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So slush?

Cases like this are all too common across the country.

Literally every article out there proclaims doom and gloom. At what point do we confront the madness that is our government spending? Every single article says it’s so bad if we don’t.

How about we rip the bandaid. Cut all government spending to zero and start adding back critical services in priority order.

Sorry to Ukraine, but the $100bn or $200bn or whatever. Next foreign aid. Sorry - we broke. Doing research on dolphin adolescence - yeah gone. Building more F-69s for a Russian bogey man - cut.

Seriously. Our political class is an utter failure. We have to rip the band aid off at some point.

Good. Competition will lead to the better consumer benefit here. Google search has been getting progressively lazier over time.

Are we really so fragile as a society that any offense is worth cancelling the full accomplishments of an individual that, factually, led the integration of NASA and helped the US Space program immeasurably?

Are we that poisoned that we will stop at nothing to erase our past? I myself can point to many wrongs done to my ancestors with a ‘present-ist’ lens - should I be actively seeking to destroy those people and institutions despite any positives?

We all live in glass houses, the last thing we should be encouraging is throwing stones. Especially stones with terrible, atrocious pasts like ‘social justice’.

Is this talking about rodents or another kind of rat?

This is an incredible definition:

> So allow me to clarify. Science and math, above all else, is an ideological commitment to the premise that truth does not derive from authority.

From a linked article, a quote that basically describes the Federal Reserve

>It’s almost as if SBF found a way to hack the financial system, printing billions of dollars out of thin air against which he was able to borrow massive sums from unknown counterparties. Almost as if he discovered a financial perpetual motion machine…

Not really. There are enough Privacy and Security best practices that would tell you that disgruntled employees are the most dangerous threat to a digital infra.

He’s actually complying with the spirit of the law while also doing what I’d prefer he did given the amount of user data that Twitter holds.

No employee with a 60-day payoff is going to win in court when the hourly rate of these people has approached infinity

// furiously flips through Wikipedia to remember wth Calvinism was again

This is exactly it. Terminated technically means, no longer receiving compensation or benefits.

If Musk is basically saying “stop working” and we will pay you for the next 60 days (and even beyond), then this is completely legal as long as they are not restricted from seeking other employment during this “notice period”

Edit: IANAL

Thanks for posting that. It simply proves my point. Add up the non-essential products (almonds, grapes, etc) and remove that from the total. You will see the total output of CA agriculture drops significantly.

You know what I meant when I said “Midwest”.

Again, the point of the article was that drought conditions are occurring and, in CA, 75% of the water consumption is due to “agriculture” as has been stated above, and after removing commercial uses, only 11% is residential.

My insinuation is that (1) Agriculture is the key impactor of drought conditions, (2) when policy makers and those with your opinions talk about the problem being irrigated water uses, it’s always deflected as “CA feeds the US, we have to protect it” giving the industry a free pass, (3) If we put in policy, like paying fairly for water, the industry would be impacted negatively, but as your document proves - it wouldn’t substantially impact core nutrition of the US - just the convenience of a bunch of rich wine and charcuterie consumers.

ITT: people that think PayPal was acting alone as a “private” company.

I’m under the firm belief that this is just our federal government pushing a censorship and “misinformation” policy that is unconstitutional, but using pressure on private companies to accomplish said policies.

Twitter docs leaked: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...

PayPal: https://www.techdirt.com/2010/12/07/visa-mastercard-kkk-is-a... (yes source is questionable , but actual events did occur

No, really?!?

So, not exactly. California just shows up as #1 because of the total value of the crop. Look at the moneymaker: “Fruit, Tree nuts”. That’s Grapes (for wine) and Almonds. Both crops are non-essential (speaking scientifically). Others are important, but also fall lower on the spectrum of key essentials.

California is important but remove Grapes and Almonds and some of the other non essentials (like avocados, sweet potatoes, etc) and California is somewhere at the bottom of the top 10.

Compare that to #2 on the list, Iowa. If Iowa didn’t produce the $17bn of “grains, oilseeds, dry beans, etc”, then large swaths of the Americas experience severe nutrition issues.

I love California and live here, but let’s not kid ourselves - the Midwest feeds the US