e.g. some articles online or the like. I've mentioned this in other threads, but there is literally no safe level of mercury exposure. It builds up in the body over time. It's why pregnant women aren't supposed to eat fish.
Based on what I know about mercury (albeit not a huge amount) I'm with Obama on this one. But you seem to be implying Obama intentionally attacked the coal industry for some other reason. That's a pretty big accusation, but with the amount of lobbying going on you never know. Can you provide some links?
And it wasn't a bureaucrat who created the speed trap, it was, again, a politician. Specifically one who didn't want to pay his taxes so he used speeding tickets from folks outside his district to pay for maintaining police, fire dept, etc.
Again, your anger is misplaced. And that's not by accident. Somebody is working really hard to make you distrust government (while making sure to use gov't for their own benefit). Think harder. You can figure this out. I know you can. And when you do you can join us in making the world better for real. I mean that.
regressive taxation and right wing, anti-worker policies.
Just because France is doing OK doesn't mean they don't have to fight tooth and nail against their ruling class to keep it that way.
I remember there was a comedy group that dressed up as stereotypical billionaires and went around to Republican rallies thanking the (obviously working class) people there for all the tax cuts and deregulation. Not one person called them out for being trolls. They couldn't tell. That's the trouble with the American Working class, they don't see themselves as oppressed fighting for their rights, they see themselves as temporarily inconvenienced millionaires.
he just says whatever gets him votes. He's not immoral, he's amoral.
That said, the folks around him (especially Pence, who's a Christian Dominionist) absolutely want that, and it's scary as hell to me at least. During the campaign Trump asked "What do you got to lose" but as soon as he picked Pence we got the answer: Separation to church and state.
this is ground work to defend against a lawsuit. As I pointed out the original justification, as per TFA, was cost savings due to improved health outcomes. This ruling says that those cost savings cannot be taken into account, which in turn means the original rule can and should be over turned. When it's challenged in court if the first ruling about cost savings (the one their doing now) is upheld then the second ruling goes down.
The reason Trump hasn't done more damage is folks have been fighting against him. He tried to end Obamacare and with it pre-existing condition protection. He was stopped only because of a massive backlash. He's tried to spend $30 billion of my tax dollars (and yours if you're American) and a wall/fence that not one expert agrees would make the slightest difference in protecting our boarders. Again, folks fought against that.
And Musk doens't have anything to do with it. That's a red herring.
but the point is that the justification for the current rule is large scale savings due to better health outcomes due to lower exposure to mercury.
This rule change says that only direct savings can be considered, which throws out $80 billion in savings from better health.
The next step will be to declare that the cost of the program relative to it's benefit is too high and eliminate it, which in turn will allow the EPA to overturn the Obama era ruling.
The reason for doing this is so when they're inevitably sued by environmental watchdogs they can win in court.
I notice we're all quibbling on the headline instead of discussion the fact that this administration would like very much to increase the amount of mercury in the air.
Article says it's down 80% since the rule went into place, and I'll remind you that there is no safe level of mercury exposure. It builds up over time. Buddy of mine found that out the hard way getting mercury poisoning from tuna...
Once again, we've got our priorities ass backwards.
The new proposal fundamentally changes that approach. It would consider only the benefits that can be directly translated into dollars and cents.
Also:
In announcing the proposed rule, the Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement that the cost of cutting mercury from power plants “dwarfs” the monetary benefits
If this proposal is adopted the very next step is to allow more mercury in the air. So yeah, the proposal would let power plants release more toxic pollution. That's because the original executive order relies on indirect economic befits to exist and without considering those benefits can and will be struck down.
Just because it's a->b->c to to get to c (more toxins) doesn't mean b isn't important. Especially when c doesn't happen without b.
like EPA standards do you really want Congress to try and micromanage every little detail? Or would you rather have scientists doing that work. You know what they call a scientist who works for the government? A bureaucrat.
Also, you should start to question why you're so deeply opposed to bureaucracy. Why the word has such a negative connotation. Specifically, what has a bureaucrat done to you? The cop who gave you that ticket is not a bureaucrat. The clerk who made you wait at the DMV isn't the one who decided how many clerks they'd be. That's your state legislature.
What I'm getting at is that somebody, somewhere, has invested a lot of time and effort into eliciting a certain response to the words bureaucrat and bureaucracy from you.
outside of a fringe left (encouraged by the right who use them to scare blue collar workers and who would love more of that sweet, sweet cheap labor) nobody is calling responsible immigration policy "racist".
