Buying rights to provide telecom service to an area and not actually providing service.

I would start by asking AI.

The US has an effectively two-party system. These parties make decisions based on the money they are given. In order to win votes, they find the most divisive issue to wedge a divide between their party and the other side. If they resolved these issues, they would have to create new ones so they are actually motivated to not compromise. There are many books and other writings about these problems.

As for the rest of the world, the US was dominant in the 20th century in power and influence. This meant that people who wanted power in other countries would look to the US way of doing politics for inspiration. I am not making all the connections for you, but I do want to mentioned how the parties in UK started hiring US campaign managers in the late 90s to help them gain power in their country. It clearly worked. Other countries have followed suit.

End FPTP. House of representatives actually representing the people instead of state or party. Senate still representing states but not parties.

I miss my hard drive full of music. Sure some of it was mislabeled, but at least I didn’t have to deal with ads.

Ah, it is Meta Quest 3. I haven’t used it much. I got to play a couple levels of Portal 2 a very long time ago. It was one of the very few video games I actually enjoyed. I don’t know anything about Half-Life. I’ll ask him if he knows about it first.

This sounds awesome. I wish I could understand what I was reading and put it on the VR my stepson gave me.

Why isn’t it Mumbai?

Worrying about everything is independent of doing anything about it.

I’m with you. Your movie reference really helped solidify it. I assumed I was one of the lonely minds, but this made it clear.

Some things that seem associated with this are my constant cravings for social interaction and intellectual conversation. I can’t give it to myself. I have never understood how people can just do nothing. I never had an invisible friend as a kid. There are many things people say and do that could be explained by having personal voices. There are many struggles with communicating to others that have already had a conversation with themselves before I can share a full thought.

There is actually a lot of controversy over hatchery salmon. They can cause more problems than they fix. That doesn’t mean this wasn’t some vegan psychopath, though.

I am running through Season 1 with my wife currently going into March. We won the first to games and I keep expecting the game to ruin us with package 8 sitting there like an omen. I’d eventually like to do the other seasons with her as well.