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  1. It's better... on So You Automated Your Coworkers Out of a Job (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    ...than training your Mexican replacements. I used to work in a small town and watched as the town's main manufacturer was sold to a Mexican company, who sent their management to Wisconsin to be trained by the 75 or so employees before the site was shut down.

  2. Re:Maine is seeing this too on Climate Change Drives Fish Into New Waters, Remaking an Industry (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    What right to vote?

  3. Why do stores insist on putting everything in bags? I practically have to shout "I DONT NEED A BAG" for the two items I carried to the register every time.

  4. Re:Some Nonprofits are Scams on Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Of course you can remove it. You just fill that portion of the ocean with tracked sea turtles, wait for them to eat all the plastic, capture them, and then have a feast.

  5. Re:Dyson made $5 billion, after 5,127 prototypes on Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    And the cost to suck ratio is way out of wack.

  6. Re:Or they'll fix it, without a new $100 billion t on Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Did he get one of those "14 year old invents fanciful way to save world, recieves media attention and grants from corporations wanting to improve their image, fanciful way to save world ends up being not so novel, and actually totally ridiculous" articles several years ago?

  7. Re:He needs to talk to Musk on Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    It's not flowing out to sea. That's why it's sitting motionless. Or in the case of Beirut, it's simply trash piled up on a street for storage.

  8. "Currently unoccupied properties" on Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters · · Score: 0

    "could be used by criminals to target currently unoccupied properties."

    This makes no sense. By definition these addresses need to be primary residences. How would the list be in the slightest bit helpful? If you are trying to find people that went on vacation or aren't living at the property, you still have to check them one by one. It's just as easy to drive around picking targets without a list. Or just use a phonebook.

  9. already.

  10. Re: If it were written today on Facebook Apologizes After Flagging Declaration of Independence As Hate Speech (nymag.com) · · Score: 0

    Even today in many areas of Africa not much has changed. It's full of savages with murder rates that make the U.S. look like Disney land with piss poor banana governance, rampant corruption and genocide.

    If you take the African areasand their murder rates out of the US, it is Disneyland, with a very low murder rate.

  11. Re: If it were written today on Facebook Apologizes After Flagging Declaration of Independence As Hate Speech (nymag.com) · · Score: 0

    That's why the name isn't specific. Like Europeans.

  12. If automation kills jobs... on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    ...then who is going to buy all the products superproduced by all this automation that's less expensive than hiring humans?

    Why the need for automation at all?

    Just leave it alone. Funny how the answer to these manufactured crises is always more socialism.

  13. Re:It's morally binding on America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The US is actually decreasing.

  14. Re:waste of money on Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Do they all make the same CO2? The sandwich in China was probably made with US wheat, because they aren't efficient enough to produce all their own food.

  15. Re:waste of money on Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    GDP is gross domestic PRODUCT. Everything that is produced by an economy emits CO2 in it's production. Everything. A Nation can ineffiecently produce, and not have much to show for it's emissions, or it can efficiently produce and have lots to show for it's emissions. Exclusively looking at emissions and population is a sign that the observer really just wants people to produce less. Or in most instances, they just want the US to produce less. Or even the EU, which is more efficient than the US but at substantially higher cost.

  16. Re:waste of money on Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Because it's the same thing as conserving energy to limit CO2 emissions. The whole idea is to do more with less, not less with more.

  17. Re:Well let's step through it section-by-section on FCC Commissioner Broke the Law By Advocating for Trump, Officials Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    You literally have no idea what you are talking about. If what you say is the correct interpretation, then Barack Obama needs to serve about 10,000 years due to his thousands of instances of telling people to vote for him or Hillary.

  18. Re:Well let's step through it section-by-section on FCC Commissioner Broke the Law By Advocating for Trump, Officials Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    It's not hypocrisy. Name one person who voted for Donald Trump because they thought he was a saint. Considering you probably voted for the serial adulterer, your whole post is pretty ridiculous. Oh...you were talking about Trump.

  19. Not really. The big consequence is that speech cannot be restricted within or without the 60 day period before an election.

  20. Re:Somebody doesn't seem to know the law of the po on FCC Commissioner Broke the Law By Advocating for Trump, Officials Find (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes.

  21. Re:waste of money on Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    No, I don't expect them to produce less CO2. But if they are going to emit twice as much CO2 their GDP should be twice that of the US. It is far less than that, there for they are less efficient. In other words, since you seem to need them, they produce far less per ton of CO2 than the US does.

  22. Re:waste of money on Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Like I said. China produces about 5 times less for every ton of CO2 emitted than the US. That is not 4 times more efficient. That is 1/5th as efficient.

  23. Re:waste of money on Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Is it? Have you even looked at the numbers? China passed the US in CO2 emissions more than a decade ago. They produce almost twice as much CO2 as the US. Also efficiency doesnt mean what you think it means. We produce about 5 times as much per ton of CO2 emitted than China. China produces about 30% of the world's CO2 and the US produces about 15%. So yes, China produces less CO2 per capita, but that is only because they are inefficient and wasteful. Per capita production of CO2 is really a shitty way of looking at the situation. The goal of anyone who solely looks at that number, is to limit per capita production, which really means they just want to handicap the 1st world and let the 3rd world pollute.

  24. Re:waste of money on Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    How is 1/7th worse than 1/3rd? Ultimately the environment is impacted by total CO2, not the efficiency and population of various shades of people.

  25. Re:Acidification and warming waters on Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    The scientists who have most studied the Reef work for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

    Let me guess. They want more money and authority for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to solve all the problems they were paid to research by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.