BlameThePeacock

There's no legal way to force them no, but they can offer them contracts to get them to do it they just have to pay.

Building enough housing to the currently homeless will not solve homelessness.

Especially if it's setting up a benefit to pay for housing, because that's just going to push lower rents up and force other people out.

What exactly is the benefit of an intertie if it's always running at max capacity?

How would it "make infrastructure more reliable against extreme weather"?

It can't be used in the event of a local station going down, because it was already running at max capacity anyways. So yes, it stays up while the local generator goes down, but it's not enough to keep the grid up by itself.

There are some examples in places like Russia where things like the privatization of the food system has led to more options for citizens, but it was a rough transition and much of the privatization just ended up in more corrupt systems.

May as well just cut off your ears at this point because a lot of people are going to be very rude to you anywhere you try to spout this shit outside of the Klan rally the commentor mentioned.

Stop worrying about what's in other people's pants, you'll have a much more relaxed life.

As with Rome, the limitation is often communication and transportation.

You'd have a hard time even keeping Mars part of unified empire with Earth given our current technology level. We simply can't move things back and forth easily enough until we figure out fusion reactors (or some other power source) to a much higher level than we currently have.

Any sort of empire spanning more than a single solar system would require faster than light travel and communications.

Agreed, this isn't complicated. We either want it to exist and we pay for it, or it goes away.

It's not about that one acquaintance, it's about the time allocation for friends. If someone isn't going to be able to handle my kids, I'm not going to be able to spend enough time with them to make spending time with them valuable to both of us.

I don't get someone to cover my kids every week, it's going to only happen maybe once a month, so I'm going to use that valuable time to invest in the people I'm maintaining closer friendships with.

Having 20 friends you see rarely doesn't make you happier than having 4 friends you see regularly. If you're single, you can have 20 friends that you see regularly, but that's almost impossible as a parent with multiple kids.

Yes, normally noise is cumulative

It's pretty easy to think about this in the context of a stadium of people. One person cherring, 10 people cheering, 1000 people cheering. They produce a louder result.

Get some resistance bands, they're fairly cheap and you can do about a thousand different exercises with them.

Because friendships as parents are essentially just that, you have limited time to out into friends so you have to be selective.