Same. Not clumps, but a definite uptick in hair shed. Stopped taking it.

Taxes also pay for pol and mil that keep people, including them, safe. Capitalist libertarians like to not think about that part.

Screenshot chain and OCR?

1. Don’t make the game unless you can enforce the rules.

Keeps the hands slap ready when focus wanders.

Misogyny. Can’t stand being proven wrong by a pretty woman. If it was a dude they would have laughed it off.

No one who needs to read this will ever read it again.

Reading is a trained skill. Requiring years, even decades, of training. It too shall fall to AI.

This Dust short, "The Greatest Lie" seems timely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gulzQIkwbJg

(at least the intro.. all in all I think it's a bit too long and some part of it kinda "cringe", but hey)

Does this same principle make the moon orbit a little faster?

What order of aerodynamic drag does our moon in orbit experience?

What is appropriate compensation for someone handling a bar of gold?

Some could argue corruption is an attempt to equalise on that.

Might as well ask how to equalise the cost of letting someone live instead of taking their possessions

The price should be whatever it costs you when including all cost factors¹. A competitive market is an attempt at a system (no central control) to approach that lower bound value. It's really hard to incorporate the million dependencies in a true cost price, so people are instead free to set a price and consumers are free to choose a vendor that's cheaper, and so there's competition. Markets are said to not be working well (lack of competition, usually) if the price of a good or service does not remotely approach the cost price

Bribes are usually to people in power because otherwise you'd just go with the non-corrupt option. That's not a functioning market. I wouldn't say that this type of monopoly is an attempt at determining the fair price for transporting an item of a given mass and dimensions

¹ this really includes everything: to be able to walk across the street and deliver packages, you needed to eat the night before; you needed to learn to read; you need to put money to the side for when you're of age; etc.

Crime is a fundamental part of the free market. Costs for it are currently passed to the collective instead of the individual.

Corruption (tolling, rent seeking, bribery) is part of the free market.

If the sender doesn't like the risk profile of the route to market they should pay a premium and route around it at certain cost or get insurance, else pay up if it is the financially optimal path.

Someone aware of computer security will not use their name as windows user.