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Korea https://economictimes.indiatim... Audi http://time.com/3837814/audi-e... When was the ONR renamed NRL ? https://www.smithsonianmag.com...

At least these schemes solve solars problem of storage. (maybe no idea how these schemes will deal with being operated intermittently)

No, no they don't. All those schemes are based on nuclear but they just don't tell you that. The only way any of these technologies doesn't produce CO2 is if they use nuclear. Solar and wind are far far far to energy sparse (ie not energy dense) to provide enough heat to power these processes. If you were to try to use wind or solar you would create more CO2 moving and heating the water or air than if you just used natural gas to power the process. Not to mention the land you would have to clear for the wind and solar plants (you can't just use solar cells, you would need a solar concentrator like Ivanpah). If you used fossil fuels, that would be self defeating as you would use more fuel than you produce. These systems are about what you can do with nuclear. Without nuclear they are interesting curiosities with no use. That's why nothing has been done with them even though we've be able to do these types of chemical processes for decades in some cases.

Korea
https://economictimes.indiatim...
Audi
http://time.com/3837814/audi-e...
When was the ONR renamed NRL ?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...

At least these schemes solve solars problem of storage. (maybe no idea how these schemes will deal with being operated intermittently)

So what benefits has Puten received?? Clinton sold Uranium 1 to Russians meanwhile Trump is making it difficult for Russia.

Sounds like Puten would have been much better off under Crooked Hillary

*sighs*

Another of the same old lies, repeated, again.

Uranium 1 Fackcheck. In short, your wrong. Of course by this time you likely know that your lying and don't particularly care. Props to you. I hear sociopathy is good for your career.

Crooked Hillary is just one of those well kindergarten (err Trump) style insults that has no meaning. The fact is she did a credible job as secretary of state. The fact is that Trump is currently rated by historians as dead last. link

You shouldn't trust Chinese hardware because China recently passed a law which some people have interpreted as giving the Chinese government power to compel Huawei to compromise security on their products for the purpose of Chinese intelligence. That the law can be utilized in this way is disputed.

You shouldn't trust US hardware because the US passed a similar law some time ago (the Patriot Act). Except that law, like the Chinese law, applies to telecoms and not to manufactures of telecom hardware.

Of course, the US seems to have done the spying anyway (Don't know the details of this particular Snowden leak, they could have just been exploiting a bug for all I know.) so the implication might be that it's better to buy from any of the other manufacturers listed in the summary. Or you could make note of the fact that the US has been transparently disingenuous about it's actions against Huawei, and suspect that this is not really about Huawei or spying or telecom security at all.

You are almost entirely incorrect.

I had chickenpox twice when I was a child. My first case was so mild that my immune system did not maintain antibodies for it. My second case was more severe and my immunity to chicken pox has persisted. Yes, antibodies developed by vaccines can wear off, but so can antibodies developed by normal infections. Also, shingles is just a reemergence of the same chickenpox virus that most adults contracted as children. The virus hides in the nervous system and reemerges as people get older and their immune systems get weaker and less able to fight off the virus.

Not all viruses are the same. Many viruses have DNA coding that weeds out mutations. Measles, chickenpox, polio, and smallpox are viruses that do this. This is why vaccinations for these diseases work for decades and why people can develop life-long immunity after a childhood infection. Some viruses, like Influenza and HIV, mutate rapidly and are hard to inoculate against. Incidentally, viruses tend to mutate more quickly in malnourished people. If food shortages become more widespread as the world population increases we are likely to see more frequent viral mutations.

Yes, vaccines do cause injury. The oral polio vaccines was one particular vaccine that could cause a polio infection. There is a genetic disorder that can cause children who receive vaccinations develop high fevers than can cause brain damage or death (but any infection can trigger this response). There is always a risk of infection for any injections. But if billions of dollars been paid out, or is it extremely difficult to win a case? It seems like the two statements are at odds with each other. Statistics show that 80% of cases are settled out of court with the plaintiff receiving an award. Of the remaining cases that are adjudicated, about one quarter of then result in a win for the plaintiff. http://time.com/3995062/vaccin... Now, if a person tries to go to the court saying the MMR vaccine caused their child's Autism, they will loose. Not only is there no verifiable link between Autism and vaccinations, the doctor who originally put forward this notion was prosecuted for fraud because he was developing his own competing vaccine technology and wanted to discredit existing technologies.

