File that under 'growing pains'. The world is changing, this is a sign of it,
Citation needed. All I see if Californians getting dumber and spending more money while the rest of the world scoots along fine with out all the bullshit. Sorry but "the world is changing" is so fucking cliche at this point it's laughable.
There just aren't the opportunities there used to be for young people. This ain't their fault, and the headlines really should be blaming the people with power and resources in this society, not the victims.
Horse shit. They keep voting for it year after year. It's entirely their own fault and it's why they have such a shit reputation.
I have only lived in three different countries. Every time I moved I learned something about myself and the world around me.
It amazes me how timid and frightened of change many Americans seem to be.
Timid and frightened of change because we don't want to move to another country? I've lived in 5 different states for various reasons. Never once have I considered the downgrade of moving to another country, and yes it is very much a downgrade to move virtually anywhere else in the world. That's not not timid or frightened, it's me not giving a flying fuck about your country because you have nothing I want.
That's completely false. Even in areas where the electricity is generated by coal, they still result in lower emissions than gas cars. And as the electric grid gets cleaner, the cars get cleaner. Also, a significantly higher percentage of EV owners install solar, so much of the power is completely emissions free.
Not when you add battery waste and the pollution cost of shipping the batteries. The EV people only ever see one side of the equation. If electric vehicles were viable and car companies could make money on them they would be the default by now. Period.
There are two problems with your argument: 1. Non-renwables often come with "external" costs, such as pollution that are not accounted for in their financial costs. Someone is paying those prices. 2. New technologies often take a lot of work to make practical, again someone needs to pay those prices to make them viable.
Since we (the U.S. here) have decided not to put taxes (e.g. cap-and-trade) in place to handle those externalities, and we have a history of subsidizing research and development, this is the way we have done it.
"Renewables" come with just as much or more pollution, or do you think batteries clean them selves up and not leak into the environment? How about all the fuel used to ship those batteries? The amount of fuel it takes to ship the batteries is almost as high as if you just used the fuel in the car.
Pollution is down dramatically in the US, not because of renewables but because of more efficient engines and fuels. I'm not biased either way though, if you built me an electric truck that could tolerate the climate I live in I'd honestly consider it but the renewable people seem to think everyone lives in Southern CA with perfect weather and road conditions.
Friend of mine went into HVAC and was clearing 120k a year with over time only 2-3 years into the job. I know a couple of guys doing the same or similar as electricians, probably closer to the 80k mark. It all really depends on where they are and what kind of work they put in. It usually all boils down to overtime though and they spend some of that on union dues and in the case of my HVAC friend he is expected to buy all his own tools/gear. I don't think 120k a year is anything near normal but even in lower income areas I know HVAC people easily clearing 50k in just the first year.
Not only are appraisals a waste of time but they get completed negated when the realtors "pull the comps" which is when they look at the sales of homes in the same area over the last 30-60 days and use those as baseline prices. The appraisal can easily be 15-40k below that, or if the market is under water, above it.
Real estate is such a sleazy market in general I pray I live long and die in my current house just to avoid dealing with that cluster fuck again.
I've always been of the opinion that grown-up men don't "hang out" - only teenagers do that. Hence I've never used, or proposed the use of, that awful thing that is Google Hangouts. Also, as one of the last entrenched BlackBerry OS users (yes, that's right: you'll have to pry that BlackBerry Passport from my cold, dead fingers), I was shielded from it anyways.
telegram still sucks, because it is based on phone number as an identifier
Same with Signal. I really dont get why people rave over Signal, the crypto might be great but the app is total shit, development is slow as mud and they still insist on every permission under the sun to work on your device for, reasons. Plus you have to upload your fucking contacts to them to find anyone. Just shitty all around.
Or they will, but instead of offloading the cost of keeping their secrets safe on governments, they’ll learn proper security. This would have the added benefit of protecting end uses of their products.
