What a way to lose Phillies. I'll take it.

I would move if the politics meant that it affected me negatively enough. And I could solve that by moving and all the tradeoffs worked.

As it should be.

Yeah... it will swing. I hope it is soon. I tire of it all for sure.

This stuff is interesting. The number of times I have heard from someone here in California, "yeah my friend/family member moved out of state" is beyond a number I can count.

I can tell you this. It started with the lock downs in California and its still happening. Some of the people I know that have moved had little logic to their decision and even less planning. It was a gut thing. Some have moved back due to this lack of reason. Others love the move.

I came very close to moving and did a lot of comparative research on many things in different states. But, when push came to shove... as messed up as California is, we have insulated ourselves as much as we can and really our day to day would not be that different (in the positive) and we'd lose a lot of things we love.

We humans tend to think the grass is greener on the other side and don't really consider all the trade-offs of change. Not that we didn't make changes but we didn't migrate. It blows my mind how some people basically move because of the perception of politics. Not the actual things on the ground.

If one lives in Dallas, it is more like Los Angeles than where I live. If you move to rural Tennessee it is VERY different from Nashville. I really love Tennessee and Nashville but a massive factor in where one lives is personal preference.

If you take all of that away though... for me TN would be a large financial bump up. Texas less so due to their stupid high property taxes. I do think its great that people are moving around and maybe making the lizard class rethink the edges of visions. Voting with your feet is a real option in the US. I wish states would exercise more autonomy and make the differences even more stark. In the next decades that could save a lot of bloodshed.

What is interesting to me is that this pattern isn't just in this arena. Its in politics and pretty much every topic area today. And yet it seems many don't seem to see the pattern and instead want to blame some individual in a position of influence. Seems to me it is just the consequence of the evolution of humanity and technology. Not good... but it will evolve as this pattern collapses. It will collapse. Many are sick of it already.

Engineers OFTEN have bad ideas. This is why the vast majority of apps/projects fail. Their code might be great but the idea is bad.

Indeed

Indeed...

Cool idea. But please... no one put this on your key ring :)

This may be a dumb question but I'm gonna ask it.

Consensus of what devs? Are people thinking there is consensus of core devs or just devs that build bitcoin ecosystem tools?

I mean... a mechanic is technical right? Right? lol

Yeah, when consensus is used as a tool to shut up debate... that's no good.

Also no good is bad arguments that are hyperbolic. I've seen way too much of that in this debate.

Honestly, these problems are deeply complex. The Insurance system isn't really insurance as much as it is a government created scam that tends towards centralization.

But the deep issue is that due to generations of the people being trained to trust in the government for protection they have become incredibly gullible. We have seen this in how much people trust in the medical establishment as well. I'm not trying to say "though luck" but I'm trying to say the incentives are not aligned where you CAN trust the government to protect you. The incentives are not aligned to allow incentives to discourage crooks organically.

Far too much of the population outsources its thinking and has very very little agency. Over and over again people trust in the government to keep businesses from taking advantage of them and the government fails. Not only that, the government creates systems that allow businesses to thrive in this environment by making it possible for them to gain credentials or fake credentials.

Its deeply complicated but at the root the real fix is for people to stop believing the government and the politicians. Use word of mouth (online as well). Build communities (people that care about you) and put more trust in people you know and know you than faceless systems funded by the state or corporations.

I've heard about these scams before from one of those activist hackers who was hooked on drugs. I think it was on the Shawn Ryan show a while back. It wasn't about this... the episode was about his work catching child predators.

Of course

To me, the best argument against private FFA would be national security. If I were defending things like this I would come at it from that angle first.

I do get what you are saying but think about.

If we didn't have the government bailing out airlines with poor management would the bad ones go out of business? We would.

On safety, if an airline or airport has a poor track record they will lose money. The airlines or airports or passengers can vote with their dollars. Under the current system if a person isn't happy with the FFA they have no alternative.

Not pretending it would be perfect, the status quo is far from perfect. I just think maybe we should be a little more critical of the system, not just who is running it right now.

Its funny to me. Everyone believe businesses are driven by greed, but fail to see that when operations are run by people that have very little skin in the game that isn't as big of an issue.

The status quo of torts (correct me if I'm wrong) makes it pretty hard to go after the FFA if they screw up. For one, the government doesn't tend to report honestly on itself. Its not the org I'd start with if I were dismantling the federal gov but it too should go.

I'd start with the dept of Ed FWIW. Easy win.

She's too busy being awesome. Believe me, she thinks these discrimination policies are stupid.

Yeah. She was repeating what she heard. I chuckled.

Yeah, in the current system where big companies are insulated from consequences of lawsuits. But if they were regulated by an insurance company that had to pay the victims... I believe it would be better.

I do not recall a time where the FFA was found to be liable and paid victims for their failure.