On a side note, Jurassic Park glossed over almost all of the science, and the book was better.

I'm not generally opposed to Socialism, Social Democracy or Capitalism for that matter, in fact I'm basically a Social Democrat. However, the situation in Venezuela can be blamed completely on the incompetence and corruption of the Chavez regime and the even greater incompetence and corruption of the Maduro regime.

http://cepr.net/publications/op-eds-columns/the-united-states-hand-in-undermining-democracy-in-venezuela
http://time.com/5512005/venezu...
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22... etc.

Did you even read those articles? ... because they are just as critical of Maduro as the Americans. If those two links were meant to prove that Maduro is the only innocent in this entire sorry affair you failed, if they were meant to make the US look good you also failed:

The Time article starts with:

As Maduro’s authoritarian regime has plunged Venezuela into humanitarian crisis ...

...and NPR has this to say:
Venezuela was once considered the richest country in Latin America, and it holds the world's largest oil reserves. Many world leaders, analysts and rights groups blame Maduro for enabling the country's spiraling problems such as hyperinflation, crime, hunger and shortages of medicine and basic goods.

I'm not generally opposed to Socialism, Social Democracy or Capitalism for that matter, in fact I'm basically a Social Democrat. However, the situation in Venezuela can be blamed completely on the incompetence and corruption of the Chavez regime and the even greater incompetence and corruption of the Maduro regime.

http://cepr.net/publications/op-eds-columns/the-united-states-hand-in-undermining-democracy-in-venezuela
http://time.com/5512005/venezu...
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22...
etc.

No. Bombings and hijackings were not common in any way in the 1970s or 1980s.

Between 1968 and 1972, there were 130 plane hijackings in the U.S. alone, which is more than one per week.

As to bombings, the early 80s had many bombings, many in the Beirut area and Ireland. In the U.S. there were protest bombings. In the 18 months between 1971 and 1972, there were 2,500 documented bombings in this country. The deadliest year for underground violence was 1981, when eleven people were killed in bombings and bank robberies gone bad.

Yup. None of their business. Like most of my lifestyle details. There is a difference between 'privacy' and 'secrecy'.

Yeah? But what are you trying to hide?

I tend to leave enough room between myself and the car in front that I've never actually hit anyone that brakes unexpectedly, or anyone else in 30ish years, but there's plenty of evidence that red-light cameras increase rear end accidents, so not everyone is leaving enough room.

Chicago: http://time.com/3643077/red-li...

Houston: https://www.scientificamerican...

There's plenty of people that clearly shouldn't be allowed on the road, and my point is that you can't solve their lack of skill with cameras and absolute speed enforcement.

Yet, San Francisco is full of left-wing folks who are ideologically incapable of taking such signals seriously; the government in San Francisco actively thwarts solutions

Sadly, you're right. There seems to be little balance anymore with politics. SF seems to concentrate on shit like banning fur likely primarily to appease their nut-case base. But they don't take on real, actual issues like housing being insanely expensive.

That's why you need some form of balance in government to draw people away from crazy-down into issues that actually matter. The left wing has it's own crazy town with everything is racism, and the right wing has its crazy town with cutting richy-riches taxes, and a weird obsession with "small government".

for tax breaks?
http://content.time.com/time/m...

Second hottest February on record (hottest was 1990) in Denmark.

This is why the plural of anecdote is not data.

Oz has been having a terrible time in the apparently chilly summer. Daytime highs of only 50 degrees....

Oh..... wait..... that's 50 degrees C. For the denialists, that's over 120 degrees F.

http://time.com/5506684/austra...

Now I hesitate to do that sort of tit for tat comparison, as it is still weather. Brutal nasty scary weather.

But when the denialists point to a area suffering through cold as if it negates the physics of atmospheric energy retention, it isn't difficult to point out areas that at the same time are suffering intense heat.

