You may be correct there but if the USPS were abolished no one else could start their own postal service delivering letters. It's a federal monopoly.

Incidentally, I have an interest the continued existence of the USPS because I do write letters to people, stuff them in an envelope, and put a stamp on the thing. It's a much more rewarding of communicating with someone when the message is not time sensitive.

Trump is compromised. Everything he's done pertaining to US relations with Russia indicate that he has at best been compromised by Russia and is at worst a Russian agent.

I think he just pardoned about a thousand of them this afternoon. The Jan. 6th criminals.

I agree. This country is doomed. I hope I don't live to see the outcome of Trump's malfeasance in office the next four years but I've learned through hard and painful experience that God has a wicked sense of humor.

Macs have need 16 GB standard since the M1 Macs were first released, pretty much ever since 8 GB Macs were reported to be thrashing the SSDs prematurely with excessive swapping. When I bought my M1 iMac. I paid the excessive Apple tax of $200 to get the extra 16 GB of RAM. The thing almost never swaps, unlike my previous iMac which had 8 GB.

Uh, there are times when you need to turn off a computer, like when it becomes non-responsive. My M1 iMac is in this category on occasion as there are times when there is a hard crash. It's not a kernel panic and it doesn't happen very often but when it happens it needs a hard reset. Sometimes the plug needs to be pulled it's so unresponsive.

This islands are doomed. The only solution is to move their populations somewhere else where they will be welcome. Good luck on that! But since there is no chance that climate change will reverse itself due to all the CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere by the industrialized world, I don't see any alternative. In the mean time, I hope these people can swim!

All bank account interest and capital gains are no longer taxable.

Bank interest and capital gains is where the rich make most of their income. No, ALL income must be considered ordinary income for a flat tax to work.

Nothing in his spouting of nonsense recounted in this article changes my opinion that Donald Trump is an idiot. Pardon Ross Ulbricht? Commute his sentence? He ran an illegal drug marketplace and tried to hire hitmen to kill people. How much human misery is he responsible for? He deserves a long prison sentence. Maybe not life, but a much longer one than time served. And then he wants to create a strategic crypto currency reserve? Crypto currency is pure vapor ware and buying it up would be nothing more than a boondoggle.

It's not US culture, it's US citizens. They are just stupid.

I agree with you there. The electorate is filled with idiots and ignoramuses. All you have to do is look at the MAGA crowd to see a fine sampling on that type of voter, people who ignore the obvious faults with a presidential candidate who is clearly incompetent and completely unsuited for the office and believe his lies and conspiracy theories. Idiots such as these are among those who would like to simply throw away the keys.

Indeed!!! It's the most improbable of transportation systems but Heinlein was certainly imaginative in telling it.

There are smart people in Texas? Given the pieces of shit and criminals they vote into state-wide office who would have known!

Are you referring to the inhumane piece of shit who is the state's governor or are you referring to the criminal who is its attorney general?

Only a decade ago? I switched long before that. I will gladly pay the Apple tax to avoid Windows.

This "crappy late 1990's website" you're complaining about has evolved (probably for the worse but never mind that) since the good old days when I first encountered it, when CmdrTaco and Cowboy Neal were still helping run the show. Have you?