Well, yes, there are trades. But the data shows that non-degree workers *as a whole* are earning about 25% less than they were in 1980.

Here's another way to put it into perspective. PG&E reported a profit last year of $2.2 billion. San Diego Gas & Electric had a profit of just under $1 billion. Southern California Edison, the third major utility in California, is part of a larger company that doesn't break out its profits, but it's presumably in the same range. And all that is before the two rate increases that have been approved since the start of the year.

Spending $6 billion over two decades would barely budge their profits. Even $20 billion would leave them making lots of money.

>problem lay with the right-wing Christian theocrat-wannabes who are afraid of two dudes in bed together

It used to. But today, games have the same attitude to male heterosexuality that people you hate with such passion have for homosexuality. So the entire structure inverted, and while serving heterosexuals means getting around 99% of the market, making a point not serving them does the opposite.

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>lest the viewer get an un-Godlike stiffie

That's your projection. Their argument is that it's against commandments of the God. Same as Islam. And no, in spite of the meme of your side being "homosexuality is inherent, heterosexuality is learnt and needs to be unlearned" (notably also found in peer reviewed academic papers in woke social sciences), turns out that instead of becoming gay because you all women have been uglified and masculinized in Western games, instead of going gay heterosexual men just buy them a lot less. Leading to the current crisis in video games industry, where massive projects crash and burn once woke come in and hit every attractive women, including those scanned from attractive models with an uglification demand. We don't even have male and female body/face models any more in fact. It's all "body type A" and "body type B" because of woke, because stating that there are males and females is offensive to them. And and the current ongoing trend is to forcibly fuse male features into female models, because just like you projected above, woke do believe that if you do that, you may give heterosexuals "un-Godlike stiffie" and they become their clients and join alphabet people.

Just because you unplugged the bible from your religious circuit doesn't mean that that circuit doesn't get filled by something else. Something much, much worse. One who hunts monsters beware, for when you gaze into the abyss, abyss gazes back into you. And among destructive religions, top position in genocide, slavery and torture is held by by various Marxist denominations.

Fire risk.

Exceedingly important in last mile of deployment, where consumption can be somewhat unpredictable and you can't rely on the fusing to work properly on each line.

I'm sure it is in your magical world. In real world on the other hand, it's the point from the downvolting to 230V, not to even talk about 110V systems where using anything else would necessitate active cooling of cables in most places with any meaningful demand. Try hooking up a small apartment building with residential voltages and watch the your cute hollow core cable melt and burn under load.

>I have never seen a single utility that charges a flat grid access fee to residential consumers, anywhere on Earth.

This is why I can tell that you do not understanding anything about grids. Your understanding is that of a person for whom electricity comes from a socket, and you pay for it. So your association is that "you pay grid for electricity, because that's what they base the bill on". It's that of a dumb consumer. This is why the accurate stereotype of a typical green is a person who thinks food comes from a supermarket, electricity from a socket and water from a tap. Because you are just that abstracted from what it actually happening.

In reality, grids are logistical companies that sell logistical services. They're fairly similar to rail companies in how they function, as they're also typically natural monopolies. The fact that their billing mechanism typically exists as a function of amount of goods they transfer doesn't make them people who make money selling goods. They don't sell you electricity. They sell you transit services. People who sell you electricity are electricity producers. In many sane nations, including mine they attempt to cure this idiotic misconception you have about grids being ones who sell you electricity by legally mandating separation of bills. Where transmission companies and producers don't just charge you differently, but you can choose who you buy your electricity from based on pricing. And then you pay a fee per unit of kWh transferred to grid company on top of that. Because you're not paying latter for electricity. You pay it for transit services.

It's pretty easy to offer consumers a great deal when you're willing to dump wheelbarrows of cash into a furnace to do so.

...if the allgenations are true the Chinese government might disagree.