There is no proper security here. China is offering people at one company 7 times their current salary guaranteed for 3 years if they leave and come work for them with just the IP they have in their heads. You literally can not defend against that as a private company. China has promised to spend hundreds of billions before 2025 to steal the IP of western nations and stand up fabs in country to produce and sell them without the RnD costs.
The only way to deal with this is massive tariffs and trade embargoes. China is the worlds largest copying machine and deserves no respect economically on the world stage.
Haven't you socialists killed enough people? Nearly 100 million just in the last century. How many failures does it take before you "get it right"?
Its astounding to me that despite all the evidence of the amazing success of capitalism that people can still stand there stubbornly insisting they deserve other peoples money. Every single one of your arguments crumble to dust the second anyone asks, "How do you intend to pay for it?"
Because of the "Blue Shield". In short, cops protect cops, and the prosecutors who decide what cases to prosecute are complicit in this conspiracy due to their working closely with the police and seeing them as their allies and aids. After who's going to arrest the cops?
Of course cops protect cops. No one else will. They literally have no one else but each other to protect them. That badge isn't just a badge, it's also a target. People target them in every way imaginable, from financially to personally to criminally. Some cops are dbags, some don't deserve to be cops, but what people like you seem to want is open season on the people who selflessly defend us.
I've known my share of asshole cops over the years but that doesn't stop me from understanding that without being there in that moment, it's nearly impossible to understand fully the judgement calls made. This is why we're forcing body cams because that's the closest we can get and even then you can miss a lot of context because the cams only shoot in a frontal cone, missing everything else in the periphery.
Cops have unions for the same reason teachers do. Not just to get bargaining power on wages but to protect them from the public. Parents are vicious when it comes to kids and attack teachers for giving their little snowflakes a C on a test. Just imagine that sort of attack amped up several orders of magnitude when you go to arrest them.
The knee jerk bullshit against cops is getting old. Blame the cop first doesn't fucking work anymore. It's petty and makes you look ignorant.
Net neutrality was never a law. It was an executive order. Laws are passed by congress. You can violate an executive order and exactly shit will happen to you, ever.
It all goes back to education, when a person with a well rounded education (including liberal arts/history...) sees bad information it is like seeing red blinking text in a WEB Page.
Since education quality and funding has been reduced to bare bones in the US and with some countries worse off, you get many people believing every sensational/outrageous thing on the net. How about giving people a good education now. Eventually even the teachers will be no-educated at the rate we are going.
What they hell are you talking about? We spend over 600% more on education today than we did in the 80's. Tuition to 4 years is up something like 800% in the same time period. WTF are you smoking with this "bare bones" bullshit?
Spoken like someone thats never driven a corvette. Floor one of those fuckers down the freeway some day and then tell me its about the destination because when I'm behind the wheel of one of those SOB's I really dont give to shits where I am going.
Posts like this confuse me. You call others "at the top" stupid yet you're in your late 50's and never advanced beyond a minimum wage help desk zombie reading scripts. Ever stop to think it's not them, it's you?
When I was in my early 50's, I was doing senior level phone support for a major ISP, dealing with issues the other techs didn't understand and earning almost twice as much as what I liked to call "the phone firewall." And every day, I went home knowing that there were people who had a better day because they'd talked to me, and that's the main way I coped with the stress.
Fair enough. Everyone finds their place in life. The difference between you and the OP is you don't seem to be feeling sorry for yourself and blaming others for your position. OP is sitting in his pajamas watching TV while doing a help desk job and trying to pass it off like he's some hero to aspire too. It's terrible.
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It's almost like freedom is a good thing or something.
File that under 'growing pains'. The world is changing, this is a sign of it,
Citation needed. All I see if Californians getting dumber and spending more money while the rest of the world scoots along fine with out all the bullshit. Sorry but "the world is changing" is so fucking cliche at this point it's laughable.
There just aren't the opportunities there used to be for young people. This ain't their fault, and the headlines really should be blaming the people with power and resources in this society, not the victims.
Horse shit. They keep voting for it year after year. It's entirely their own fault and it's why they have such a shit reputation.
