And yes, it is convenient that Journalists can be so easily manipulated. Except it's not. We've been letting billionaire members buy up news outlets for ages. In 2019 with Youtube you'd think folks who post political comments in their spare time would know this...
The trick works for polls you don't commission yourself too, btw. It's just one less step. It's helps that the right wing pretty much own the media in America. Fox News, CNN & MSNBC (and now all local channels thanks to Sinclair) are basically propaganda for the corporate establishment. Ignore their social issue coverage. Pay attention to economics. They're all right wing all pro-corporate all the time.
The media has a right wing bias in economics (e.g. pro trickle down economics, or "Supply Side" if you prefer), which is the only place that really matters in life.
I keep seeing this "LOL...Trump Derangement Syndrome" post in anything that touches on Trump, usually followed by a "Hillary was robbed" post. It's also usually modded up. I know I'm not supposed to complain about the mods, but it's not the kind of post that should get modded up. It doesn't add anything to the discussion and it's not overly amusing (there's no jokes or puns there).
And the comment has the structure of a Natalie Portman / Hot Grits post (e.g. it's a copy pasta) with a political bent. It's weird seeing that kind of meme creation in a political context, and creepy as hell if you ask me (which you didn't, but this is a web forum so you're stuck with me unless a mod comes along).
it wasn't set up to keep the densely populated cities from ignoring rural ones. It was set up that way because wealthy landowners didn't want to risk poor city folk voting for high taxes. This is because in the 1800s when the constitution was written being wealthy meant owning land, not corporations.
It was just another way the founders put the breaks on Democracy on populism and made sure the ruling class stayed on top. It was so we could have a quasi-democracy where the ruling elite got to vote on things but poor folks just had to shut up and take what they could get.
Go find a book called "A People's History of the United States". Damn near nothing we did in the first hundred or so years of our history was done for good reasons. We are not a nice people. Not in terms of our institutions anyway. And anything good that came out of us is really in spite of the constitution rather than because of it.
What we really need is a parliament with proportional representation. I'm fed up with being pushed around by a few hundred folks in Montana with 43 times the voting power I have.
yes, people are making a value judgement, but they're doing it based on the information they have at hand. Trump ran as a left wing nationalistic populist. He promised healthcare for all, jobs for all, etc. All standard left wing talking points that regularly poll in the 60s and 70s. He got a fair amount of isle crossers because it was pretty obvious that Hilary wasn't going to do anything but maintain the status quo, which has been absolute crap for most Americans.
That said he's delivered on none of that. He tried to repeal the ACA without any alternative (promising one in the future, always promising, promising...). His tax cut benefit's the wealthy 83 to 1 (e.g. out of $100 bucks $83 of them go to the wealthy). He gave Carrier massive subsidies to keep jobs here and they moved the jobs to Mexico anyway and kept the subsidies and got no punishment/tariffs.
Based on the information voters had at the time (and if you took that information at face value without the context of Trump's career) he was the way to go. That's the value judgement. The problem is with the information. Trump lied, the last 2 years show he lied. His history as a business man made it pretty clear he was lying if you had that information, but a lot didn't.
And of course, what have you got to lose? Well, the shutdown is killing the economy and if it keeps up they'll be a stock market collapse and a massive round of layoffs to boost prices back up (gotta do those buy backs). But again, you'd need to have that information to make the right value judgement...
do you have some sources? The independent polls I know of are meant for candidates trying to win. They're all probabilistic but that's just the nature of polls because folks change their bloody minds a lot.
but it gives an echo chamber something to report on. This is how the sausage is made:
1. Commission an online poll.
2. Game said poll.
3. Have sites you own pick up the story of you "winning" the poll.
4. Sites you don't own but who are sympathetic with your cause pick up the news stories you wrote based on those faked polls.
5. Eventually if you get enough faked polls and matching stories mass media (Fox, CNN,etc) pick up on them and report them with an itty bitty * to say these numbers aren't scientific.
This works because Americans don't value news and so they don't pay much for it, so there's heavy pressure to keep costs down and overworked journalists and editors will run anything that gets eyeballs. If we paid more for news and had more journalists as a result they'd fact check and find the base polls were bullshit. But a deadline's a deadline and a story's a story as long as it gets those eyeballs on it.
This is how you manipulate the institution of media to do bad things.
and they use drugs and alcohol to cope. There's been several long term successes with halfway houses that allow drugs and alcohol while constantly offering mental health services, but teetotalers and religious zealots often want nothing of it.
