Thus getting back the money Trump extorted for his librabry.

" Half of those using them said they could not make ends meet otherwise, according to the latest edition of a survey that LendingTree, a loan marketplace, has compiled for years."

If you are using any loan to 'make ends meet' you are not making ends meet, you are merely delaying bankruptcy.

They specifically mentioned Flex, Zip and Affirm, which can easily reach 20% and even 36%. Basically credit card rates.

It is possible to pay these rates for a short term emergency and then take years to pay it off.

Food, rent, etc. are things you need to buy every week, not an emergency. If you cannot afford it this week, you will never be able to do it. Instead you keep getting more and more debt at these rates until you reach the credit limit, then go bankrupt.

The subject said "same problem".

The problem is that the equipment either
a) solves a problem by spending more than it is worth or
b) does not solve the problem and costs a ton.

That applies to Flock cameras - they cost too much for what they do.

Yes, just buy my pet rock / invermectin / Ponzi Scheme and it will cure what ails ya!

No I won't be specific about how it works, cause I do not know!

Sure I will give you a Guarantee - but don't expect your money back.

One of the issues with traffic enforcement cameras (speeding, red light) is that they can either:

a) Do the claimed job: reduce infractions (less speeding, less running red lights)

b) Fulfill predictions and pay for themselves. Note, I did not say be profitable, I said pay for themselves. Usually they end up costing the city more money then the cost to install/maintain. At best a company is paid to manage them and they make money but not the city.

They cannot do both. If they reduce the infractions, then the tickets drop and it is not profitable. If enough tickets are paid, then that means infractions remain constant.

For this reason a lot of the time, towns just end the contract.

You have repeated the failed arguments of idiots that are killing tens of thousands of people. Everything you said has at least a kernel of truth, but smart people ignore those excuses and fix the problem.

Yes just giving them AC will not fix the problem they have to install it and use it and not go out in 90 F+ degree temperature. The cultural change is part of the fix.

YOU DEFINITELY NEED AC Fans, water, shade are not enough. The same house designs that keep the heat in during winter keep the air conditioning in during summer. Yes you may need to redesign flexible AC's for the older houses. Not impossible to do.

The fans etc. were enough 50 years ago. 30 years ago the deaths from heat starting rising and We already knew about Global Warming You are basically claiming to be caught by surprise from the most famous trend in the last 50 years.

It is NOT a few days each year - that was what it was 30 years ago. Now it is 2 months per year.

The belief that you 'do not need AC' is part of the same stupid culture that has people go out in the sun. You are not part of the solution, you are a moron that thinks "it is not that bad of a problem, we do not need to use the same techniques of people from the equator use." Given the death rate, YES YOU NEED TO USE THOSE TECHNIQUES.

The problem is not measured in days you need AC, it is measured in Tens of Thousands dead. You get more than 50,000 dead it does not matter if they all die on one day, 10 days, or 30 days. That many dead = a problem.

Part of the solution may very well be a constant barrage of radio, TV, and internet propaganda with a Heat Index telling idiots that today is the day you turn on your AC and stay inside. But you need those AC's to exist in order to do this. Trying to do it with fans will fail. The people will think "I am not comfortable, I will go to the beach." Make them comfortable, not just liveable.

Note, I live in the NYC area. I use an AC in my bedroom but a ceiling fan in my living room. The fan works great as long as the temperature is under 90, then I go read in my bedroom. Because I am not stupid enough to think "Well, the fan keeps me alive but uncomfortable, so I do not need the AC." I want to enjoy my life not suffer through it.

1) Until recently = past 30 years. That is, the number of heat deaths has doubled over the past 30 years. So NO this is not a recent problem, it existed 30 years ago. Yes it has gotten worse. So what, when you have ten of thousands of deaths in 1990s, then you fix the problem so it does not reach hundreds of thousands.
2) Yes, Europe is to the north. So what. Montreal has air conditioners. NYC has air conditioners and it is the same latitude as Madrid, Naples and Istanbul.
  In those cities new buildings have AC, but not old ones. Retrofit it you fools.

You have explained the inept reasons why Europeans have not fixed the problem, proving they are foolish. Those are not good reasons. ore Europeans died this year from the lack of AC than Americans were killed by guns. Americans have their head up the ass on guns, Europe refuses to:

1) Redesign AC's to fit the tiny windows in Europe.
2) Make them easy to install and remove.
3) Create a culture where AC is expected and people do NOT go out when the temperature is above 90 F /32 C Instead stay in air conditioned areas.

It does not take 5 years to do this. This should have been done 10 years ago. The fact that morons keep saying "We are colder and do not need it" when that has not been true for 30 years is not an excuse.
Saying "We only need it for a few days" does not matter when people are dying.
Saying "It is hotter today than ever before" is MORONIC given that we all know Climate Change is happening. Yes it is is hotter. Next year will be worse. FIX THE PROBLEM NOW.

One racoon created 'more than a thousand power outages'??

This needs to be turned into a movie. I am OK with it being a disney cartoon, but I need to see this, preferably live action.

There is a strange movement in Europe against Air Conditioners. It is the reason why tens of thousands of people die from heat stroke most years in Europe.

The very very strange part is that the same people that hate and refuse to promote air conditioners often use refrigerators and freezers in the same homes.

The differences between a refrigerator and and air conditioner are basically cosmetic and placement. They use the exact same mechanism, just the AC has the hot end sticking out of the building (usually through a window or by placing the entire thing outside with a pipe/tube sending the cold air into the building).

Europe, the USA has a lot of stupid insanity that you rightly call out. This is one of YOUR stupid insanity that we call out.

1) The animals are practically clones. All bred from a very small subset of humans. And they are all fed the same food, all kept at the same temperature, etc. So if the drug works it practically means it only works on only one specific creature in one situation.

2) The animals are basically babies. Lab mice live for maybe 24 months. Months, not years. Humans live for about 1,000 months (83 years) Our bodies are far more complex because of all the old shit we acquire. Children recover, us old folk, we just survive.

For these reasons, lab animals are not very useful as test subjects. Human organs in a bottle/test tube sound a lot better to me.

And if we start using them for test subjects, we will put a ton of money into them. Maybe, hopefully, in 20 years or so of companies practicing on 'lab organs', we can figure out how to to grow replacement organs.

I could earn upto $21 million dollars this year.

Leaves open the possibility of me earning 21 cents.

Stupid article with stupid premise.

"However, the VA is staffed by health professionals who are there because they can't cut it in private practice"

1) Clear prejudicial statement made without any evidence. AI seems to think that VA nurse salaries are competitive, and nothing I found on the internet says otherwise.

2) Not helpful to your point. The general VA staff will not be doing this, it is experimental research. While some of the VA staff will be involved, research experiments are done by a combination of outside researchers and the more accomplished staff. Even if VA has substandard medical staff those will not be involved in this.

3) The staff will not just be 'keeping them focused', the way you think. Instead the staff will:

a) Run a double blind control experiment
b) regulate dosages to lessen the chance of an overdose and see any dose related effectiveness
c) Be on hand to deal with any medical issues that arise while taking the drugs
d) Ensure that they are not stupid enough to take it near a campfire or within the territory of bears, wolves, etc .

Frankly, your opinion sounds to me like you had a very bad encounter with VA staff and this is pushing you into ridiculous statements. If so, I am so sorry for what happened to you and wish you the best, but your statement is incorrect.

Will it work? Perhaps. Needs to be tested.

The job is well paid hell. Too much stress. But part of that is excess overtime. If we can hire enough people the job could become better, if less paid due to less overtime.