Ssshhh. The adults are talking.
That's how science works: theory / test / amend.
There isn't much disagreement about climate change now unless the people disagreeing are being paid to.
Government's don't actually created money anymore by printing it. They just transfer a number into an account held by another bank who then lends it. Or they spend a few billion in a war or three and just transfer digital money to accounts to pay for it.
They don't send truckloads of paper money anywhere.
Yes, it is. Deisel particulates are a major health hazard. This is no secret.
Maybe you're assuming perfect maintenance? We all know many deisels are poorly maintained. The black clouds as they go up hills make that more than obvious.
I own an electric car.
It costs me about $2 / day for 50 miles / 80kms of driving.
It's mechanical simplicity requires almost do servicing beyond tires and brakes.... and not much brake wear because regen shows the car down most of the time, creating power as you drive.
It's no contest. There are only people who know it because they already live it and people who don't know it yet.
But you make it so obvious Americans like you are asshats.
This has consequences for your neighbors when they travel. But you don't think about that. Americans bring unable to think has a lot to do with why students and everyone else is less inclined to subject themselves to such dumbness.
It's you. You're the America they see as stupid and not worth a visit.
Airfares to the US from many countries are being heavily discounted because fewer people want to go there, or even through there. Right now, travelers from Australia and New Zealand (minimum 12 hour flights) can get fares to LA, SF or Houston for as little as $500, less than half price. But flying to Vancouver in Canada costs more than usual and flights full up rapidly. This is partly due to the US requirng everyone to apply for a visa (even if from "visa-waiver" countries) just to transit the US - sit in a room at the airport behind security waiting for an onward flight to another country. Most countries treat transit passengers as nor really there.
For many years the US has also required travelers transiting the US to other countries to fully enter the country, collect their bags, recheck them, and go through Customs and Immigration and security twice just to board their flight to the onward country. They never leave the airport. Now there is Trump and daily masd murders by guns and the true insanity of doing nothing to stop it. Just lots of useless prayers.
It's a hot, ugly mess of unbelievable stupidity with no end in sight. Why would anyone want to visit that? More and more just don't.
Much easier, safer and less tiresome to just go elsewhere.
This is just one more way the Trump Administration (and GOP generally) is making the US irrelevant. The rest of the world is moving to electric cars. G W Bush started the process that sees other countries route around American backwardness when he lied about WMD and invaded Iraq........and Trump is causing that process to be resumed and accelerating that process (after a brief recess while Obama was president).
The rest of the developed world looks at the US with its denial of human-triggered climate change, its massacre-a-day gun dumbness, its lack of universal public health care (a no-brainer elsewhere) and now the utter moron and the gang of stooges in the White House.....and is resolved to just get on with what needs doing. Having China on board is putting the US in the back seat (moving toward the trunk).....more and more. Leadership has already moved elsewhere. The US is increasingly a backwater.
Absolutely those US states who are taking measures on their own are supported everywhere outside the US.
It's interesting to note airlines heavily discounting airfares to the US. Fewer and fewer people want to go anywhere near the place. It's being wrecked by (literally) terminal stupidity on a mass scale.
This bogus article doesn't mention the biggest source of nickel of them all: the huge asteroid buried under Sudbury, Canada, that crashed to Earth long ago. We've been mining it for decades.
As for cobalt, we buy oil ffrom Saudi Arabia. They don't come much worse than that.
We are well used to paying thugs fior things we want. We've been doing it for a century.
I've worked with two kinds of older workers in IT and they are very different.
One kind is the kind who like the way they do things and they want to keep doing it that way. "New programming language? Why? That means starting all over. Too busy. Too hard. Let's just do it in the language I know Really well." You may have met these people. They end up making themselves obselete. They just happen to be older. More of a coincidence.
The other sort of older worker is always looking for the next cool thing. Always reaching into the future for new opportunities and new possibilities. These people tend to stay relevant.
In my experience, the first sort also tend to drink booze. I don't know what it is, but I've seen the pattern. Over time - 15- 20 years - a couple of beers every night seems to undermine the ability to learn new things. Dulls the curiosity. Some people attribute this to age, but I've known people who don't drink and they seem to retain the curiosity and learning capacity much better than the other sort as time goes on.
So ageism isn't just about age. It can also be about the cumulative affect of all those little choices we make every day about how much effort we put in to keeping up with new stuff.
Surely you'd put this data on your own cloud server / NAS and download AFTER you had arrived?
But a laptop when you arrive and take an hour to set it up. You go through Customs clean as a whistle.
Tax-funded salaries are the only thing that keeps the economy ticking over. They remain stable while everyone else gets screwed over. The pay isn't high, but it's generally reliable, unlike many private sector jobs these days. McDonald's is just the latest to move to impoverish people who already don't earn much.
