Years ago, someone suggested releasing seawater at 800m altitude to turn dry coastlines, green.

Yes, I'm tired of US state governments declaring I don't get health insurance until I accomplish a 60 hour work-week. That bribery needs to stop.

I'm not sure what alternative you're offering but money for services rendered tends to be very successful: There's even a word for incentivizing people/entities using money: Capitalism.

I suspect it's least efficient because there isn't a "you accomplish x" rule in that federal department. That happens plenty: broadband, health insurance, agriculture, food handling. For other departments, the money is given to the states who then have the responsibility of issuing "bribes": There, we see rampant cronyism or infrastructure money used as literal bribes, I mean, pay bonuses.

Rent control such as this, skews the market: If US government fixated on regulating the market, not corporate welfare, there wouldn't be an incentive to skew the market a second time.

This is why any applet keeping a log of personal contacts, is bad.

If one is crossing a border, any applet with a built-in communication history should be uninstalled: Remove the history, remove the address book, remove the identity. Government agents have been spying on phones for 15 years. Why are people still getting caught? They're thinking it "won't happen to me". They don't want to put the time in, deleting their history and then act surprised when their history is stolen.

If they're not legally liable for the testimonial, they'll say whatever they're paid to say. As the article suggests, make it an 'insurance' scheme they all contribute to, the incentive to whitewash the facts will reduce, greatly.

Trump is gutting the FAA, NTSB, NASA, NWS, NOAA, EPA, FDA, DoAg., FCC to eliminate legal responsibility: Billionaires can do whatever. Then eliminate the DoEd. so those jobs never come back.

No, I assumed the power stations will be equally dirty. Which is why I talked about China having a plan and option to shut-down coal-based plants while the USA doesn't and can't. I can continue showing the failure of US Capitalism with China using 'low'-cost AI such as DeepSeek R1 while USA continues using OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

Quick, everyone stop talking about the USA firing-up old, toxic coal plants for bit-mining and AI training.

If energy is spent building the next-gen technology, then the old technology can be de-commissioned: Resulting in a net positive. The USA is making a point of eliminating that option.

USA MAGAt, have fun dying from diseases because you can't get vaccines, being homeless because medical bills took your house, being killed in a flash flood or tornado because local government needed permission to tell you the truth, burying your children because another school-shooting happened, being poisoned by contaminated milk, water or meat.

Remember, the USA is 40% migrants (if one excludes most white people), so that stabbing and raping is happening in your country too: Good luck with that.

Children are no longer taught marriage and pregnancy is a measure of success. With the fixation on censorship and book-banning, learning to fuck has stopped being a mile-stone of growing-up. It's institutionalized infantilism. Women with more money and education will use a different metric while less advantaged women will revert to the 'princess' model of success. It's why poor women are making greater sacrifices and having babies while rich women aren't.

There's a secondary effect: If marriage and pregnancy are no longer the answer to the human need for commitment and connection, and the way to build society, what is the new normal? Conspicuous consumption, social media doom-scrolling, or chronic masturbation? We see last one happening in Japan, where blurry porn and manga big-breasted women are preferred to real socializing.

Here, the city government no longer reminds residents to wash their empties and remove the labels (where possible).

I know that a number of senior citizens in my street, throw everything in the recycling bin. I don't know: Is it laziness or 'proof' they're a good person?

There's no shredding plant in the state, so I'm guessing most of the plastic is buried separate from other waste.

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Ophelia drowns and Caesar dies is obvious: I don't recognize the other Shakespearean characters.

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No-one is talking about the clean energy gap, the new infrastructure gap, the healthcare gap, the employee's rights (annual holidays, data privacy, protection from harassment) gap, the journalism (See: Fairness doctrine) gap. In short, the attributes of a third-world shit-hole, that billionaires in the USA ensure will never be fixed.

One can be certain that US NIMBY-ists said "yes" to more data centres and "no" to more electricity plants: Creating this exact problem. With Trump/GOP protecting billionaires, the only electricity plants getting approval in the next few years, will be coal/gas-driven ones. Homer City, Pennsylvania, is learning the true cost of that toxic relationship

There are a few industries that use short-term contracts: From 6 to 13 weeks. What happens when the contract expires, equal opportunity laws demand they publish the vacancy. Of course, they know someone with the desired skill-set and experience, the person they hired last time. So they hire her for another term. But the government counts that as a another person leaving the unemployment pool, making the "job creation" numbers very high and very fake.

In the 1990s, the government here, demanded unemployed people do cold-canvassing because 93% of vacancies weren't published. It takes a bit of thought to ask why a business that needs staff, isn't looking for staff? The answer, they're going to promote a junior member. Technically there's still a vacancy, but now it's entry-level. These days, job vacancies have to be published. Who thinks 93% of them won't result in a junior member being promoted? Meaning publishing, is a waste of other people's time.

You never heard of it: It was the new, wizz-bang communication tool about 10 years ago. It's a fancy way of saying, word association: That and repetition are how we remember stuff. Whether word association results in a Pavlovian response is, obviously, fuzzy. The fakeness comes from assuming that the word association I make, causes a Pavlovian response in someone else. A bit like assuming my swelling penis causes panties to drop: We all want easy answers and NLP promises them.

I guess that's code for "bare breasts": It would be far more difficult to remove drug addicts and corrupt soldiers/politicians since they tend to be a central character in a movie. Plus, "think of the children" fanatics usually work hardest to eliminate everyday facts.