Pokemon cards are fun, but the real money is in healthcare. Imagine if I could buy up all the knee surgeries and sell them to millennials in 20 years. (Sorry, I don't accept Pokemon cards as payment)
Criticism of capitalism is communism, and communism is treason.
We're no longer allowed to discuss gender identity or systemic inequality in US schools, so there are worse offenses when it comes to free speech rights. (A right that very few countries recognize)
Take a number, in whatever representation form you wish, let's say it's a typical binary (base-2) representation of a positive integer. Add any value to it infinitely, 1 or billions, I don't care. Every state transition from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 takes a finite amount of energy. And every state takes physical space to store and represent (such as as an electric charge). You now need an infinite amount of energy and infinite amount of space. But don't worry, your machine won't survive that long as it will quickly take more energy to flip the bits than you can concentrate in an area of space. Your counting register turns into plasma even before that.
Infinite money machines are trivially easy.
No, they are literally impossible.
What you describe is a seemingly-infinite-money-machine.
It's an enemy state bent on Taiwan's destruction
If the Taiwanese had that viewpoint, and acted upon it, Taiwan would be a province of China again. Fortunately, Taiwanese people are smarter than you.
Not everyone agrees with you that what we are referencing can be described as, "handing someone a tool to manipulate you with."
The PRC is Taiwan's largest trading partner, and responsible for just about all of their tourism.
The relations between those two entities is very close. I know that doesn't fit your worldview, but that's your worldview's problem, not reality's.
In a similar vein I can't help but feel the argument over climate change for 30 years has been just a variation of this:
Cut it out? This is a discussion board. If you can't handle people providing their own opinion about your content, especially when it was a single post that wasn't attacking you, then stop posting. With the time you save, learn to meditate. You'll live longer.
I didn't attack your stupid opinion, I attacked your stupid reasoning.
So yes, please cut it the fuck out. The world is getting dumber at an already upsetting rate, it doesn't need your contribution.
I'd love to meditate, unfortunately people like you who think everything in life is fucking Team A and Team B vote.
The environment is a global issue. Every little bit helps or at least slows down the damage. Every slow down is meaningful, or do you not try to apply the breaks when your car is about to hit something?
Breaking is something you do to something you don't like.
Braking is when you apply brakes to slow something down.
Every little bit does not, in fact, help.
In fact, if we look at the problem correctly, focusing on insignificant things is in fact a detriment.
Bandwidth for change is limited. Wasting it on shit that will never fucking matter only aids the avoidance of changing things that do.
Gyre is a more official name for the Pacific Garbage patch, as there are presumably few kids in it
Not really IMO, moderation is broken by design at best
...such as...? Other than athletics those are pretty much the main amenities offered at most places.
You brought up amenities
Yes, and health care IS part of the problem. Health insurance costs make up a huge portion of personnel costs (20% or more). Offload that to a single-payer, federal system, and suddenly college can be much cheaper.
I agree, that's not a college specific issue though, it effects every aspect of our economy and college costs have way way way outpaced inflation over other sectors the last 50 years. Something else is happening. I was mainly using it as a parallel in that they both suffer from the same fundamental economic problem (how can you have market forces for something people *have* to have. You can't, it requires intervention)
To be fair, people in those countries are also healthier than people in the U.S.; so we also have a health problem in addition to a health care cost problem
Agree, these are all inter-related though, but again, not college specific. This increases drag on the entire economy.
That's not going to happen, at least not at the federal level.
Oh yeah, well not now obviously. But like healthcare it will probably have to happen eventually, there's nowhere else to go. We have to eventually accept these things. Right now, again like healthcare, we already subsidize it to the tune of billions if not trillions. We just do it in an entirely ass-backward way because we've been infected with Chicago-school economics ghouls for 50 years and we do economically illiterate things like private health-insurance and 6-figure unsecured loans for 18 year olds.
Crossed wires maybe, it read like "i dont think these things are problems at all".
See I think we have to operate with a little bit of courtesy to at least hear them out and not someones caricature of their positions. I mean lets even look through your links for these unstated meanings;
The first, with cattles, the only change called for is "It asked for the removal of livestock from public lands that are Herd Management Areas (HMAs). " I don't think that's objectionable.
The article about steel is about those very technologies to reduce impact and the government investment into them; I would say exactly what we should be doing!
The article about mining was two groups, first nations who objected to rules about their land and environmental about species protection. Ok, maybe a bit too nosy. But oh wait, it didn't mean jack shit in the end because the bill in Canada passed anyway.
The only prescription the car article makes is more autonomous vehicles and better urban planning. Nothing at all objectionable to me. It may not feel nice as a car owner to read all the ways the culture harms us but that doesn't make it not true.
So where's the green washing rent seeking that requires the harshest possible outlook?
Reputation destruction only works if your target cares what others think about them.
Oh I can't expect you to care, I wouldn't if it were me, this is just the internet so reputation is both meaningless and also all that matters here.
From where I stand I have a bunch of environmentalists who acknowledge the problems but have what I feel might sometimes have overly onerous solutions but opposite them are folks who won't even say the problems exist and promote things that would make it worse. I can work with one of these.
Science and religion are in full accord but science and faith are in complete discord.
