because monopolization will keep them high. Mergers and Acquisitions mean there's less and less competition.
Moreover companies like Apple have show that you can be very, very profitable selling expensive products and ignoring the low end.
As someone who lives cheaply (I've got a kid in college and it's killing my finances, couldn't save anything because I got wiped in the 2008 crash) I can tell you that inflation is around 4.5% despite record production numbers and higher per employee farm and manufacturing outputs (I'm not saying "Productivity" because those states are poisoned by retail where the employees have pretty much maxed out their ability to move product).
TL;DR; don't count on deflation to keep prices low in the modern economy. It doesn't work that way anymore if it ever did.
AOC has a degree in economics. She knows damn well what reality is. There's been plenty of research on the subject and we've long since gotten to the point where we can feed, cloth, house and give healthcare to everyone and that's before the coming Automation Revolution.
OTOH I've got folks on the right who tell me they'll be new jobs but nobody'll say what those jobs are. Occasionally somebody will say "Bio-Tech", which is what I heard in the 90s. Or they list a bunch of service jobs nobody will be able to afford when they lose their jobs. Meanwhile the President of the United States is a climate change denier. And one way we know climate change is real is that it's been called out in SEC filings. You can lie to Congress, you can lie to your Priest, hell, you can even lie to yourself, but you do not lie to the SEC...
And don't get me started on the Evangelicals that make up the second wing of the GOP (the first being the wealthy plutocrats). There's a lot that wouldn't know reality if it bit 'em on the rear. They're still arguing that Evolution isn't a thing and that The Flood happened. I know it's not nice to call folks out for religious beliefs, but wrong is wrong, and I draw the line when they start trying to sneak it into schools and into laws, which they've been doing for ages (Abortion bans anyone?)
Fearing a bad thing doesn't make it worse if you stop it from happening. We're not animals at the whims of nature. We're thinking, reasoning beings.
the modern farming techniques that made that possible were mostly a product of the Public Universities. Capitalism, OTOH, has hamstrung the distribution network to keep rent seekers going.
In the mid-2000s, for instance, Bush Jr deregulated the commodities market. For the first time since the Great Depression investors could buy commodities like pork bellies and grain without taking possession of them. Previously that was illegal to prevent exactly the kind of middle men you think it was meant to prevent.
One last thing, do a bit more research on those statistics about capitalism lifting people out of poverty and you'll find it's less actual lifting and more fiddling with the numbers. Just like how we're at full employment but mysteriously wages are stagnant or going down.
TL;DR;, you're being lied to. Spend some time on google and YouTube and you can prove this to yourself.
right now a major problem we have is people are forced to cram into big cities where the jobs are in the hopes of landing one. This drives up costs and puts downward pressure on effective wages. Work from home isn't an option for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is that companies like to see what they're paying for).
UBI would let people take lower pay, spending their UBI on necessities and using their job income for luxuries. The cost of living would drop considerably overall as we could spread out into the land we have now (yes, shipping costs would go up a bit, but not as much as you think. Most folks are just going to move to smaller cities, not the boondocks).
The other thing people would spend UBI on is freedom. Remember, you're not free so long as somebody controls your access to food, shelter, medicine and education. Until you secure those things you're one paycheck away from doing anything the people in charge tell you.
it'd be about worsening the situation so we have cover for a regime change. If you did too much it would be obvious.
And we absolutely care enough. If you think otherwise you haven't been paying attention to who's running the show. John Bolton comes to mind. They guy in charge of Venezuelan aid was literally involved in the Contra scandal and used aid to smuggle arms in.
Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down. Even the most die hard pro war guy gets heat for keeping us there (Bolton went on the news shows and looked a fool for saying we'd be there forever). We need a new war. It was supposed to be Iran, but the rest of the world said no.
You notice Chicago more because the mainstream media likes to cover it, that's all.
I'll give you the classic example I like to trout out from my little town. Down here there was a land owner who wanted some state trust land. Trust land, if you don't know, is when the state holds land in "trust" until a developer is ready to do something with it so they don't have to pay property tax in the meantime.
