based on context. Generally when someone writes 'about all the scientists in the world believe in Climate Change' what they are actually saying is 'about all the Climate scientists in the world believe in Climate Change'.
Yes, I know it's annoying to have imprecise language in a discussion about science, but that's what you get on a silly web forum like/.. If you want precision there's plenty of actual scientific forums out there. Expect some colloquialisms here on/..
As for your last point, good luck getting people to spend money on infrastructure, especially infrastructure that would devalue a valuable asset (oil). At this point you're just ignoring the real world and how it works...
these guys can clear $500k/yr working for Wallstreet. It's no wonder they don't want to settle for $140k/yr working for Uncle Sam. Having their Boss call them out for being part of the "Deep State" conspiracy is just a dingleberry on that shit cake.
but they're not necessarily good people. I'd like to see my country really stand up for freedom. And to do that we have to do it everywhere. And not by declaring anyone an "enemy". That's not going to help. Better to lead by example. Don't attack unless your attacked. Demand human rights from our trading partners and our allies. And no, just because you're not an ally doesn't mean you're an enemy.
When we say the same thing to the Saudies. Until then this is just another example of an unpopular administration trying to start a preemptive war with a nation that posses little or no threat to the nation.
It's a defacto poll tax combined with voter suppression. Anywhere it's been implemented it's instantly become expensive and difficult to obtain the necessary Id. It's a trick by your friendly neighborhood aristocracy to give you the illusion of Democracy without all the nastiness of the 'wrong' people voting.
Medicare has absurdly high payout rates vs it's overhead. There's virtually no waste there and what little there is comes from laws passed by right wing legislatures (Republicans and Blue-Dog Dems) that prevent the government from negotiating lower prices.
Now, that 25% isn't anything to sneeze at, but it's also spread out over 9 categories, with one of the categories being 'Remainder'. You're going to find a lot of that is stuff like the farm subsidies that keep our food supply consistent, the FDA, Patent office, FBI, etc, etc. Things you probably don't want to cut.
My point is, government isn't _nearly_ as wasteful as you think it is. It sounds crazy when the government wastes $1 billion until you realize that's just not a lot of money to a country of 350 million people with a $57k per capita GDP
Seriously, you do realize that with the exception of the new Star Wars just about all the heros today are white males? Also, why would seeing a white female or a black male hero make your kid ashamed of himself? They're all human beings, ya know...
We'll just route the money back to Disney in the form of tax breaks and incentives. It's why tobacco taxes haven't eliminated smoking. We subsidize tobacco growers. Same deal will happen here.
and it's a real political theory/movement. It's currently being used by the American Republican party to argue for cuts to our national pension program (Social Security) and our Single Payer healthcare system for people over 65 (Medicare).
Until we intervened. There are pictures of Iranian girls in short skirts from the 50s. Hell, the war in the middle east was basically caused by the west dividing up the country the way we saw fit ignoring Geo-political boundaries...
Older people spent their working years during two major booms (Internet and Housing), went to school before the massive funding cuts of the Regan/Clinton/Bush era and were set in their careers before the outsourcing boom in the 2000s. No sh!t sherlock they're happier. They've collectively let the world go to hell and now it looks like they're gonna leave the younger generations with the fix it bill.
Don't trust over 30? I take it your not old enough to have a teenager, they won't believe anything you tell them no matter how true.
I doubt this generation is going to be any more critical than the last. If anything it might be less; we've been chipping away at our public school systems for 40 years now. Education more than anything is what gets folks thinking critically.
It's why we had all those English classes and read all those dull as paint drying books. They're dull because they're complicated. You want a critical and smart electorate? Fund public education evenly. Decouple funding from property taxes. Worked for Norway.
that what really makes the practice a problem is the for profit insurance companies. See, if a Doctor orders a test and it comes up blank, the insurance company will refuse payment on the grounds that the test was unnecessary. Heck, they'll site studies like this one to back it up. Eventually, when the problem is so bad that any test will show it, they'll order the tests and begin treatment, often months or years too late. Basically, private (and tacit) 'death panels'
The tacit part is important. Nobody ever says any of this out loud because if they did they'd get sued and maybe even lose a medical license.
at least at the theaters in my neck of the woods. The seats are much more comfortable and you've got enough leg room to put your feet up. I suppose if you've got $1000+ recliners though you still might have an edge. Your other complaints are spot in, but there's something to be said about a night out.
unless (or until) governments act against it for violating labor law. Uber has basically done an end run around 100 years of hard fought worker protections and rights. The economic value of that is hard to fathom. Take what every the 1% don't already own and you've got a rough approximation. So no, Uber isn't going away anytime soon. Not unless you can convince the working class they and the entire 'gig' economy is a threat.