And besides, it's not hard to run a shelter for the occasional poor person kicked out of their apartment. The real challenge for a just society are those people who aren't just a bit down on their luck but who never had any luck to begin with. But it's just as easy to blame them for their illnesses. A hundred years ago I might have given you a pass on that, but it's 2019. Sure, we can't cure their illnesses, but we at least know it's not demons and we know the solution to their problems isn't to ignore them and hope they just go away and stop begging for change...
that Trump was winning. That's a big part of what killed the heir apparent Jeb Bush (aside from him not really wanting to be president). From day 1 the narrative was that he was a loser and his staff couldn't change that.
during a recession if you're wealthy. When a recession hits people lose their homes, their cars... and you buy them up at rock bottom prices and resell them when the recession's over. You can cut everybody's pay 20% and not raise it after the recession's over. And you can get the government to bail you out during the recession by holding the economy hostage.
Recessions are great business for the ultra-wealthy. Why do you think we have "Bull" and "Bear" markets? House always wins, and the ultra wealthy are the house. Wish I could get folks to understand that.
it sounds like it's just something a bunch of guys want to do. They're smart guys, so maybe they'll do it, but they need to solve not just speed but power usage. Water & Electricity are both heavily subsidized. When you start using a ton of power and produce basically nothing for the local communities they're gonna notice. Bitcoin miners were starting get draw flack until the crash happened and slowed everything down.
I'm not sure how you'd get "fucking over rednecks" out of it. It boils down to:
1. Medicare for All.
2. Tuition Free College.
3. The "Green New Deal" (e.g. a federal jobs guarantee building renewable energy installations)
4. Infrastructure spending.
5. Higher taxes for top earners, think $500k+
#1 is a big issue for "rednecks", e.g. rural voters. Their hospitals are closing left and right.
#3 would help. Coal mining's going away like it or not and they need jobs.
#4 would be good too since their water pipes are going to hell and part of infrastructure is clean water.
#5 probably doesn't impact them, I don't know a lot of "rednecks" making $500k/yr. I know some that _own_ $500k in land (farmers) but that's not their income.
That leaves #2, and it's 2019. They want college just like everybody else. Ask any farmer who isn't just playing around and farming has long since gone high tech and scientific.
As for the other side (the GOP and the corporatists) well, these are the guys closing your hospitals because they're not profitable enough and trying to bring back pre-existing conditions. 'nogh said.
Like TFS suggests this is most likely just to preempt stronger protections from the states, particularly California. We've been relying on CA to protect the rest of the country from this kind of bullshit by passing laws that end up affecting the other states. Don't think the folks in Congress and their donors haven't noticed that.
The solution is and always will be to stop voting for people like Rubio who take corporate PAC money. I keep on saying this but the Dems have a wing of the party that does just that. I know of no such animal on the GOP side but I'm happy to be proven wrong. In the meantime you can't serve two masters. If your politician accepts corporate PAC money they're not _your_ politician. They belong to the donors who bankrolled their campaign. Full Stop.
for a reason I wrote about elsewhere: it breaks the "Job Creator" narrative. e.g. the notion that CEOs exist (and deserve special privileges because) they create jobs.
Yes, We Work creates some jobs, but very few. They're just fancy landlords after all. Here we've got a CEO who our gut tells us should be investing in his people and instead is plundering the company's largess.
The question to ask is: why does our "gut" tell us this and the answer is we're hammered with the Job Creator narrative day after day. But it's just another variant on trickle down economics. Stuff like this is needed to break down the false narrative so folks can see it for what it is.
It's about real estate. The price of real estate is a lot of markets is prohibitive. So you have your employees work from home as much as possible. Sometimes that's not possible, so you need a space where they can get together and work. If it's 2-5 times a month a communal space is cheaper than renting office space.
They're not going anywhere unless there's a change in that.
As for why you need face to face: body language. It's tough to read it even over an HD video feed. If you don't trust somebody (which happens a lot in business) you want to be able to look for those little "tells" to see if they're lying.
I'm being sold a narrative that guys like this are job creators who I have to give special privileges to (like lower taxes than me, nicer living and working conditions, private jets, etc) in exchange for a place to work.
What we have here is a company that isn't structured to grow jobs but instead to divert profit into the CEO's hands. This runs contrary to the narrative I'm told.
