I see your "should not" and raise you a "must not."

Steven J Gould ("The Mismeasure of Man") is rolling over in his grave.

And the tourist numbers decline even further...

I just got reacquainted with some friends who decided that this is what British Columbia is for. However, they had the money to live there, and most of us don't.

If I recall correctly, it's all about being in the news a lot, not how good a person you are.

Bonus: it supports ranked ballots, which for decades I have wanted. Breaking his promise to implement it soured Trudeau 2 for me.
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They don't consider some humans to be "persons".

I agree. I mostly convinced a friend about dropping "fraud detection" being the cheaper option, but he wouldn't budge on spending the money to "make sure the recipient deserves it "

I tried to convince a fellow parishioner of this, and he believed me that the cost of validation was higher, but for him preventing fraud was a moral issue, not a financial one.

Years ago I read an article that (for whichever specific program they were talking about) the cost of validation was much more than the cost of actual fraud.

A lot of people view fraud in social support systems (such as welfare and health insurance) as a much worse problem than the wasted cost of validation.

And replace all the JAGs with ones who will say there are no illegal orders.

Wow, that's a wonderful application of ubi that I had never thought of, which is embarrassing because I live in a prison town (4: within 1/2 hour's drive).

I suppose things could have changed in the intervening decades, but am skeptical, and I'd love to see someone follow today's money.

People who gave towards the sports teams targeted all of it, and donated nothing towards the rest of the university. But even with those donations, and wherever other sports income there was, it didn't cover the increasingly high salaries and capital costs.

Long ago, in the mists of time, I spent 1991 at an American university on sabbatical. That gave me access to US-wide faculty publications, and one such had a very interesting article that, for most universities at the time, sports was a parasite that drained money from the rest of the Academy.

Apropos of nothing in particular going on right now. Nope.