No, the SCOTUS simply pointed out that Biden's actions were contrary TO STATUTE, and that the separation of powers prevents him from just waving his wand and ignoring that. The SCOTUS didn't pick some dollar amount out of thin air, nor set some precedent about dollar amount thresholds. They recognized the structure of a law written by congress, and recognized that Biden's handlers were trying to skate around it for purely political reasons.

You telling people we have to change out the Supreme Court in order to find a way to give more unchecked, counter-constitutional executive power to an administration like Biden's is some seriously toxic stuff.

Yeah, its goofy. BRICS has no future.

India, Brazil, and South Africa wanted in because they want loans the IMF won't give them for really pretty reasonable reasons.

Russia and China have imperial ambitions... neither of whom are willing to give out the money on the scale and on the terms these other countries want it at.

Its a laughably incompetent and hopeless gathering of conflicted interests.

India is per capita richer... any search for growth on that shows that feature.

As to india being poor, they have a huge population which is the same thing that gets companies interested in selling to china.

Further, if we ignore the third world growth sectors and just focus on the rich first world... china is having problems with that. Its going to be the third world that will be most persuaded by low prices.

As to China selling to the rest of the world, same logic applies to the rest of the world that applies to india. You have huge populations but low concentrations of wealth. IF that logic holds, then my point about india also holds.

Vietnam is growing rapidly right now and gdp per capita is similar to india.

As to what is news to me... We'll see, pal. You're simping for fascistic regime that literally uses slave labor and mostly steals IP.

If that's your vision of the future, I'm very happy to disappoint you.

India has already blacklisted China... US and EU are going to limit imports to a minimum. Agreement in this is broad.

US and EU production is flooding out of China to anywhere else. Factories are idling throughout the chinese economy as their struggle with DEFLATION.

The people that think this is going back to business as usual have not been paying attention.

Its worse than most people appreciate as the years of narcotics abuse has in most cases caused brain damage. This means these people are in most cases incurably insane or retarded due to the neurological damage.

We basically need to reopen the asylums again or create reservations for them or something. Volunteer workers in Los Angeles have been reporting that when they get them off the drugs they are frequently too damaged to actually do anything productive ever again. They will not be able to show up on time for a job for example or remember instructions.

Its a horror show.

The asylums likely need to be reopened... obviously with more ethics and oversight than in the past. And then some serious thought has to be given to the drug problem as it will continue to destroy lives and generate these damaged people that will have to live at public expense to some extent... if we don't go with the "chinese" option... which is to just kill them all.

That sounds horrific... and it is... but the numbers are increasing and that is making the unthinkable inevitable if it does not stop. We had 50,000 of these poor people in my city a year ago. Now it is 75,000 with no end in sight.

Whether they're officially free or not, many people that can't afford to ride the bus in the United States are given free bus passes.

Whilst this sounds nice, unfortunately incidents of drug abuse correlating with homelessness is often in excess of 90 percent. In practice, this means that mass transit is full of puking, psychotic, drug addicts... that frequently are violent towards anyone near them.

This is a politically incorrect fact. There will be some upset with my daring to voice the point. Regardless, the consequence is that ridership on mass transit in the US has collapsed with former users citing safety and cleanliness issues aboard the trains or buses.

Absent some mechanism to address the issue, the mode of transport will be increasingly avoided to it seems the total financial ruin of many of these networks.

BART in San Francisco is in serious trouble and so is is the New York Metro. These systems are expensive to maintain and often operate on subsidy even when ridership is high. Given that ridership has collapsed... these systems will either have to scale back operations radically which could easily lead to a cascading economic doom loop for the systems... or increasingly tax starved cities due to capital flight are going to have to take diminishing resources and increase subsidy to the transit systems.

In "this" context, you want to talk about making the subsidy 100% permanently? Why not. The system is already melting down... might as well remove what lifelines it has left.

The technology being described isn't "free energy." It's a low-energy capture device made from expensive-to-make and fragile substances that probably won't sustain very well out in the real world. It transfers a modest amount of energy from the tiny kinetic movement of water droplets in humid air as they - in their random movements - bang into the walls of the material described. A very large, very dense cube of this material might produce a few kilo watt hours of juice in a steady enough way to be useful under some specific circumstances. Who in the summary or article is saying anything about "free?" It will involve a lot of expensive, fiddly fuss to put it to work.

I'm not an expert... just a guy... but my understanding is that carbon fiber is strong in tension... and has basically no compressive strength of relevance.

The compressive strength of that hull would have been the epoxy resin... basically plastic... which given the process would have been impregnated with a zillion little bubbles from the laminating process. Very small bubbles that normally wouldn't matter but given the depths those would have to create stress points throughout the laminations.

I'm not an expert... but I'm confused as to how it got that far. The whole design of the sub seemed unsupportable.

Can someone help me out here and explain why this isn't as stupid as it looks to me. Because as a novice I don't see how the hull is taking compressive loads... what is the point of using carbon fiber in this case? They might as well have used conventional fiberglass from what I can see.

If they were making a carbon fiber balloon... where the fiber would be under tension then I could see the logic. But I don't see how this makes sense in compression.

No, cool story from you.

I make a comment about how some people only have bad faith arguments defending this stuff.

You then respond with a baseless insult.

Now its "cool story, bro".

Worthless.

Yep, as expected... snarky comments that have zero substantiation or basis.

I could as easily say "burning women at the stake is barbaric" and you could infer I'm in league with demons.

If you have something besides insults... now is your moment. If that is all you have... then you're just supporting my point. ;)

You're really good at that strategy of disproving other people's points through endless ad hominems to distract from the fact you were wrong the entire time.

And by good... I mean... you seem to get a lot of practice.

The full data is not disclosed. The models are not disclosed.

Absent that... there's no discussion. You can't hand wave it. You publish it all so it can be actually reverse engineered by third parties or this is just politics.

And you can see that by the people that get excited about this... same crew that told us we had to wear four masks and forcibly vaccinate children against covid.

Same group telling us there is no such thing as a woman.

I'm sorry... but a lot of people are just tribal political animals that have no regard what so ever for truth. And they've sadly gotten into a lot of powerful institutions.

And until that is addressed... the "trust the science" argument is going to remain highly suspect.

I know... I know... I'm the heretic... Burn him... well, the people that have that view are barbarians. Its all quite sad.

Wow. This is quite painful for you, isn't it. Let me guess: you lost your job at Twitter censoring content, huh? That's a shame.

>What are you talking about, woke us about recognizing that differences exist and respecting others.

I'm not sure the woke are really very famous for respecting others.

>You mean when it went center-right. There's no "left" in US national politics and culture wars

We're in America, so we use American terms for left and right here, not European ones.