Anyway, this particular plot of land wasn't for sale, because it was full of an endangered species of goat. But that landowner wanted it. So what did he do? Bought a plot of land next to it, put up some rickety fences, put a bunch of sheep with syphilis on the land, waited for the sheep to jump said rickety fence and for the goats to do what goats do to sheep. The sheep had various immunities, the goats did not. Wasn't long and the goats were all dead. After that he got his land.
This is nothing new. Go drag your ass down to your local community college and pull up microfiche of the left wing rags in your local city and you'll find they're full of crap like this. Nobody cares and nobody does anything about it.
If you want crap like that to change you have to start voting and pay attention to who you vote for. And you have to vote in your primary. Otherwise the local businesses will just buy up the politicians. And local politicians are _cheap_.
because they can't get parts because the US seized their overseas assets, locked them out of the international banking system, and is gearing up to go to war to take their oil reserves....
The the amount of naked, brazen gall on display here is astonishing. Donald Trump has been recording saying we should go there and take the oil. It's 2019 and we're acting like literal barbarians (or is that Vikings? I could be getting my metaphors crossed).
The correct solution is diplomacy and aid (and it would help if we didn't put one of the guys responsible for using aid to smuggle weapons to the Contras in the 80s in charge of the aid, seriously, we did that, google it). Stop threatening regime change and war, help them get their people fed and their gird back up and then force them to do another election with UN oversight. Oh, and after the UN's done with them send 'em down to North Carolina while you're at it.
Jesus, the world shouldn't be this fucked up in 2019. We were supposed to be past this empire building bullshit by now.
I see "upperclass" relatives who completely ignore the role luck plays. I know an older guy who just barely missed going to 'Nam. He was a doc trained by the military (e.g. tax dollars) and he just barely missed being a field medic. If anyone knows anything bout 'Nam you know that the field medics were the first ones dead. The Vietcong targeted them specifically. He probably wouldn't make it back. They other guys in his class didn't.
As for me? My mom was nuts. Alcoholic and abusive. Not the "beat you up so the state comes gets you" but the "puts ideas in your head to wreck your self esteem" kind. She didn't mean to do it, but that's what insanity does to you. I spent my 20s getting over that and by the time I hit my 30s was stuck in a dead end job and on my way to bankruptcy.
I blundered into a nice paying job despite no college degree and got a few side projects that panned out and wiped out my debt from my low paying days. I'm no dummy, that was dumb luck. I was in the right place at the right time due to a series of events that were almost comically random.
The result? I've got a kid in college right now. Finishing up Junior year. I can only afford that because my job. Without that she wouldn't have had the resources to keep her 4.0 GPA (college is crazy competitive past year 2 now) and wouldn't have made it. My dumb luck has completely changed her life for the better.
It's survival bias is what it is. The difference is I know it.
to avoid addressing the real issues with the concept of meritocracy.
Let me be specific. You've set up a straw man of two people (the PhD who worked for 5 years and the repairman with a ton of experience) who seem like what they do is effortless. The argument is that meritocracy as a concept is worthwhile because people with knowledge can do valuable things very quickly because of the work they did to obtain that knowledge.
But those aren't what anyone thinks about when they hear the phrase "meritocracy", especially in a context critical of the concept.
What we're all thinking about are two things:
a. People who coast to wealth on the backs of actual hard working folk. The Paris Hilton's the world. The Prosperity Gospel and the Divine Right of Kings.
b. People given a leg up in the world who act like they earned it all themselves. There's a phrase for this behavior: Pulling the ladder up behind you.
You've set up your strawman (the hardworking PhD/repairman) and knocked him down, while completely ignoring people's real concerns over how the concept of meritocracy is abused to excuse wealth inequality, uphold a ruling class and punch down on the lower castes.
I'm honestly not sure if you're aware you're doing it, but either way please stop. It's bad for everyone all around. All it does is perpetuate the same sort of monarchies and oligarchies that have been holding us back for thousands of years.
his mom was on the board of directors of IBM, his dad was a wealthy attorney, he had a million dollar trust fund in the 70s and his middle school had a microcomputer at a time when most colleges didn't.