It is well known that millennials make less than their parents
Yes because they are younger than their parents and haven't worked up the employment ladder. Captain fucking obvious is calling
I have only lived in three different countries. Every time I moved I learned something about myself and the world around me.
It amazes me how timid and frightened of change many Americans seem to be.
Timid and frightened of change because we don't want to move to another country? I've lived in 5 different states for various reasons. Never once have I considered the downgrade of moving to another country, and yes it is very much a downgrade to move virtually anywhere else in the world. That's not not timid or frightened, it's me not giving a flying fuck about your country because you have nothing I want.
Orange man bad
Since when is giving your money to the federal government considered a good thing? FFS really? That's the hill you choose to die on?
That's completely false. Even in areas where the electricity is generated by coal, they still result in lower emissions than gas cars. And as the electric grid gets cleaner, the cars get cleaner. Also, a significantly higher percentage of EV owners install solar, so much of the power is completely emissions free.
Not when you add battery waste and the pollution cost of shipping the batteries. The EV people only ever see one side of the equation. If electric vehicles were viable and car companies could make money on them they would be the default by now. Period.
There are two problems with your argument:
1. Non-renwables often come with "external" costs, such as pollution that are not accounted for in their financial costs. Someone is paying those prices.
2. New technologies often take a lot of work to make practical, again someone needs to pay those prices to make them viable.
Since we (the U.S. here) have decided not to put taxes (e.g. cap-and-trade) in place to handle those externalities, and we have a history of subsidizing research and development, this is the way we have done it.
"Renewables" come with just as much or more pollution, or do you think batteries clean them selves up and not leak into the environment? How about all the fuel used to ship those batteries? The amount of fuel it takes to ship the batteries is almost as high as if you just used the fuel in the car.
Pollution is down dramatically in the US, not because of renewables but because of more efficient engines and fuels. I'm not biased either way though, if you built me an electric truck that could tolerate the climate I live in I'd honestly consider it but the renewable people seem to think everyone lives in Southern CA with perfect weather and road conditions.
Friend of mine went into HVAC and was clearing 120k a year with over time only 2-3 years into the job. I know a couple of guys doing the same or similar as electricians, probably closer to the 80k mark. It all really depends on where they are and what kind of work they put in. It usually all boils down to overtime though and they spend some of that on union dues and in the case of my HVAC friend he is expected to buy all his own tools/gear. I don't think 120k a year is anything near normal but even in lower income areas I know HVAC people easily clearing 50k in just the first year.
Not only are appraisals a waste of time but they get completed negated when the realtors "pull the comps" which is when they look at the sales of homes in the same area over the last 30-60 days and use those as baseline prices. The appraisal can easily be 15-40k below that, or if the market is under water, above it.
Real estate is such a sleazy market in general I pray I live long and die in my current house just to avoid dealing with that cluster fuck again.
Oh please do fuck right off with your doom and gloom bullshit
I've always been of the opinion that grown-up men don't "hang out" - only teenagers do that. Hence I've never used, or proposed the use of, that awful thing that is Google Hangouts. Also, as one of the last entrenched BlackBerry OS users (yes, that's right: you'll have to pry that BlackBerry Passport from my cold, dead fingers), I was shielded from it anyways.
Ok gramps, we'll all get off your lawn now.
I'm not against closed source apps but ones that claim to be privacy centric that remain closed are problematic to me.
telegram still sucks, because it is based on phone number as an identifier
Same with Signal. I really dont get why people rave over Signal, the crypto might be great but the app is total shit, development is slow as mud and they still insist on every permission under the sun to work on your device for, reasons. Plus you have to upload your fucking contacts to them to find anyone. Just shitty all around.
Or they will, but instead of offloading the cost of keeping their secrets safe on governments, they’ll learn proper security. This would have the added benefit of protecting end uses of their products.