"Blacks commit vastly disproportionate amount of crimes, especially violent ones"

All things male are considered bad. [The blatant sexism is everywhere. Making anything and everything a gendered issue (and therefore, a problem with men, of course). - Women of this generation make at least 8% more than similarly qualified males. [Looks like I remembered that 8% number from that Time Magazine article I linked]

White men systemically discriminated against in all spheres of life - from family court - to hiring [They literally had to end blind recruiting because, once the bias against men was removed, MORE men than before were found to be qualified. These talking head idiots didn't even realize that today's system already discriminates in womens' favor. Of course, the solution was to halt the study, lest we have a solid foundation to prove discrimination. But, I think this is VERY good early proof of systemic discrimination in hiring, at least in Australia.] - to welfare (men are not eligible in any way unless disabled or "disabled") [I was somewhat wrong here. If you look under "The Three-Month Time Limit", it appears that women without children cannot get SNAP long-term either. So, I had one, very minor point, which I don't have good evidence from a mainstream source for.]

Looks like it's you who got fucked. Moron.

Try again, bro. Just last month, US Border Patrol captured the biggest fentanyl bust ever, nearly 254 pounds inside a secret compartment inside a load of Mexican produce heading into Arizona... That's enough opioids to kill the entire population of three states combined!

Russia? When has Russia done anything to us here in the US besides make speeches that make us look stupid? They are a far less threat to our immediate safety than the drug cartels in Mexico.

Is 'legitimate exercise of public authority' anything like 'legitimate rape"

Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany's bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on others what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for foodstuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism.

That is from Time's 1939 Man of the Year for Hitler. Compare that to the current "socialist" mantra of the Democrat party: ownership of companies, restriction on profits, nationalization of industries, wealth taxes. The Democrat party is literally the party of Nazism, and Hitler's platform is enshrined in their own platform, just with different names.

Tariff was on the assembled panels, not the parts. If the companies sunk - even with a 30% tariff applied to their competition - then China was dumping panels (meaning that people are buying them below cost - unrealistic costs for solar power) or the companies aren't competitive in the first place.

NONE of the witnesses provided ANY corroboration of the event whatsoever.

You really aren't very hard to refute. You should probably pick up the practice of reading yourself before you admonish others to do so.

Here is a list that includes a list of witness the FBI did NOT contact either because they did not have the time or they were instructed not to. Lawyers for both Ramirez and Ford provided lists of corroborating witnesses which were never contacted.

It was clear from the very start that the only purpose of the FBI "investigation" was not to vet the SCOTUS candidate, but instead to provide a fig leaf that would be eagerly accepted by persons such as yourself.

maybe, maybe not.. one year the world's corals are alive.. the next they are dead

same for fish

same for bats

all three have happened recently in Australia. I have no trouble believing ecosystem collapse can't happen with insects also.

It's not just a difference of opinion, it's an objective difference in strategy. One undermines the traditional process and one doesn't. The ACA was a law passed by congress and signed by the president. Trump is shutting down the government to get something new as opposed to keep what was existing. That's really the crux of it.

Why do you feel this is "different"? To me, "grandfathered" policies should be treated no different than newly proposed ones. For instance, hypothetically what if the Republicans grabbed ahold of all 3 branches of govt and passes some new trillion dollar a year boondoggle defense program that drove up the deficit. Voters rebel and vote Blue Dog democrats into office who are concerned about spending. Are you saying that if the Republicans refused to budge an inch on reducing any spending in that massive program, Democrats would be in the wrong not to threaten a shutdown over it? I mean the Dems pretty much threatened a shutdown over the Bush tax cuts (with insistence on not cutting the highest marginal tax rate, which increased from 35% to 39.6%). Those tax cuts were "existing policy." I just don't see the difference.

Are you saying every law should be up for debate and re-passed every year when the funding is due? If you thought congress couldn't get anything done now...

I believe every law should be fair game every change of government at minimum. Otherwise, what's to stop someone from doing exactly what Obama did with ACA by just passing whatever he wants with zero support from the minority party? What are opposition politicians supposed to do then? Just accept it for eternity?

I'll assume you meant 2013 since in 2011 they just wanted short term spending bills. In 2013 they wanted to repeal the ACA entirely on principle.

No, I meant 2011. I even remember the back and forth debates over how much taxes should be hiked vs how much spending cuts should be present (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis_of_2011#proposed_resolutions). The gist of it is that Obama flat out refused to pass a budget that didn't include new revenue, insisting that the deficit must be tackled be a "balanced" approach. This was at least mildly insulting to Republicans after just watching the Democrats skyrocket federal outlays 700 billion between 2009 and 2011 (primarily via TARP and the stimulus program...and that's ignoring ACA, most of which didn't have significant spending measures kick in until nearly 5 years later, by design). Obama also refused to accept a short-term deal. Though in that instance, it was holding a US debt default hostage, rather than a govt shutdown. Same basic premise though: the two sides couldn't come to a compromise agreement and Obama dug his heels in on those two key issues (the Republicans caved on the other hand, since their original sticking point was "all spending cuts with no new revenue").