The only "luck" in Gate's life was IBM was too short sighted to see PCs coming and didn't just buy DOS ought right. Even that mighta been up to his mom and Dad's connections in the boardroom.
While I'm on the subject, 60% of wealth in America is inherited wealth (google it). Yes, believing in meritocracy is bad. It causes irrational and nonsensical behavior that leads to crap like our current healthcare system or, if you want to take it far enough, Prosperity Gospel and the divine right of kings.
it just shows how truly awful a candidate Hilary was. We're talking about voting patterns overall, not one bad election with the most hated women in America.
I don't need to "believe" anything, it's pretty well documented that states that lean to the GOP depend heavily on the Feds. It's not hard to understand why. They don't invest in their people, and when you don't do that the people who can leave because the roads, schools, water supply and air quality suck rocks. This is the part where you point out folks leaving California and ignore the folks moving there....
she's gone quiet because she's going around getting money from big donors. She can't make too much noise while she's doing that or she'll get called out for being bought and paid for. Biden's doing the same thing. He spent the last few weeks in the Caribbean wining and dining with elites.
If we had a proper functioning media they'd be calling them both out on this shit, but, well, we don't.
Meanwhile Warren, sadly, got destroyed by some dumb college chick things she did pretending to be an Indian Princess. Bernie's out there doing rallies and panels and ignoring the big money folks.
at least, not unless there's a health issue involved. There's a couple genes that cause childhood leukemia and if that can be edited out go for it. But we're not ready to start making super babies. Not that I don't think we should. Of course we should. But we need a _much_ better understanding of the long term effects before we do. The best way to find that out would be trying to fix the sick.
is so tiny in the scheme of thing's it's hardly news. I'm not sure what this is. It's embarrassingly small thinking from someone with designs on the presidency.
A majority of the wealth in this nation is generated by a few states (ironically "blue" ones). The remaining states don't have the resources they need to maintain a modern population. It's not a good idea to abandon them. It's immoral and just plain bad juju to abandon folks to their fate.
And besides, A demagogue will rise up to take advantage of them. If you're lucky you get one that's mostly harmless. If you're not, you get one of these
Ask anyone and get confused: It’s poles and wires, gaming of the system by capitalist pigs, excessive taxes, privatization, and record gas prices.
I'm just sensing more than a wee bit of bias. To be honest I can't be bothered to check his sources in detail for a/. post. Next time find better base sources.
Anyway, as for why it works, I can't speak to Australian but here in the States we've been pulling subsidies to Coal mining and plants while simultaneously making them clean up their messes. We've also allowed lawsuits to go forward when their poison rivers with sludge and poison miners with poor dust control. We even put one of their CEOs in jail for unsafe mines just because he knew they were unsafe (go figure).
Basically, when the cost of coal isn't pushed off to the workers and the people living near the plant and mines it's not nearly as economical. Add to that Natural Gas taking over coal's niche in making electricity on a cloudy days in December and it's kind of a no brainer. Eventually nuke will probably take over Gas (there are zero emissions gas plants though, so that might take a while) too.
plus one or two photo editing apps. Basically if you don't install dodgy apps it's not a problem. The only odd thing is how many folks don't know any better.
Beto is a favorite of the Establishment. The same folks who gave you Hillary like Beto. He's right wing on virtually all issues you can get him to comment on.
The reason you can't get any straight answers out of him on policy is because voters are tired of the Establishment. If Hilary hadn't cheated and if her buddies at MSNBC hadn't orchestrated a campaign to ignore Bernie we'd be saying "President Bernie" right now and passing Medicare for All.
The Establishment doesn't want to pay for you and me to have heathcare, so the buried Bernie and promoted Hillary. They're trying to do the same with Biden/Beto. Don't fall for it. It's another snow job.
it was her State Bar Registration Card. I've yet to see anyone say there were any concrete advantages to that. Hell, I've known some Native Americans, if anything it hurt.
She was a goofy lefty college chick who wanted to believe she was an Indian princess. She grew out of it. I wish the rest of the country would. Her stance on banking regulation could spare us another recession if we'd only listen.
not a list of accomplishments, even if they're ones I can relate to. I don't need reliability, I need policies that help me and mine.
