Frequent massive coral die offs are perfectly normal. Losing biomass more quickly than it is gaining it on average.
Since climate change isn't possible, we can conclude that coral has been extinct for 500,000 years.

I thought it was trending with billionaires to get blood transfusions from their children and grand children, like some kind of freaking ghoul.

Things are going to get especially weird when the singularity comes and we're either ruled by some immortal elders or the AI they lost control of. Luckily for Trump, he's not going to have to face any of those consequences of that very likely future.

A fatso in his 80's that lives on cheeseburgers won't get to be 90. But maybe he will pass his Presidency down to an heir.

At my company, it can takes weeks if not months to complete the multiple rounds of interviews. Hiring managers and HR go dark for days or weeks at a time. It's not right, but it's normal. If you walk away during that process, we don't count that as failing to show up to your first day. That happens a lot, of course.

As the article states, some people are going through the motions to finish the tedious process only to bail on it at the end.
You have to actually have signed (even if only digitally) the offer letter we gave you for you to have a "first day". Since your compensation is already worked out and approved BEFORE you start your first day. And your first day will be spent in orientation and filling out state and federal paperwork and getting things to review and sign up for like the health insurance options.

Don't want to show up after doing all that? You're under no legal obligation to do so. We'll probably not even hold it against you if you try to apply a year later.
But it seems a rather petty way to spend your time. It wastes only minutes of the hiring manager and their immediate director's time to approve a salary or pay schedule. Since we already decided that BEFORE we even interviewed you.

When I was young, I typically worked for Vietnam War and Korean War vets. As they were about the right age to be well into their careers and managing or owning a small business.

I've never tried it. But I suspect if I didn't show up to work on the first day, without a plausible reason (like being in a car accident), that they would have given me a little talk about how disappointed they are. And that they intend on finding someone who actually needs and wants a job to fill the position. And that no, they are not going to give me a positive job reference.

I think Gen X and Millennials are a bit softer on junior employees. We've probably accepted excuses from Gen Z for their entire life. So there's probably little reason for them to suspect that we'll put up much of a fight.

That said. I'm all for the organization and empowerment of labor. If you want to talk to your coworkers and make it clear to management that labor has a say. Then by all means. I support you.
If you want to unilaterally play some kind of mind game with your new employer. Well, I'm skeptical it will work out to your advantage in the long run.

Because the person it is named for had the last name Roman. (Nancy Grace Roman)
Who's family came from Bavaria a few generations back.

Buy Intel. Then Fire the management. Keep the engineers and patents.

But, I predict a future buyer will instead fire the engineers, sell the fabs, and keep the patents.

Don't put words in my mouth.
It's simple. I'm happy when people take control of their own government.

A cost analysis for providing service is something that every business already does. Are you saying that government employees or the legislature is incapable of doing the same thing? Do you have data that $15 is not feasible for providing the necessary service?

If AT&T owns or leases space on utility poles there, then take that away from them. There's no room for service providers that don't want to provide the service. They're free to compete elsewhere.

Maybe they should also crack down on companies listing fake jobs that they never fill. It's clear they're playing investment and stock games by posting so many openings.

LinkenIn is free to ride themselves out of business. I'm just saying what it will take for me to keep going back to the site.

Culturally and socially I think we peaked in around 1970's. A little more than one generation after WW2. So I do buy the idea that under the right set of criteria there is an ideal point in the past. I'm not going to argue too seriously where that point might be.

Now here's the thing. Knowing what we know today. Including problems we have today that we didn't know or understand in the 1940's, let alone in the 1970's. We can't in practice simply wind back time to experience the ideal life of our chosen golden age. We'd be placing different variables into a system than it original had, but expecting it to remain static. It won't.

I'd be fine if we made civil conscription a thing in the US. Either mandatory civil service, or you can get out if you sign up for military service.
Now everyone gets to do something at an age where you're meant to socialize and find a partner, etc. The pool would be maximally large because every able-bodied young adult would be there or in military service.

Throw older people who are on probation in the mix too. I'm kind of sick of CEOs getting some bullshit house arrest for embezzling a million dollars while some of my friends get a little too crazy with the spray paint and had to pay fines and pick up trash every weekend for months.

Everyone is different. But also men and women have more in common than not, since we're all human.
Time for some men to grow up and leave the boy's tribe. You can have friends that are women without thinking about fucking them all the time.

There's another kind of replacement theory. One where immigrants replace people like me (and perhaps you). It's bunk. But I think it's a good idea, we should be replaced by a culture that has more vitality and hunger for life.

I agree. I'd go further and say, that under that same scenario but with unregulated corporatism, where there is no competition in the market, the profits go up while the price goes up and quality goes down.

It's difficult to generalize what a socialist economy is. But let's say generalize about a hypothetical centralized planned economy. Maybe Marxist-Leninist or not.

If you have a worker's council for each industry and possibly each region. But each is under a greater hierarchy of a single party administration. And that single party is corrupt and the positions of power are stacked with a faction's incompetent cronies.
Then we would expect the central planning of the nation's industry to do things like create a quota they exactly meet with no excess "waste".
So no room for crop failure, fire, theft, whatever. And then people go without the things your government took upon its own initiative to provide them.
Thus violating the social contract, and probably deserve to be overthrown violently.

Now take a liberal democracy dedicated to free market capitalism. Open private banking. Investment markets. The works.
If the positions of power are packed with incompetent cronies. Be it government or private positions. Then you run into catastrophe too.
Bankers and investors self-dealing. Industry waxing and waning to the financial scandals of the day. Government representatives focused on appeasing donors instead of voters. The works. The hypothetical of a worst case scenario for a capitalist country ran by incompetents.
So instead of the Revolutions of 1989 like the Eastern Bloc saw. We'd see something more chaotic like Reign of Terror of 1972-1974. People would just be pissed and the social order would disintegrate because nobody trusts the legislature, the courts, or the banks. (we already don't trust cops and the executive branch, so I left that out. it's not necessary to trust them)

There are only 853 coal mines in the US. And they aren't hiring either.

I often wondered we'd quietly trip into the prediction of Technocracy and find ourselves in some gray area between being beyond actual scarcity but still clinging to the price system to manage everything. Not just markets, but government and welfare too.

It's easier than ever to unplug your land line and block callers not on your friend list. Actually clawing back assets only works for debt collectors if you have any to take. So put everything in your home equity or under your mattress. There's no debtor's prison. (not legal advice, just friendly social advice)

Of course. The people with money, power, and influence are the last ones to suffer. Every one us beneath the top 10% are going to feel the economic stress, most of us have already been feeling it for a while now.

100%. We can expect the kind of austerity measures like we've never seen before in America.

The lot we elected are exactly the sort that would let their own grandmother eat cat food. But hey, that's democracy. The working class voted them in, so they wanted this, right? In place of western welfare capitalism we have anti-socialism. I don't really care if people here are left wing or right wing. I just want people to admit that there are consequences, and that having the wrong leadership in place for generations is a detriment to our quality of life.

I'm married to my wife, not my job.

Pay me and I'll show up to work. Treat me like crap and I'll use company time to update my resume.