Quote from: "Berry Sweet" post_id=494084 time=1676348825 user_id=164
I cen tell.  There are some good posters.

Quote from: Odinson post_id=494082 time=1676348525 user_id=136
At the moment, sledding and fixing a number of issues it has.



I may have to re-wire it completely... After the season is over.

Quote from: "Berry Sweet" post_id=494080 time=1676348134 user_id=164

Quote from: "Shen Li" post_id=494079 time=1676347496 user_id=3389
I'm glad you made a full recovery.   By the first of May, I'm going crazy from being inside for 7 months. I wasn't meant for Canadian weather.

Thx Shen.



I know what you mean...I missed last summer...ive been cooped up forever!!

Quote from: "Berry Sweet" post_id=494078 time=1676347196 user_id=164

Quote from: "Erica Mena" post_id=494065 time=1676335524 user_id=2845
I fucking LOVE laying in bed watching TV or reading.







I was loving life when I had COVID cuz I was isolated in my room with no one bothering me.

I like doing the same.  I love being in my big bed!  I watch movies on my tablet.. I have a 52" screen in my room but I prefer the tablet lol I should just get rid of the TV.



I too also like my peace with no one bothering me...but after 2 months in the hospital...I don't want that ever again!!  If my kid needs to bug me in my room...by all means, c'mon in and bother me!   I don't ever want to experience that again...sitting in bed all day looking out the window, not being able to walk...I enjoyed my visits when people came!



I also like to make crafts and try new things....I can't wait for spring so I can enjoy the outdoors...I like being on my balcony...I have plants out there and I also have a larger hidden area on my balcony where I make larger messier crafts...like sawing and painting.



I cleaned off my entire balcony last year (the night of my accident) I got it ready to buy new outdoor furnature, new patio lights, etc..  but I never got to finish....this year most def I will....my kid and I like to sit put there in the summer and just chill....having h dinner out there is sweet too!



If there is one thing I'd like to do..is, buy a pottery wheel and make pottery outside....but those wheels are damn expencive!

Quote from: "Berry Sweet" post_id=494076 time=1676346448 user_id=164

Quote from: "Shen Li" post_id=494025 time=1676259122 user_id=3389
It's not just those two. VF is for involuntary bachelors.

I like posting at VF.  But yes, there is the incel squad...they turn up every so often...sometimes just one, sometimes they come all at once.  It's not like it once was.   We still occasionally get the freak out session and then the "threat" to leave....they never do..

Quote from: weebles post_id=494058 time=1676326237 user_id=2191
Well Goodluck with that.

Quote from: "Erica Mena" post_id=494065 time=1676335524 user_id=2845
I fucking LOVE laying in bed watching TV or reading.







I was loving life when I had COVID cuz I was isolated in my room with no one bothering me.

Quote from: Odinson post_id=494071 time=1676340619 user_id=136
I get my news from multiple sources.. And I take it all with a grain of salt.



I never blindly believe or follow anything.

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Part of the reason for Singapore's remarkable climb up the international income ladder is bread and butter capitalism. The Fraser nstitute's Freedom of the World report lists Singapore as the second freest economy in the world -- right behind Hong Kong. As Frasier scholars have demonstrated year after year, economic growth and free markets go hand and hand.



But Singapore has done something even more remarkable than its economic accomplishments. It has built an alternative to the European style welfare state. Think of all the reasons why people turn to government in other developed countries: retirement income, housing, education, medical care etc. In Singapore people are required to save to take care of these needs themselves.



At times the forced saving rate has been as high as 50% of income. Today, employees under 50 years of age must set aside 20% of their wages and employers must contribute another 16%. These funds go into accounts where they grow through time until specific needs arise. For example, one of the uses for these savings is housing. About 90% of Singapore households are home owners – the highest rate of home ownership in the world.



For many years, the only two scholars in the Western world who paid much attention to Singapore were Washington University economist Michael Sherraden and me. Michael approached the Singapore experience from a left-of-center perspective and I came from the opposite direction. We both ended in the same place: this is an alternative to the welfare state that works.



Lately, quite a number of other scholars have discovered Singapore, especially its health care system – again, with both right and left finding a lot to admire. It's taken almost three decades, but Singapore is now the subject of a book by Brookings Institution, a whole slew of posts by Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll, and a good overview by Tyler Cowen, with links to other studies and comments.



Sherraden recently summarized some of Singapore's major social policy innovations as follows:



Step by step, the Singapore state created a new social policy system that had asset building as its central structure.... In the world of social policy, it would be hard to overstate the exceptionality and the extent of this innovation.... During the past 25 years, Singapore policy has taken important steps toward lifelong asset building, beginning very early in life.  These innovations include EduSave, the Baby Bonus, Child Development Accounts, and related asset-building incentives.



For John Fund, Singapore's most significant accomplishment is the avoidance of the mistakes of other countries:



I believe that the least appreciated part of Lee Kwan Yew's legacy is his method of ensuring that one generation won't bankrupt future generations by selfishly living beyond its means. It's a welfare state that works, and one he always said was available to any political leader with the courage to tell his people the truth about the limits of government's power to pass out goodies.



For my part, I would summarize the philosophy of Singapore as follows:



Each generation should pay its own way.

Each family should pay its own way.

Each individual should pay his own way.

Only after passing through these three filters should anyone turn to the government for help.

If the United States had adopted a similar approach to public policy, there would be no deficit problem in this country.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2015/03/31/singapore-a-fascinating-alternative-to-the-welfare-state/?sh=242c362b76c0">https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodma ... 2c362b76c0">https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2015/03/31/singapore-a-fascinating-alternative-to-the-welfare-state/?sh=242c362b76c0

Quote from: kooch post_id=494033 time=1676287768 user_id=3187
I'm all for drunken abos trying to murder each other with sticks while advertising the responsible use of Miller Light and/or XXXX Gold.

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I also use Blaze

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