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I can see why certain people would want them taken out. Just this week there were a few Billion reasons...
So why work for low wages, when you stay at home and play video games?
Because your parents finally got tired of supporting you and kicked your lazy ass out of their house.
"announces" "unveiled" "designed to"
These words are doing some (pardon the pun) heavy lifting here. I will hold my applause until you demonstrate that it does what you say it will.
The competition (who's name we shall not speak) has a record breaking history of putting things in orbit successfully -almost daily.
I will cheer for BO when they send the first one of these new rockets around the moon, or into GEO. Until then, it's just a marketing promise.
It is cheaper to create fresh new plastic from seed stock than to recycle existing plastics.
If that changes, maybe we will stop dumping plastics into the environment. If that changes by a lot, maybe we will look into recovering the plastics already dumped. There is a lot of plastic that would be cheaper to recover than the microplastics in the ocean.
The economics are against making things better.
The hope is that detecting these color shifts could help identify other areas around the world where microplastics have accumulated.
Answer: EVERYWHERE
I like pi
I just can't bring myself to sign up for a loyalty program at a restaurant.
If I eat somewhere often enough for something like that to benefit me, I am known on sight by the host, servers, manager, and maybe the chef. If not, then what is the point of giving out my personal details to strangers? I like personal service. Otherwise, just take my money and leave me alone.
If I need an app or a loyalty program to eat and drink, I will go somewhere else.
I do use the loyalty programs at chain shops tho -as long as I can just type in a phone number: 314-159-2653 works almost everywhere.
This is why smart businesses donate to both sides in an election. You want whomever wins to owe you.
If you are on the list of contributors to their campaign, they will take your call. If you only funded their opponent... it's gonna cost you more to get what you want. They may have even made it a campaign issue to be against you.
- Estimates I saw were that Musk spent $400 million this time around - and $126 million just on the Texas Senate race!
Best argument for a Billionaire tax .
Loyalists follow orders. This is why the civil service and military has been purged.
Trump orders them to do, and they do. Trump orders them paid, and checks get written.
Congress theoretically controls the budget, but it is a loyalist who actually writes the checks.
*This was demonstrated recently when Congress refused to fund ICE -Trump ordered them paid anyway, and they were.
The Democrats would be better served by using their new majority to start passing laws which benefit the American people. Trump will probably veto most of it, but that just makes him look petty.
Launching into investigations and impeachment attempts on the other hand makes them look petty. Time to take the moral high ground and stop trying to point score with the legal system.
So much this. No more talking and investigating and impeaching and finger pointing. Pick something, and do it. Make a change stick (yes, that will require a coalition with Republicans). Give us something that makes a visible change in the lives of Americans.
Otherwise the Democrats are just showing themselves as weak, ineffective, and rudderless; that will lead to the election of President J.D. Vance in two years.
Performance. Waste of time and effort.
Really, the biggest problem with this blue wave is that it wasn't big enough to remove Trump from office or override vetos. So we'll have a lameduck session before we can decide on our next government.
That will result in President J.D. Vance.
If the Democrats faff around and hold hearings and investigations without delivering actual change to the American people, they will lose in 2028. Direct action is the Democrats only chance. If they cannot build enough of a coalition to make visible changes to citizen's lives, they will lose.
They will show that they are ineffective and weak, and the Republicans will capitalize on it.
"Do. Or do not. There is no try."
When NWA shouted "Fuck the Police!" they did not literally mean they wanted to have sex with police officers.
"Defund the police" likewise does not mean "Abolish police forces."
-The phrase is an expression of protest, anger, and defiance against police brutality and systemic harassment..
The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
