They're on a decline in the Americas and parts of Europe. That's mainly because your average person doesn't need a desktop to check the news or their email. That doesn't hold true of course to programmers, gamers, game developers and so on. It also doesn't hold true in many parts of Europe, Asia or the Middle East or Africa either, where the PC is increasing marketshare because there is no saturation.
Really? Tell us something that the average person doesn't know, and one of the reasons why if you go to school they will explicitly tell you not to trust wikipedia, not to even use it as a basis for research for furthering your topic. Never mind they've got their own problems, where wikipedia investigates wikipedia and finds no wrongdoing.
Well you are talking about a group of people who are so far on the left-wing that everything is right-wing. And that they also include people who are centrists or even left or right of center as "right-wing" or "far right-wing'
I'm now waiting for the next horror movie where phone zombies walk out in front of people and get gooified, and come back as zombies to munch on the people that killed them.
This has been an increasing trend in most deserts since we've been monitoring them, and since it's already known that deserts are cyclical in most cases going from forests, plains and so on to deserts and back again, it shouldn't be a surprise. Especially since we're still coming out of the previous ice age.
Most of the pine beetles were killed off in a heavy freeze a few years ago.
Not to forget either, that there for years they were trying to figure out what to do with all that "blue wood." Since the pine beetles streak the lumber, seems that there's a growing market for the stuff especially among the rich and well off these days and they're selling it at a premium. Now if only the cold would actually kill the ash borer beetles it would be a good thing.
On the other hand, after ~35 years we're finally starting to see growth and good growth of birch trees and elm trees after a double hit to both species. And a follow up around 10 years later(in the early 90's) to specific breeds of maple trees from insects and fungi. Now if only we could stop governments from planting stuff like Japanese Lilacs which are a bloody pest plant.
It helps that driving is entirely optional in the UK, which has an excellent transit system. As a result, driving is considered a luxury, and it's legitimate to crack down hard on people who drive badly.
Driving in Canada isn't a luxury, and there's even more distance between major metro centres or even basic cities then there is in the US. But we don't have the same problem with drinking and driving that Americans do, and it has to do with the change that not only Canada went through legally in the 1980's, see charter of rights and freedoms and that R.I.D.E. programs(DUI checkpoints) are considered a charter violation, but one that's acceptable as long as it isn't abused. The other was massive campaigns against making it a social stigma, plus other laws making it an offence and the server being culpable for the state of the person driving the vehicle in the event of DUI related crime. As well as in the cases of house parties, where the homeowner/person throwing the party are culpable for their guests as well.
Though you get out into prairies(Alberta and Saskatchewan) or the east coast(varies heavily), and you start to run into this and the vast majority of these cases fall into two areas: Either natives being absolutely shitfaced and making a run to buy more booze, or the people being absolutely shit poor and doing the same thing.
So why are you whining all over this thread then, given that this is about creating a whole new place? The founders of the new place haven't taken anything away from you yet you whinge and throw insults like you're 5.
Reading skills are a problem for you huh? I understand, maybe reading rainbow will help you out. Especially since you can't figure out the continuity of the argument in the first place or that you can't figure out how to respond to anything else. You need me to use some small words to explain it to you? By the by, those weren't insults they were observations on the state of your replies.
It's not just Europe but North America as well. Swamp drying, and pesticide use pushed it or reduced the number of locations where it could breed. Lot of people don't know that half the people who died making the Rideau(Ottawa) Canal were killed by malaria that was back in the 1800's, start digging through death records for the period and you'll start seeing stuff like "xyz person died, suspected lake fever" "swamp fever" "bad swamp/lake air" things like that with a list of symptoms that mirror malaria. Both lake and swamp fever were the common classification of malaria here in the americas before the disease was identified.
Trouble is that people like you seem to believe the entire world is your space, because when someone creates a new place (what this thread is about), people like you start whining horribly like someone has stolen something from you.
You seem to be kind of dense, so I'll use smaller words. See it's not me that believes the entire world is my space. I have my spaces, it's when those perpetual whiners want to invade those spaces that are mine and take them away. Easy isn't it?
Indeed, so when someone actually starts using their free speech and freedom of assosciation, the perpetual whiners like you are all over it because apparently they used their freedoms wrong and that makes you sad and cross.
Very strange, considering the people(aka progressives) who are the perpetual whiners that want people not to have their own spaces(like golf courses, lounges, etc) and demand that they allow admittance are applauded. When those same people(progressives) then turn around and create those spaces on their own where others aren't allowed in...they're also applauded. You should also remember that making statements against those "spaces they're creating" is also racism, homophobia, sexism and so on.