When I see this there's a moment of cognitive dissonance that borders on physical pain. There's two ways to reconcile this:
1. Double think. Tell myself the Job Creator Narrative is correct _and_ a CEO can plunder his company.
2. Get angry.
From the comments a lot of people are choosing #2, but the ones who choose #1 are usually silent. Double think is usually not perfect. You know something is wrong but you go with it anyway. It's tough to speak out in that instance unless you're one of the propagandists working for our pro-corporate media.
is because more and more they're not being allowed to do that. Even in China they're trying to rein it in.In America our president and his EPA chief tried to eliminate rules about coal waste dumping and got blocked by the courts. They then tried to expand subsidies to make an otherwise unprofitable business profitable (it's not socialism when they do it) and again got blocked by the courts (The tried to declare a national emergency so they could spend emergency funds and the courts called them on it).
That said, coal is being replaced largely by Wind and Solar right now. At first it was Gas plants but even those are falling by the wayside at the moment (that might not last though, it's only in the last year that use of Natural Gas is down and it might be down to a rush to get wind & solar subsidies in before the end of 2019).
When you pulled one out everyone saw you had one. It was the iPhone of it's day. A bit of expensive kit to show people how much money you had to throw around. I'm not sure they can recapture that. Apple tried with the X line and failed.
the government heavily regulates who can buy and sell stocks. You can't for instance, as a small investor, just pick a random company to give money to. There are rules about how, where and when you can invest specifically to prevent predatory investment instruments. To say nothing of the rules about soliciting investments.
A friend's company went on the lookout for investors for a new product and it's crazy how many rules there are on both sides of the equation. The only thing that makes gambling any different is the rules get suspended if you go to Las Vegas or an Indian Casino. For the most part those two self regulate to keep the absolute worst excesses in check (though they still take advantage of people to what I would say is an appalling degree).
There's lots of methodical, well thought out murders out there. The folks who planned 9/11 seemed pretty well prepared. And probability won't matter if somebody's dead.
The point is Pai is delaying action on this hoping it'll blow over and the ISPs can keep right on doing it. Again, he's sided with them on absolutely everything. Even the rural expansions are something they want since they're financed by fees paid by city subscribers and are basically free money for the ISPs & telcos.
Odds are Pai will eventually be forced to act, but it'll be somebody from Congress who makes him, not anything he did of his own accord. And I know it's not popular to say this, but it'll probably be a Democrat (unless Rand Paul gets involved).
that used to be public. In the process they tend to make them worse (go look at privatized school buses sometime) but that doesn't stop them because we really, really hate paying taxes. Most of us (60-80% depending on how you run the numbers) live paycheck to paycheck. So a 2% tax raise could push a lot over the edge to bankruptcy, homelessness, etc.
I'd argue this is all by design, but it doesn't matter. We live in the world as it is, not the way we want it to be.
I don't trust nuclear because of crap like Fukushima. There's an outside chance in hell the 70+ year old CEOs might spend the last few months of their lives in jail. I don't know the Japanese legal system but in America if a CEO did that it likely wouldn't make it to trial before they died of old age; and that's assuming you could find a prosecutor to take the case.
Sooner or later we'll privatize it and make it unsafe. We'll run the plants too long or cut a corner or two. The consequences from a nuclear meltdown last decades and kill people with cancer. Worse they kill slowly over time, so you can end up in battles over whether the meltdown "really" caused your cancer. Battles you'll be fighting while dying of cancer...
Find a way to make a nuke plant cheaper to run safely than dangerously. Do it now with tech we have that's ready for production. I've heard and seen a lot of companies that claim they can do it but I haven't seen a reactor built for testing let alone production that meets that bar. Or find a way to convince Americans that government is the solution, not the problem, and that privatizing things doesn't fix them.
Until then go right ahead and have all the nuke plants you want in saner countries like France and Germany. I'll oppose nuclear until in America until one of those two conditions is met. So far I'm still waiting...
he sides with the corporation over consumers almost every single time (he did some stuff for rural communities that you can chalk up to his party needing that voting block).
We all know this by now. The question I keep asking is, is this going to change how anybody votes in 2020? So far I haven't got a single answer of "yes". As such, I would expect him to continue this behavior since it seems to be working out just fine for him.
It'll cause a lot of folks to re-evaluate their subscriptions at a time when competition in streaming is heating up. I'm probably going to cut back or cancel the DVD plan I have as I just don't use it. This reminded me I need to do that.
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And yes, it is convenient that Journalists can be so easily manipulated. Except it's not. We've been letting billionaire members buy up news outlets for ages. In 2019 with Youtube you'd think folks who post political comments in their spare time would know this...