Source? I think you're off by a trillion or so.

Is Time acceptable? http://time.com/money/4271224/... You're making the same mistake everyone does by conflating cost/spending with budget deficit. ACA will add little to the deficit due to the fact it lumped in a ton of taxes and revenue increases into the bill to offset the spending. However, it will cost 1+ trillion over the next decade. Just because someone passes a law that lumps in revenue increases to offset the spending of said law does not make it "free" to taxpayers. Just because payroll taxes cover Social Security for instance doesn't mean we're not spending/losing that money from our paychecks. Similarly with ACA, we're still spending a shit ton of money every year. We just don't see it in the annual federal budget numbers. The wall on the other hand is a fixed cost, and a low one at that.

ou can't

Where is the nuclear only crowd? Have we finally found a scenario where they won't recommend a nuclear option?

Ok troll...the Greek island grids are small so we can build batteries large enough to backup their tiny grids. And that's a great solution. Doing the same things for CA (or the US or anywhere on a continent really) would be an entirely different proposition requiring the drastic increase (several fold) in global production of the raw materials for whatever type of battery you build. Learn to do math and do some research and you will find quite quickly how stupid the solar/wind only proposals for large countries really are. As for Greece, its a great place to build a solar/wind/tidal only battery backed grid and you don't need to strip mine most of Chile and Australia to do it. Now that's you've trolled the nuclear folks for the day, go get your paycheck from the natural gas folks greenie...

There's no good reason for the government to constantly exempt farmers from the normal law of supply and demand.

There is a reason, and it's a damn good one: To regulate supply and stabilize pricing.

Think about it: have you ever had to worry about food, really, really worry about it? A moderate price increase due to increasing oil prices at the turn of the century is the closest our country has ever come to a "food crisis". There has never been a serious food shortage or price inflation for food in the US for as long as I've been alive.

It used to not be that way. You can go back to the 70s, and read about how rapidly fluctuating food prices created quite a political stir, as evidenced by the April 1973 cover of Time Magazine. If you study the data on this page, you can see both how food prices (particularly beef) stabilized after 1980, and how the average worker has seen a steady increase over time in the amount of food that can be purchased with their wages.

That has been the primary purpose of the US Farm Bill: to encourage, subsidize, and regulate the food market, stabilizing pricing and providing ample food supply. Because when there's oversupply, people complain about food going to waste. When there's a lack of supply, people riot and governments collapse. Which would you really prefer?

Natural gas produces 50-60% less CO2 than a coal plant for the same amount of energy. That means a lot of new capacity has been added to the grid.

The 50-60% only relates to combustion. You also need to factor in direct methane emissions from drilling, pipelines, etc. (a.k.a., fugitive emissions). Methane is a much stronger green house gas. Natural gas is probably slightly better, but not nearly as good as trumpeted: -https://www.nature.com/news/methane-leaks-erode-green-credentials-of-natural-gas-1.12123 -https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/coal-and-other-fossil-fuels/environmental-impacts-of-natural-gas

So yes, theoretically natural gas could be a lot better. However, to add insult to injury, regulations on minimizing direct methane emissions are part of what Trump has been working so hard to roll back.

There is also the fact that the Sierra Club was getting funding from natural gas. Don't get in the way of the gravy train...

Milo Yiannopolulos speech shouted down by liberals at Berkley.
Condoleezza Rice cancels speech at Rutgers.
Ann Coulter cancels speech at Berkley due to protests.

So, since there is no issue of speech being limited in schools, I have to assume the above cases are ones of censorship you approve of.
So are you:
Homophobic?
A Racist?
Or Misogynist?

I will have to assume all three since you don't seem to have an issue with a gay man, a black woman, or a white woman being prevented from speaking at a college. To the point that you make the claim it doesn't even happen.

You liberals are the most disgusting people in existence, and you got caught lying again.