This isn't rocket surgery. If need be, I can explain it again but you should be smart enough to figure it out.
It's terrible. That was literally the only place on the internet where a straight white man could feel comfortable and it's been ruined. There is officially nowhere else for you. You are now an oppressed minority.
"We demand xyz groups let us in, if they don't they're sexist/racist/homophobic!" Groups let them in.
Same said people who were whining: "We're creating safe spaces for xyz groups! Look how progressive we are!" People face palm from the hypocrisy.
Sorry, the real problem is the unbelievable hypocrisy and demands from the perpetual whiners when they want something and decide to invade someone else's places, while demanding privileges and expecting that content creators or societies bend over backwards for them. All the while, they're also running around and making segregated spaces while claiming they're ever so progressive and really, really, really, help people out. Yep it is terrible, that there's such a huge double standard.
That's because it is a bad idea. Just look at reddit and the number of times moderators have been caught taking bribes, payoffs, or outright payments from companies or other people to press or repress particular opinions. Nothing kills a community faster then shit like that.
A social media platform that excludes the hate machine element?....
That's a pretty fancy way of saying "the people who disagree with me, and I can't handle competing opinions or even facts at times." Just remember that there's an entire group of people out there that believe facts are harassment, if you need shining examples all you need to do is go look at the batshit crazy on tumblr. But that constructive criticism? Those same batshit crazy people, especially those that the media like to parrot will simply believe that criticism is harassment, or sexist, or racist or simply misogyny. They don't want facts, opinions that are contrary to their feelings.
Moron. No one is saying robots don't exist. But they aren't taking the jobs. Jobs are being shifted to cheaper places. Vietnam, China, Singapore. You know who is going to replace you? Not a robot. Just a cheaper human.
You apparently have never worked a day in medium or heavy manufacturing, if you did you'd know that what you just said is bullshit.
Companies will hit a point where there is "simply no place to go for cheaper wages." And robotics will be the end of the job for building things, that's why the auto industry for example has pushed robotics so hard. Let's take a look at the auto industry, the auto plant near me currently employs 300 people per 8hr shift, 3 daily shifts in total. If the robotics weren't there, it would be closer to 1300 per shift, even the basic things like painting aren't done by humans anymore it's all robotics. A auto company could send their manufacturing plants to the 3rd world to build stuff, but it's actually cheaper to build them here for the intended market with a mix of robotics and people. Even the National Parts Distribution Centre's aka giant warehouse that provides OEM parts to dealerships, manufacturing plants and supply companies(like NAPA/Pepboys, etc) usually encompassing entire geographical areas of a content like the entire east-coast and part of east-central US or all of Central Canada, plus Ontario and Quebec. The NPDC I worked at few years ago just to make a couple of extra bucks, it ran with 50 people per shift including all supervisor and office staff. Back 30+ years ago a place like that would easily run 500-700 people per shift(usually 4 shifts) plus another 150-300 for management and front office staff.
The loss of people is directly attributed to computers, robotics, and JIT delivery systems.
Gotta fix this for you: Facebook kills clickbait with one simple tweak! Number 6 will blow your mind!
Really though, the clickbait industry is going into a death phase and has been since last year, and with any luck it'll kill the sites. Advertising revenue is drying up, people aren't going to the sites. Some sites have been bleeding views and uniques others have simply stalled and/or entering serious declines (article paywalled)like Buzzfeed which has lost ~32% of it's traffic since last year.. Vice for example has bled ~18% of it's traffic. Huffpo? Laying off. Salon? Laying off. Even sites like Cracked, bleeding traffic and was sold off earlier this year. Lots of stories, lots of sties besides those that live and breath on clickbait are dying. Other publications(like media) that are pushing very specific agendas, are also suffering heavily as people turn away.
The artist is welcome to do my basement, my house is built on granite and radon gas is a recognized problem in this area.
They're welcome to do Ontario too. My house is built on limestone and radon is a recognized problem here as well, some parts of Southern Ontario have higher radon levels then Michigan where the homes are built directly on granite and require venting. The problem of course, is that radon detection isn't a requirement here, even though it's one of the leading causes of lung cancer in Canada for non-smokers. But I can go out on a 10 minute walk and find entire neighborhoods in my city where radon venting is done, and one area where the levels are so high that building houses was fully scrapped back in the 1970's and was considered a threat to human health. The area is was built over as a park in the 1990's, but they had to install a mitigation system to reduce the chance that people would develop lung cancer even being in the open air.
