Russia can't really force it if they could then the war would be over and Europe wants to keep it all going so they can wear Russia down some more.

So nothing is really going to change in the war will just continue unless and until we get a democrat in the white house again with a clear majority in Congress.

It is incredibly fucked up that the world is just kind of standing by letting Russia do this so that they can wear Russia down and reduce their ability to function as a global superpower. Then again this shit we are letting happen in Yemen and Sudan is even worse. And Jesus fucking Christ if you read the history of what America did in South America during Ronald Reagan...

Yeah you're not really supposed to think about how expensive the drug war is versus just giving people support and addiction treatment.

America especially is really into punitive and revenge-based Justice. I wonder if it will start to fade if religious extremism continues to fade. It's not hard to draw a line between puritanical bullshit and wanting to do as much harm as possible to people who commit crimes or do drugs.

Now provide access roads for construction, foundations on the soil, disposal of the removed fill, and water/sewer

Indeed., I ommit details, stay vague. I avoid working my idea out. Because it is a waste of time. First, it is posted on a website on the internet. It is of no consequence. Second, I am not competent in reorganizing life as we know it. I have zero experience in that area nor do I have any relevant education. It would be a good thought exercise, but I have other work to do, that pays the bills. Third I could start an in depth debate, but chances are you are in a similar situation than me. It would lead to nothing, but a lot of typing work. I could go on. What I can do? I can imagine a world where society lives on the rithm of the grid. Lots of sun and wind? Work overtime. Little sun and no wind? Read a book. Cheers!

Just implant another one in the other hand. My dog has one. Big sharp needle though.

This isn't even the dumbest idea of the last 90 seconds. Somewhere out there a guy is getting a tattoo with the name of a girl he met in the last five hours while coked out if his mind. Compared to getting rid of that, extracting an RFID implant will be a minor inconvenience.

Once worked in a continuously growing company. We had expensive lab equipment. In the old days, usually at least one machine was available. But more customers meant this was leading more and more to conflicts.
Management organized meetings with lab guy and IT to develop some scheduling software. It was going to be great! Integrated with our project management tools. They held meetings for weeks to draw the requirements. Lab guy got fed up with it. Teared a piece of paper out. Wrote on it: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,... Taped it to the lab door. We all rushed to fill it in. We negotiated a bit amongst each other and bam, schedule for the month was finished. Worked perfectly the next years.
Never underestimate the power of a piece of paper.

Yeah you could for example point at the trans panic as the reason why Trump is President not once but twice because without that moral panic he couldn't have won but you'd also have to ignore all the voter suppression cheating and the sabotage the Republicans have done to the economy and the Republicans packing the courts allowing Trump to commit multiple crimes and get away with it and and and...

The Democrats insisting on running a woman when the country has made it crystal clear that they do not want a woman at top of ticket didn't help either.

Basically every single system had to collapse in order to make a has been game show host with 28 credible rape accusations president. Again..

So yeah you have multiple causes for a disaster a lot of times.

But take any one of those causes out and the disaster goes away. So I don't think it's unfair to say those things caused the disaster.

And in this case Iran is a relatively poor country that was trying to do a theocratic dictatorship by America in order to secure influence in the Middle East so it's not like they have a lot of say in reducing climate change. It's mostly a matter of the United states, the wealthier states of Europe and China. And you can hardly blame them for their corruption if you are an American since, well you caused it.

Of course pointing all this out is not going to endear you to Americans. We don't like to think about the consequences of our actions.

Having the product stuck on the page makes it appear valuable. (Inflating user counts, familiarizing the public with the brand.)

When the product appears valuable, they can sell more of it (primarily to investors).

They have to give the product away to sell it to a few gullible people.

The fact that there's enough dumb money floating around to make it a worthwhile scam is a whole problem bigger still.

If we don't have a 30 style crash. In addition to basically completely deregulating Wall Street and investment in general and all the other structural economic problems we are all just kind of pretending aren't there over and over and over again we are seeing crooks let off the hook by the current administration for no discernible reason except the blisteringly obvious one.

We are basically speedrunning a repeat of the lead up to world war II only this time we have nuclear weapons. But I'm sure it'll be fine right? Right?

People thinking of this stuff as a "magic rock that thinks" is exactly the problem. And the main people conceiving of it that way are the ones trying to jam it down everyone's throat.

As I already said in the previous post:

"MacOS mostly doesn't really even use ~/.config, because, well, "Apple".

We don't know if Mozilla will do that on MacOS, which does not follow all Unix conventions. Especially desktop ones, of which this is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

>"Linux" appears ZERO times in the specification."

And yet, 99% of who this change will affect will likely be Linux users. MacOS mostly doesn't really even use ~/.config, because, well, "Apple".

>"This is a specification for UNIX. Linux copied from UNIX but is not UNIX."

If it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it is probably a duck. Linux is Unix, in all ways that matter to anyone now (and for a long time before now). Worrying about exact Linux vs Unix vs UNIX vs Unix-like vs BSD vs POSIX is kinda no longer relevant.

It's the same stupid fucking pattern over and over again where you have wealthy elites who are well respected by the public and have control of the local media so the journalists will not discuss them critically.

There's nothing magic about being Japanese. Corruption and malfeasance are just things that human beings do everywhere.

The only country I have seen that I have the slightest faith in their ability to safely run nuclear reactors as France and that's because when France's ruling class tried to raise the retirement age to 62 there were riots in the streets.

I know those things don't seem connected but they are. It shows that the public there is not likely to let their betters run roughshod over them like America and Japan and frankly 99% of the rest of the world does.

The problem here is that elites can cause enormous disasters by taking huge risks that they are not personally culpable for and then get away with it because we have a different set of rules for them then we do for everybody else.

That is not by any stretch of the imagination in uncommon setup in the world. Frankly France is the odd man out here.

And marginally less profit for the plant owners...

If the people responsible for the disaster were currently rotting in prison it would be one thing but I keep coming back to the fact that the public blamed the engineers and let the CEOs off without even so much as a trial..