There is no proper security here. China is offering people at one company 7 times their current salary guaranteed for 3 years if they leave and come work for them with just the IP they have in their heads. You literally can not defend against that as a private company. China has promised to spend hundreds of billions before 2025 to steal the IP of western nations and stand up fabs in country to produce and sell them without the RnD costs.
The only way to deal with this is massive tariffs and trade embargoes. China is the worlds largest copying machine and deserves no respect economically on the world stage.
Socialism is the economic component of Communism you dumb fuck.
The data suggests otherwise.
Haven't you socialists killed enough people? Nearly 100 million just in the last century. How many failures does it take before you "get it right"?
Its astounding to me that despite all the evidence of the amazing success of capitalism that people can still stand there stubbornly insisting they deserve other peoples money. Every single one of your arguments crumble to dust the second anyone asks, "How do you intend to pay for it?"
Because of the "Blue Shield".
In short, cops protect cops, and the prosecutors who decide what cases to prosecute are complicit in this conspiracy due to their working closely with the police and seeing them as their allies and aids.
After who's going to arrest the cops?
Of course cops protect cops. No one else will. They literally have no one else but each other to protect them. That badge isn't just a badge, it's also a target. People target them in every way imaginable, from financially to personally to criminally. Some cops are dbags, some don't deserve to be cops, but what people like you seem to want is open season on the people who selflessly defend us.
I've known my share of asshole cops over the years but that doesn't stop me from understanding that without being there in that moment, it's nearly impossible to understand fully the judgement calls made. This is why we're forcing body cams because that's the closest we can get and even then you can miss a lot of context because the cams only shoot in a frontal cone, missing everything else in the periphery.
Cops have unions for the same reason teachers do. Not just to get bargaining power on wages but to protect them from the public. Parents are vicious when it comes to kids and attack teachers for giving their little snowflakes a C on a test. Just imagine that sort of attack amped up several orders of magnitude when you go to arrest them.
The knee jerk bullshit against cops is getting old. Blame the cop first doesn't fucking work anymore. It's petty and makes you look ignorant.
Net neutrality was never a law. It was an executive order. Laws are passed by congress. You can violate an executive order and exactly shit will happen to you, ever.
It all goes back to education, when a person with a well rounded education (including liberal arts/history...) sees bad information it is like seeing red blinking text in a WEB Page.
Since education quality and funding has been reduced to bare bones in the US and with some countries worse off, you get many people believing every sensational/outrageous thing on the net. How about giving people a good education now. Eventually even the teachers will be no-educated at the rate we are going.
What they hell are you talking about? We spend over 600% more on education today than we did in the 80's. Tuition to 4 years is up something like 800% in the same time period. WTF are you smoking with this "bare bones" bullshit?
banning hate speech / online censorship is an 1st amendment issue.
And it's way to easy for political ads to fall under hate speech that would rocket the case up to the us supreme court.
It's the entire reason for the 1st since the only speech that needs protecting is unpopular speech, in this case "hate speech".
The words "hate speech" are like the words "inner beauty", they can mean anything so they mean nothing.
Spoken like someone thats never driven a corvette. Floor one of those fuckers down the freeway some day and then tell me its about the destination because when I'm behind the wheel of one of those SOB's I really dont give to shits where I am going.
Lowest unemployment in decades. Tell the useless fucks to get jobs and stop shitting everywhere. It's not brain surgery.
Posts like this confuse me. You call others "at the top" stupid yet you're in your late 50's and never advanced beyond a minimum wage help desk zombie reading scripts. Ever stop to think it's not them, it's you?
When I was in my early 50's, I was doing senior level phone support for a major ISP, dealing with issues the other techs didn't understand and earning almost twice as much as what I liked to call "the phone firewall." And every day, I went home knowing that there were people who had a better day because they'd talked to me, and that's the main way I coped with the stress.
Fair enough. Everyone finds their place in life. The difference between you and the OP is you don't seem to be feeling sorry for yourself and blaming others for your position. OP is sitting in his pajamas watching TV while doing a help desk job and trying to pass it off like he's some hero to aspire too. It's terrible.