There's a couple of problems here:
1. There's a growing right wing media engine that makes good money scaring folks with SJWs. The Youtube skeptic community has been overrun by them. It's not hard to see why. Nobody likes SJWs. Not even other SJWs. They're annoy little jerks who completely miss the point when it comes to actual social justice. Case in point: They fight over a 1-3% gender pay gap and barely mention the 20% decline in wages since the 70s.
What I'm saying is, SJWs are an easy target to get views and Pateron donations. This lead to the Youtube skeptic community dog piling on them. Add to that right wing think tanks who cheerfully fund top members of the Youtube skeptic community to rail against them (SJWs make a great replacement for blacks, Mexicans and Muslims as a right wing boogie man to distract from real economic issues) and you've got a recipe for disaster
2. We actually do need those immigrants. Go look at Japan. They've got major problems because in a modern, industrialized economy folks don't have enough kids to maintain the population. Without population growth your 401k becomes worthless. Have fun figuring out what the hell you're gonna do in your 60s when nobody will hire you and you've got maybe $300k in the bank adjusted for inflation (don't forget to do that).
3. While we need the immigrants, right now our Winner Take all trickle down economy means those immigrants have very little benefit for workers in general and the lost wages due to excess labor supply means they're positively harmful.
It's not hard to see the solution here. More social programs (Medicare for All, A Green New Deal, expanded SNAP, Tuition free public Universities and perhaps even Social Security for all, aka UBI). Take the wealth generated by those immigrants and make sure everybody gets a piece. Meanwhile like I keep saying end our destructive and evil foreign policy.
But the right wing already have answers for all of this. Social Programs fail because "The problem with it is sooner or later you run out of other people's money" (you don't actually, unless your economy stops growing, but that's a complex thought compared to the simple phrase that it's responding too). Oh, and we need to secure our national interests; e.g. over throw democratically elected leaders. And heck, Americans like being #1 and, since we can't seem to get there through hard work we'll do it by sabotaging everybody else. After all, we're still #1 if the way we got there is not by getting better but instead making everybody else _worse_.
it's people's fault for listening to her. Basing an entire social system around selfishness in the face of all reason and research (multiple studies have shown how imprinting to your mother creates human empathy and how imprinting is essential to the survival of our species) is just plain bad juju.
But Lambert was only doing the Ayn Rand thing for fun. His real goal was, is and continues to be bleeding Sears dry in a legal manner.
The TL;DW (didn't watch, it's youtube after all) is that the World Bank set an arbitrary definition of "poverty" ($1/day or so) and then periodically changes the numbers to make it seem like folks are lifting out of poverty (now it's $1.06/day and a million more are making $1.08/day, congrats, 1 million "lifted out of poverty").
Meanwhile the actual quality of life of those million people hasn't changed in the slighest...
It's a trick meant to keep you from questioning the establishment. Worked too.
of the episode of South Park it came from. Randi Marsh didn't care until it was his job, then he was furious and joined the chorus of "They took our jerbs".
This is why we need to push real solutions to the problem. There are a ton of out of work construction workers seeing Mexican and South American immigrants doing the jobs they used to do. Just like there's a mountain of out of work tech workers seeing their jobs go to H1-Bs. Workers in America need to learn solidarity. They need to understand that if you make a living by working you are a member of the working class no matter what color your collar.
If us techies don't start doing that then the blue collar guys are going to get tricked into voting for folks that'll screw us all over. Maybe "tricked" is the wrong word. If they've been abandoned what's the point of caring if the elites in Silicon Valley get screwed? That's where the concept of "stigginit" comes from. Where you're just lashing out.
What's frustrating is that in 2018 we should be able to see these things for what they are: common tactics by our ruling class used to divide and conquer the working class. Race, religion, collar color, wedge issues. Over and over again we see the same pattern. We even have numerous examples of the ruling class talking about how they're going to create issues to separate us (go google the history of how abortion became a political issue in America sometime).
The tricks are all there out in the open, but nobody really seems to call them out on it. Bernie Sanders does I guess (he repeatedly tries to bring folks together) but not sure how far he's gonna get. They're already running adverts on TV against him and he hasn't even announced he's running for the primary...
