Eventually, everyone will be paid by the government to "SaveThePlanet". There will be no income inequality or bad -isms or -phobias and there will be sustainabilities everywhere you look! It will be unprecedented and not at all problematic!
Well, environmentalism is the new religion and I think you'll find that most people who are not "progressives" are not necessarily adherents to any particular traditional religion. Nice caricature though.
I maintain that it's much more prevalent on the left because of their collectivist nature. It results in less independent thinking. Look at so-called political correctness, it enforces certain (public) positions as approved by the thought leaders. And the left is famous for politicizing every issue.
There's no way to correctly assess "pollution and environmental" external costs. They are made up numbers and nebulous. It's astounding that some people claim that renewable energy is cost competitive without subsidies, but hey, taxpayer money is the best kind of money and the whole renewables industry is politically-driven. Hundreds of billions of dollars per year of government money can easily pay for lots of propaganda, PR firms, "science" journalism, lawyers, whatever's needed to keep the money flowing.
Groupthink is rampant on the left (them being collectivists and all) and of course they brand themselves as "the caring, compassionate ones", so naturally their opponents must be evil. And when stamping out evil, well, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do... whatever it takes, you know?
But it's now a multiple hundred billion dollar per year industry that keeps academics and taxpayer-funded organizations busy and employed. And it pays the best kind of money: government money.
"...hiring doesn't discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender and more..."
What's the "and more" part? Can I get me one of those cushy jobs reserved for old farts? Would I have to be gay, or at least pretend to be? Is there a test?
My field (process plant engineering) is experiencing this now, with (tens of?) thousands of jobs being offshored. The time from design "completion" in office to actual plant operation can be six months to two years so it can be difficult to correctly attribute sources of failures. Much work is "fixed in the field" at additional cost, but if that field fix cost is less than what is saved by use of cheap engineers and designers...
It's probably also cheaper to pay additional upfront insurance to guard against engineering incompetence.
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Reality defined via repeated headline assertions and creative statistics is called what again?
Who's to say that's not the end goal?
Just cause it has a touch bar doesn't mean it'd help students taking the bar exam.
Very interesting comment, thanks.
I presume that 'climate change' in this case refers to 'catastrophic anthropogenic climate change'.
Yup, because it is only the headline that counts in order to leave a false impression in peoples' minds. Talk about FakeNews...
Eventually, everyone will be paid by the government to "SaveThePlanet". There will be no income inequality or bad -isms or -phobias and there will be sustainabilities everywhere you look! It will be unprecedented and not at all problematic!
Well, environmentalism is the new religion and I think you'll find that most people who are not "progressives" are not necessarily adherents to any particular traditional religion. Nice caricature though.
I maintain that it's much more prevalent on the left because of their collectivist nature. It results in less independent thinking. Look at so-called political correctness, it enforces certain (public) positions as approved by the thought leaders. And the left is famous for politicizing every issue.
There's no way to correctly assess "pollution and environmental" external costs. They are made up numbers and nebulous. It's astounding that some people claim that renewable energy is cost competitive without subsidies, but hey, taxpayer money is the best kind of money and the whole renewables industry is politically-driven. Hundreds of billions of dollars per year of government money can easily pay for lots of propaganda, PR firms, "science" journalism, lawyers, whatever's needed to keep the money flowing.
Groupthink is rampant on the left (them being collectivists and all) and of course they brand themselves as "the caring, compassionate ones", so naturally their opponents must be evil. And when stamping out evil, well, sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do... whatever it takes, you know?
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Make proper pro-level computers first.
But it's now a multiple hundred billion dollar per year industry that keeps academics and taxpayer-funded organizations busy and employed. And it pays the best kind of money: government money.
Political operatives masquerading as "neutral journalists".
There's no convection in a greenhouse.
"...hiring doesn't discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender and more..."
What's the "and more" part? Can I get me one of those cushy jobs reserved for old farts? Would I have to be gay, or at least pretend to be? Is there a test?
But it's sooo important to be the FIRST! to report on something for all that fame, glory and cash! Self-important, sensationalist morons, all of them.
Hey did you hear that Mariah Carey's problem last night was that the monitors were broken and she couldn't sing because she couldn't read the lyrics?
BoingBoing making sense and not following the prog party line? WTF is going on - FakeNews again?
Yeah I noticed that too. Accuracy doesn't count anymore, but precision does!
"some guy in a yogurt stand in Bulgaria..."
Only if he had access to one of those old 8" floppy drives.
"This administration has provided zero proof of Russia's involvement nor motive."
And yet this is being repeated every half hour on "news" stations like CNN. What gives?
"Sounds like utter BS to me"
Prove that you yourself are not a Russian Hacker, Anonymous Coward!
My field (process plant engineering) is experiencing this now, with (tens of?) thousands of jobs being offshored. The time from design "completion" in office to actual plant operation can be six months to two years so it can be difficult to correctly attribute sources of failures. Much work is "fixed in the field" at additional cost, but if that field fix cost is less than what is saved by use of cheap engineers and designers...
It's probably also cheaper to pay additional upfront insurance to guard against engineering incompetence.
Brain work has been commoditized.
It's a matter of fast, cheap and good enough .