The photos are interesting and have artistic merit, Greenpeace however are just behaving like cancer. I support environmental awareness and have done since the 70's but I regard Greenpeace as an enemy of the environment because of their moronic publicity.
Agreed, artistic merit but that's about it. Greenpeace has long since become a hyper-partisan political group, and they'll happily whine about nuclear power, or GMO foods while people die from lack of refrigerated medicines, foods, or simply starving to death. A good reminder is that Greenpeace is against drought resistant corn(for Africa), and vitamin A-enhanced rice(for Africa and Asia), despite millions of people either dying due to a lack of food or having increased serious illnesses risk or other serious health problems(like childhood blindness which is easily treatable) due to a lack of proper nutrition.
They're right. Canada has had this since 2010, that includes credit and debit cards, not counting the RFID cards. Hell most of the credit cards I've had won't even work in the US because you guys are behind the times and the basic readers are incompatible with cards outside of the US, don't even get me started on the "at the pump" readers that can't tell that it's a foreign card. Just to save myself the hassle, I ended up opening a bank account in the US and dump a couple of thousand in there when I go traveling across the US instead of relying on my Canadian cards.
Fraud has fallen through the floor, but criminals are starting to catch up now that there are exploitable loopholes in the chip & pin system, but it's much more difficult then just skimming a card.
Australia? British Columbia? Ontario for "green energy." As someone else mentioned, you can move a company from Ontario to Michigan and buy Ontario electricitycheaperthen it's being sold for in the province.
Every place of country that's enacted has had two things happen: The economy stalls, and people end up out of work. That leads to massive discontent, and in turn leads to a voter backlash.
You want to make a real difference? Vote in elected representatives that push for nuclear power. Drive down the cost of energy as a whole, and you'll get everything you want in your carbon tax without the crushing problems of collapsing an economy where companies simply pack up and leave. If you however believe that green energy is the solution, let me point you to Ontario where the current government has pushed that hard and the price of electricity is now the most expensive in North America and businesses are simply packing up, leaving and the government has the highest debt level per-capita in the western world.
Another attempt by the far right to legislate its religious morality. Maybe we should call religion a public health crisis. It damages people's ability to think rationally. Porn is like any other film; it's staged. Of course, the right doesn't call action movies a public health crisis, even though they tend to contain plenty of violence; action movies don't violate their religion's morals.
Don't worry, you've got the far left doing exactly the same thing. Notice all the progressives(or if you prefer regressives) out there complaining about sexy clothing, whining about how xyz thing should conform to their ideals because it offends their sensibilities. Then you've got the various ones including the ardent radfems saying that female sexuality is bad, but only when particular groups of people appreciate it. An example, that on one hand women wanting to be prostitutes is okay, and in the next breath saying that women wanting to be prostitutes is bad. That porn is bad and is rape culture, and in the next breath saying that it empowers women. Haven't even started in on the ones that believe that women should be fully covered up and are trying to push sexuality back prior to the sexual revolution because they don't like sexuality regarding either men or women.
Personally between the two? Between the two though, the far right doesn't have the votes or ability to do squat and people will mock them. The far left on the other hand have plenty of people in the media rallying behind them declaring everything is sexist, or misogynistic or *insert buzzword here." And people including the media think that the left can do no wrong. There's a huge double standard out there right now.
We're in the start of a dotcom crash, things are exactly like they were back in the late 90's and 00's. Startups and other companies with huge bloated valuations(see nearly all startups currently), have thousands of employees but the numbers have increased from hundreds to thousands in the span of a few years(good example twitter and uber). Product development is at a stand still, but they claim that things are going great, you just need to wait a bit longer for all that stuff(aka directionless see twitter, yahoo and uber). Advertising revenue is falling through the floor, specialized sites are shedding editors/writers, right now clickbait sites are shedding both(see gawker, salon, guardian for example). Sites that didn't use that, are suffering from massive declines in revenue because the ad rate of payment is dismal and advertising dollars are disappearing.
Specialized gatherings/groups are being highjacked by extremists and are basically falling off the map as they produce nothing, in turn people lose interest. And VCs are seeing this and either demanding their money as soon as their return period is up or simply labeling it a lost cause and walking away.