There's so much media now and so much information. Cell phones and the Internet make it possible to suss out the truth in a way that wasn't possible before. e.g. a big part of the reason Black Lives Matters became a thing was folks using cell phones to record abuses by police officers.
they got bought out by a Bain Capital style "Vulture" capitalist, Eddie Lampert. He started off his tenure by mismanaging them in a crazy, Ayn Rand themed style where each department was pitted against the other, resulting in massive infighting. Meanwhile he was busy extracting anything of value from the company for his own personal gain. At the moment he's been loaning them money to set himself up as the primary creditor so he gets paid when they liquidate. That's how he's legally extracting the assets without running afoul of laws designed to protect shareholders in a publicly traded company.
The real problem is that in America you no longer make money by running successful companies. You make money by firing up a startup and waiting for a buyout or by buying up an existing, longstanding company and gutting it like a fish. That's the reason guys like Lampert go to school for business, they're learning how to legally do things that should be illegal.
and trying to tie the two together is just a logical fallacy (I forget which one, stawman? I think there's a more specific one).
It's also a very, very minor problem. The whinny blue haired college chick at your local community college women's studies dept isn't the one oppressing you. It's the billionaire who buys off congress to outsource your job, bring in cheap H1-B labor and lets the Evangelicals run rampant over our legal system with their millions of followers.
TL;DR; Pay attention to who actually has money and power, not just who gets on your nerves or annoys you.
couldn't we just do it again? We're approaching the point where living things can be built like machines and without waiting for generation after generation to get the trait you want. It's the same thing we did with selective breeding, we're just taking a shortcut.
all seem to be doing fine. Kind of helps that they're not currently under massive US Sanctions for little to no reason (except oil money).
Seriously, what we do to all of the Southern continent with our foreign police really pisses me off. We wreck their economies and governments and then we bitch that refugees from the disasters we caused come up her and take our jerbs.
Wanna solve these refugee problems: Stop interfering with and overthrowing their populist, left wing governments, stop wrecking their attempts to Unionize (I'm looking at you Coke) and end the bloody Drug War. Their countries will recover and modernize and we'll see an end to the flood of illegal immigrants.
You know, I've never heard the German's claim they're being overrun by cheese eatin' surrender monkeys. Just sayin'
it's a common propaganda technique. We all laughed when the Iraqi information minister tried to do it since he was completely doomed.But when you control the media the technique's the same every time.
Put another way: "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.".
Works too. This is why we need to teach critical thinking via the humanities in school. Critical thinking _can_ be taught, but you need a subject that's simple enough for folks who don't do it naturally and where being 50% right has value. STEM doesn't work for that. You'll note the wealthy make it a point to give their kids a well rounded education. This is why.
is cost. And thanks to abundant work visas we don't need to worry about kids who can't hack it on their own. They can go do whatever it is those people do. Meanwhile we can all have another round of tax cuts at the cost of more cuts to higher education.
Those tax cuts don't pay for themselves. No, really, they don't.
I'm 41 and I've never heard that phrase in my life. Hell, if you google the phrase you mostly find articles telling you how valuable a college degree is (with a few that mention it's less valuable if you grew up poor, but it's still more valuable than hitting the workforce after high school).
Maybe if you grew up in the 70s with a big, Unionized manufacturing plant down the street, but that was almost 50 years ago. Those days are gone. The only thing left to kids without degrees is Walmart, $18/hr jobs in HVAC and if you're lucky Daddy's money when he dies.
and we're gonna have massive water shortages in 20 years if nothing is done.... and so far we're doing basically squat. Meanwhile the wealthier parts of my city look like they've been terraformed there's so much green.
It's gonna be interesting because unless either a) the predictions of scientists 95% are completely wrong or b) technology changes drastically to make desalinization cheaper/easier whole cities are going to be emptied out. Parts of California can start up desalinization plants they built in the 90s but the rest of us will be screwed.
It'll take a decade to build the aqueducts needed to move the water to places like Texas, New Mexico & Arizona. And knowing Americans their not going to look at those suffering cities and say "boy, we sure need to help" they're gonna blame the people there for not doing anything about it, never mind that most of those cities are relatively poor and even the big ones have a small number of well to do with the rest pretty much dirt poor.
A lot of guys I knew in the trade were laid off 2-3 months out of the year doing odd jobs to get by. The company I worked for kept us year round and found busy work, but they could only do that because they had a nice business contract. Most tradesmen have lean months and a tough time throughout the year as a result. The huge cutback on infrastructure spending and, as a result, construction hasn't helped matters either.
