More than that, people are actually leaving.

It takes a lot to make people leave. Usually it's an idle threat to avoid being taxed, but once you start really messing with people - taking away their healthcare, deporting members of their families, destroying their research, that sort of thing - you start to see people with the skills and the motivation actually doing it.

The US tried that in Afghanistan. They had drone pilots in nice air conditioned offices in the US, flying over Afghanistan. Some of them got PTSD, made worse because when a soldier is on the battlefield they at least feel like killing is justified to ensure their own survival, or as revenge for what the enemy did to them and their comrades. Sat in an office thousands of kilometres away though, it's harder to rationalize.

The Afghans started to put big pictures of children on the ground near civilian targets to discourage the drone operators from firing on them too. A lot of civilians were killed, either accidentally as of "collateral damage".

There is some truth in it. Fossil fuel interests support nuclear because every time a new plant is announced it means 25+ years more gas or coal while waiting for it to become available. It means the grid won't be transitioned away from big central generation for another few decades.

And then there are the ones who are just bizarrely obsessed with nuclear power, like MacMann. I don't know what's up with them.

As it mentions in the summary, it's not full self driving, it's just driver aids that are common in cars now. Cruise control that automatically maintains the distance to the car in front. Automatic emergency braking. Self parking and summon. The only bit specific to scooters is the self balancing. It seems like it only works at low speed and uses the steering system to do it, not a gyro or something like that.

None of the bad DC movies were bad because they were "woke". They were just badly written on a technical level, and the stories were not that interesting. There was clearly a requirement from on high to make them into franchise set-up vehicles. The early Marvel stuff that was actually good worked because they were good movies by themselves, and most of the new stuff is bad in no small part because it's just there to set up the next thing.

The Snider ones had their own issues of course.

Gunn seems to have the formula. Movies that are good as stand alone stories, and he leans into the silliness of the comics. Peacemaker is a great example - low level criminal who for some reason that is never explained has access to sci-fi level weaponry from the pocket dimension accessible from his old white supremacist dad's house.

And ironically that show was actually kinda woke, at least as far as it mocked both white supremacists and gullible believe-everything-they-read-on-Facebook types. It's not the wokeness that is the issue, it's just plain old bad writing.

I'm not familiar with that particular case, but they might just be NIMBYs. For example the panned Severn Barrier, which would use tidal energy to produce electricity and combine it with a barrier that can hold water back and thus shift availability to match demand, has been objected to on all sorts of grounds. Actual environmentalists Friends of the Earth supported it. While there would be some disruption to wildlife, it would also create new habitats, and most importantly it would displace a lot of other sources of electricity that are far worse.

Generally speaking the UK is crap at infrastructure. It takes forever, it almost always goes over budget, and it almost always gets botched. It's a political problem and it's unfixable without radical changes to the UK political landscape.

Tides are at different times in different parts of the UK, let alone in wider Europe. They can always be used with tidal barriers to shift supply, as is being planned in the UK for the Severn. The fact that it is completely predictable and not subject to any weather also means that shifting demand to meet availability is as simple as setting a timer.

It's an excellent solution.

Kind of surprised that it's over half a gigabyte. I guess there are a lot of drivers for storage interfaces in there, but beyond that it's only using basic text for the interface, isn't it?

I suppose maybe they thought that as long as it fits on a CD there isn't any point trying to optimize the size.

The ICJ already ruled that what is happening is prima facie genocide. It's an accurate legal term.

Simply put the additional debt with out tax increases that goes straight to the 1% is going to spook the bond market.

The government can borrow as much money as it wants as long as it's pouring it right back into the economy because it comes right back out.

The trouble with Trump is that he's going to borrow $5 trillion dollars and just hand it to the top 1%, who will use it too by a competitors and jack up prices.

The bond market rightfully understands that's a recipe for disaster so they will invert the yield curves and basically crash the bond market.

That will weaken the US dollar increasing the price of imports and The increased inflation coupled with high interest rates and the constant layoffs that plague our entire economic system will lead to a massive crash.

This is before we talk about all the deregulation that's going on that leaves Wall Street open to do pretty much anything they want.

I've said it before but half the people reading this or going to be home listen 4 years, maybe six depending on how much equity they have in their house before the bank takes it. They'll get you with the healthcare system. You'll lose your job and you'll need healthcare so you'll mortgage your house to pay for it. You won't be able to get Medicaid either and there won't be any work for somebody pushing 50. But the system will be designed to prevent you from accessing healthcare unless you have a job, which as I mentioned above you can't get. So you will mortgage your house to pay for the medicine that keeps you alive and then eventually fall behind until the bank takes it.

And that seizure of property is going to be how we get our first trillionaire.

It's entirely possible the person you're replying to really isn't living in the same world as you. There's a phenomenon from last year called sane washing where the entire news media protects Donald Trump and the Republican party at all costs and anyone who threatens them gets fired immediately.

I watched dozens of journalists fired last year for trying to call Donald Trump to task on the things he's said and done

Stephen Miller wants them arresting 3,000 people a day when they're barely doing that in a month. It's why they keep pulling actual US citizens off the streets.

Seriously if you have a tan you could easily find yourself locked up for two or three weeks. Let alone if you are actually Latino or Hispanic. And they could care less if you are a US citizen.

Also the whole thing is really there to get us used to having a heavily militarized police just kind of walking around. We are gradually being conditioned to expect people in full camo with covered faces and assault rifles walking around our cities as if it's normal. It's another aspect of project 2025.

It's a scam just like recycling his old scam to keep the plastic industry going.

One of the things that frustrates me is an adult is how we have all these bizarre fucked up scams that make up our civilization and society that we all just kind of shrug our shoulders at and allow.

It's the old boiling of frog trick. If you took a kid and you told them how dishonest adults are they'd be pretty fucking pissed but you grow up learning one scam after another.

The one that got me first as a kid was Christopher Columbus and finding out he was an absolute monster. Like Adolf Hitler grade son of a bitch. There are plenty of others though.

Most notably the h1b. So if you make good money you can expect that none of this is going to have any effect on you. We are rounding up a whole bunch of Mexicans and Hispanics, honestly mostly Hispanics Mexico's median income has been going up, who work in low tier shit jobs but we are still bringing in a fuck ton people to take middle class jobs.

Also Trump is already working on figuring out how to bring in more people on little skill work visas without pissing off his base. The bill he passed that cuts somewhere around 15 million people off Medicaid is extremely unpopular, so he waited until after the midterms. But the fact that he passed it anyway indicates that he's not going to need any votes in 2028. And no that's not because it's his second term. We will be seeing a third term of trump unless he happens to die.

The only thing I find hilarious, and it's going to get me down modded into pulp, is that in case you were wondering why all these numbskulls voted to get rid of the workers they needed for their farms it's because they're kind of racist and they thought that the black people would come back to the plantations as it were.

Russia barely has an air force. They're corrupt government had been basically pocketing the money for their military for the last 20 years and so it turned out they didn't really have the kind of air force that could overwhelm a country.

It is extremely impressive though what Ukraine has done here. Even with all the corruption Russia does still have a hell of a lot of weapons and a hell of a lot more people. Although it is telling that they keep pulling North Koreans and I think now people of Laos into The fray rather than risk a full-scale draft for this useless war.

Remember all failing empires eventually try to expand their borders in order to fill their emptying coffers caused by incompetence and corruption. America will be there eventually. When it happens you can expect a draft.