The average work week gives no information about regional or any other variations let alone individual circumstances. There are many who can't work as many hours as they need or have to work too many hours to make a living.
When robots started replacing humans in the factories, there was talk that we were entering a new age of freedom where we'd only have to work three days a week and there'd be prosperity and leisure for all.
What happened instead was, the jobs went and the ex-workers were left to fend for themselves and their families as best they could, which in an area with fewer jobs and less wealth was often 'not very well'.
The farm jobs will go and the only share of the benefits of efficiency which the ex-farmers will see is that their food might be a bit cheaper.
Electric vehicles and solar power are a massive threat to the internal combustion engine and fossil fuels. This is about money as much as it's about politics. One question is whether it's being done to manipulate the share price for short term profits or to damage Musk and his businesses in the long term. Probably both, because why not?
"4Chan effectively unearthed a strange network of high-powered people who, through art, events and social media, actually celebrate a culture that revolves around death, torture, cannibalism and ⦠child abuse." (From that "shocking" NSFW page).
It reminds me of the panic in the 80s where various medics and social workers (often Christian) decided that Satanic rituals involving all that stuff was going on and lots of families' lives were ruined until it was discovered that the allegations were nonsense (alright have it your way, until it was covered up and the witnesses killed and eaten). They were trained professionals too, not random denizens of the internet. You could also go back to the Salem witch trials.
These stories originate with those who actively want to harm the targets, whether they believe it themselves or not is immaterial: they're accepted by others who happily suspend disbelief to take them at face value and those who are gullible enough to believe in cannibalistic congressmen, angels or Trump's promises.
Weather is not climate and Global warming doesn't mean that everywhere gets warmer all the time; the term "climate change" is better as it discourages such misunderstandings.
How about Shazam on Android - does that listen all the time? Is there anything to prevent any Android app from listening all the time once you give it permission?
I recently saw a professional production of Macbeth with a black actor in the role. Not unusual nowadays and no big deal. A good actor can transcend race and gender.
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Isn't that called a daiquiri?
You want me to turn the lights on, motherfucker? Turn your own goddamn lights on.
I'm sorry but the SI unit is the Wales.
It's not the same without Chris Evans.
Edgar Maddison Welch? Is that you, Edgar Maddison Welch?
Edgar Maddison Welch, you get right back in the bell curve this instant, you hear me?
the Trump transition team
The question is, transition to what? Nobody knows, not even Trump.
With Carson in charge, expect many more new public buildings to be pyramid shaped, possibly with monumental stone statues of the (shudder) President.
Moon landing deniers have occasionally had their free speech abruptly curtailed in real life.
Maybe Euro-humour from someone whose first language isn't English.
Some of the reviews are funny. My favourite is,
"Not safe if you have cats in the house."
A few comments say that the shiny Trump bauble is made in China but that can't be right can it?
Here's an example of the wacky world of Julian Assange:
John Pilger:
You get complaints from people saying, 'What is WikiLeaks doing? Are they trying to put Trump in the Whitehouse?'
Julian Assange:
My answer is that Trump would not be permitted to win.
What finished Castro off was a nightmare he had of dozens of gold-plated high rise Trump casinos looming over Cuba's beaches.
The average work week gives no information about regional or any other variations let alone individual circumstances. There are many who can't work as many hours as they need or have to work too many hours to make a living.
When robots started replacing humans in the factories, there was talk that we were entering a new age of freedom where we'd only have to work three days a week and there'd be prosperity and leisure for all.
What happened instead was, the jobs went and the ex-workers were left to fend for themselves and their families as best they could, which in an area with fewer jobs and less wealth was often 'not very well'.
The farm jobs will go and the only share of the benefits of efficiency which the ex-farmers will see is that their food might be a bit cheaper.
Electric vehicles and solar power are a massive threat to the internal combustion engine and fossil fuels. This is about money as much as it's about politics. One question is whether it's being done to manipulate the share price for short term profits or to damage Musk and his businesses in the long term. Probably both, because why not?
"4Chan effectively unearthed a strange network of high-powered people who, through art, events and social media, actually celebrate a culture that revolves around death, torture, cannibalism and ⦠child abuse." (From that "shocking" NSFW page).
It reminds me of the panic in the 80s where various medics and social workers (often Christian) decided that Satanic rituals involving all that stuff was going on and lots of families' lives were ruined until it was discovered that the allegations were nonsense (alright have it your way, until it was covered up and the witnesses killed and eaten). They were trained professionals too, not random denizens of the internet. You could also go back to the Salem witch trials.
These stories originate with those who actively want to harm the targets, whether they believe it themselves or not is immaterial: they're accepted by others who happily suspend disbelief to take them at face value and those who are gullible enough to believe in cannibalistic congressmen, angels or Trump's promises.
I've always assumed that "can't be arsed" is a Southern corruption of the Northern "can't be asked" but I was never interested enough to look it up.
Sorry we passed peak Truth a while ago and are rapidly entering the post-truth era, the Postfactocene.
Weather is not climate and Global warming doesn't mean that everywhere gets warmer all the time; the term "climate change" is better as it discourages such misunderstandings.
How about Shazam on Android - does that listen all the time? Is there anything to prevent any Android app from listening all the time once you give it permission?
Yes but they'll be wireless treadle sewing machines with LEDs and USB ports.
49% do use Facebook. The only minority in that poll was the 3% other.
Sorry, that was a bit insensitive. I did contribute the last twice this topic came up on Slashdot but went for the easy gag this time.
It's ok as long as they don't black up.
I recently saw a professional production of Macbeth with a black actor in the role. Not unusual nowadays and no big deal. A good actor can transcend race and gender.
Though the autopilot inexplicably insists on driving to England.