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This 100% exists in Amsterdam, just abstracted one layer by the absurd tolerance policy where coffeeshops are allowed to sell to people but the product just magically appears in the shop. Supply is still a fully a criminal underworld.
There are vacation days (guaranteed by law!). And then there is sick leave, and there is no fixed number of days.
They’re totally separate. If you’re sick, you’re sick - if you’re sick long term it’s covered by insurance. If you’re sick on holiday you even can get your vacation days back.
It’s so gross to me how this is handled in America. Certainly there are flaws in the Dutch approach, but it’s inhumane and precarious for so many people in America.
Makes me never want to return to life in the US.
I don’t know where the name truffle came about.
Who is Twitter?
But this is entirely orthogonal to the jones act because there are foreign vessels calling at US ports like literally all the time. They just don’t pick up cargo in one US port and take it to another US port.
Not mere discussions. This has already happened (Dominion Coastal Virginia demo project) and will continue to happen.
JA support is really bipartisan…some dems are fully on board with continuation and even further strengthening of the Jones Act.
With respect to ballast water, any vessel discharging cargo or entering US ports has to abide by USCG and other regulations about treatment etc, regardless of whether or not it’s a JA-compliant vessel or not
The Jones Act obliges some pretty absurd contortions and workarounds to construct offshore wind, of which many many gigawatts are planned to be built in the future off the coasts of the US. This directly increases risk, cost, complexity, and uncertainty compared to offshore wind development in other countries.
The highly specialized vessels which are capable to do this work are in very limited supply globally, and exceedingly few are (or will be) US-flagged and JA compliant. These are the heavy crane vessels, jack up vessels, precision rock placement vessels, cable lay vessels, etc of which practically nothing suitable exists in the US-flagged fleet. Some US vessels are being built (Dominion’s turbine installation jack-up or GLDD’s fall pipe vessel), however, these are absolutely insufficient on their own, and vastly more expensive (and uncompetitive elsewhere) compared to the rest of the global fleet.
I would suggest reading up on how the zero COVID approach taken by the Chinese government has impacted its citizens, and how it’s really very much divorced from any pragmatic notion of saving lives.
It’s maddening and IT can’t solve it properly, and I’m not the only one at my company having this issue.
Utter garbage app and user experience.
Edit: even worse is if I’m being called into an existing group call…there’s no way to accept.
Hard disagree. It depends on too many factors to make a universal statement like this.
Why do I in Europe get almost zero spam calls or text while in the US it seems like a plague?
So it clearly isn’t the cause of airport chaos, but it can’t be helpful.
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Bit of an unusual thing to include weekends to make 20 actual vacation days sound 40% better than it is.
Edit: to be clear, in my experience, when someone in Europe says “4 weeks holiday” they mean 28 actual vacation days, not including weekend days.
Well, no, I didn’t make the claim that it was the cheapest. It is competitively priced, however, which is important, and both technically and politically achievable. Anyway the other person claimed that if onshore became even cheaper that onshore would gain favor over offshore. Yet, it’s already apparently significantly cheaper. So why isn’t it more favorable already?
There are motivations beyond purely cost…it’s a lot easier to have larger-scale offshore wind than onshore (are there 15MW+ turbines in the onshore pipeline?) with less nuisance and better wind resource. It’s not really feasible to transport the components for such massive wind turbines onshore. Multi-gigawatt scale onshore wind farms don’t exist (the largest I noticed after a quick search is only 350MW). Offshore can be so much bigger…Dogger Bank, when it’s fully realized, will be almost 14 times larger than the current largest onshore wind farm in the UK.
They absolutely are effective at reducing the risk of death or serious illness.
Huh? Ice? There isn’t any sea ice to contend with in the UK.