If it worked people would be on board. It doesn't.
It is used as a means to justify a catastrophic business as usual so fuck them.
It isn't haunting him much. These stories appear designed to placate, deflect anger. Don't be fooled by them.
Anyone played the star spangled banner backwards, just in case?
So now it is "The Department of ____________ "
___ = moment of silence
Police are not the brightest in any society.
So I guess somebody needs to tell them that they need to focus their efforts a little better if their current plan is 'anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer'.
Can I suggest they start with the people with drugs, rather than the people with the -- not uncommon - google phones in their search for drug dealers?
Crowd counting is the act of counting the total crowd present in a certain area. The people in a certain area are called a crowd. The most direct method is to actually count each person in the crowd.
FASCINATING. PLEASE KEEP POSTING.
You're not raising 'the workforce', you're raising a human being that will produce a vast amount of co2 future humans, even us in coming decades, can't afford to have in the atmosphere. So if raising this child is such a selfless burden the solution is simple: don't do it.
Most jobs exist because the people exist to do them. We saw what was essential to support a global population of 8 billion odd with covid (ie not all that much really).
AI - vast energy drain itself that in co2 terms shouldn't exist - is coming for white collar bullshit jobs. We very well might be entering a period where the people exist but the jobs don't. We don't need more people from wealthy nations, consuming wealthy nationers' resources. There are more than enough workers to provide for everybody, the excess are primarily consumers.
So, given that it is such a burden, just don't bother.
Paid for: full self driving
Got: a chatbot that styles itself on Hitler
Earth system scientists put the kind of society complex enough for hospitals and higher education require an energy returned on energy invested in the teens. 'Renewables' (let's call them low carbon, there isn't anything very renewable about the blade of a wind turbine) barely touch that and often don't get near.
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The picture is so varied that one can find statistics to counter this 'barely touches the teens' claim. Look at the totality of the picture and draw your own conclusions. I am just presenting some reasoning to justify a claim that we are heading towards a much lower energy future, maybe next century or something (which doesn't have to be bad, provided everybody isn't slaving for a class of energy-obese billionaires protected by a fascist police state).
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I looked into this a lot about 15 years ago, when it seemed that we were still in the last chance saloon on avoiding catastrophic climate change. The science might have moved on. I don't have current sources anybody interested in the concept of eroei and the complexity it creates will have to look themselves.
It occurs to me that they must all do each other's hair (and makeup) which is quite nice of them.
Carney is and always was a neo-liberal banker. :It seems inevitable, all things considered, that the fossil-fuel powered neo-liberal capitalism the West (maybe English speaking countries) has experienced since Reagan (and Thatcher) will only set the stage for fascism.
A choice between right or hard right is a choice between the length of fuse you want on the bomb. Unfortunately, the longer the fuse the bigger the bomb - because of the problem-multiplying impacts of things like climate change and poverty/reduction in education etc etc etc.
Oh look, it's vice.com, so presumably these 'scientists' are from the University of Joe Rogan or U of Y(outube) or something.
As I said. This individual simply cannot tolerate a different reading of the pro-corporate, anti-diversity EU so they immediately resort to vulgar insult.
Believe it or not it suits me personally, on the most cynical level - free movement etc - to be in the EU. It just happens that I grew up with people who have been hammered by EU membership, and who voted heavily against it. I abstained because I won't vote against the interests of the people I grew up with.
What I said about reform is absolutely on the cards anyway, forcing a rejoining of the EU on people who voted against it greatly hastens their rise. This is something I don't want to see. EU citizens don't seem able to bend, and when you don't bend you break.
Anyway. Block it is.
There is literally zero chance of the British accepting the Euro. It has disaster baked into it.
The Maastricht treaty defined that you lose the right to 1. run budsget deficits in periods of economic contraction. 2. Set interest rates. 3. Devalu your currency when necessary.
Greece got to borrow at rates Germany enjoy - for a while. Germany gets a hugely devalued currency which actually allows it to be a great exporter (well that and the US post WW2 investment).
This inequality in peripheral countries absolutely drives the rise of the far right.
Other than that |the British people don't want to be in the EU. Being forced into it will put Reform UK into power. They are as Russia aligned as Trump.
Edit - I know most poeople will not be able to cope with this reading of the EU and will not change their mind in any way. When presented with a fact that does not match the reality one has (co-)constructed one has to reject the fact, because one cannot reject reality. So I am happy to agree to disagree, I won't reply further in this thread, I will just block. And you can downvote this, but you can't downvote reality away. If only you could, eh!?
The UK political classes ignoring the brexit vote, and rejoining the EU gets Reform UK into power. Who will leave the EU, and are as aligned with Russia as Trump is.
The likes of the bbc framed the brexit debate as a choice between 'liberalism' and something xenophobic, which is not why the vast majority of people wanted out of the EU, and omitted the stories of the majority who had very good reason to be unhappy with the EU.
The EU is pro corporatism, anti diversity (why have one set of rules for all of Europe, written by corporate lobbyists in Brussels? What is right for the majority of UK citizens, is not right for the Irish, What is right for Germans is not right for Greeks. etc etc etc. Europe has a wonderfully diverse culture, one set of homogenised rules written by corporate lobbbyists is not right and never will be. Brexit is about the right to self-determinism and autonomy.
The EU was an American idea. They wanted a bulwark against the Soviet Union in Europe. We are in a very different world now.
If the EU wants a Russia aligned nuclear power on their Western side within a decade they push for the UK to rejoin. Th EU ere disgusting in their dealing with the UK post brexit. To expect or demand further concession shows just how hopelessly mislead EU citizens are.
He made it clear pre-election that that was his intention.
Are we still pretending that voter sentiment is a concern?
Can't see themselves in a mirror but Dracula always had a perfect parting (from Karl Pilkington of course).
If they kill someone once a day to feed and turn them into a vampire in about a month everyone on Earth today would be a vampire, so the maths said they can't be real.