"By the 1970s these 'bombed to shit' countries were outcompeting American manufacturers in their own domestic market."
LOL
"I'll just prove his exact point for him!"
Thanks man!
"We may be overestimating microplastics, but there should be none," said Anne McNeil, senior author of the study and U-M professor of chemistry, macromolecular science and engineering. "There's still a lot out there, and that's the problem."
"Our science was actually really screwed up, but that doesn't matter, because our conclusions are still right, because we already knew the right answer."
Lol, cogent conservative responses here get modded to oblivion.
Frothing leftist flamer "Insightful"
Slashdot is so ideologically captured.
Did you think the benefit of being the 'only surviving industrial infrastructure' faded what, a week after ww2?
"We used to have super high taxes for the wealthy and corporations."
Did we?
Because what I see is a high marginal tax rate really only in the postwar years.
Remember anything important that happened, say, midcentury?
Something that may have left the US fabulously wealthy, particularly relative to all the other industrialized countries who were shattered & left in ruins by the same event?
Anyone who points to that time and stupidly says "durr, we should do it THAT way" conveniently disregards the (hopefully unique) economic environment resulting from multiple, cataclysmic, economy shattering wars and the luxuries available to those left standing thereafter.
Anyone else tired of that word? "Slop".
"AI slop" has become as meaningless and overused of a term as "toxic".
It seems to mean nothing more than "some use of AI/LLMs that I don't like".
At the same time, "but I don't like this law" isn't going to protect you from punishment if you break it.
Fight unethical laws with every fiber but you're going to be far more effective if you Chesterton's Fence than if you just stomp your feet and whine.
BLISS is ignorance.