With all problems at the border, in public education, debt and so on they chose to take on porn sites? Why?
Your state government can't do more than one thing at a time?
And speaking of the Border, Texas IS trying to do something about it, all while the Biden Administration sues them, trying to prevent them from doing anything about the border.
Do not look down on trades. If you're motivated and smart you can do as good if not better there than in most other career paths you can mention, and their job security moving forward is absolutely guaranteed.
I am in no way looking down on the trades. I'm an admirer of men that do such jobs, and I consider those jobs both highly important, and well-deserving of high compensation. My point is that some people are not cut out for various fields, and while people doing trades are in no way "dumb" (in addition to skill, many trades require a lot of knowledge and more than a good bit of practical math that average people would probably struggle with), they're still not cut out to do things like software development, which takes different mental talents.
Bottom line.... just as that, contrary to what we tell our kids, not everyone can be an astronaut or President, not everyone is cut out for CS or high-knowledge white collar jobs. And that's the larger problem: the media, politicians, high schools, etc, seem to think that CS and software development IS something that anyone can do, that it IS a field where any coal miner can learn to be a programmer with a few weeks of classes.
Learn what in trade school? IT? Then maybe. In California, a plumber's median income is 50k. A construction worker
A software engineer... not just a basic programmer, but a real, full-stack software developer... isn't comparable to a plumber or concrete tech, though. So the comparison is a bit unfair. Those are skilled jobs, but a full-stack developer with a CS degree is more like a CPA, a white collar professional. One of the reasons that CPA and devs make the kind of money they do is that most people don't have the cranial firepower to do them... or there'd be more devs and CPA's. Which is also another reason why it's batshit silly to require CS to graduate high school. It's part of the same mindset that said "every child is an undiscovered math prodigy" that we saw in the 80's and 90's. Again, it's just not the case.
We have a LOT of people in IT that shouldn't be (just like college), and to a great extent they're in the field because guidance counselors and parents seem to think that anyone can be a network admin, or sysadmin, or dev, etc. And many would be better suited learning welding, plumbing, or some other skill.
How on earth would it pay out more than it takes in? That's impossible. You don't actually want a payout. Do you not understand the point of insurance?
Some insurance sectors don't make their profits on premiums. They make money by investing premium income somewhere else, and that money puts them in the black. This is especially the case in the reinsurance market.
Ariane's main purpose is to ensure that the EU always has its own launch capability, for security reasons.
LOL, Ariane's main purpose is to ensure French domination of European space launch.
Ugh. Don't give this stuff exposure. "Tired light" has a similar status in physics as "Electric universe"and other cranky theories.
"Cranky" and "Brilliant" are a thin line in physics. Remember, we have people that swear the universe is made up of a bunch of vibrating strings. They can't prove it, but they're held in high esteem anyway.
Dark matter is also a new explanation to make observations fit theory. You can't claim "we know" how things work. We don't know anything, we can only check if a model fits with data or not.
The whole notion of Dark Matter struck me as a kludge because cosmologists had what they thought was a beautiful model, and just couldn't quite deal with the numbers not adding up.
Essentially, "the math doesn't work, so we'll insert X here, and hey look, now it works" without having to actually prove X exists.
Exactly. You don't want a pic like that floating around on the internet. What if you run for public office one day?
If we're talking American politics, that isn't exactly the career killer it once was. I don't think we're too far off from politicians including links to their OnlyFans.
We'll have a stripper, prostitute (real, not metaphorical), or porn star in a federal or major state office in the next decade. I'll guarantee it. Probably out of Vegas or Southern California. And yes, OnlyFans will be involved.
... and with all that time on his hands maybe he can stay out of trouble.
Now that he's in jail, he'll get his, in the end.
"The All-Father wove the skein of your life a long time ago. Go and hide in a hole if you wish, but you won't live one instant longer. Your fate is fixed. Fear profits a man nothing. " - Herger the Joyous, The Thirteenth Warrior
Drug decriminalization only really works when you have the social support structures in place to prevent most people from turning to drugs in the first place. You know, things like free/affordable higher education, well-paying jobs, healthcare, affordable housing - the stuff that's typically present in places which have had success stories with drug decriminalization campaigns.
Let people do drugs in good ol' late stage capitalism America and well, yeah, what happened in Oregon is what you'll get.
Drug abuse doesn't exist because all your expenses aren't free. Drug abuse exists because a significant number of people that wanted to try the thrill of drugs liked it so much that they're unwilling to stop. That's it. That's the total reason. Addiction has been around long before there was even a concept of wealth.
"Oh no, society isn't giving me free tuition to Yale, so I'll become a heroin addict instead" isn't a thing.
Speaking from personal experience, there are some people who just don't want to stop drinking or using.
Same for many other social ills, like homelessness. There are a considerable amount of people that, no matter what you offer them, they're going to make bad choices. For those people, society's only option is law enforcement.
How do you feel about Mark Kelly? Obviously he doesn't go back to the moonshot era, but he's an astronaut and a former Navy captain.
Absolutely not. He's a gun-grabber.
Maybe, but it won't help. The oxygen would be washed away by solar wind. The liquid metal core of our planet protects us for the same thing, but Mars no longer has a liquid metal core.
Wouldn't that make all the dreams of Terraforming Mars a waste of time?
Isn't that exactly how Putin got Trump elected? Carefully releasing leaks on Hillary, all true and carefully cherry-picked, even if obtained illegally.
Putin didn't get Trump elected.
You did.
People like you... and servicescopeminor, and all the rest of the "Trumpanzee" screamers... pushed voters in his direction. He told them that people like you were arrogant asses that looked down on them, and hated everything about them. And you've taken every opportunity to prove him right. In politics, culture, religion, you name it, you guys have been gleefully poking those people with a stick for years. And when Trump was elected, you simply couldn't bring yourselves to believe that it was because he had genuine support. It HAD to be a conspiracy. Putin did it. Or aliens. Or whatever. Further reinforcing what Trump had been saying all along.
But by all means, continue. There's another election coming up. By all means continue to call them rubes and Trumpanzees and whatever mockery you can come up with. You keep poking them with that stick, and then are shocked, shocked I tell you, when they yank it out of your hands and smash you with it.
If you think the system is working, ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.