Ignorance by the people may enable the opposition, but anti-nuclear groups know better, and are deliberately engaged in a war on nuclear, funded by and benefiting fossil interests. Nuclear threatens to replace fossil energy entirely, while renewables will continue to depend on it as an increasingly expensive crutch for a family of technologies that can't stand on their own.

For the TL;DR version of that link focusing on a concise presentation of data, see the complete case for nuclear.

Exactly. Also the Sierra Club took funding from Natural Gas CEOs

Oh, Vermont likes its assholes all right, as long as they come from a long line of assholes. Fuck Vermont.

Case in point:

"Vermont Man Debuts Middle Finger Sculpture in Unsubtle Message to Town Officials"
http://time.com/5479345/vermont-sculpture-middle-finger/

This was about two weeks ago :P

Approximately 420,000 federal employees continued to work through the shutdown. The handful of employees needed to handle this certainly could have been deemed "essential" as well under the circumstances.

This is just a cynical political decision to suspend a high-visibility, low-cost service to try to pressure the shutdown to end, exactly like the cynical political decision to barricade national monuments (and even disable the corresponding websites) during the 2013 shutdown.

About 110,000 condoms were distributed during the last Winter Olympics, over 37 per athlete.

http://time.com/5137272/condom...

It was a record for the Olympics...

No, she called fascists and misogynists deplorables.

Despite numerous idiots claiming otherwise, she never claimed that all Americans, all Republicans, or even all Trump supporters were "deplorables". She said early in the campaign, during the primaries, when Trump had about 30% of the Republican vote, that HALF of Trump's supporters were "deplorables" - fascists etc.

Because Republicans can't do anything other than lie when it comes to Clinton, they literally lied about what she said and pretended it applied to all Republicans.

âoeYou know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trumpâ(TM)s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?â Clinton said. âoeThe racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobicâ"you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.â

She said the other half of Trumpâ(TM)s supporters âoefeel that the government has let them downâ and are âoedesperate for change.â

âoeThose are people we have to understand and empathize with as well,â she said.

source - note Trump was just the leading Republican candidate at that point, with a plurality, but not a majority, of the Republican vote.

The fact you don't borrow does not mean you have no credit score. It just means you don't have a record of borrowing and repayment. Presumably other elements, like actual car/house ownership, holding a job, etc, contribute portions to the credit score.

from here:

Your credit score is generated based on the information in your credit report. Fair Isaac, the makers of the FICO score, is tight-lipped about exactly how the scores are calculated. But they do give the weights of various criteria that they look at: 35% payment history, 30% amount owed, 15% length of history, 10% new credit, 10% types of credit used.

Percentage of available credit in use is a factor, so with 100% credit available... :)

Personally, I also avoid borrowing whenever possible. The one time I had a store credit card, I cancelled it after getting a $50 late fee on a $20 charge that was late by 1 day.

This Slashdot article brought to you by Superfreakonomics - a decade ago.

Originally the license plate was there to show your vehicle was registered, enabling you to the full right of way along with other vehicles. Only later did it become a tool of the police.

It sounds like New York City and Crystal City actively worked to impress Amazon.

They accomplished this by being within a few miles of where Jeff Bezos already had purchased homes apparently.

http://time.com/5187074/fracki...

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Obesity in American shows no signs of slowing, and the reasons why it’s so widespread can be traced to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle that keeps people inactive, and eating, for more hours of the day.

The problem is especially concerning among children and teens, according to the latest study published in Preventive Medicine. The study analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey from 2003-2004 and 2005-2006. More than 12,500 people ages 6 to 84 years wore activity trackers to log how many of their waking hours they spent active and how many they spent sitting

http://time.com/4821963/teens-...

Seems some people have a pretty good idea

We already knew the public wanted to keep net neutrality

Actually, no, we didn't. There never was a referendum. There were informal polls, but that's it.

The FCC comments aren't binding — and for a good reason: they are open exactly to the kind of abuse you are complaining about. Non-citizen participation (and foreigners openly campaigning), multiple participation, simple ballot-stuffing...

According to TFA, only 3.6% of the comments were "genuine", in the cited researcher's opinion... This would confirm both the insanity of treating the comments as binding in any way, and the truth of the statements made by the FCC, headed Ajit Pai, who is of Indian descent, regarding being under attack. The claim, you — a privileged American White — are calling "a lie" despite evidence and without any evidence of your own, making unprecedented allegations, that can only be motivated by racism.