No, it isn't. Those jobs would be automated at any wage.
Plus the wages are already to low to actually make a living anyway. You only get to choose the form of your poverty. The fact of it is being locked in by corporations and legislation. Plus tax cuts. They make it impossible to support the victims of this kind of job destruction. Whether they worked hard or not..... Makes no difference.
Reality proved your theory wrong long ago.
When good jobs were lost, many people resort to lower paying jobs in the service industry.... Places like Mcdonalds.
With McDonald's destroying those jobs you're going to be left with a lot of people not working.
The last time this happened at large scale was the 2002-2008 time period where literally millions of jobs in the West moved to China. The loss of those jobs - and the jobs of people who used to sell stuff to those people - was one of the main reason people defaulted on their loans and we saw the financial crash.
Sure the banks had dodgy lending criteria...... And they needed to as the number of people with good incomes was shrinking..... And you just couldn't grow "good" loans anymore.
For the record, I saw this coming from 2003 onward. I planned for it. It happened as I expected. The "experts" weren't looking at what happens when you destroy millions of jobs and replace them with....... Lower paying jobs. Cutting taxes at the same time was just pouring gas on the fire.
This round of job destruction will see even those lower paying jobs shrink in number. It won't take much at macro scale to have a huge impact. It's already happening. Millennials are giving up and walking away from an economy they doesn't want them.
Only the residual wealth of their parents, earned in another time, obscures this.
What jobs do you think will be created? Or are you just employing magical thinking based on faith in neo-liberal voodoo economics? That's been shown to be a very bad thing to do. We can see that every day in announcements like this.
That's utter bullshit. The President has the authority to sign up to internatonal agreements. It happens all the time. They even start wars, despite the fact the Constitution explicitly says they can't.
There hasn't been a "legal" war for over 50 years, but the US is constantly engaged in wars.
Similarly the UN Charter, which *is* a fully ratified Treaty and thus US law. G W Bush pissed on it when he invaded Iraq. No one was held to account for that, then or now.
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They are only "alarmists" to you because you don't want to pay any attention to their prudent warnings. So you call them names.
Ssshhh. The adults are talking. That's how science works: theory / test / amend. There isn't much disagreement about climate change now unless the people disagreeing are being paid to.
Government's don't actually created money anymore by printing it. They just transfer a number into an account held by another bank who then lends it. Or they spend a few billion in a war or three and just transfer digital money to accounts to pay for it. They don't send truckloads of paper money anywhere.
Yes, it is. Deisel particulates are a major health hazard. This is no secret. Maybe you're assuming perfect maintenance? We all know many deisels are poorly maintained. The black clouds as they go up hills make that more than obvious.
I own an electric car. It costs me about $2 / day for 50 miles / 80kms of driving. It's mechanical simplicity requires almost do servicing beyond tires and brakes.... and not much brake wear because regen shows the car down most of the time, creating power as you drive. It's no contest. There are only people who know it because they already live it and people who don't know it yet.
Continuation bias will see millions eaten by this metaphorical wolf.
But you make it so obvious Americans like you are asshats. This has consequences for your neighbors when they travel. But you don't think about that. Americans bring unable to think has a lot to do with why students and everyone else is less inclined to subject themselves to such dumbness. It's you. You're the America they see as stupid and not worth a visit.
Airfares to the US from many countries are being heavily discounted because fewer people want to go there, or even through there. Right now, travelers from Australia and New Zealand (minimum 12 hour flights) can get fares to LA, SF or Houston for as little as $500, less than half price. But flying to Vancouver in Canada costs more than usual and flights full up rapidly. This is partly due to the US requirng everyone to apply for a visa (even if from "visa-waiver" countries) just to transit the US - sit in a room at the airport behind security waiting for an onward flight to another country. Most countries treat transit passengers as nor really there. For many years the US has also required travelers transiting the US to other countries to fully enter the country, collect their bags, recheck them, and go through Customs and Immigration and security twice just to board their flight to the onward country. They never leave the airport. Now there is Trump and daily masd murders by guns and the true insanity of doing nothing to stop it. Just lots of useless prayers. It's a hot, ugly mess of unbelievable stupidity with no end in sight. Why would anyone want to visit that? More and more just don't. Much easier, safer and less tiresome to just go elsewhere.
Yeah because Windows always works exactly the way users want it to. Sorry. Tried not to laugh. Failed.
Nothing works on Republicans. If 30,000+ gun deaths every year means nothing to them, they are functionally insane.
Chrome broke Chrome. I changed to Firefox.
"Virtue signalling" is a term asshats use to signal they are asshats.
