Recently, 2024 presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy said he would "gut" the program if elected president
A right-wing libertarian purports to be on the side of labour, right-wring outrigger Margie Taylor Greene is a voice for peace, and ultra-right Lauren Boebert turns out to be a sex-positive freak!
The Left has gone feral and abdicated its responsibilities towards workers, and now this vacuum is filled with what is left.
We don't allow these things on public roads, there's laws against texting, alcohol, aggressive driving &c. But Tesla's autopilot with no sense of the world around it is the equivalent of a teenager in his second driving lesson. We don't let those drive.
He hopefully wasn't expecting to stop himself like that, that looks painful, it's asking for a sprain! But what a nice roll, does the fellow practice judo?
They give a 6-year old 600 mg of itaconazole per day when the adult dose is 400 mg/day and there is a risk for liver damage because he is "silly", "jumps", "shrieks" and has "foul stool odour"?
This kind of quackery has crossed into abusive territory, and heavy flogging as seen as in the Passion of the Christ would be appropiate for the physician and the parents.
But we need replication, replication is the way! Feynman wrote something about this, I recall. Someone proposes that the moon is made from Wensleydale, and NASA goes up and brings back some rocks. "It's made from rock", you say, but someone else says "it's actually made from Gouda, but some rock has fallen onto it". So the Russians go up and return more rock, and another proposes it's made out of Limburger. And so on.
You forgot employees of Huawei, who send in irrelevant patches because HR gives out rewards to whoever had a contribution accepted and students at the University of Minnesota, who send in crap as part of a faculty research project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670
The thing is - even racists have a right that their devices work. They paid money for it. Amazon's duty is to protect their driver, and if they refuse to deliver because a driver has been threatened that's OK. But they can't lock him out of their alarm system or automated door opener. It's worse because when you choose a camera doorbell because you have a choice between Ring and Nest, which is not much of a choice.
Ring doorbells, because the microphone heard the citizen say the N-word and locked him out of the Amazon account.
Back then, we thought legal questions about discrimination silly - if the baker won't bake cakes for lesbians, who cares, there are dozens of bakers in town who are not silly, why fight with the one who is, especially since the only recourse you will get is a birthday cake.
But now with the app monopolies it's different. If Lyft bans you over a justified chargeback and Uber bans you over another justified chargeback you are going to have a problem.
The half-homeless protagonist of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre had at least a cage where he could lock his suitcase in. 2020's San Francisco is objectively worse than 1920's Tampico.
A colleague (non-white, of course) in a former workplace would not pull off the Interstate in certain areas of the nation because they didn't trust police. No, they were not paranoid, only regularly cautious, they were from South America.
Yes, but I would prefer not to exercise that in court, it would be better if the government behaved itself towards its citizens. You also have the constitutional right to a speedy trial, but in practice that doesn't look hot either.
One wishes the goverment's messaging had been more informed by science and less by wishful thinking and the "needs of the economy". I still hear Atul Gawande pontificating in Summer 2020 on NPR about the "pandemic of the unvaccinated" against better knowledge, because it is known that immunity against coronaviruses is fleeting, an injected vaccine is not sterilizing and coronaviruses mutate rapidly.
If you habitually lie to people in the pursuit of your own interest you've pissed away their goodwill, and you won't ever have it again. It's a case of sleeping around and playing surprised that your wife won't have you back.
Does the government know something we don't know yet?
Also - where's sick leave? I'm sick of taking personal responsibility for my liver by getting the Hepatitis A vaccine, when in civilized countries people working in fast food can take sick leave to cure their infection instead of spreading it to all the world.
Matthew 23 applies: "Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 'The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Mose's seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.'"
It gets better from there on, the whole chapter is hilarious.
That's the correct answer, but what is baffling is that this is news to so many people frequenting this website. Most everyone posting here has been though a university, but hardly anyone has been involved in the pursuit of research.
There's the additional complication that when the beetle or the windstorm come there's suddenly an overabundance of wood on the market, which depresses prices. You'd need to do forest maintenance but cannot afford it, market forces are against it. It's like the Schweinezyklus but worse.
It's really hard to track with active radar, which is why the first thing NATO does in a foreign country is bomb all TV and radio stations off the air. With passive methods it's no problem at all.
Whole-fat milk is a meal, not a beverage, and it's a mystery how anyone can put up with the flavour. Especially mystifying: whole-fat milk with your meal.
It's different: at Newark Airport there was a whole shift of TSA officers whose main target was Indians leaving the US - elderly people with language difficulties, just despicable. One wonders about the logistics, anyone who is familiar with Terminal B in Newark knows there are cameras everywhere. It must have been lucrative, and the airport police must have been in on the joke.
Why do people do such silly things? Part of working assignments is to grow an intuition, and no kangaroo jumps hundreds of meters. Such crap just reinforces the notion that what you do in school is completely meaningless and divorced from reality.
Up until the mid-1980's average new construction was 1.8 million units/year, afterwards it dropped off, while the population grew from 240 millions in 1985 to 330 millions today. The fact that household sizes have shrunk, and the rural depopulation only exacerbate the problem. There is a grave supply problem.
The problem is compounded by the fact that new entry-level housing isn't built and that the old stock is deterioriating. Please, no fairytales about hand-me-downs here, you cannot subdivide an exurban 3600 sqft cardboard palace into 3 1200 sqft condominia. Zoning regulations are against it, and the infrastructure (water, electric, roads, schools) would require a massive upgrade.
You do ask - if the performance was not great before with a team of 10, what was the culture like before? Sometimes, the only way to improve matters is to build up a new team and sideline the previous one where it can't do more damage.