Bernie gets my vote because of Medicare for All (among other things). That Bernie's been a civil rights activist is secondary to that.
I look at it this way: I wouldn't vote for Jesse Jackson just because he was a civil rights activist, and I won't vote Beto just because he was a programmer.
if they actually strike then yeah, this is a real sacrifice.
First off, 7 companies are responsible for the bulk of carbon emissions. Climate Change is an industrial problem. We need to get mega business to clean up and we need to switch to clean renewables. Not eating hamberders isn't going to help. The companies making those hamburgers will just pollute the same with vegetables. Cow Farts are overrated to make climate change sound silly.
As for the Kids, I don't know about the rest of the world but the kids in my high school were terrified to miss school. They're painfully aware of how competitive life is. They see how shitting their parents lives are and they're scared of that. This is by design, btw. Putting pressure on your working class is a great way to keep them under control.
So yeah, it does take quite a bit to make kids skip these days. Times have changed old man. Seeing your mom and dad spend 10 months looking for work and constantly hearing "We can't afford that son" changes things.
everything I've heard him say sounds exactly like what I heard from Clinton (both of them). He's also backed down from Medicare for All, which is a deal breaker.
To be blunt, if I wanted another right of center candidate I've got Harris for that. But Beto knows this. He's not running for President, he's running for the VP on a more progressive ticket. He's Biden 2.0.
I'm willing to take a candidate with a few warts when they're as on point with everything else as Warren. She's the one who got us the CFBP. Her opponents in the GOP OTOH are the ones who gutted it. Policy matters.
Also, missing from that little story is that it did NOT advance her career. It had no bearing on her application whatsoever. She was just a dumb college kid who liked to think of herself as Native American. Like when your Aunt tells you she was descended from royalty.
The miners didn't get scared off until the 550, which is pretty useless (it's a bit faster than integrated AMD graphics). Yeah, even 560s had shot up in price.
Meanwhile you could still get 1050s for $200 bucks (crazy, since it was suppose to be a $120 card, but so be it). 1050 TIs were pushing $250, but again, you take what you can get when a bloody RX 570 is going for $350 bucks.
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when they find out they coulda just downloaded open source software for free.
because monopolization will keep them high. Mergers and Acquisitions mean there's less and less competition.
Moreover companies like Apple have show that you can be very, very profitable selling expensive products and ignoring the low end.
As someone who lives cheaply (I've got a kid in college and it's killing my finances, couldn't save anything because I got wiped in the 2008 crash) I can tell you that inflation is around 4.5% despite record production numbers and higher per employee farm and manufacturing outputs (I'm not saying "Productivity" because those states are poisoned by retail where the employees have pretty much maxed out their ability to move product).
TL;DR; don't count on deflation to keep prices low in the modern economy. It doesn't work that way anymore if it ever did.
AOC has a degree in economics. She knows damn well what reality is. There's been plenty of research on the subject and we've long since gotten to the point where we can feed, cloth, house and give healthcare to everyone and that's before the coming Automation Revolution.
OTOH I've got folks on the right who tell me they'll be new jobs but nobody'll say what those jobs are. Occasionally somebody will say "Bio-Tech", which is what I heard in the 90s. Or they list a bunch of service jobs nobody will be able to afford when they lose their jobs. Meanwhile the President of the United States is a climate change denier. And one way we know climate change is real is that it's been called out in SEC filings. You can lie to Congress, you can lie to your Priest, hell, you can even lie to yourself, but you do not lie to the SEC...
And don't get me started on the Evangelicals that make up the second wing of the GOP (the first being the wealthy plutocrats). There's a lot that wouldn't know reality if it bit 'em on the rear. They're still arguing that Evolution isn't a thing and that The Flood happened. I know it's not nice to call folks out for religious beliefs, but wrong is wrong, and I draw the line when they start trying to sneak it into schools and into laws, which they've been doing for ages (Abortion bans anyone?)
Fearing a bad thing doesn't make it worse if you stop it from happening. We're not animals at the whims of nature. We're thinking, reasoning beings.
the modern farming techniques that made that possible were mostly a product of the Public Universities. Capitalism, OTOH, has hamstrung the distribution network to keep rent seekers going.
