If Elon Musks wants to help the US military, all he has to do is start paying taxes and compete for government contracts based on merit rather than gladhanding politicians.
Is this really a bad thing? It isn't a cost, this is an extra billion dollars in revenue for hospitals. This means the hospitals can hire more doctors/nurses, expand their hours, buy new medical devices, etc etc. Unlike…
I recently figured out buying a pack of gum at the closest grocery store and using cash-back at the register is actually a cheaper way to get cash than the ATM outside the store charging $3 for a withdrawal. I dare…
Thats my point, the law has not caught up to new forms of gambling. The fact its legal to bet on whether another human being will live or die is not due to society condoning it. It's because when laws against such…
Just because gambling in general is legal doesn't mean every possible gambling event is legal. If someone got caught hosting a dog fight, they don't get off the hook because gambling is legal. I can't think of a single…
You realize that without the door it would be even more obvious whether the stall is occupied?
I agree completely, the game would get boring if things didn't constantly change. It was more-so the way they'd go about it, not the general sales strategy. Perhaps I should have said overpowered, typically they'd…
I used to play warhammer when I was younger and am honestly astounded gamesworkshop is still in business let alone one of Britain's biggest companies. At least in the 00s and 2010s, they were the epitome of a greedy…
Trump has been very open in his admiration of Andrew Jackson and emulating him. Its no mystry what would happen to the Greenlanders if Trump took Greenland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears
We had the capability to capture Iraq and Afghanistan too. Occupying a territory is the actual hard point. For one, Greenland is in the middle of nowhere compared to everywhere else the US has to keep eyes on, whereas…
Wouldn't they just burn down again?.. if this were any other properties besides high-priced real estate, people would be up in arms at the thought of government prioritizing rebuilding homes in wildfire zones.
Thank you for this comment! I am not a resident of California, I just read the news and the complaints I hear from people who do live there tend to sync up. I still have very little sympathy for the calls to outrage but…
So apparently the mass homeless crisis, forest fires, mismanaged water rights, declining schools, healthcare being taken away... all of that was just background noise until suddenly the state has crossed a line…
The alternative, letting the deficit grow while continuing to cut taxes, hasn't worked out either though
My first reaction was almost "what else is new" but truth is that republicans and the left have mostly been in agreement about stopping politicians using insider information to play the market. This kind of thing only…
I'm struggling to find an academic source to provide any level of detail beyond confirming this basic fact, but Germany and Britain's economic ties before WW1 were actually not too different. They were rivals but also…
"Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below middle-school level increased nearly thirtyfold, reaching roughly one in eight members of the entering cohort." How is this even possible? Its…
I have a hunch California is going to a more competitive state next election cycle than people are assuming. Several democrats I know there are absolutely open to voting independent/republican and the tech industry…
Fascinating! It seems very far fetched to think this could lead to an ecosystem change, since deserts are very large and can't be covered in solar panels, and even a small layer of topsoil takes hundreds of years to…
What you're describing is a system thats producing bad outcomes while working as intended.
Supporting victims of sexual assault is not a convincing argument for voting Cuomo..
Since the US has shuttered USAID which distrubutes food for humanitarian reasons, and made massive cuts to domestic healthcare program, this is indeed the logic of the current administration
Probably because free market solutions were as much an ideology as it was an economic system. The average joe has been told since Reagan that lower taxes for the wealthiest businesses and people, deregulation and…
This administration has openly embraced the fossil fuel industry, even promising a quid pro quo to lobbyists last year. Its not surprising they'd remove incentives for fuel efficiency. The less miles per gallon a car…
In my experience this is dead on. People have short attention spans but this has been happning the whole 21st century. In 2008 Obama won the primary despite the best efforts of leadership to nominate clinton. They even…
If Elon Musks wants to help the US military, all he has to do is start paying taxes and compete for government contracts based on merit rather than gladhanding politicians.
Is this really a bad thing? It isn't a cost, this is an extra billion dollars in revenue for hospitals. This means the hospitals can hire more doctors/nurses, expand their hours, buy new medical devices, etc etc. Unlike…
I recently figured out buying a pack of gum at the closest grocery store and using cash-back at the register is actually a cheaper way to get cash than the ATM outside the store charging $3 for a withdrawal. I dare…
Thats my point, the law has not caught up to new forms of gambling. The fact its legal to bet on whether another human being will live or die is not due to society condoning it. It's because when laws against such…
Just because gambling in general is legal doesn't mean every possible gambling event is legal. If someone got caught hosting a dog fight, they don't get off the hook because gambling is legal. I can't think of a single…
You realize that without the door it would be even more obvious whether the stall is occupied?
I agree completely, the game would get boring if things didn't constantly change. It was more-so the way they'd go about it, not the general sales strategy. Perhaps I should have said overpowered, typically they'd…
I used to play warhammer when I was younger and am honestly astounded gamesworkshop is still in business let alone one of Britain's biggest companies. At least in the 00s and 2010s, they were the epitome of a greedy…
Trump has been very open in his admiration of Andrew Jackson and emulating him. Its no mystry what would happen to the Greenlanders if Trump took Greenland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears
We had the capability to capture Iraq and Afghanistan too. Occupying a territory is the actual hard point. For one, Greenland is in the middle of nowhere compared to everywhere else the US has to keep eyes on, whereas…
Wouldn't they just burn down again?.. if this were any other properties besides high-priced real estate, people would be up in arms at the thought of government prioritizing rebuilding homes in wildfire zones.
Thank you for this comment! I am not a resident of California, I just read the news and the complaints I hear from people who do live there tend to sync up. I still have very little sympathy for the calls to outrage but…
So apparently the mass homeless crisis, forest fires, mismanaged water rights, declining schools, healthcare being taken away... all of that was just background noise until suddenly the state has crossed a line…
The alternative, letting the deficit grow while continuing to cut taxes, hasn't worked out either though
My first reaction was almost "what else is new" but truth is that republicans and the left have mostly been in agreement about stopping politicians using insider information to play the market. This kind of thing only…
I'm struggling to find an academic source to provide any level of detail beyond confirming this basic fact, but Germany and Britain's economic ties before WW1 were actually not too different. They were rivals but also…
"Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below middle-school level increased nearly thirtyfold, reaching roughly one in eight members of the entering cohort." How is this even possible? Its…
I have a hunch California is going to a more competitive state next election cycle than people are assuming. Several democrats I know there are absolutely open to voting independent/republican and the tech industry…
Fascinating! It seems very far fetched to think this could lead to an ecosystem change, since deserts are very large and can't be covered in solar panels, and even a small layer of topsoil takes hundreds of years to…
What you're describing is a system thats producing bad outcomes while working as intended.
Supporting victims of sexual assault is not a convincing argument for voting Cuomo..
Since the US has shuttered USAID which distrubutes food for humanitarian reasons, and made massive cuts to domestic healthcare program, this is indeed the logic of the current administration
Probably because free market solutions were as much an ideology as it was an economic system. The average joe has been told since Reagan that lower taxes for the wealthiest businesses and people, deregulation and…
This administration has openly embraced the fossil fuel industry, even promising a quid pro quo to lobbyists last year. Its not surprising they'd remove incentives for fuel efficiency. The less miles per gallon a car…
In my experience this is dead on. People have short attention spans but this has been happning the whole 21st century. In 2008 Obama won the primary despite the best efforts of leadership to nominate clinton. They even…