As this would amout to cutting people off from their ability to make phone calls, and the people aren't at fault in this case, this will not happen. And no, leaving emergency numbers available is not sufficient, because people might have to call their relatives, their lawyers, their physicians or other. non-emergency-numbered contacts.

Market share is based on the number of active phones in circulation which is effectively the number of activations over several years. The new activations data above is a snapshot of the market share over a just one year. Even if Apple sold zero iPhones last year it would still maintain a reasonable market share because most people do not replace their phone every year.

I am disabled too but I still go out. It's strange but... I'm missing a few body parts, and the small degree of functional augmentation my implants provide my partially-failed biological body feels like fighting back disability through technology, if that makes sense.

It's hard to explain and most people don't understand, but my implants give me a degree of feeling like I can do something more than just endure the loss of amputation. It's entirely psycholofical, I know, but if you're disabled too, you understand.

You probably don't know any trans people personally. I grew up with the same beliefs about transgender people you have, until I actually got to know some of them. As impossible as it is for us to understand and as nonsensical as it appears to us, it's clearly not something most trans people choose.

It's OK for people to be different in ways we don't understand. Nobody has a duty to make sense to *us*. In any case, only about 0.6% of the population identify as transgender. Even if you completely outlawed gender reassignment surgery an gender-affirming care, it wouldn't budge the fertility needle even assuming trangender people decided to have children -- which they won't.

Of course, there's a counter example for any theory about people in general, so there's probably someone out there who chose it as a lifestyle. But that's just not the norm.

Ford made the Ford Ranger EV 1998 to 2002, then the Ford Focus Electric from 2011 to 2018 before switching to the Mach-E. They are not "new at it". They're just bad at it.

To be fair, I have a lot more hope for Ford than GM, as Farley seems to actually understand the critical importance of turning things around and the limited timeframes to do so, unlike GM, which still seems to only care about press.

Also, employment is a lot less stable than it used to be. When I entered the workforce in the early 80s it was still common for people who were retiring to have worked for the same company all their lives. Young people now live in a gig economy; if they *do* work for a company, often they don't know how many hours they'll get from week to week.

And while things like TVs are cheaper than ever, essentials are often far more expensive. Median rents for a studio apartment in the US were about $250 when I got out of school; today they're $1200. If you have income twice the poverty rate and you follow the advice we were given back then to spend no more than 20% of your income on housing, you'd be looking to pay $483/month in rent. In most of the US even if you have roommates you'll be spending over $1000 per month.

Today it's more economically important to have a degree than ever. While wages for new college graduates have increased only modestly, wages for non-college graduates have dropped since the 1980s. Let's say you're thrifty and decide to commute to a state college. Your four year costs have risen from $3,200 to over $44,000. So families in their prime reproductive years are burdened with debt; it takes years to overcome that and to raise.

We often take poor families to task for being irresponsible and having children they can't afford, but the fertility rate in families below the poverty line isn't that high and it's remained steady for decades. What's happened is that the fertility rate at 200% of the poverty line has crashed.

Most women, with access to contraception and abortion, are doing what we told them is the responsible responsible thing. But if they *all* did it, it would be a demographic catastrophe.

"Women over 40 have the lowest birth rate" shouldn't come as a shock to anyone

Older does tend to mean wiser, after all. Well... okay, for some people.

Destroying middle class has predictable consequence of tanking birth rate. News at 11.

"We must have constant inflation or people might, you know, save!"

Then... basics cost (a lot) more and mid- to low-tier wages don't even come close to keeping up

Brutal housing, education, medical, food, vehicle, and fuel costs, crushing taxes on the lower tier workers... gee, sounds like a great circumstance to bring some ever-more-expensive rug rats into.

The "American Dream" is deader than Trump's diaper contents for a large swath of those of an age to be pumping out crotch goblins. But hey: The stock market is doing Great!

Or perhaps it's just that no one wants to hump someone with their pants falling off their butt — or otherwise dressing like a refugee.

Obligatory: get off my lawn.