Of course, having been exposed as a racist liar yourself, you'll simply shrug your narrow shoulders and yell: "BUT TRUMP!!!" — because lying is all you have.

As a new study in Nature makes clear, not only did processing and eating meat come naturally to humans, it’s entirely possible that without an early diet that included generous amounts of animal protein, we wouldn’t even have become human—at least not the modern, verbal, intelligent humans we are.

Layman Terms

If you want to get into the weed

Wow, you are obsessed, do you have a life? Looks like no.

Asks the person (I asusme) that replies to absolutely everyone, usually with provably wrong drivel, at a rate that far exceeds my own posting rate. You're projecting - again.

So you admit, Apple products do explode as everybody knows.

You seem oddly fixated on ignoring that all the others explode a well, as everyone knows.

In fact, Apple products explode explode a lot.

Less frequently than the others. Have fun proving otherwise. Wait, you almost never actually include proof of your claims. Guess that will take awhile.

Think Pinto.

Yes, your arguments are quite similar to Pintos. Shoddily constructed, and liable to explode when they run into the slightest opposition.

They also electrocute people.

That was Samsung, genius.

Why change Roe vs Wade when you can just use your power as a judge to delay an abortion to the point where the pregnancy is far enough along that an abortion isn't advisable?
http://time.com/5390960/brett-...

For fairness here is an explanation of Kavanaugh's decision in the case:

https://www.bustle.com/p/kavan...

It is inevitable that they pass laws allowing machines to kill x number of people. It can be no other way. And that will be a major devaluing of human life.

The statistics for car accidents are no mystery and are objectively rather appalling yet we seem to be largely ok with the current state of affairs. We are letting machines operated by humans kill X number of people even though we have the technical ability to reduce this number any time we want. Whether a person is killed by a programmed machine or killed by a mistake a human makes directly operating a machine is really of no consequence to the dead. Insurance is literally a valuation of human life and we can give you a figure for what it is worth. This makes some people uncomfortable but it's an objective fact.

Here's the thing. The machine didn't kill anyone. There is no such thing as a machine error. There are only human errors. It might be the human operating the machine or it might be the fault of the engineer who designed the machine or it might be the fault of the human who assembled the machine but at the end of the day it was a human decision that is to blame. The fact that a program designed by a human is steering the vehicle rather than a human operator physically turning the wheel is not logically any different - that is the means not the cause. It creates a few new wrinkles on who is liable but at the end of the day it's still a human decision that is the root of the problem.

What once made Sweden great and wealthy was proper incentives for economic productivity and high trust between people. '

Bullshit.

The Nordic countries are all very wealthy (in the 25 in purchasing power adjusted GDP per capita, Sweden is 16th 5 places behind the US and one of the highest in Europe, and Norway is actually ahead of the US) and productive (with the exception of Iceland, all in the top 13 in terms of GDP per hours worked., with Denmark being pretty much equal to the US and Norway again being ahead of the US).

Then the socialists took over and for a while restrained themselves in milking the productive portion of the population dry.

Erm what? You do realize the exact opposite is true? Finland became independent after first 800 years of rule under the Swedish kingdom and then another 100+ years as an autonomous part of the Russian Empire in 1917 (we kinda slipped loose after the revolution happened, and had our own civil war in 1918 during which the communists that wanted us to join the then still emerging soviet union lost). A 100 years ago we were one of the poorest countries in Europe, with low overall education and literacy rates and a massive issue with poverty. We started the slow climb up and then the 2nd world war came. After the war and the rebuilding effort the foundations of the modern democratic socialism that combines a market economy with progressive taxation were laid out, copied from Sweden in large parts due to their successes there. The schools system was rehauled and unified, universities are tuition free, tax-funded health care etc. All of these are things that are now in our constitution. And what has happened? As already showcased we sprinted forwards to be among the top economies of Europe. Now does that mean that there are no issues and this is a perfect Utopia? No, absolutely not. The '08 crisis hit us here in Finland extremely hard because it also happened to coincide with the implosion of Nokia which was like almost a third of our export sector that basically disappeared, and we've spent the last decade recovering from that, and that's still an ongoing process, partially hampered by the fact that the current center-right (in Finnish terms, even the rightmost party here is to the left of the democratic mainstream in the US in their support for the existing universal systems) hasn't been very effective in tackling some of the structural issues, but nevertheless, we're still doing very well.

