so only do things that yield results fast.

Glad to see a country be less foolish.

The more government controls, the more checks and balances evolve into paychecks and hidden bank balances.

Government can do a lot of things to you when it controls a lot of things.

And what government is doing is harder to see when it's doing millions of things.

a functioning government isn't the problem, but a government selling out to corporations is

I think individuals have the right to hide from government bot swarms.

Extremely disingenuous comment. Everyone knows bot swarms on social media are on the output side, while you are leaning on science fiction tropes.

I can solve a problem in 10% of the time. Dealing with an issue TODAY, instead of having to put it in the backlog.

It's often true. But not when it's easier to code than to explain.

No, you want the smell of your ideal partner.

iNose what you did there.

That doesn't surprise me.

Our fingertips feel using low frequency sound generated by our fingerprints passing over things.

And, yet, railroads were privately created and operated before government got control of them.

Subways too.