I would second the motion to a 13 month calendar of all 28-day months (despite the fact you KNOW my birthday is going to end up on a forever Monday). The days of the week are named after scientists of seven different disciplines, the months after artists. There is a theme with the artists, so that 1/4 is musicians, 1/4 visual artists, 1/4 writers, 1/4 builders.
Whenever I see a street or city named after a politician or military officer, I always wish there were more things named after people that are actually useful for the world.
For reference, I was born on the 12th day of the month of Lady Gaga, of course an Einsteinday.
Forget what that could fund. $200 billion with 400 million Americans means that every single American chose to throw $500 to this war. It’s like you found $500 on the street, you picked them up, and you sent them to Washington for the money to transform into rockets that rain down on school children.
Every. Single. American. Chose to take $500 they could have spent on food or credit debt or education or rent or whatever your priority. And instead they chose to turn it into big kabooms half a world away. Big kabooms that make everything at home more expensive. From grandma in a wheelchair to barely born, including legal and illegal immigrants. People living in tents didn’t get their $500, people facing medical bankruptcy didn’t get their $500.
It’s disgusting what kind of garbage this government is willing to spend money on while it calls affordability, a hoax.
The actual time is not the problem, but the amount of busy work that benefits nobody. When I started my computer shop in Italy many years ago, I ended up needing 12 signatures from different offices, and each one cost me weeks to get. I still remember the first one, I had to prove I had a functioning toilet and the official claimed he had been at the store and found it locked, despite the fact I had been standing at the door the entire day.
Being able to do it quickly is neat. Being able to do it predictably is awesome.