Comment Re:DOGE (Score 1) 165
Untold billions in outright fraud were uncovered. Want to try again?
Untold billions in outright fraud were uncovered. Want to try again?
The US sent Ukraine about $100 billion, what does it take to be properly armed?
That is not exactly correct. There is a reason they are called "tariffs" not "taxes."
Tariffs can bring in revenue, but they can also be used for public policy, and trade policy.
For example, let's suppose a country imposes on tariff of some US goods, and the president immediately turns around and imposes tariffs on some of that countries goods. The tariff is not for revenue, it can be to tell the other country to back off.
There are a million reasons a president might want to impose tariffs. It is a tool that can be used for all sorts of negotiations.
Gas prices were still on average lower under Biden?
Gas prices are temporarily up because of a war with Iran, that has gone on all of 7 weeks.
Not long ago, gas prices here in Colorado, were as low as $2.12 a gallon.
I am certain that if you averaged it out, fuel prices under Biden were much higher.
Obviously illegal?
Other US presidents have imposed tariffs, why is Trump treated differently?
But, speaking of "obviously illegal" Joe Biden, in brazen defiance of the US constitution, forgave student loans. The case went to the Supreme Court twice, and both times SCOTUS upheld that Biden did not have that authority. But Biden did it anyway, and bragged about.
Makes me wonder who is the dickhead doing things "obviously illegal."
Shakespeare, I think.
According to the article in scienceblog:
- The Body Makes Its Own [fructose]
- Does fruit cause the same metabolic damage as soda?
-- No, and the review is careful on this point. Whole fruit contains fructose, but it also contains fibre, flavanols, vitamin C and potassium, all of which slow fructose absorption or blunt its downstream effects. The dose is also lower and the delivery slower. Fizzy drinks, by contrast, deliver a concentrated fructose bolus fast enough to overwhelm the small intestine’s protective filtering.
My 13 year old FreeBSD box runs just fine. I don't have to throw away my hardware, and buy new, just because Microsoft, or Apple, decides it's time.
I don't care much for the planned obsolescence model that keep people on an upgrade treadmill, for the sake of "features" that nobody wants.
I don't care much for the mountains of e-waste the upgrade treadmill causes either.
People were saying the same thing in the 1960s, and ever since.
And yet, here we are.
In 1968 the US population was about 200 million, and the world population was about 3.5 billion. That is the year the book "The Population Bomb" was published.
For decades to follow overpopulation was a huge issue. China enacted the one child per family law. There were public service advertisements urging people to have smaller families. Articles and books about "Deep Ecological" insisted that we were doomed if we did not lower the population.
Now we have twice the population. But as soon as we make the slightest bit of progress to lower the population, everybody starts screaming about the under-population crises.
I am running FreeBSD with MATE.
Firefox seems to be using about 1.5GB - just running slashot.
49% of how much memory?
I am running FreeBSD with MATE. I am using firefox with two tabs open. I am also running jellyfin, and some other background stuff. And I am also running a terminal, and looking at "top" process.
My total active memory being used is 675MB. I have a total of 12GB Ram, and I have about 5200MB free.
Firefox does seem to be quite a hog.
Solar panels are the end product. If wars were to be fought, it would over the materials used to make solar panels.
BTW: I think almost all solar panels and wind turbines are made by China. Other countries could make them, but it would not be easy, and it could not happen overnight.
You mean the bird blenders that are also killing whales and dolphins?
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov