Only if you're recycling the plastic into more plastic. And that's worthless.

What you should be doing is recycling it back into fuel for electricity production- but nobody wants that even with all the scrubbers- they made it illegal to EVER open a 2nd garbage burning electric plant in Oregon.

Pay isn't set that way, it is set by supply and demand. Freezing pay only works if the workers have no other options, and the demographic trends of the Baby Boomers retiring in large numbers and a smaller generation following means more jobs than workers -- meaning worker choice. Forcing more overtime is one possible option, constrained by the same supply-demand. The bill Sanders is proposing mandates time-and-a-half past 8 hours and double-time past 12-hours a day. Short of a good old fashioned dose of Nixon Republicanism that won't happen. And considering the epic shitstorm that created for the economy (Hello Stagflation!) -- I wouldn't be surprised in MAGA embraced it wholeheartedly.

"On Aug. 15, 1971, in a nationally televised address, Nixon announced, "I am today ordering a freeze on all prices and wages throughout the United States."

After a 90-day freeze, increases would have to be approved by a "Pay Board" and a "Price Commission," with an eye toward eventually lifting controls -- conveniently, after the 1972 election."

They're doing that already and there is little that is going to stop it. Again, see the demographic decline and need to fill jobs with workers that don't exist.

For an individual, yes. For dealing with national policy, no. You need to sample "how people use the internet" and what the available speeds support versus what they could. Your cherry-picked example would be on the far left of the bell curve, being both suitable on low speed connection and as a sample of what people commonly do -- and only do -- on the internet. Your example of the downloader straining gigabit connections is an example from the far right of the curve. As national policy, we're more concerned with the big, fat middle.

Like it or not a lot of what is commonly called work, especially office work, can effectively be done remotely with suitable broadband speeds. Ensuring adequate broadband means those workers can relocate, and revitalize, small town and rural America.

Can you tell me 10 of these billionaires that came from poverty?
Some might be sports or movies or such but what about others.
And what percentage of billionaires?
And do you mean developed countries or undeveloped?
At least many places in Europe have higher mobility than the US.

The online version. It will try an upsell you to Audit Defense, Max, and other bits several times during the filing process. At one point it flat out asks you to share your tax information to better market financial products to you by their partners.

Can it complete with the commercial applications, like Turbo Tax? Will it try and upsell you every other page? Will it nag you to share your information so they can market other for-profit products to you?

Annnnnd it's gone. Next please!

Back in the day, Packard-Bell made a business model out of this. Their computers were the cheapest because their components were simply whatever they got cheapest. Whether audio cards or surface mount components on circuitboards, they didn't bother to distinguish makes, models, or revisions. The exact same motherboard revision with only a different manufacture date, could easily have different components.

They made utter shit.

There's some evidence of civilization in the Northeastern Sahara- that was abandoned about 9000 years ago as the climate began to change.

These factories sound like the perfect customers for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).

Looking at the regulations, it seems you can only import or buy USED HCFC-22 and not virgin.

And while you may be able to see the wholesale prices, that's probably because you are in a business that is registered and has a craptop of paperwork on file -- or are dealing thru one. The recordkeeping requirements to "buy" this stuff is detailed and onerous.

Except for all being done by idiots, who apparently can't learn the meaning of the word "prediction".

And where would that be?

Look up the history of the Sahara

I agree. Given the problems in the Panama Canal, an ice-free Arctic Ocean would be a HUGE boon to shipping across the top of the world.

I can visualize images in my mind. I can "see" an apple, or even "read" a page of words from an image of it in my head, which is distinctly different from reciting words from memory without the visualization for me. What I can't do is generate moving images in my mind. If I try and think of a person walking, I can visualize some individual frames but not the full motion. Slideshow yes, movie no. This has always bothered me. I do dream with full motion, though.