Considering the generally low pay that you see from most jobs out there, bonuses limited to the executives because "times are tough", that attitude makes sense. Getting a 2% raise when the cost of living has gone up by 8 percent or more over the past year, and other issues like that, then it makes sense that the very wealthy, who keep getting tax cuts, should be seen as the cause for a lot of the misery out there. Even those who are doing "ok" are finding that they aren't doing as well as they were a few years ago due to the higher cost of EVERYTHING.

right, they modded me troll decade and a half ago here when I said the nations will fall apart, governments will fail, libertarian ideas will take hold. They are modding me troll today, yet it is exactly what is happening. It is possible that people are actually afraid that my comments will cause ot to jappen somehow should more people read them. My comments are not the reason anything happens, that is magical thinking by the fearful moderators. My comments are a prediction and the reality is moving in the direction of my prediction.

That's in character, sure; but what's the paper-thin excuse for that being a cogent policy idea?

The same excuses to impose tariffs because "DRUGS!" while pardoning drug kingpins. Or sinking boats because "DRUG BOATS" while again, pardoning drug kingpins and smugglers.

The excuse is that its pay to play. Those drug king[ins paid Trump for pardons. China pays Trump for chips. As long as you're paying Trump, you're good.

At least they are installing renewables as fast as they can.

no problem.

They're dragging buzzwords through the water, so see whether they get any nibbles.

Your MBA/PHB eats this shit right up.

Keeping people employed just because is probably the reason the USPS is having the issues it already has. Cutting the workforce and cutting every other day of delivery could make a HUGE impact to their bottom line. Likely the same mail trucks could carry and deliver two days of mail every other day without needing to put more trucks on the road.

No, the USPS is having to fully fund pensions for people not born yet is what's causing the problems. If you look at the profitability graph it nosedives around year 2000 or so purely because Bush Jr and the GOP were trying to kill it by forcing it to fully fund pensions for the next 75 years or so, which includes funding pensions for people not born nor employed by the USPS.

Most companies aren't doing this which means if they go under, there goes all the pension funds. USPS pensions being fully funded means those people keep their funds when USPS goes under.

It's basically been a way to kill the USPS without killing the USPS directly.

Before this ruling came out, the USPS was really quite profitable, and those profits could've been used to fund the pensions until the obligation was met rather than force them to pay for pensions fully by going into debt.

I'm actually responding to the AC above you. He is arguing that the attack wouldn't make any sense for either country to make, based on *national* interest. I'm pointing out that's not the only framework in which *regimes* make decisions.

see, here nobody accepts my belief system, they have moded both of my comments as "troll", yet I never troll here, I always say what I mean when it comes to tech, politics and economics. To mode my comments as "troll" means to declare that I do not believe and practice what I say or maybe that I am trying to start some sort of a riot. The former assumes that I am not serious, the latter assumes that everyone reading these comments camnot engage in civilized discourse, it is disgusting really, that people deny others their intentions or agency.

The other problem with biodiesel is there isn't enough of it. The only reason it works right now is few people are converting used oils to biodiesel for their own private purposes. If you're doing it at an industrial level there just isn't enough feed stock available.

And it doesn't work too well in cold environments - you have to start the engine using regular diesel because biodiesel when cold is basically a cold gloopy fat blob and needs regular diesel to be thinned out.

Hardly. There's no memory manufacturers in any way restricting production to "manufacture this shortage". They may be price fixing (they have a history of that) but right now they are producing memory at full tilt.

And if you ask why they didn't invest years ago, can you please tell me tonight's winning lotto numbers since you are so good at predicting the future?

They are also not increasing production - because the past decade they've done so and gotten screwed over - prices spike, they increase production and then demand collapses, leaving a huge oversupply of RAM and them having to dump it for low prices. So they aren't producing anymore memory than they normally could.

Instead they're switching production to things like HBM needed for the AI chips and such.

any amount of government, all of it makes me sick to my stomach, that is all I have to say on the topic.

Correct, government shouldn't be running services, this is up to the private individuals to satisfy needs at an agreed price. Years ago here I said that at some point in the 21st century we will see collapse of the government structures, we are observing it now. The next logical step is to have all services, no matter what they are to be done privately if needed. This is what I am rooting for, I am hoping to see it in this life time.

fuck ruzzia, fuck all ruzzians and triple fuck everyone doing business with the. Hopefully their scourge of s country collapses and breaks into small pieces and everyone there gets ass cancer of the 5th degree and dies a horrible death.

Anti-woke will ALWAYS shoot itself in the foot. There's a very basic issue at play, if you are a part of a group that feels they are being discriminated against, there will be protests, and a push against that discrimination. Race, ethnic group, sex, gender, or whatever, that push back against discrimination will ALWAYS happen. And, the more that discrimination goes on, the bigger the push back will be.

Now, this is where it shoots the anti-woke people in the foot, when the push back happens, it doesn't stop at fair representation, it tends to go overboard(you have to push hard to overcome that discrimination that has been in place). For those on both sides who are not at the extremes, this makes the push back uncomfortable and unpleasant, but it is still in response to the original discrimination/persecution. Now, if the anti-woke people would just stop their persecution in the first place, this takes away most of the energy from the protests against the initial discrimination, and then, all of the "over-correcting" goes away, which further eliminates the thing that bothers so many people.

So, admit it, there has been systematic racism in many places around the world, there has been a lot of anti-LGBT+ out there as well. Nothing you do will change that people who are not like you are in the world, and they deserve the same rights that you do, no matter if you like it or not, people are people, and they deserve the same respect you want for yourself. So, just stop fighting it, and all of the things you dislike about those other groups will stop taking a spotlight, and suddenly, you won't have reasons to be so unhappy. The more you close your eyes to it and say it's not happening, the more of the protests you will see and hear about.