Wallet Biopsy. If you haven't heard of it, it's when a doctor evaluates your ability to pay and denies care. Remember, emergency rooms are only good for emergency care. A close family member experienced this when a doctor didn't order CAT scans that should have been done because the insurance was kind of crappy. If you've used any serious amount of care in the American healthcare system I can almost guarantee you've experienced this
aren't concerned about protecting victims, they're concerned about too much sin drawing God's wrath (or they're manipulating people who believe that). The goal isn't to protect sex trafficking victims, it's to enforce their moral code so God doesn't go all 'Sodom & Gomorrah' on them. It doesn't help that the Christian god has a history of punishing the faithful for the sins of the heretic...
for woman to step forward because they're not already doing something that's illegal. You can argue they're the victim and don't have to fear stepping forward, but as a rule poor and exploited people don't have good experiences with authorities.
A better solution would be wide scale social safety nets like basic income combined with trade deals that demand 2nd and 3rd world countries treat their workers equal to first world nations or lose access to first world markets. Then again I've probably got a better chance of training the monkeys who fly out of my butt to police the issue than seeing that happen. Don't forget, there's lots of people who don't really care about sex traffic victims, they just want to control and contain the crime that goes with them (or worse, they've evangelical types who see them as unrepentant sinners risking the wrath of God on us all. e.g. folks like Westburo Baptists and the like).
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based on context. Generally when someone writes 'about all the scientists in the world believe in Climate Change' what they are actually saying is 'about all the Climate scientists in the world believe in Climate Change'.
/.. If you want precision there's plenty of actual scientific forums out there. Expect some colloquialisms here on /..
Yes, I know it's annoying to have imprecise language in a discussion about science, but that's what you get on a silly web forum like
As for your last point, good luck getting people to spend money on infrastructure, especially infrastructure that would devalue a valuable asset (oil). At this point you're just ignoring the real world and how it works...
is around 70k. This isn't surprising. They've got the money to afford it. Meanwhile in the States the average age of a car is over 10 years
Ignorance is strength. Ajit Pai is an impartial regulator. Welcome to the new Administration.
these guys can clear $500k/yr working for Wallstreet. It's no wonder they don't want to settle for $140k/yr working for Uncle Sam. Having their Boss call them out for being part of the "Deep State" conspiracy is just a dingleberry on that shit cake.
but they're not necessarily good people. I'd like to see my country really stand up for freedom. And to do that we have to do it everywhere. And not by declaring anyone an "enemy". That's not going to help. Better to lead by example. Don't attack unless your attacked. Demand human rights from our trading partners and our allies. And no, just because you're not an ally doesn't mean you're an enemy.
just curious. There's a lot of talk about lawsuits going on and the $29 battery sounds a bit too good to be true.
When we say the same thing to the Saudies. Until then this is just another example of an unpopular administration trying to start a preemptive war with a nation that posses little or no threat to the nation.
or heck if you've just got a low end laptop?
you cut 30% off the performance of my CPU expect to hear about it.
now end Gerrymandering and repeal Citizen's United with a few well targeted laws and maybe we can talk about America being a Democracy.
It's a defacto poll tax combined with voter suppression. Anywhere it's been implemented it's instantly become expensive and difficult to obtain the necessary Id. It's a trick by your friendly neighborhood aristocracy to give you the illusion of Democracy without all the nastiness of the 'wrong' people voting.
is the upkeep on our Empire (aka "Defense Spending") and keeping old people alive (SS and Medicare). Here's a nice, well researched write up. I say 1/4 because another 4% is vetrans, and it's only that high because of our Empire...
Medicare has absurdly high payout rates vs it's overhead. There's virtually no waste there and what little there is comes from laws passed by right wing legislatures (Republicans and Blue-Dog Dems) that prevent the government from negotiating lower prices.
