of what we know about historical (and pre-historical) global temperatures.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Speed Walking Workshop at 10:30pm? This is blasphemy!