BS, bull shit, there is no such thing as a 'human right' to any good, service, attention of any kind, including education, medical care, housing, food.

A human right is a protection against government (people in power) destroying you, taking your property away, taking your freedom and life away from you, that's what rights are.

As to privileges, such as health care, old age insurance, education, whatever, all of those things have to be provided and you are the one responsible for it.

That chart is unreadable garbage. The columns are not properly labeled, there are no units specified, and many of the rows are inexplicably duplicated but with wildly varying values. It looks like the output of a random number generator. It also says the numbers are projections, not actual reality, so even if they made sense (they don't), they would still be worthless.

American coal mining employment has fallen from a peak of 800k to 40k, a 95% reduction.

Coal has fallen from 50% of energy to 18% in the last 20 years.

Not a single new coal plant has been built in decades.

Coal is dying. We just need to nudge it into the grave.

Perhaps. But a tax would be far more economically efficient and a better solution.

Carbon capture is stupid.

Every nuke built in the West in the last 30 years has been an economic fiasco and decades behind schedule.

But non-Western countries, especially China and India, have a solid track record of building nukes on schedule and on budget.

Nukes are a big part of the solution, just not in Western countries.

Humanity: hold our beer!

One decade might be a stretch, but after less than two centuries, we burned most of easily mineable coal already.

And that's a problem, how? That's the cleanest, safest, cheapest power source we have; only geothermal is a contender but the latter is not available in the vast majority of places.

Polonium is a radioactive actinide element with a half-life of 138 days. It is a very strong alpha emitter. It is chemically similar to selenium.

The best antidote is an actinide chelating agent such as dimercapto-propanesulfonate (DMPS).

But most victims don't even realize they've been injected until too much damage has already been done.

Realistically, he doesn't need to worry about it. He isn't important enough for Putin to take risks to kill him.

Kasparov is a kook. He's an advocate of the Phantom time conspiracy theory that the Middle Ages never happened.

The word corruption, the only thing it means is - tax payers money is stolen by people with access to it. In the private sector this is known as theft. Corruption exists because governments exist and governments take our money and then it is used for personal gain of people with access to it.

All the things FTC gets its hands into are not corruption (they often become corruption once FTC gets involved).

So my laptop has soldered RAM, no cooling fans, less than three pounds -- and costs less than a single RAM stick (out of 8) in the desktop I ssh into.

It's a Pinebook Pro from 2019; I don't see any need to upgrade it as it's adequate for client tasks. Unless it breaks beyond repair, I'd rather upgrade the big box.

FTC shouldn't exist in the first place, all of the things the Federal government does to hinder business is illegal, it should be the Federal government that receives letters from everyone, telling it to go to hell, not the other way around.

It's a camera, a tiny keyboard, and some software.

So why is it a separate device rather than a smartphone app?

My phone already has a camera and a touchpad keyboard, and it can run any software. Duplicating all that hardware and charging $199 doesn't make much sense.

It's mostly caused by demographic differences. Americans are much more likely to be ethnicities that have a genetic predisposition toward shorter lifetimes.

Except there is no force. If you don't like the hours, choose a different job.

The difference between America and Europe is that in America, people can decide for themselves how much of a life-work balance they want.

In Europe, the government makes that decision for you.

it is called inflation - expansion of the money supply that accumulated over the years (bail outs, social payouts, covid.. ) In terms of gold HDD prices fell.