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e.g. some articles online or the like. I've mentioned this in other threads, but there is literally no safe level of mercury exposure. It builds up in the body over time. It's why pregnant women aren't supposed to eat fish.
Based on what I know about mercury (albeit not a huge amount) I'm with Obama on this one. But you seem to be implying Obama intentionally attacked the coal industry for some other reason. That's a pretty big accusation, but with the amount of lobbying going on you never know. Can you provide some links?
by passing an anti-speed trap law.
And it wasn't a bureaucrat who created the speed trap, it was, again, a politician. Specifically one who didn't want to pay his taxes so he used speeding tickets from folks outside his district to pay for maintaining police, fire dept, etc.
Again, your anger is misplaced. And that's not by accident. Somebody is working really hard to make you distrust government (while making sure to use gov't for their own benefit). Think harder. You can figure this out. I know you can. And when you do you can join us in making the world better for real. I mean that.
regressive taxation and right wing, anti-worker policies.
Just because France is doing OK doesn't mean they don't have to fight tooth and nail against their ruling class to keep it that way.
I remember there was a comedy group that dressed up as stereotypical billionaires and went around to Republican rallies thanking the (obviously working class) people there for all the tax cuts and deregulation. Not one person called them out for being trolls. They couldn't tell. That's the trouble with the American Working class, they don't see themselves as oppressed fighting for their rights, they see themselves as temporarily inconvenienced millionaires.
he just says whatever gets him votes. He's not immoral, he's amoral.
That said, the folks around him (especially Pence, who's a Christian Dominionist) absolutely want that, and it's scary as hell to me at least. During the campaign Trump asked "What do you got to lose" but as soon as he picked Pence we got the answer: Separation to church and state.
this is ground work to defend against a lawsuit. As I pointed out the original justification, as per TFA, was cost savings due to improved health outcomes. This ruling says that those cost savings cannot be taken into account, which in turn means the original rule can and should be over turned. When it's challenged in court if the first ruling about cost savings (the one their doing now) is upheld then the second ruling goes down.
The reason Trump hasn't done more damage is folks have been fighting against him. He tried to end Obamacare and with it pre-existing condition protection. He was stopped only because of a massive backlash. He's tried to spend $30 billion of my tax dollars (and yours if you're American) and a wall/fence that not one expert agrees would make the slightest difference in protecting our boarders. Again, folks fought against that.
And Musk doens't have anything to do with it. That's a red herring.
but the point is that the justification for the current rule is large scale savings due to better health outcomes due to lower exposure to mercury.
This rule change says that only direct savings can be considered, which throws out $80 billion in savings from better health.
The next step will be to declare that the cost of the program relative to it's benefit is too high and eliminate it, which in turn will allow the EPA to overturn the Obama era ruling.
The reason for doing this is so when they're inevitably sued by environmental watchdogs they can win in court.
I notice we're all quibbling on the headline instead of discussion the fact that this administration would like very much to increase the amount of mercury in the air.
Article says it's down 80% since the rule went into place, and I'll remind you that there is no safe level of mercury exposure. It builds up over time. Buddy of mine found that out the hard way getting mercury poisoning from tuna...
Once again, we've got our priorities ass backwards.
Also:
If this proposal is adopted the very next step is to allow more mercury in the air. So yeah, the proposal would let power plants release more toxic pollution. That's because the original executive order relies on indirect economic befits to exist and without considering those benefits can and will be struck down.
Just because it's a->b->c to to get to c (more toxins) doesn't mean b isn't important. Especially when c doesn't happen without b.
like EPA standards do you really want Congress to try and micromanage every little detail? Or would you rather have scientists doing that work. You know what they call a scientist who works for the government? A bureaucrat.
Also, you should start to question why you're so deeply opposed to bureaucracy. Why the word has such a negative connotation. Specifically, what has a bureaucrat done to you? The cop who gave you that ticket is not a bureaucrat. The clerk who made you wait at the DMV isn't the one who decided how many clerks they'd be. That's your state legislature.
What I'm getting at is that somebody, somewhere, has invested a lot of time and effort into eliciting a certain response to the words bureaucrat and bureaucracy from you.
of the magic lolipops in Santa Claus: The Motion Picture? Also, I dare you to find a more obscure reference.
outside of a fringe left (encouraged by the right who use them to scare blue collar workers and who would love more of that sweet, sweet cheap labor) nobody is calling responsible immigration policy "racist".
