It wasn’t sudden. You’re just noticing it now.

Yeah. A lot of people want to complain that games aren’t made like they were in the good old days but don’t want to pay anywhere near the equivalent price.

It is a textural element. Vinyl doesn’t play music at well as digital, but it plays it differently which may contribute a different feeling when listening to music.

Vacations are a status symbol for some people.

The White Christian Nationalists are hoping to start the end times.

I agree.

Not everyone knows what you know and it sounds like you’re judging them based on the assumption that they do.

They might not be lying.

Yeah. It is possible that, in Scenario 1, the bosses were just incompetent. It is possible that either no one in the room knew the problems OP is having or they were people low in seniority who were afraid to speak up.

Border defense for the USA would be increasing the number of customs agents along the Mexican border by a significant number. The USA has never had a Russia like threat in its border who could invade at any time.

The National Guard mainly handles civil defense now, but there were more civilian oriented groups during World War II and the early Cold War. It is mainly volunteer and acts as dual use to support the US Army in times of war. I got my first COVID vaccinations at a National Guard run facility.

To answer your question of if mandatory civil service would help the USA, you would first need to build the institutions needed to use the manpower. There really isn’t a use case on the civil side that could use millions of young people who may not have the drive or the knowledge base to do more than basic grunt work.

It is a lot harder to understand where people are coming from regarding the Internet. Part of that includes people not reading and processing the whole text as written.

No

Typing of the Dammed?

But how is private equity supposed to make a profit on that?

Not exactly. “Club sports” have become a way that a lot of children players are developed; it is now out of the ordinary that a kid only plays school varsity sports.

It is a school designed to develop players in a sport. Soccer is known for this, with major European teams having deep academy structures as a way to develop players.

Yes.

I think that, along with it, no one really loved Nickelback. They came in at the right time with the right sound which was ok to listeners. When they started getting overplayed, there wasn’t a major fan base who still wanted to keep listening.

One bit of difference between forests in the UK and those in the western US and parts of Australia is that the forests in the second group included fires as part of the lifecycle of the forest. The release of seeds occurs after a fire and some trees are able to resist fires of a certain temperature.

The problem is that white settlers saw the fires as bad, doing a really good job at preventing forest fires. The problem with doing that is that the forests now have a far higher energy density than they were evolved for, so modern fires are a lot worse.

Trump’s anti-immigration push isn’t going to help things, but the USA has an oddly high fertility ratio given its wealth. It will be a problem, but not as bad as other countries.

I don’t think it will work. Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for not being W Bush and then the USA elected Trump twice.