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They're on a decline in the Americas and parts of Europe. That's mainly because your average person doesn't need a desktop to check the news or their email. That doesn't hold true of course to programmers, gamers, game developers and so on. It also doesn't hold true in many parts of Europe, Asia or the Middle East or Africa either, where the PC is increasing marketshare because there is no saturation.
Really? Tell us something that the average person doesn't know, and one of the reasons why if you go to school they will explicitly tell you not to trust wikipedia, not to even use it as a basis for research for furthering your topic. Never mind they've got their own problems, where wikipedia investigates wikipedia and finds no wrongdoing.
They should pay. Then again, I have a problem with an ad that's 4 minutes long for a video that's 48 seconds in length.
Well you are talking about a group of people who are so far on the left-wing that everything is right-wing. And that they also include people who are centrists or even left or right of center as "right-wing" or "far right-wing'
I'm now waiting for the next horror movie where phone zombies walk out in front of people and get gooified, and come back as zombies to munch on the people that killed them.
It's sure not helping the gene pool. To think that there were so many helping civilization and now some government has gone and messed that up.
This has been an increasing trend in most deserts since we've been monitoring them, and since it's already known that deserts are cyclical in most cases going from forests, plains and so on to deserts and back again, it shouldn't be a surprise. Especially since we're still coming out of the previous ice age.
Most of the pine beetles were killed off in a heavy freeze a few years ago.
Not to forget either, that there for years they were trying to figure out what to do with all that "blue wood." Since the pine beetles streak the lumber, seems that there's a growing market for the stuff especially among the rich and well off these days and they're selling it at a premium. Now if only the cold would actually kill the ash borer beetles it would be a good thing.
On the other hand, after ~35 years we're finally starting to see growth and good growth of birch trees and elm trees after a double hit to both species. And a follow up around 10 years later(in the early 90's) to specific breeds of maple trees from insects and fungi. Now if only we could stop governments from planting stuff like Japanese Lilacs which are a bloody pest plant.
It helps that driving is entirely optional in the UK, which has an excellent transit system. As a result, driving is considered a luxury, and it's legitimate to crack down hard on people who drive badly.
Driving in Canada isn't a luxury, and there's even more distance between major metro centres or even basic cities then there is in the US. But we don't have the same problem with drinking and driving that Americans do, and it has to do with the change that not only Canada went through legally in the 1980's, see charter of rights and freedoms and that R.I.D.E. programs(DUI checkpoints) are considered a charter violation, but one that's acceptable as long as it isn't abused. The other was massive campaigns against making it a social stigma, plus other laws making it an offence and the server being culpable for the state of the person driving the vehicle in the event of DUI related crime. As well as in the cases of house parties, where the homeowner/person throwing the party are culpable for their guests as well.
Though you get out into prairies(Alberta and Saskatchewan) or the east coast(varies heavily), and you start to run into this and the vast majority of these cases fall into two areas: Either natives being absolutely shitfaced and making a run to buy more booze, or the people being absolutely shit poor and doing the same thing.
So why are you whining all over this thread then, given that this is about creating a whole new place? The founders of the new place haven't taken anything away from you yet you whinge and throw insults like you're 5.
Reading skills are a problem for you huh? I understand, maybe reading rainbow will help you out. Especially since you can't figure out the continuity of the argument in the first place or that you can't figure out how to respond to anything else. You need me to use some small words to explain it to you? By the by, those weren't insults they were observations on the state of your replies.
It's not just Europe but North America as well. Swamp drying, and pesticide use pushed it or reduced the number of locations where it could breed. Lot of people don't know that half the people who died making the Rideau(Ottawa) Canal were killed by malaria that was back in the 1800's, start digging through death records for the period and you'll start seeing stuff like "xyz person died, suspected lake fever" "swamp fever" "bad swamp/lake air" things like that with a list of symptoms that mirror malaria. Both lake and swamp fever were the common classification of malaria here in the americas before the disease was identified.
Trouble is that people like you seem to believe the entire world is your space, because when someone creates a new place (what this thread is about), people like you start whining horribly like someone has stolen something from you.
You seem to be kind of dense, so I'll use smaller words. See it's not me that believes the entire world is my space. I have my spaces, it's when those perpetual whiners want to invade those spaces that are mine and take them away. Easy isn't it?
Indeed, so when someone actually starts using their free speech and freedom of assosciation, the perpetual whiners like you are all over it because apparently they used their freedoms wrong and that makes you sad and cross.
