cowfarts's comments

"Cell towers have backup generators?"

All essential infrastructure has to. Heck, if you have a landline you can probably siphon off some power from the DC component.

It's funny I'm about to go back the other direction - abandoning Mac at home to return to the Penguin.

After over 15 years I find myself using Windows and I hate it. What did they do to it? I used to love windows. The UX is nauseating. Little unseen action items that scramble your screen.

Slowly, Apple is doing the same thing to MacOS.

I never really left Linux, kept it on the desktop, but I got comfortable with the nice Mac hardware and Office suite. But now? Vomit.

"Why does having a trade deficit make your currency more valuable?"

Its the other way around, having the reserve currency drives demand for it and therefore imports are cheap and budgetary deficits are free (since interest rates are low).

You get free stuff and free debt, but over time your industry collapses

If you can make the mold.

Fishing employs tens of thousands of people and feeds an entire nation.

Warhammer employs hundreds, enriches a half dozen and addicts a millions.

I'd rather keep the fishermen

If old - medicare

If veteran [1] - VA

If indigent - medicaid

[1] not unlikely for a Florida man born in 1945