There's a couple of problems here:
1. There's a growing right wing media engine that makes good money scaring folks with SJWs. The Youtube skeptic community has been overrun by them. It's not hard to see why. Nobody likes SJWs. Not even other SJWs. They're annoy little jerks who completely miss the point when it comes to actual social justice. Case in point: They fight over a 1-3% gender pay gap and barely mention the 20% decline in wages since the 70s.
What I'm saying is, SJWs are an easy target to get views and Pateron donations. This lead to the Youtube skeptic community dog piling on them. Add to that right wing think tanks who cheerfully fund top members of the Youtube skeptic community to rail against them (SJWs make a great replacement for blacks, Mexicans and Muslims as a right wing boogie man to distract from real economic issues) and you've got a recipe for disaster
2. We actually do need those immigrants. Go look at Japan. They've got major problems because in a modern, industrialized economy folks don't have enough kids to maintain the population. Without population growth your 401k becomes worthless. Have fun figuring out what the hell you're gonna do in your 60s when nobody will hire you and you've got maybe $300k in the bank adjusted for inflation (don't forget to do that).
3. While we need the immigrants, right now our Winner Take all trickle down economy means those immigrants have very little benefit for workers in general and the lost wages due to excess labor supply means they're positively harmful.
It's not hard to see the solution here. More social programs (Medicare for All, A Green New Deal, expanded SNAP, Tuition free public Universities and perhaps even Social Security for all, aka UBI). Take the wealth generated by those immigrants and make sure everybody gets a piece. Meanwhile like I keep saying end our destructive and evil foreign policy.
But the right wing already have answers for all of this. Social Programs fail because "The problem with it is sooner or later you run out of other people's money" (you don't actually, unless your economy stops growing, but that's a complex thought compared to the simple phrase that it's responding too). Oh, and we need to secure our national interests; e.g. over throw democratically elected leaders. And heck, Americans like being #1 and, since we can't seem to get there through hard work we'll do it by sabotaging everybody else. After all, we're still #1 if the way we got there is not by getting better but instead making everybody else _worse_.
it's people's fault for listening to her. Basing an entire social system around selfishness in the face of all reason and research (multiple studies have shown how imprinting to your mother creates human empathy and how imprinting is essential to the survival of our species) is just plain bad juju.
But Lambert was only doing the Ayn Rand thing for fun. His real goal was, is and continues to be bleeding Sears dry in a legal manner.
See some videos here
The TL;DW (didn't watch, it's youtube after all) is that the World Bank set an arbitrary definition of "poverty" ($1/day or so) and then periodically changes the numbers to make it seem like folks are lifting out of poverty (now it's $1.06/day and a million more are making $1.08/day, congrats, 1 million "lifted out of poverty").
Meanwhile the actual quality of life of those million people hasn't changed in the slighest...
It's a trick meant to keep you from questioning the establishment. Worked too.
of the episode of South Park it came from. Randi Marsh didn't care until it was his job, then he was furious and joined the chorus of "They took our jerbs".
This is why we need to push real solutions to the problem. There are a ton of out of work construction workers seeing Mexican and South American immigrants doing the jobs they used to do. Just like there's a mountain of out of work tech workers seeing their jobs go to H1-Bs. Workers in America need to learn solidarity. They need to understand that if you make a living by working you are a member of the working class no matter what color your collar.
If us techies don't start doing that then the blue collar guys are going to get tricked into voting for folks that'll screw us all over. Maybe "tricked" is the wrong word. If they've been abandoned what's the point of caring if the elites in Silicon Valley get screwed? That's where the concept of "stigginit" comes from. Where you're just lashing out.
What's frustrating is that in 2018 we should be able to see these things for what they are: common tactics by our ruling class used to divide and conquer the working class. Race, religion, collar color, wedge issues. Over and over again we see the same pattern. We even have numerous examples of the ruling class talking about how they're going to create issues to separate us (go google the history of how abortion became a political issue in America sometime).
The tricks are all there out in the open, but nobody really seems to call them out on it. Bernie Sanders does I guess (he repeatedly tries to bring folks together) but not sure how far he's gonna get. They're already running adverts on TV against him and he hasn't even announced he's running for the primary...