Very strange, considering the people(aka progressives) who are the perpetual whiners that want people not to have their own spaces(like golf courses, lounges, etc) and demand that they allow admittance are applauded. When those same people(progressives) then turn around and create those spaces on their own where others aren't allowed in...they're also applauded. You should also remember that making statements against those "spaces they're creating" is also racism, homophobia, sexism and so on.
This isn't rocket surgery. If need be, I can explain it again but you should be smart enough to figure it out.
It's terrible. That was literally the only place on the internet where a straight white man could feel comfortable and it's been ruined. There is officially nowhere else for you. You are now an oppressed minority.
"We demand xyz groups let us in, if they don't they're sexist/racist/homophobic!" Groups let them in.
Same said people who were whining: "We're creating safe spaces for xyz groups! Look how progressive we are!" People face palm from the hypocrisy.
Sorry, the real problem is the unbelievable hypocrisy and demands from the perpetual whiners when they want something and decide to invade someone else's places, while demanding privileges and expecting that content creators or societies bend over backwards for them. All the while, they're also running around and making segregated spaces while claiming they're ever so progressive and really, really, really, help people out. Yep it is terrible, that there's such a huge double standard.
That's because it is a bad idea. Just look at reddit and the number of times moderators have been caught taking bribes, payoffs, or outright payments from companies or other people to press or repress particular opinions. Nothing kills a community faster then shit like that.
A social media platform that excludes the hate machine element? ....
That's a pretty fancy way of saying "the people who disagree with me, and I can't handle competing opinions or even facts at times." Just remember that there's an entire group of people out there that believe facts are harassment, if you need shining examples all you need to do is go look at the batshit crazy on tumblr. But that constructive criticism? Those same batshit crazy people, especially those that the media like to parrot will simply believe that criticism is harassment, or sexist, or racist or simply misogyny. They don't want facts, opinions that are contrary to their feelings.
Moron. No one is saying robots don't exist. But they aren't taking the jobs. Jobs are being shifted to cheaper places. Vietnam, China, Singapore. You know who is going to replace you? Not a robot. Just a cheaper human.
You apparently have never worked a day in medium or heavy manufacturing, if you did you'd know that what you just said is bullshit.
Companies will hit a point where there is "simply no place to go for cheaper wages." And robotics will be the end of the job for building things, that's why the auto industry for example has pushed robotics so hard. Let's take a look at the auto industry, the auto plant near me currently employs 300 people per 8hr shift, 3 daily shifts in total. If the robotics weren't there, it would be closer to 1300 per shift, even the basic things like painting aren't done by humans anymore it's all robotics. A auto company could send their manufacturing plants to the 3rd world to build stuff, but it's actually cheaper to build them here for the intended market with a mix of robotics and people. Even the National Parts Distribution Centre's aka giant warehouse that provides OEM parts to dealerships, manufacturing plants and supply companies(like NAPA/Pepboys, etc) usually encompassing entire geographical areas of a content like the entire east-coast and part of east-central US or all of Central Canada, plus Ontario and Quebec. The NPDC I worked at few years ago just to make a couple of extra bucks, it ran with 50 people per shift including all supervisor and office staff. Back 30+ years ago a place like that would easily run 500-700 people per shift(usually 4 shifts) plus another 150-300 for management and front office staff.
The loss of people is directly attributed to computers, robotics, and JIT delivery systems.
Gotta fix this for you:
Facebook kills clickbait with one simple tweak! Number 6 will blow your mind!
Really though, the clickbait industry is going into a death phase and has been since last year, and with any luck it'll kill the sites. Advertising revenue is drying up, people aren't going to the sites. Some sites have been bleeding views and uniques others have simply stalled and/or entering serious declines (article paywalled)like Buzzfeed which has lost ~32% of it's traffic since last year.. Vice for example has bled ~18% of it's traffic. Huffpo? Laying off. Salon? Laying off. Even sites like Cracked, bleeding traffic and was sold off earlier this year. Lots of stories, lots of sties besides those that live and breath on clickbait are dying. Other publications(like media) that are pushing very specific agendas, are also suffering heavily as people turn away.
The artist is welcome to do my basement, my house is built on granite and radon gas is a recognized problem in this area.
They're welcome to do Ontario too. My house is built on limestone and radon is a recognized problem here as well, some parts of Southern Ontario have higher radon levels then Michigan where the homes are built directly on granite and require venting. The problem of course, is that radon detection isn't a requirement here, even though it's one of the leading causes of lung cancer in Canada for non-smokers. But I can go out on a 10 minute walk and find entire neighborhoods in my city where radon venting is done, and one area where the levels are so high that building houses was fully scrapped back in the 1970's and was considered a threat to human health. The area is was built over as a park in the 1990's, but they had to install a mitigation system to reduce the chance that people would develop lung cancer even being in the open air.