But to say that the socialists 'ruined everything' is just utter BS. Without the social policies that we've put in place, we'd likely still be a very backwater nation instead of a global first world economy,

Now the situation is so bad that I've heard a swede say he would rather not work because that would give tax money to his government that is ruining everything!

Oh so you heard 1 Swede say that did you? Well that proves the whole system is ruined then doesn't it? C'mon man.

Sweden took in a lot of refugees, way more than any other compared to the size of the population and that has obviously become a heated issue, as they have had problems with their immigration system previously as well. This has been made worse by the fact that Sweden changed its elementary school system away from the model they used to have (and that we still use) and allowed the creaton of privatized elementary schools, which has lead in parts of the large suburbs to rapid segregation creating schools for well-off natives and left the public schools in those areas to be heavily for immigrants. This obviously creates problems as it hampers those kids from learning the language for example, making integration and thus employment harder which creates a host of issues, the most prevalent of which is the rise of organized crime in those suburban are

Too-early start times, especially for high schools, are a well known reason for poor academic performance:
http://time.com/4741147/school...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/s...

I was expecting the story to be the diver's lawsuit against Elon Musk for his pedo tweet.

Mother Jones had a series of articles covering the fact that BPA substitutes were untested and likely to have essentially the same endocrine disrupting effects as BPA because they are chemically very similar to BPA.

Here's one article from 2014.

After reading their coverage I switched to glass containers for all leftover food and I never microwave anything in a plastic dish. If I buy something that comes in plastic and is intended to be cookied in the packagin, I dump it into a glass dish and microwave it that way instead.

Here's some crazy stuff you probably didn't know - those thermal receipts that you get at the grocery store and fast food places are chock full of BPA, its a necessary component to the thermal printing process. And just handling a receipt gets BPA into your bloodstream - not very much, one or two receipts isn't going to make a noticeable difference. But, there are two chemicals that massively acclerate the absorption through your skin - grease (like from fast food) and hand sanitizer. Get either of those on your skin before you touch the receipt and you get ~100x the dose. And if you are cashier who touches a couple of hundred receipts every day, well that's not healthy.

Uh-huh.

Equifax is already facing the largest class-action lawsuit in US history
https://bgr.com/2017/09/08/equifax-hack-lawsuit-class-action-how-to-join/

Equifax's Massive Data Breach Has Cost the Company $4 Billion So Far
http://time.com/money/4936732/equifaxs-massive-data-breach-has-cost-the-company-4-billion-so-far/

How to Get In on a Class-Action Lawsuit Against Equifax
https://www.kiplinger.com/article/credit/T017-C000-S002-get-in-on-a-class-action-lawsuit-against-equifax.html

I won $8,000 from Equifax in Small Claims Court. Here’s how you can, too.
https://blog.legalist.com/i-won-8-000-from-equifax-in-small-claims-court-heres-how-you-can-too-f0ce6925c079?gi=f38cd2b5686f

Equifax will not survive fallout from massive breach, says technology attorney
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/14/equifax-will-not-survive-fallout-from-massive-breach-says-technology-attorney.html

There are 23 class-action lawsuits filed and a congressional investigation, as well as lawsuits that may be yet to come, Grossman said.

Sure, there's been little fallout.

> And don't get me started on "ban paper bags, use plastic
> bags instead" in the 1990's to "ban plastic bags, use paper
> bags and pay per bag instead" in the 2010's.

Paper bags are OK, but not brown bags in Seatlle, Washington. http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/...

> It's not a brown bag lunch, it's a "sack lunch." The Office for Civil Rights
> in Seattle, Washington has suggested that government workers refrain
> from using the common term because it could be offensive to some people,

Don't make it out to be something it's not. If you pardon the round numbers, about 63 million people voted for Trump. There were an estimated 250 million eligible voters for 2016, with about 325 million total population. So, the people who voted for Trump make up about 25% of eligible voters, and less than 20% of the total population. He won the election, but don't make it out like he has some sort of super-mandate from the general public

About 69 million voted for Obama in 2008, which by your logic is only ~20-25% of the total population, but they had no problem acting like they had some kind of mandate, just saying: http://content.time.com/time/p...