In the mid-2000s, for instance, Bush Jr deregulated the commodities market. For the first time since the Great Depression investors could buy commodities like pork bellies and grain without taking possession of them. Previously that was illegal to prevent exactly the kind of middle men you think it was meant to prevent.
One last thing, do a bit more research on those statistics about capitalism lifting people out of poverty and you'll find it's less actual lifting and more fiddling with the numbers. Just like how we're at full employment but mysteriously wages are stagnant or going down.
TL;DR;, you're being lied to. Spend some time on google and YouTube and you can prove this to yourself.
right now a major problem we have is people are forced to cram into big cities where the jobs are in the hopes of landing one. This drives up costs and puts downward pressure on effective wages. Work from home isn't an option for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is that companies like to see what they're paying for).
UBI would let people take lower pay, spending their UBI on necessities and using their job income for luxuries. The cost of living would drop considerably overall as we could spread out into the land we have now (yes, shipping costs would go up a bit, but not as much as you think. Most folks are just going to move to smaller cities, not the boondocks).
The other thing people would spend UBI on is freedom. Remember, you're not free so long as somebody controls your access to food, shelter, medicine and education. Until you secure those things you're one paycheck away from doing anything the people in charge tell you.
it'd be about worsening the situation so we have cover for a regime change. If you did too much it would be obvious.
And we absolutely care enough. If you think otherwise you haven't been paying attention to who's running the show. John Bolton comes to mind. They guy in charge of Venezuelan aid was literally involved in the Contra scandal and used aid to smuggle arms in.
Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down. Even the most die hard pro war guy gets heat for keeping us there (Bolton went on the news shows and looked a fool for saying we'd be there forever). We need a new war. It was supposed to be Iran, but the rest of the world said no.
You notice Chicago more because the mainstream media likes to cover it, that's all.
I'll give you the classic example I like to trout out from my little town. Down here there was a land owner who wanted some state trust land. Trust land, if you don't know, is when the state holds land in "trust" until a developer is ready to do something with it so they don't have to pay property tax in the meantime.
Anyway, this particular plot of land wasn't for sale, because it was full of an endangered species of goat. But that landowner wanted it. So what did he do? Bought a plot of land next to it, put up some rickety fences, put a bunch of sheep with syphilis on the land, waited for the sheep to jump said rickety fence and for the goats to do what goats do to sheep. The sheep had various immunities, the goats did not. Wasn't long and the goats were all dead. After that he got his land.
This is nothing new. Go drag your ass down to your local community college and pull up microfiche of the left wing rags in your local city and you'll find they're full of crap like this. Nobody cares and nobody does anything about it.
If you want crap like that to change you have to start voting and pay attention to who you vote for. And you have to vote in your primary. Otherwise the local businesses will just buy up the politicians. And local politicians are _cheap_.
because they can't get parts because the US seized their overseas assets, locked them out of the international banking system, and is gearing up to go to war to take their oil reserves....
The the amount of naked, brazen gall on display here is astonishing. Donald Trump has been recording saying we should go there and take the oil. It's 2019 and we're acting like literal barbarians (or is that Vikings? I could be getting my metaphors crossed).
The correct solution is diplomacy and aid (and it would help if we didn't put one of the guys responsible for using aid to smuggle weapons to the Contras in the 80s in charge of the aid, seriously, we did that, google it). Stop threatening regime change and war, help them get their people fed and their gird back up and then force them to do another election with UN oversight. Oh, and after the UN's done with them send 'em down to North Carolina while you're at it.
Jesus, the world shouldn't be this fucked up in 2019. We were supposed to be past this empire building bullshit by now.
I see "upperclass" relatives who completely ignore the role luck plays. I know an older guy who just barely missed going to 'Nam. He was a doc trained by the military (e.g. tax dollars) and he just barely missed being a field medic. If anyone knows anything bout 'Nam you know that the field medics were the first ones dead. The Vietcong targeted them specifically. He probably wouldn't make it back. They other guys in his class didn't.
