Water conservation. 80% of water use in CA is agricultural, i.e., Big Ag. Consumers are told to take 60 second ahowers, while water intensive crops like alfalfa are grown on land with senior water rights sold to foreign interests like Saudi and UAE who aren’t stupid and have money. The state has a water crisis because it won’t involve the heaviest abusers in the solution.
Well…Bezos now owns MGM studios. The next James Bond movie (MGM IP) can feature an insane, bald megalomaniac psychopath trying to take over the world, and it Bezos can star in it as himself. He can print the headlines of his own amazing acting debut in The Washington Post that he bought and then muzzled, fired or laid off staff who would not bend the knee to fascism and trump when Bezos wanted his to be a friendly mouthpiece for his Trump payday.
Bezos owns whole foods too…
Because someone has to coordinate to let Saudi royal families safely exit nationally closed airspace after 9/11 when 15/19 plane hijackers were from Saudi Arabia!
Can you imagine what might have happened to them if not? Luckily we then started having those same agencies spew stories about WMD that didn’t exist in Iraq so we could fight a proxy war in Iraq.
The US is China’s bitch, Israel’s bitch, Saudi Arabia’s bitch…
It’s also just generally a good barometer of a good idea. If people can’t independently evaluate an idea and come to a similar conclusion on their own, it just means that you simply apply coercion and then you get to be right! It’s excellent as a management practice which I’ll note all the big 4 claim to offer…
That’s the beauty of it, now that the oil-ligarchy has defunded alternate energy and removed tax incentives, the companies responded by reversing 2 decades of development and finally getting hybrids and evs common in us automakers.
Now that electric is off the menu, and protectionism is back on, it means the places those cars are being made and made well–like china–americans simply won’t even know about them or be able to buy them as they’ll be tariffed out of existence.
Triple win for the oil-ligarchy
You could almost say a that would be a really unhealthy place to live when the influential and powerful in a society and country think that is the best use of their position.
Damn. Hope he’s ok quickly. The NBA is better when there are more relevant teams and it’s been too long for Detroit especially given the season they’re having. The east needs at least 3 reasonable title contenders or playoffs suck and the finals is a foregone conclusion.
To be fair, who could have ever predicted that an expensive, finite, geographically remote resource our economy has been lobbied to be dependent on would ever be more at risk of cost or cause more problems than the infinite free ones available in our sky, air, water and even atoms?
The amount of brutally obvious “beauty app” filters people put on teams pictures and whatnot…it’s the 2020 version of Glamour Shots in the US. Like dude/dudette/whatever, you look SO much better no matter what you think without digital fucking plumped lips or exaggerated fake chin lines and only-exists-in-1st-gen-terminators-smooth skin.
Love yourself people.
It’s a great end, but the tax was fucking regressive as hell with a low eligibility threshold ($1k in annual income pays the same as someone making 7 figures?!?) and was administered in a fucking stupid way. This was known during the runup.Could have been progressively structured and easily and automatically administered.
Instead arts admins bleated it was a false dilemma and if you weren’t with them you were against them. They must have picked up the “taxation and ballot proposals for dummies” kit from Office Depot when they submitted the proposal, and the public–including the kids that were supposed to be the beneficiaries of the benefit–continues to get limited benefit for maximum cost and pain.
I imagine it hasn’t been fixed because they know it has been so unpopular and the realities of the failure are still coming in years later they’re too cowardly to try to fix it with voters.
It’s a great example of why you can’t just rely on your party/group/alliances to know whether you should support a political cause of candidate. Lots of people trying to do “the right thing” did that with the arts tax and hopefully they’ve absorbed the lesson by now. Reject garbage, ask it be made better, then approve it.
The Interstate Bridge Replacement Program, or IBR for short, grew out of the previous proposal known as the Columbia River Crossing, which fell apart in 2013.
Yes, and why was that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_River_Crossing
Of approximately $227 million allocated, the project had spent $175 million by the end of April 2013, much of it on pre-construction testing of subsurface conditions, which may or may not be useful in the future.[20] The project was terminated after the Washington State Senate failed to approve $450 million in funding, with key opponent Ann Rivers of La Center, Washington suggesting alternative measures such as eliminating lane changes and lowering the speed limit on the bridge.[21] One common objection from opponents was the inclusion of light rail.[22]
Have you seen any pictures of the United States? Much of it looks like places it arrogantly or condescendingly dismissed in past decades.
Unfettered greed has consequences.
Why would you use such questionable technology to assess future behavior of subjects when we can simply use phrenology to easily predict criminal behavior?
“If AD is reasonably healthy”
Why would that be a reasonable assumption or hypothesis? He’s played 1 full season (65 games per the NBA all-star inclusion eligibility) since COVID title.
https://www.espn.co.uk/nba/player/stats/_/id/6583/anthony-davis
They are racing the top coal sketch artists to the scene to try to capture these incredible images!
What’s your favorite food?
Yes.
The federal minimum wage hasn’t changed since 2009. It’s been 17 years.