This level of control is still desired by businesses in the modern era. Company towns were common early in North American history and now corporations use health insurance, equity and bonuses tied to “loyalty agreements”, and so on. All designed to make it harder to leave your employer. The market also suppresses wages for low end workers but inflates it for CEOs, in the same way feudal lords would live it up relative to serfs. The average quality of life for the peasants is better (our bread and circuses are great!) and we have a higher chance of social mobility but things are still not great if you really look at it.

I agree with this. It’s going to take generations to accomplish.

Any ubi experiment will have positive outcomes but when the bi is truly u, you will see inflation in a capitalist system. My hope is we use this knowledge to transition away from the false scarcity of our current systems.

I moved here as an adult from the east coast so I don’t have to guess. The list of reasons might take a while to write up.

I do love the lack if humidity, if I have to say something nice. :)

Join us in Alberta, we’re dismantling it now!

Note: I am not a fan of the dismantling.

I did conclude the boiling point was raised. I was up for a Nobel prize in chemistry but was excluded because of my political leanings.

When I was 14, I was not helping to cure cancer. My science fair project was about salt raising the boiling point of water. :) I’ll give him props but you’re right.

Thank you, I’m trying this today!

Edit: lol I have no idea why I got downvoted for asking for more info above.

Turns out I didn’t get to try this until today but it’s a terrific method and the simplest, tastiest ice coffee I’ve made at home to date. Thanks again!

Can you be more specific? How much ice and how much milk?

Jesus is just alright with me.

Capitalism: purchase a snack food conglomerate, lobby to remove sodium from food labels, increase salt in snack foods dramatically, and sell at a loss; this will drive up demand for the desalinated water.

Edit: add HFCS to the food and sell it at a massive profit.

The real gift is the very, very lengthy explanation of exactly what is going on.

Last question and I’ll stop.

Have you had an opportunity to review classified information on this that might be available to people like Chuck Schumer?

If not, what you are saying is there is no public evidence that you consider credible.

If you have been privy to the same information, I’m impressed. I have not so I try to consider motivations under the assumption that we’re dealing with rational human beings. Not that every ufo nut is rational,I assure you they are not, but that the people writing legislation, sitting on committees, running the inspector generals offices looking into this, the director of NASA , etc. are rational.

They are not publically announcing anything definitive but there are far, far too many resources being devoted to this up simply handwave it away.

I remain skeptical until I see proof, I respectfully ask you to do the same. I’m using the word skeptical as its actual meaning: I have imperfect knowledge so I have not made a decision.

Ok, so the most logical explanation for this is a career politician at the apex of his career did this despite the fact that the vast majority of people and his colleagues hearing about it would think he was a nut job. And he did this, risking appearing mentally incompetent to his financial backers, the party members who made him majority leader of the Senate, and his constituents to secure the votes of a fringe ufo motivated voting block.

Edit - actually your thesis is he did this without necessarily even wanting those fringe votes. Sounds like he is not making very good decisions.

I want to make sure that you think there’s a political voting block that will be swayed by this, is aware of the legislation, and that this is the only reason?

Could you just say yes or no on that?

Here’s it is. You are saying there’s a significant enough group of people who would think this was a reason to vote for, say a Democrat to carry a wide net, who a large enough group of them will hear about this little known, barely mentioned addition to a spending bill to make a difference in which election?

This sounds like some very hamfisted and ineffective politicking. Larry, in Butte, is going to love this. He and his MUFON buddies are going to put us over the top come next election when surely this will be big news!

Yes, that must be it.

I really have no idea what is going on.

I don’t think there’s anything pseudoscientific. It’s pure speculation (as far as I know). I just it fascinating how often “aliens” comes up lately. Chuck Schumer is introducing legislation to compel private business and individual who have artifacts of non-human intelligences to release them to the government under eminent domain.

https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-rounds-introduce-new-legislation-to-declassify-government-records-related-to-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-and-ufos_modeled-after-jfk-assassination-records-collection-act--as-an-amendment-to-ndaa

He was a protege of Harry Reid, known fan of disclosure. Hillary Clinton famously is fascinated by UFOs as is John Podesta, her confidante.

I just find it very interesting. Why is this even being discussed.

We don’t have congressional hearings about Bigfoot or the financial impact of Leprechaun gold, etc.

Why do you think there’s so much attention paid to this? I have no idea but I do find it interesting.

Maybe they have found us and we’re being prepared to hear that officially. There’s been a lot of unprompted announcements like this lately from various governments and organizations.

Asteroids hate this one weird trick.