I responded to a comment asking why a national politician would choose a side in a conflict. My response was that her political party has picked a side to support by a wide majority.
Republicans support Israel in this conflict almost universally. Haley’s support of Israel isn’t controversial in her own party.
This wasn’t a statement on the morality of the conflict, but of the political support of the belligerents. Republicans support Israel.
I’ve lived under a rock for 10 years. I did Metro ages ago while most were still on contracts. Surely we’ve reached true capitalist open market freedom by now. Is it still total closed market, noncompetitive, privateering corruption?
Yeah. It gets to whether you are a heavy data user or not. I use data a lot, so it makes sense for me to get an unlimited plan. I know others don’t, so it makes more sense for them to use pay as you go.
It is obvious that no one really thought through the implications of transporters when they were created for TOS. Later, someone came up with the technology behind and it sounds horrific, but no one really understood the implications.
Even by TNG era, there was enough understanding of the idea of transporters where a species could have created a Moon like method of supplying labor, with workers being “beamed out” after their service and enough positions filled with different patterns enough to fool the crew.
Plus it would be cool if you could recommend some particular essential non-fiction books that should be taught in schools, or that people should read if they didn’t read them in school.
I feel like “A Diary of Anne Frank” would be the only non-fiction non-textbook books read in high school.
Textbooks are going to digest various sources for history class; it is usually rare that high school history requires reading primary sources.
English is generally going to require reading fiction. There may be persuasive essays like “A Modest Proposal”, but not a whole book because the analysis done in English doesn’t lend itself to non-fiction.
College is usually when more primary sources are assigned for reading.
On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.
There are natural resources out there that the land owners want to extract. Washington’s and Oregon’s environmental law is far more stringent than Idaho’s.
The United States formed as a group of semi-sovereign political entities that wanted to make their own laws, but needed a common defense, foreign, and trade policy to prevent recolonization.
The founding fathers knew that the country wouldn’t agree on everything, so they set up a system where a lot of decisions would be made by more local officials.
Other federations work on the same principle. It is a lot easier to get political consensus in a smaller group than a larger one, so a lot of decisions are pushed to more local entities.
I wonder if this is the harbinger of a bunch of companies breaking up after decades of consolidation.
It isn’t consolidation, per se.
A lot of these older industrial companies had R&D tied to their businesses that would come up with random new product lines that could go from consumer goods to heavy industrial purposes. At that time, these companies would create new divisions to sell the new products.
Over time, the different product lines became more specialized and R&D for one division wasn’t helping other divisions like it used to. At that point, you would have a holding company effectively manage several wildly different companies that just happened to share some base technology.
At that point, it made more sense to break up these companies since the synergy for keeping these companies under one corporate board was lost and the management issues became too high.
And most water restricted states have had laws regarding the building of new golf courses for at least a generation, including more conservative states like Arizona. There is also a legally set system for water rights based on who first developed the land.
And it isn’t like other parts of the USA don’t have ecological risks of their own.
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
In my field, I’ve seen how computers have changed work and I expect AI to just be a continuation of it. The people who generally get replaced are the skilled labor and the unskilled professionals. I expect that trend will continue as AI gets integrated into the field. Even then, there is still going to be a lot of work regarding verification.
TL;DR: Antec is going to be selling a Steam Deck competitive device, based on the Ayaneo Slide. The device has a slide up screen that reveals a keyboard, which is good because using desktop windows is much easier with a keyboard. However the device’s lowest estimated power draw at low/no load is 15w, meaning it will use...
I get the point. The problem is that Google/Alphabet is the only company that you listed that does better with a decentralized Internet instead of walled gardens like Meta and X.
Nikki Haley writes ‘finish them’ on IDF artillery shells during Israel visit (www.theguardian.com)
Given the resources to accomplish it, what wildly impractical project would you finally pursue?
Does the USA have any open market cellular options that are legitimate pay-as-you-go and only for what you use options like Europe yet?
I’ve lived under a rock for 10 years. I did Metro ages ago while most were still on contracts. Surely we’ve reached true capitalist open market freedom by now. Is it still total closed market, noncompetitive, privateering corruption?
The Trouble with Transporters [CGP Grey video] (youtu.be)
Sims 4 devs assemble team to focus on fixing bugs and upping performance (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
My school and high school never had us read any non-fiction books (only fiction)? Do you agree this is a problem and if so why or why not?
Plus it would be cool if you could recommend some particular essential non-fiction books that should be taught in schools, or that people should read if they didn’t read them in school.
Greater Idaho movement: 13 counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede and join Idaho (ktvz.com)
On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.
Dupont is splitting into 3 organizations. (www.cnn.com)
In one of the US’s hottest deserts, utilities push gas rather than solar (www.theguardian.com)
In Fort Mohave, Arizona, even Republican voters are fighting gas power plants as utilities try to lock in fossil fuels...
X Confirms Plan to Make 'Likes' Private, Remove Likes Tab From Profiles (www.macrumors.com)
In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?
With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...
Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives (www.pcguide.com)
TL;DR: Antec is going to be selling a Steam Deck competitive device, based on the Ayaneo Slide. The device has a slide up screen that reveals a keyboard, which is good because using desktop windows is much easier with a keyboard. However the device’s lowest estimated power draw at low/no load is 15w, meaning it will use...
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What is the point of cruel and deadly border policies if employers could just be penalized for hiring unauthorized labor all along?