You can sideload ebooks, but not in epub format. You must convert the epub to an Amazon format - mobi or, for later Kindles, AZW3. Many programs are available for this kind of conversion. Or for a full featured ebook library manager, check out a great program called Calibre. Calibre will convert an epub to mobi on-the-fly & put it on your kindle with just one click.
Let me guess, you bought a house 30 years ago and it has tripled in price since.
Notice how all of the luxuries have dramatically come down in price, while the cost of essentials like home ownership and healthcare, has become unreachable for many. Appendectomy for example, costed about $400 in the 1950's, which is about 30 days of income. Today it costs about $20,000, which is closer to 80 days of average income.
You're also not being completely honest with some of the characterizations. Lead paint was common, but not because they couldn't afford better or safer paint. They simply thought lead paint was better. We might find out that some of the things we use today, such as non-stick pans, are very harmful as well. It has nothing to do with affordability. A uncoated stainless steel pan is the same price.
Only if someone bothers to read the article *and* understand it *and* care enough to call out the publication.
A lot of predicates there.
The guy who wrote The Americans was supposedly asked specifically when he joined the CIA after college if he was in it just for getting ideas for a writing career. He lied. Obviously.
End result? Nice yarn. Total science fiction with regards to the omnidisciplinary genius spy stuff, but a good way to scratch an itch for 80s nostalgia.
and has a lot of empty space...very lightweight.
What matters is not when we understood the problem scientifically, it's when the public understood the problem and viable solutions exist.
1988 was when most Americans learned about global warming, while solar electricity became consistently cheaper than natural gas and coal plants in most countries around 2020. Before 2020, we signed the Paris Climate Accords, we mandated gas mileage, and we got off coal. Things that were possible given to technology at the time. Then between 2020 and 2024 under Biden, we made huge investments into renewables. So it is 100% Trump's fault that since 2024, we canceled those investments and are moving back towards coal.
That generation actually got to the moon 11 years after the first orbital launch.
The present generation...takes its sweet time getting things done because ooh shiny.
Officers in charge of these kinds of programs rotate on to a new assignment after 3 to 5 years. Contractors keep personnel on staff whose whimsical title is "project manager" but whose real job is to work the rotating cast of government program managers into keeping the program going.
In such an environment it is almost structurally impossible to contract smart for any program that takes more than a few years from start to finish.
They have a king and a quasi institutionalized class system. What do you expect?
I have to click through a half dozen popups to get anything done.
No surprises there.
There's basic engineering concepts such as "separation of concerns" and "redundancy", which the average Slashdot reader should be aware of.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. -- Dr. Johnson