The trick works for polls you don't commission yourself too, btw. It's just one less step. It's helps that the right wing pretty much own the media in America. Fox News, CNN & MSNBC (and now all local channels thanks to Sinclair) are basically propaganda for the corporate establishment. Ignore their social issue coverage. Pay attention to economics. They're all right wing all pro-corporate all the time.
The media has a right wing bias in economics (e.g. pro trickle down economics, or "Supply Side" if you prefer), which is the only place that really matters in life.
I keep seeing this "LOL...Trump Derangement Syndrome" post in anything that touches on Trump, usually followed by a "Hillary was robbed" post. It's also usually modded up. I know I'm not supposed to complain about the mods, but it's not the kind of post that should get modded up. It doesn't add anything to the discussion and it's not overly amusing (there's no jokes or puns there).
And the comment has the structure of a Natalie Portman / Hot Grits post (e.g. it's a copy pasta) with a political bent. It's weird seeing that kind of meme creation in a political context, and creepy as hell if you ask me (which you didn't, but this is a web forum so you're stuck with me unless a mod comes along).
it wasn't set up to keep the densely populated cities from ignoring rural ones. It was set up that way because wealthy landowners didn't want to risk poor city folk voting for high taxes. This is because in the 1800s when the constitution was written being wealthy meant owning land, not corporations.
It was just another way the founders put the breaks on Democracy on populism and made sure the ruling class stayed on top. It was so we could have a quasi-democracy where the ruling elite got to vote on things but poor folks just had to shut up and take what they could get.
Go find a book called "A People's History of the United States". Damn near nothing we did in the first hundred or so years of our history was done for good reasons. We are not a nice people. Not in terms of our institutions anyway. And anything good that came out of us is really in spite of the constitution rather than because of it.
What we really need is a parliament with proportional representation. I'm fed up with being pushed around by a few hundred folks in Montana with 43 times the voting power I have.
yes, people are making a value judgement, but they're doing it based on the information they have at hand. Trump ran as a left wing nationalistic populist. He promised healthcare for all, jobs for all, etc. All standard left wing talking points that regularly poll in the 60s and 70s. He got a fair amount of isle crossers because it was pretty obvious that Hilary wasn't going to do anything but maintain the status quo, which has been absolute crap for most Americans.
That said he's delivered on none of that. He tried to repeal the ACA without any alternative (promising one in the future, always promising, promising...). His tax cut benefit's the wealthy 83 to 1 (e.g. out of $100 bucks $83 of them go to the wealthy). He gave Carrier massive subsidies to keep jobs here and they moved the jobs to Mexico anyway and kept the subsidies and got no punishment/tariffs.
Based on the information voters had at the time (and if you took that information at face value without the context of Trump's career) he was the way to go. That's the value judgement. The problem is with the information. Trump lied, the last 2 years show he lied. His history as a business man made it pretty clear he was lying if you had that information, but a lot didn't.
And of course, what have you got to lose? Well, the shutdown is killing the economy and if it keeps up they'll be a stock market collapse and a massive round of layoffs to boost prices back up (gotta do those buy backs). But again, you'd need to have that information to make the right value judgement...
do you have some sources? The independent polls I know of are meant for candidates trying to win. They're all probabilistic but that's just the nature of polls because folks change their bloody minds a lot.
but it gives an echo chamber something to report on. This is how the sausage is made:
1. Commission an online poll.
2. Game said poll.
3. Have sites you own pick up the story of you "winning" the poll.
4. Sites you don't own but who are sympathetic with your cause pick up the news stories you wrote based on those faked polls.
5. Eventually if you get enough faked polls and matching stories mass media (Fox, CNN,etc) pick up on them and report them with an itty bitty * to say these numbers aren't scientific.
This works because Americans don't value news and so they don't pay much for it, so there's heavy pressure to keep costs down and overworked journalists and editors will run anything that gets eyeballs. If we paid more for news and had more journalists as a result they'd fact check and find the base polls were bullshit. But a deadline's a deadline and a story's a story as long as it gets those eyeballs on it.
This is how you manipulate the institution of media to do bad things.
and they use drugs and alcohol to cope. There's been several long term successes with halfway houses that allow drugs and alcohol while constantly offering mental health services, but teetotalers and religious zealots often want nothing of it.