The photos are interesting and have artistic merit, Greenpeace however are just behaving like cancer. I support environmental awareness and have done since the 70's but I regard Greenpeace as an enemy of the environment because of their moronic publicity.
Agreed, artistic merit but that's about it. Greenpeace has long since become a hyper-partisan political group, and they'll happily whine about nuclear power, or GMO foods while people die from lack of refrigerated medicines, foods, or simply starving to death. A good reminder is that Greenpeace is against drought resistant corn(for Africa), and vitamin A-enhanced rice(for Africa and Asia), despite millions of people either dying due to a lack of food or having increased serious illnesses risk or other serious health problems(like childhood blindness which is easily treatable) due to a lack of proper nutrition.
They're right. Canada has had this since 2010, that includes credit and debit cards, not counting the RFID cards. Hell most of the credit cards I've had won't even work in the US because you guys are behind the times and the basic readers are incompatible with cards outside of the US, don't even get me started on the "at the pump" readers that can't tell that it's a foreign card. Just to save myself the hassle, I ended up opening a bank account in the US and dump a couple of thousand in there when I go traveling across the US instead of relying on my Canadian cards.
Fraud has fallen through the floor, but criminals are starting to catch up now that there are exploitable loopholes in the chip & pin system, but it's much more difficult then just skimming a card.
Australia? British Columbia? Ontario for "green energy." As someone else mentioned, you can move a company from Ontario to Michigan and buy Ontario electricity cheaper then it's being sold for in the province.
Every place of country that's enacted has had two things happen: The economy stalls, and people end up out of work. That leads to massive discontent, and in turn leads to a voter backlash.
You want to make a real difference? Vote in elected representatives that push for nuclear power. Drive down the cost of energy as a whole, and you'll get everything you want in your carbon tax without the crushing problems of collapsing an economy where companies simply pack up and leave. If you however believe that green energy is the solution, let me point you to Ontario where the current government has pushed that hard and the price of electricity is now the most expensive in North America and businesses are simply packing up, leaving and the government has the highest debt level per-capita in the western world.
Another attempt by the far right to legislate its religious morality. Maybe we should call religion a public health crisis. It damages people's ability to think rationally. Porn is like any other film; it's staged. Of course, the right doesn't call action movies a public health crisis, even though they tend to contain plenty of violence; action movies don't violate their religion's morals.
Don't worry, you've got the far left doing exactly the same thing. Notice all the progressives(or if you prefer regressives) out there complaining about sexy clothing, whining about how xyz thing should conform to their ideals because it offends their sensibilities. Then you've got the various ones including the ardent radfems saying that female sexuality is bad, but only when particular groups of people appreciate it. An example, that on one hand women wanting to be prostitutes is okay, and in the next breath saying that women wanting to be prostitutes is bad. That porn is bad and is rape culture, and in the next breath saying that it empowers women. Haven't even started in on the ones that believe that women should be fully covered up and are trying to push sexuality back prior to the sexual revolution because they don't like sexuality regarding either men or women.
Personally between the two? Between the two though, the far right doesn't have the votes or ability to do squat and people will mock them. The far left on the other hand have plenty of people in the media rallying behind them declaring everything is sexist, or misogynistic or *insert buzzword here." And people including the media think that the left can do no wrong. There's a huge double standard out there right now.
We're in the start of a dotcom crash, things are exactly like they were back in the late 90's and 00's. Startups and other companies with huge bloated valuations(see nearly all startups currently), have thousands of employees but the numbers have increased from hundreds to thousands in the span of a few years(good example twitter and uber). Product development is at a stand still, but they claim that things are going great, you just need to wait a bit longer for all that stuff(aka directionless see twitter, yahoo and uber). Advertising revenue is falling through the floor, specialized sites are shedding editors/writers, right now clickbait sites are shedding both(see gawker, salon, guardian for example). Sites that didn't use that, are suffering from massive declines in revenue because the ad rate of payment is dismal and advertising dollars are disappearing.
Specialized gatherings/groups are being highjacked by extremists and are basically falling off the map as they produce nothing, in turn people lose interest. And VCs are seeing this and either demanding their money as soon as their return period is up or simply labeling it a lost cause and walking away.
Coffee and bad coffee.
Huh, so you're a doctor by trade? How's the money in that these days?