As for me? My mom was nuts. Alcoholic and abusive. Not the "beat you up so the state comes gets you" but the "puts ideas in your head to wreck your self esteem" kind. She didn't mean to do it, but that's what insanity does to you. I spent my 20s getting over that and by the time I hit my 30s was stuck in a dead end job and on my way to bankruptcy.
I blundered into a nice paying job despite no college degree and got a few side projects that panned out and wiped out my debt from my low paying days. I'm no dummy, that was dumb luck. I was in the right place at the right time due to a series of events that were almost comically random.
The result? I've got a kid in college right now. Finishing up Junior year. I can only afford that because my job. Without that she wouldn't have had the resources to keep her 4.0 GPA (college is crazy competitive past year 2 now) and wouldn't have made it. My dumb luck has completely changed her life for the better.
It's survival bias is what it is. The difference is I know it.
to avoid addressing the real issues with the concept of meritocracy.
Let me be specific. You've set up a straw man of two people (the PhD who worked for 5 years and the repairman with a ton of experience) who seem like what they do is effortless. The argument is that meritocracy as a concept is worthwhile because people with knowledge can do valuable things very quickly because of the work they did to obtain that knowledge.
But those aren't what anyone thinks about when they hear the phrase "meritocracy", especially in a context critical of the concept.
What we're all thinking about are two things:
a. People who coast to wealth on the backs of actual hard working folk. The Paris Hilton's the world. The Prosperity Gospel and the Divine Right of Kings.
b. People given a leg up in the world who act like they earned it all themselves. There's a phrase for this behavior: Pulling the ladder up behind you.
You've set up your strawman (the hardworking PhD/repairman) and knocked him down, while completely ignoring people's real concerns over how the concept of meritocracy is abused to excuse wealth inequality, uphold a ruling class and punch down on the lower castes.
I'm honestly not sure if you're aware you're doing it, but either way please stop. It's bad for everyone all around. All it does is perpetuate the same sort of monarchies and oligarchies that have been holding us back for thousands of years.
his mom was on the board of directors of IBM, his dad was a wealthy attorney, he had a million dollar trust fund in the 70s and his middle school had a microcomputer at a time when most colleges didn't.
The only "luck" in Gate's life was IBM was too short sighted to see PCs coming and didn't just buy DOS ought right. Even that mighta been up to his mom and Dad's connections in the boardroom.
While I'm on the subject, 60% of wealth in America is inherited wealth (google it). Yes, believing in meritocracy is bad. It causes irrational and nonsensical behavior that leads to crap like our current healthcare system or, if you want to take it far enough, Prosperity Gospel and the divine right of kings.
it just shows how truly awful a candidate Hilary was. We're talking about voting patterns overall, not one bad election with the most hated women in America.
I don't need to "believe" anything, it's pretty well documented that states that lean to the GOP depend heavily on the Feds. It's not hard to understand why. They don't invest in their people, and when you don't do that the people who can leave because the roads, schools, water supply and air quality suck rocks. This is the part where you point out folks leaving California and ignore the folks moving there....
Sowell's a hack, btw.
she's gone quiet because she's going around getting money from big donors. She can't make too much noise while she's doing that or she'll get called out for being bought and paid for. Biden's doing the same thing. He spent the last few weeks in the Caribbean wining and dining with elites.
If we had a proper functioning media they'd be calling them both out on this shit, but, well, we don't.
Meanwhile Warren, sadly, got destroyed by some dumb college chick things she did pretending to be an Indian Princess. Bernie's out there doing rallies and panels and ignoring the big money folks.
at least, not unless there's a health issue involved. There's a couple genes that cause childhood leukemia and if that can be edited out go for it. But we're not ready to start making super babies. Not that I don't think we should. Of course we should. But we need a _much_ better understanding of the long term effects before we do. The best way to find that out would be trying to fix the sick.
is so tiny in the scheme of thing's it's hardly news. I'm not sure what this is. It's embarrassingly small thinking from someone with designs on the presidency.
A majority of the wealth in this nation is generated by a few states (ironically "blue" ones). The remaining states don't have the resources they need to maintain a modern population. It's not a good idea to abandon them. It's immoral and just plain bad juju to abandon folks to their fate.