There's so much media now and so much information. Cell phones and the Internet make it possible to suss out the truth in a way that wasn't possible before. e.g. a big part of the reason Black Lives Matters became a thing was folks using cell phones to record abuses by police officers.
they got bought out by a Bain Capital style "Vulture" capitalist, Eddie Lampert. He started off his tenure by mismanaging them in a crazy, Ayn Rand themed style where each department was pitted against the other, resulting in massive infighting. Meanwhile he was busy extracting anything of value from the company for his own personal gain. At the moment he's been loaning them money to set himself up as the primary creditor so he gets paid when they liquidate. That's how he's legally extracting the assets without running afoul of laws designed to protect shareholders in a publicly traded company.
The real problem is that in America you no longer make money by running successful companies. You make money by firing up a startup and waiting for a buyout or by buying up an existing, longstanding company and gutting it like a fish. That's the reason guys like Lampert go to school for business, they're learning how to legally do things that should be illegal.
and trying to tie the two together is just a logical fallacy (I forget which one, stawman? I think there's a more specific one).
It's also a very, very minor problem. The whinny blue haired college chick at your local community college women's studies dept isn't the one oppressing you. It's the billionaire who buys off congress to outsource your job, bring in cheap H1-B labor and lets the Evangelicals run rampant over our legal system with their millions of followers.
TL;DR; Pay attention to who actually has money and power, not just who gets on your nerves or annoys you.
couldn't we just do it again? We're approaching the point where living things can be built like machines and without waiting for generation after generation to get the trait you want. It's the same thing we did with selective breeding, we're just taking a shortcut.
all seem to be doing fine. Kind of helps that they're not currently under massive US Sanctions for little to no reason (except oil money).
Seriously, what we do to all of the Southern continent with our foreign police really pisses me off. We wreck their economies and governments and then we bitch that refugees from the disasters we caused come up her and take our jerbs.
Wanna solve these refugee problems: Stop interfering with and overthrowing their populist, left wing governments, stop wrecking their attempts to Unionize (I'm looking at you Coke) and end the bloody Drug War. Their countries will recover and modernize and we'll see an end to the flood of illegal immigrants.
You know, I've never heard the German's claim they're being overrun by cheese eatin' surrender monkeys. Just sayin'
it's a common propaganda technique. We all laughed when the Iraqi information minister tried to do it since he was completely doomed.But when you control the media the technique's the same every time.
Put another way: "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.".
Works too. This is why we need to teach critical thinking via the humanities in school. Critical thinking _can_ be taught, but you need a subject that's simple enough for folks who don't do it naturally and where being 50% right has value. STEM doesn't work for that. You'll note the wealthy make it a point to give their kids a well rounded education. This is why.
is cost. And thanks to abundant work visas we don't need to worry about kids who can't hack it on their own. They can go do whatever it is those people do. Meanwhile we can all have another round of tax cuts at the cost of more cuts to higher education.
Those tax cuts don't pay for themselves. No, really, they don't.
I'm 41 and I've never heard that phrase in my life. Hell, if you google the phrase you mostly find articles telling you how valuable a college degree is (with a few that mention it's less valuable if you grew up poor, but it's still more valuable than hitting the workforce after high school).
Maybe if you grew up in the 70s with a big, Unionized manufacturing plant down the street, but that was almost 50 years ago. Those days are gone. The only thing left to kids without degrees is Walmart, $18/hr jobs in HVAC and if you're lucky Daddy's money when he dies.
and we're gonna have massive water shortages in 20 years if nothing is done.... and so far we're doing basically squat. Meanwhile the wealthier parts of my city look like they've been terraformed there's so much green.
It's gonna be interesting because unless either a) the predictions of scientists 95% are completely wrong or b) technology changes drastically to make desalinization cheaper/easier whole cities are going to be emptied out. Parts of California can start up desalinization plants they built in the 90s but the rest of us will be screwed.
It'll take a decade to build the aqueducts needed to move the water to places like Texas, New Mexico & Arizona. And knowing Americans their not going to look at those suffering cities and say "boy, we sure need to help" they're gonna blame the people there for not doing anything about it, never mind that most of those cities are relatively poor and even the big ones have a small number of well to do with the rest pretty much dirt poor.
depending on how it's used. That's what kills an SSD. Lots of reads and writes to obfuscate what it's doing.
A lot of guys I knew in the trade were laid off 2-3 months out of the year doing odd jobs to get by. The company I worked for kept us year round and found busy work, but they could only do that because they had a nice business contract. Most tradesmen have lean months and a tough time throughout the year as a result. The huge cutback on infrastructure spending and, as a result, construction hasn't helped matters either.