Now, that 25% isn't anything to sneeze at, but it's also spread out over 9 categories, with one of the categories being 'Remainder'. You're going to find a lot of that is stuff like the farm subsidies that keep our food supply consistent, the FDA, Patent office, FBI, etc, etc. Things you probably don't want to cut.
My point is, government isn't _nearly_ as wasteful as you think it is. It sounds crazy when the government wastes $1 billion until you realize that's just not a lot of money to a country of 350 million people with a $57k per capita GDP
that's your job.
Seriously, you do realize that with the exception of the new Star Wars just about all the heros today are white males? Also, why would seeing a white female or a black male hero make your kid ashamed of himself? They're all human beings, ya know...
I suppose.
We'll just route the money back to Disney in the form of tax breaks and incentives. It's why tobacco taxes haven't eliminated smoking. We subsidize tobacco growers. Same deal will happen here.
and it's a real political theory/movement. It's currently being used by the American Republican party to argue for cuts to our national pension program (Social Security) and our Single Payer healthcare system for people over 65 (Medicare).
Until we intervened. There are pictures of Iranian girls in short skirts from the 50s. Hell, the war in the middle east was basically caused by the west dividing up the country the way we saw fit ignoring Geo-political boundaries...
Older people spent their working years during two major booms (Internet and Housing), went to school before the massive funding cuts of the Regan/Clinton/Bush era and were set in their careers before the outsourcing boom in the 2000s. No sh!t sherlock they're happier. They've collectively let the world go to hell and now it looks like they're gonna leave the younger generations with the fix it bill.
Don't trust over 30? I take it your not old enough to have a teenager, they won't believe anything you tell them no matter how true.
I doubt this generation is going to be any more critical than the last. If anything it might be less; we've been chipping away at our public school systems for 40 years now. Education more than anything is what gets folks thinking critically.
It's why we had all those English classes and read all those dull as paint drying books. They're dull because they're complicated. You want a critical and smart electorate? Fund public education evenly. Decouple funding from property taxes. Worked for Norway.
that what really makes the practice a problem is the for profit insurance companies. See, if a Doctor orders a test and it comes up blank, the insurance company will refuse payment on the grounds that the test was unnecessary. Heck, they'll site studies like this one to back it up. Eventually, when the problem is so bad that any test will show it, they'll order the tests and begin treatment, often months or years too late. Basically, private (and tacit) 'death panels'
The tacit part is important. Nobody ever says any of this out loud because if they did they'd get sued and maybe even lose a medical license.
at least at the theaters in my neck of the woods. The seats are much more comfortable and you've got enough leg room to put your feet up. I suppose if you've got $1000+ recliners though you still might have an edge. Your other complaints are spot in, but there's something to be said about a night out.
unless (or until) governments act against it for violating labor law. Uber has basically done an end run around 100 years of hard fought worker protections and rights. The economic value of that is hard to fathom. Take what every the 1% don't already own and you've got a rough approximation. So no, Uber isn't going away anytime soon. Not unless you can convince the working class they and the entire 'gig' economy is a threat.
Wallet Biopsy. If you haven't heard of it, it's when a doctor evaluates your ability to pay and denies care. Remember, emergency rooms are only good for emergency care. A close family member experienced this when a doctor didn't order CAT scans that should have been done because the insurance was kind of crappy. If you've used any serious amount of care in the American healthcare system I can almost guarantee you've experienced this
aren't concerned about protecting victims, they're concerned about too much sin drawing God's wrath (or they're manipulating people who believe that). The goal isn't to protect sex trafficking victims, it's to enforce their moral code so God doesn't go all 'Sodom & Gomorrah' on them. It doesn't help that the Christian god has a history of punishing the faithful for the sins of the heretic...
for woman to step forward because they're not already doing something that's illegal. You can argue they're the victim and don't have to fear stepping forward, but as a rule poor and exploited people don't have good experiences with authorities.
A better solution would be wide scale social safety nets like basic income combined with trade deals that demand 2nd and 3rd world countries treat their workers equal to first world nations or lose access to first world markets. Then again I've probably got a better chance of training the monkeys who fly out of my butt to police the issue than seeing that happen. Don't forget, there's lots of people who don't really care about sex traffic victims, they just want to control and contain the crime that goes with them (or worse, they've evangelical types who see them as unrepentant sinners risking the wrath of God on us all. e.g. folks like Westburo Baptists and the like).