And besides, it's not hard to run a shelter for the occasional poor person kicked out of their apartment. The real challenge for a just society are those people who aren't just a bit down on their luck but who never had any luck to begin with. But it's just as easy to blame them for their illnesses. A hundred years ago I might have given you a pass on that, but it's 2019. Sure, we can't cure their illnesses, but we at least know it's not demons and we know the solution to their problems isn't to ignore them and hope they just go away and stop begging for change...
that Trump was winning. That's a big part of what killed the heir apparent Jeb Bush (aside from him not really wanting to be president). From day 1 the narrative was that he was a loser and his staff couldn't change that.
during a recession if you're wealthy. When a recession hits people lose their homes, their cars... and you buy them up at rock bottom prices and resell them when the recession's over. You can cut everybody's pay 20% and not raise it after the recession's over. And you can get the government to bail you out during the recession by holding the economy hostage.
Recessions are great business for the ultra-wealthy. Why do you think we have "Bull" and "Bear" markets? House always wins, and the ultra wealthy are the house. Wish I could get folks to understand that.
it sounds like it's just something a bunch of guys want to do. They're smart guys, so maybe they'll do it, but they need to solve not just speed but power usage. Water & Electricity are both heavily subsidized. When you start using a ton of power and produce basically nothing for the local communities they're gonna notice. Bitcoin miners were starting get draw flack until the crash happened and slowed everything down.
I'm not sure how you'd get "fucking over rednecks" out of it. It boils down to :
1. Medicare for All.
2. Tuition Free College.
3. The "Green New Deal" (e.g. a federal jobs guarantee building renewable energy installations)
4. Infrastructure spending.
5. Higher taxes for top earners, think $500k+
#1 is a big issue for "rednecks", e.g. rural voters. Their hospitals are closing left and right.
#3 would help. Coal mining's going away like it or not and they need jobs.
#4 would be good too since their water pipes are going to hell and part of infrastructure is clean water.
#5 probably doesn't impact them, I don't know a lot of "rednecks" making $500k/yr. I know some that _own_ $500k in land (farmers) but that's not their income.
That leaves #2, and it's 2019. They want college just like everybody else. Ask any farmer who isn't just playing around and farming has long since gone high tech and scientific.
As for the other side (the GOP and the corporatists) well, these are the guys closing your hospitals because they're not profitable enough and trying to bring back pre-existing conditions. 'nogh said.
This is the same guy that called the bribes he takes buying into his agenda.
Like TFS suggests this is most likely just to preempt stronger protections from the states, particularly California. We've been relying on CA to protect the rest of the country from this kind of bullshit by passing laws that end up affecting the other states. Don't think the folks in Congress and their donors haven't noticed that.
The solution is and always will be to stop voting for people like Rubio who take corporate PAC money. I keep on saying this but the Dems have a wing of the party that does just that. I know of no such animal on the GOP side but I'm happy to be proven wrong. In the meantime you can't serve two masters. If your politician accepts corporate PAC money they're not _your_ politician. They belong to the donors who bankrolled their campaign. Full Stop.
for a reason I wrote about elsewhere: it breaks the "Job Creator" narrative. e.g. the notion that CEOs exist (and deserve special privileges because) they create jobs.
Yes, We Work creates some jobs, but very few. They're just fancy landlords after all. Here we've got a CEO who our gut tells us should be investing in his people and instead is plundering the company's largess.
The question to ask is: why does our "gut" tell us this and the answer is we're hammered with the Job Creator narrative day after day. But it's just another variant on trickle down economics. Stuff like this is needed to break down the false narrative so folks can see it for what it is.
It's about real estate. The price of real estate is a lot of markets is prohibitive. So you have your employees work from home as much as possible. Sometimes that's not possible, so you need a space where they can get together and work. If it's 2-5 times a month a communal space is cheaper than renting office space.
They're not going anywhere unless there's a change in that.
As for why you need face to face: body language. It's tough to read it even over an HD video feed. If you don't trust somebody (which happens a lot in business) you want to be able to look for those little "tells" to see if they're lying.
I'm being sold a narrative that guys like this are job creators who I have to give special privileges to (like lower taxes than me, nicer living and working conditions, private jets, etc) in exchange for a place to work.
What we have here is a company that isn't structured to grow jobs but instead to divert profit into the CEO's hands. This runs contrary to the narrative I'm told.