And besides, A demagogue will rise up to take advantage of them. If you're lucky you get one that's mostly harmless. If you're not, you get one of these
I'm just sensing more than a wee bit of bias. To be honest I can't be bothered to check his sources in detail for a /. post. Next time find better base sources.
Anyway, as for why it works, I can't speak to Australian but here in the States we've been pulling subsidies to Coal mining and plants while simultaneously making them clean up their messes. We've also allowed lawsuits to go forward when their poison rivers with sludge and poison miners with poor dust control. We even put one of their CEOs in jail for unsafe mines just because he knew they were unsafe (go figure).
Basically, when the cost of coal isn't pushed off to the workers and the people living near the plant and mines it's not nearly as economical. Add to that Natural Gas taking over coal's niche in making electricity on a cloudy days in December and it's kind of a no brainer. Eventually nuke will probably take over Gas (there are zero emissions gas plants though, so that might take a while) too.
plus one or two photo editing apps. Basically if you don't install dodgy apps it's not a problem. The only odd thing is how many folks don't know any better.
Beto is a favorite of the Establishment. The same folks who gave you Hillary like Beto. He's right wing on virtually all issues you can get him to comment on.
The reason you can't get any straight answers out of him on policy is because voters are tired of the Establishment. If Hilary hadn't cheated and if her buddies at MSNBC hadn't orchestrated a campaign to ignore Bernie we'd be saying "President Bernie" right now and passing Medicare for All.
The Establishment doesn't want to pay for you and me to have heathcare, so the buried Bernie and promoted Hillary. They're trying to do the same with Biden/Beto. Don't fall for it. It's another snow job.
it was her State Bar Registration Card. I've yet to see anyone say there were any concrete advantages to that. Hell, I've known some Native Americans, if anything it hurt.
She was a goofy lefty college chick who wanted to believe she was an Indian princess. She grew out of it. I wish the rest of the country would. Her stance on banking regulation could spare us another recession if we'd only listen.
not a list of accomplishments, even if they're ones I can relate to. I don't need reliability, I need policies that help me and mine.
Bernie gets my vote because of Medicare for All (among other things). That Bernie's been a civil rights activist is secondary to that.
I look at it this way: I wouldn't vote for Jesse Jackson just because he was a civil rights activist, and I won't vote Beto just because he was a programmer.
if they actually strike then yeah, this is a real sacrifice.
First off, 7 companies are responsible for the bulk of carbon emissions. Climate Change is an industrial problem. We need to get mega business to clean up and we need to switch to clean renewables. Not eating hamberders isn't going to help. The companies making those hamburgers will just pollute the same with vegetables. Cow Farts are overrated to make climate change sound silly.
As for the Kids, I don't know about the rest of the world but the kids in my high school were terrified to miss school. They're painfully aware of how competitive life is. They see how shitting their parents lives are and they're scared of that. This is by design, btw. Putting pressure on your working class is a great way to keep them under control.
So yeah, it does take quite a bit to make kids skip these days. Times have changed old man. Seeing your mom and dad spend 10 months looking for work and constantly hearing "We can't afford that son" changes things.
everything I've heard him say sounds exactly like what I heard from Clinton (both of them). He's also backed down from Medicare for All, which is a deal breaker.
To be blunt, if I wanted another right of center candidate I've got Harris for that. But Beto knows this. He's not running for President, he's running for the VP on a more progressive ticket. He's Biden 2.0.
with her political policies?
I'm willing to take a candidate with a few warts when they're as on point with everything else as Warren. She's the one who got us the CFBP. Her opponents in the GOP OTOH are the ones who gutted it. Policy matters.
Also, missing from that little story is that it did NOT advance her career. It had no bearing on her application whatsoever. She was just a dumb college kid who liked to think of herself as Native American. Like when your Aunt tells you she was descended from royalty.
The miners didn't get scared off until the 550, which is pretty useless (it's a bit faster than integrated AMD graphics). Yeah, even 560s had shot up in price.
Meanwhile you could still get 1050s for $200 bucks (crazy, since it was suppose to be a $120 card, but so be it). 1050 TIs were pushing $250, but again, you take what you can get when a bloody RX 570 is going for $350 bucks.