This is just one more way the Trump Administration (and GOP generally) is making the US irrelevant. The rest of the world is moving to electric cars. G W Bush started the process that sees other countries route around American backwardness when he lied about WMD and invaded Iraq........and Trump is causing that process to be resumed and accelerating that process (after a brief recess while Obama was president). The rest of the developed world looks at the US with its denial of human-triggered climate change, its massacre-a-day gun dumbness, its lack of universal public health care (a no-brainer elsewhere) and now the utter moron and the gang of stooges in the White House.....and is resolved to just get on with what needs doing. Having China on board is putting the US in the back seat (moving toward the trunk).....more and more. Leadership has already moved elsewhere. The US is increasingly a backwater. Absolutely those US states who are taking measures on their own are supported everywhere outside the US. It's interesting to note airlines heavily discounting airfares to the US. Fewer and fewer people want to go anywhere near the place. It's being wrecked by (literally) terminal stupidity on a mass scale.
This bogus article doesn't mention the biggest source of nickel of them all: the huge asteroid buried under Sudbury, Canada, that crashed to Earth long ago. We've been mining it for decades. As for cobalt, we buy oil ffrom Saudi Arabia. They don't come much worse than that. We are well used to paying thugs fior things we want. We've been doing it for a century.
I've worked with two kinds of older workers in IT and they are very different. One kind is the kind who like the way they do things and they want to keep doing it that way. "New programming language? Why? That means starting all over. Too busy. Too hard. Let's just do it in the language I know Really well." You may have met these people. They end up making themselves obselete. They just happen to be older. More of a coincidence. The other sort of older worker is always looking for the next cool thing. Always reaching into the future for new opportunities and new possibilities. These people tend to stay relevant. In my experience, the first sort also tend to drink booze. I don't know what it is, but I've seen the pattern. Over time - 15- 20 years - a couple of beers every night seems to undermine the ability to learn new things. Dulls the curiosity. Some people attribute this to age, but I've known people who don't drink and they seem to retain the curiosity and learning capacity much better than the other sort as time goes on. So ageism isn't just about age. It can also be about the cumulative affect of all those little choices we make every day about how much effort we put in to keeping up with new stuff.
Surely you'd put this data on your own cloud server / NAS and download AFTER you had arrived? But a laptop when you arrive and take an hour to set it up. You go through Customs clean as a whistle.
Which CIA bureau do you work at?
Nailed it.
It is what it is.
Sadly.....yep.
Tax-funded salaries are the only thing that keeps the economy ticking over. They remain stable while everyone else gets screwed over. The pay isn't high, but it's generally reliable, unlike many private sector jobs these days. McDonald's is just the latest to move to impoverish people who already don't earn much.
No, it isn't. Those jobs would be automated at any wage. Plus the wages are already to low to actually make a living anyway. You only get to choose the form of your poverty. The fact of it is being locked in by corporations and legislation. Plus tax cuts. They make it impossible to support the victims of this kind of job destruction. Whether they worked hard or not..... Makes no difference.
Reality proved your theory wrong long ago. When good jobs were lost, many people resort to lower paying jobs in the service industry.... Places like Mcdonalds. With McDonald's destroying those jobs you're going to be left with a lot of people not working. The last time this happened at large scale was the 2002-2008 time period where literally millions of jobs in the West moved to China. The loss of those jobs - and the jobs of people who used to sell stuff to those people - was one of the main reason people defaulted on their loans and we saw the financial crash. Sure the banks had dodgy lending criteria...... And they needed to as the number of people with good incomes was shrinking..... And you just couldn't grow "good" loans anymore. For the record, I saw this coming from 2003 onward. I planned for it. It happened as I expected. The "experts" weren't looking at what happens when you destroy millions of jobs and replace them with....... Lower paying jobs. Cutting taxes at the same time was just pouring gas on the fire. This round of job destruction will see even those lower paying jobs shrink in number. It won't take much at macro scale to have a huge impact. It's already happening. Millennials are giving up and walking away from an economy they doesn't want them. Only the residual wealth of their parents, earned in another time, obscures this. What jobs do you think will be created? Or are you just employing magical thinking based on faith in neo-liberal voodoo economics? That's been shown to be a very bad thing to do. We can see that every day in announcements like this.
That's utter bullshit. The President has the authority to sign up to internatonal agreements. It happens all the time. They even start wars, despite the fact the Constitution explicitly says they can't. There hasn't been a "legal" war for over 50 years, but the US is constantly engaged in wars. Similarly the UN Charter, which *is* a fully ratified Treaty and thus US law. G W Bush pissed on it when he invaded Iraq. No one was held to account for that, then or now.
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