When I see this there's a moment of cognitive dissonance that borders on physical pain. There's two ways to reconcile this:
1. Double think. Tell myself the Job Creator Narrative is correct _and_ a CEO can plunder his company.
2. Get angry.
From the comments a lot of people are choosing #2, but the ones who choose #1 are usually silent. Double think is usually not perfect. You know something is wrong but you go with it anyway. It's tough to speak out in that instance unless you're one of the propagandists working for our pro-corporate media.
is because more and more they're not being allowed to do that. Even in China they're trying to rein it in.In America our president and his EPA chief tried to eliminate rules about coal waste dumping and got blocked by the courts. They then tried to expand subsidies to make an otherwise unprofitable business profitable (it's not socialism when they do it) and again got blocked by the courts (The tried to declare a national emergency so they could spend emergency funds and the courts called them on it).
That said, coal is being replaced largely by Wind and Solar right now. At first it was Gas plants but even those are falling by the wayside at the moment (that might not last though, it's only in the last year that use of Natural Gas is down and it might be down to a rush to get wind & solar subsidies in before the end of 2019).
When you pulled one out everyone saw you had one. It was the iPhone of it's day. A bit of expensive kit to show people how much money you had to throw around. I'm not sure they can recapture that. Apple tried with the X line and failed.
and put robots in it. That's now how it'll work in 20 years. In 20 years you'll have Hotels built around the robots.
As for the annoying assistant app that wakes up when you snore, that's a software update.
they're in real estate. You typically have to lease property from them to run a franchise.
the government heavily regulates who can buy and sell stocks. You can't for instance, as a small investor, just pick a random company to give money to. There are rules about how, where and when you can invest specifically to prevent predatory investment instruments. To say nothing of the rules about soliciting investments.
A friend's company went on the lookout for investors for a new product and it's crazy how many rules there are on both sides of the equation. The only thing that makes gambling any different is the rules get suspended if you go to Las Vegas or an Indian Casino. For the most part those two self regulate to keep the absolute worst excesses in check (though they still take advantage of people to what I would say is an appalling degree).
There's lots of methodical, well thought out murders out there. The folks who planned 9/11 seemed pretty well prepared. And probability won't matter if somebody's dead.
The point is Pai is delaying action on this hoping it'll blow over and the ISPs can keep right on doing it. Again, he's sided with them on absolutely everything. Even the rural expansions are something they want since they're financed by fees paid by city subscribers and are basically free money for the ISPs & telcos.
Odds are Pai will eventually be forced to act, but it'll be somebody from Congress who makes him, not anything he did of his own accord. And I know it's not popular to say this, but it'll probably be a Democrat (unless Rand Paul gets involved).
that used to be public. In the process they tend to make them worse (go look at privatized school buses sometime) but that doesn't stop them because we really, really hate paying taxes. Most of us (60-80% depending on how you run the numbers) live paycheck to paycheck. So a 2% tax raise could push a lot over the edge to bankruptcy, homelessness, etc.
I'd argue this is all by design, but it doesn't matter. We live in the world as it is, not the way we want it to be.
I don't trust nuclear because of crap like Fukushima. There's an outside chance in hell the 70+ year old CEOs might spend the last few months of their lives in jail. I don't know the Japanese legal system but in America if a CEO did that it likely wouldn't make it to trial before they died of old age; and that's assuming you could find a prosecutor to take the case.
Sooner or later we'll privatize it and make it unsafe. We'll run the plants too long or cut a corner or two. The consequences from a nuclear meltdown last decades and kill people with cancer. Worse they kill slowly over time, so you can end up in battles over whether the meltdown "really" caused your cancer. Battles you'll be fighting while dying of cancer...
Find a way to make a nuke plant cheaper to run safely than dangerously. Do it now with tech we have that's ready for production. I've heard and seen a lot of companies that claim they can do it but I haven't seen a reactor built for testing let alone production that meets that bar. Or find a way to convince Americans that government is the solution, not the problem, and that privatizing things doesn't fix them.
Until then go right ahead and have all the nuke plants you want in saner countries like France and Germany. I'll oppose nuclear until in America until one of those two conditions is met. So far I'm still waiting...
he sides with the corporation over consumers almost every single time (he did some stuff for rural communities that you can chalk up to his party needing that voting block).
We all know this by now. The question I keep asking is, is this going to change how anybody votes in 2020? So far I haven't got a single answer of "yes". As such, I would expect him to continue this behavior since it seems to be working out just fine for him.
sooner or later an angry ex-spouse is going to get this data and use it to kill someone. It's a wonder it hasn't happened already.
It'll cause a lot of folks to re-evaluate their subscriptions at a time when competition in streaming is heating up. I'm probably going to cut back or cancel the DVD plan I have as I just don't use it. This reminded me I need to do that.