The school decisions were absolutely some of the worst decisions, especially with the number of professionals dedicated to child health and welfare begging for the exact opposite.
not really, especially when you add them all up and hardware to run them on. Sure, you can find some cheaper open-source alternatives for some things, but the lack of exposure to the more commercially available ones can be difficult to overcome.
The office buildings I've been in have also had really high ceilings. You could easily lose a foot to provide room for additional plumbing for the floor above.
Almost no one is talking about no immigration beyond a tiny fraction on the right and a larger faction on the left using it as a motte and bailey to support unlimited migration. A bigger issue is immigration via refugee status, as the people claiming asylum range from actual victims to economic migrants, and the amount of support needed is often far greater than other types of migrants.
Ticket prices also are likely rising due to physical demand, there's more people and more fans than ever before, but most performers aren't performing at more and bigger venues. IT's the same pressure that exists on real estate, but to a lesser degree.
It's not about pay, it's about delivery windows. The driver gets paid nothing relative to the cost of late delivery. Companies also aren't going to hire the trucker that quotes an extra day because of charging.
Even in K-12 reading is hugely important. Grades 2-3 are the transition point where students go from learning to read, to reading to learn. Every year past that point where a student is deficient in reading, causes them to fall behind their peers.
Standardized tests spend the money and time to get those quality questions that are consistently graded. It's not some random folks making minimum wage coming up with questions.
The price will always go up in most long terms. It's going to require massive population decrease within an area to actually drop prices. If you are going to live somewhere for about 5 years buying is worth it financially.
Test questions are written to test varying levels of competence from basic recall to true mastery. It's partially why so many people hate word problems, they don't actually understand the concepts. Many others just can't read.
A lot of this is because being overly string is a disadvantage. Body builders can lift more weight, but that's a lot of extra muscle to move when lifting relatively light things hundreds or thousands of times. A body builder could literally be working twice as hard as a wiry person, by having to lift their own muscles.
The incentives are to encourage adoption, if that happened, they should go away. As for the increased registration it needs to both offset the gas taxes and account for increased road damage.
They aren't super public with their cost structure, though it appears to generally be a monthly cost for publishers. Most games remove Denuvu after about a year if it's going to get removed. Some of the bigger publishers may have better deals though as titles never remove it, even after multiple years and no new updates.
Steam also displays a notice on games that use Denuvo and other similar 3rd party DRM libraries. It's not super prominent, but it's better than nothing.
You can play games with numbers all you want to make things look less bad, but many of the major EU economies have significantly neglected military spending. Not only is there a huge lack of munitions across the continent, there's a huge lack of ability to make any. Sure the invasion of Ukraine made these countries scramble to start fixing decades of neglect, but the damage has already been done.
The other problem with status pages is depending on what happened it may not be possible to update the status page anyway. You really need a third party to have a useful status page.
Commercial farmers also sign agreements to not plant harvested seeds. Monsanto has successfully sued several farmers for not complying with that contract.
Building houses only attracts people to where they want to live. A 30-story condo building in Anchorage isn't going attract people, that same building in San Francisco would likely have a waitlist.
While they may measure the same thing the connotation is different and often only applied to cars like the article says. We don't say more low-income housing created demand for low-income people. We don't say building a school created demand for children.
Flipping cause and effect for expansion of roads is wrong.
Mostly the former. with more developed coastline and more people living there, more damage is going to happen. Could storms be altered by human activity? Sure, but it's very difficult to reconcile how much is human action vs a hurricane making landfall in an area that wasn't urban 50 years ago.
If the goal was reduced emissions, these bans were an abject failure. Single use plastic bags are really efficient from an energy use perspective. Their replacements take significantly more energy to produce and the re-use is unlikely to ever balance out, as they often require hundreds or thousands of uses to be equivalent to a single use bag.
If I bulldoze a corner of you house for a planned turbine and say it's less damaging than a potential hurricane from climate change, it isn't going to make you feel better.