Verbage:

Profit: An advantageous gain or return; benefit.

I was using the more common definition of the word, not the annoying accountant one.

Accountant profit: Financial gain from a transaction or from a period of investment or business activity, usually calculated as income in excess of costs or as the final value of an asset in excess of its initial value.

Of course the laws will have to be written in such a way that removes the ability of leeches to make financial gains on the back of other people.

Increase the tax rate to 100% on all profits from renting/leasing residential properties. You can still rent out housing but you can’t make a profit on it.

I got my license in the U.S. when I was 16. Then in my early 20’s I lived in England for few years. I was able to drive on my U.S. license for a year. During that year I had to go through the process to get an english license to drive in the country after that. I did the whole learners permit, driving lessons, etc that first year.

Let’s just say it was much, much, harder to get a driving license in England. I had driven over 100K miles in the U.S and 10K miles in the U.K by the time I took the test and I still barely passed it.

Ukraine needs to blow up more oil storage and refineries.

Tech tends to goes through stages:

A need or idea is created. Usually by a small independent entity.

A proof of concept is developed and starts to gain ground.

Investors pour money into the concept to an extreme degree. Tech grows in functionality, matures and develops into a useful tool.

The the investors demand a return on the investment and the money dries up.

Company either goes bankrupt or their product goes to shit.

Hmmmmm …

From what I have read, the optimal lethal distance for the shrapnel pattern on these small bombs is usually 2-4m away from the explosion.

Paying for wounded and disabled soldiers is expensive. Are they training them to rollover and die?