Countries that welcome immigrants are able to increase the tax base, and supply critical labor that locals don't want to do, including taking care of the elderly.
But you take in too many, too fast, AND if you allow those that are diametrically opposed to your values and way of life.....YOU LOSE YOUR COUNTRY.
and that's what we're seeing now across EU and trying to combat in the US.
The adult choice to be tech-ignorant in 2026 has consequences.
There is no excuse for that level of self-neglect. Boomers don't get a pass since they lived through the birth of the internet. If you're old in 2026 you had many decades beforehand to pull head from arse and learn.
Fire easily destroys or disables concentrated "force loss multiplier" fratricidal storage designs. Not just accidents, but terrorist-style attacks can take them out easily via drones using simple electric triggers.
https://theconversation.com/wh...
Disperse batteries far and wide and they'll be much more difficult to interfere with if they're designed to function without grid power during emergencies. A controlled, graceful shutdown is better than abrupt power interruption.
The US solved this problem 150 years ago. First with the observation that immigrants acculturate. Second with the acceptance that elements of their culture are going to get melded in to form a new culture. Culture is never static, anyway, it always drifts and morphs. Immigration just changes it a bit faster. But it's good! This ongoing immigrant-driven culture change is what made the US a superpower. Embrace it.
Indeed is USED to work this way....and if so, sure, cool.
The trouble is...it no longer works that way, there is no more 'melting pot'.
For various reasons, one being we've let WAY too many in at once....they do not come here to become Americans and assimilate, they are here to take over and make a Mini-whatever country they came from
They segregate, they do NOT learn the language and in Muslim cases, they try to change our laws to fit their religion.
In the old days, you didn't see protests with migrants waving flags of their home land, but instead were waving the US flag....
So, no that old way isn't working....and if we don't stop the influx....we risk losing our country even more than we risk losing it right now.
Doing that in the Commonwealth of Virginia is just going to get you a bigger fine. Radar detectors are illegal (or at least used to be the last time I drove there).
Glad most of the US doesn't suck like the Commonwealth of Virginia.....where we are free to know when we are being observed and electronically surveyed by the police.
Fortunately in the UK we have average speed checks over long distances so arseholes find a hole in their bank account and maybe points on their driving license too.
Ah....well, while it is getting bad here in the US, at least we're not the dystopian hell the UK is at this point....
The less of it the better because quantity of life works against quality of life, see third world fecundity if in doubt.
A Washington Post reader has sued the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper, accusing it of spying on its own subscribers to jack up their subscription prices.
Chelsea Blink’s class action complaint alleges that The Post began "covertly harvesting" data from its subscribers' phones, computers and tablets after the billionaire Amazon founder bought it for $250 million in 2013.
The Post then aggregated and analyzed the "deeply personal information" to "weaponize" it and maximize profits, according to the 28-page lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Washington, D.C.
"The more loyal a reader became, the more data The Post could gather to estimate how much more that person might tolerate paying at renewal," the court filing says. "Rather than rewarding loyalty, The Post’s system converted Subscribers’ engagement into leverage against them. Longtime Subscribers would end up paying more than new customers simply because the company knew more about them."
Blink's lawsuit, first reported by Mediaite, accuses The Post of violating local consumer protection law through its alleged "unfair and deceptive acts."
Governments are supposed to correct market failures. When a technology has a trajectory to be an eventual winner but faces short-term obstacles that the market isn't handling, that's an appropriate time for government to step in.
I need to get my readers, I'm just NOT seeing it....
If 30 seems safe to him, who should argue?
Then he needs to get the fuck OFF the highway and drive regular roads with lower speed limits....until he can earn his "big boy pants" and learn to drive at highway speeds with the adults.
If you can't hack it, then you don't belong there impeding other people with the proper driving skills.
TEMU Hospital....
Today on Temu Hospital we see Dr. Nick.......
You don't have to be all over your partner(s) all the time to result in a childbirth.
It certainly HELPS!!!
Geez, then I was a teen (way before cell phones and internet).....my girlfriend and I were fucking constantly, basically any time opportunity presented itself.
This was the "norm" for most of my peers in my HS years....
So if not cell phones and social media....what's the explanation for such a drastic change?
It isn't easy being the parent of a six-year-old. However, it's a pretty small price to pay for having somebody around the house who understands computers.
