AnxiousOtter

You're not making the argument you think you are. The fact that America is spending the most money on these programs but are still near the bottom in terms of actual benefits to citizens when ranked against other first world countries is a bad thing, not a good thing.

and his heir sucked nuts.

Augustus? The first Emperor of Rome? Sucked nuts? Interesting take.

Then she's going to keep getting challenged by security until she clips the damn badge on the damn dress.

I wasn't exaggerating. Go to any new development site. American homes are literally made of plywood and paper. Materials used for houses now are largely the same as 20 years ago. If the same house that cost 200k 20 years ago now costs 1 Mil, the cost of materials did not increase by 400%.

They're not construction prices lol. Construction costs are like 5% of the total value of a home. The other 95% of the value of a home is due to houses being treated as assets in a speculative market.

Landlords want the prices to increase because it increases the value of their asset, which allows them to leverage it for greater loans to buy more assets, etc etc to eventually sell at hilariously inflated prices for massive ROIs. Or alternatively to charge massively inflated rental costs pegged to the value of the home. Higher value, higher rent, more $$$ in the landlord's pocket.

So far costs of homes have only gone up since the 70's. A house worth 200k 20 years ago is now worth 1.2 Mil. It is an excellent rate of return. The market shows no signs of slowing down, forget about getting cheaper. If you have the capital to invest, it's basically free money. Or at least, it has been for the past 5 decades. I don't see why it would stop now. Maybe climate disasters or war, we'll see.

Corporate landlords are absolutely driving the prices up, combined with 3 decades of low interest and investors treating real estate like a speculative market. The material cost of housing is miniscule. North American homes are made out of paper and plywood.

MuH BoTh SiDeZ

Right, but at least it will be your house. Instead of paying someone else's mortgage and coming out of it with nothing for yourself.

You: Conservative SC shot down student debt relief

Also you: How could the democrats do this!?!?

Lol I don't understand. So when you get hired somewhere, you just shake hands and go to a desk and start working? You don't sign any employment contract outlining role responsibilities, compensation, NDA, expectations, background check, bank deposit information, tax information, etc?

I don't believe you.

I don't give a shit about that. OP misused a Picard quote. Completely unacceptable.

Quote taken completely out of context.

The context is that a partial descendant of an enemy species (Romulans) was the victim of a witch hunt. He was half human and a starfleet officer. He had lived in the federation his whole life.

A real world equivalent example to that would be banning Americans with Russian ancestry that were born in America and lived in America their whole lives from contributing.

That is not what's happening here. You are arguing in bad faith. Picard would be perfectly fine with preventing Romulans in the Romulan Empire from accessing/modifying sensitive technology.