I haven't read this article yet but one interesting part of this is Facebook. You can join any number of groups on Facebook for specific plants and plant types and there are sellers there showing off some very obviously poached plants. If you enquire with them they are sometimes only interested if you are buying hundreds of plants at a time. I also know a handful of collectors who are old and like to collect who have bought from these sellers.
Seems like a nice project would be to get every single episode, convert them all to text, and then scan the missing episodes to figure out why it was removed. I can guess for the Milo, Gavin, Alex Jones, and Molyneux episodes. That's a yikes
As a Canadian who moved to the United States this is something that I worry about all the time. That putting myself into this situation might just randomly lead to some random violent event happening to me. I remember that within a month of moving here about a block from me there was reports of someone driving their car down the sidewalk. Just last month someone was high on something, climbed up on the top of the Castro theatre, and started throwing cinder blocks down on people. While that's not really the riskiest situation it kind of summarizes some things that seem "normal" in the US that I would never dream might happen where I am from.
I think that Fox news has been around enough that people really don't expect any media to be neutral anymore. It just seems natural and normal for any media outlet to be vertically integrated into something. Washington Post seems to be anti union and against billionaires being taxed? Whatever.
I think if you speak about it like man/boy it seems sort of abstract. It's more that he wasn't so much of an adult. It seems like he was lacking a lot of responsibility that one would expect from an adult.
I don't really think it's "culture." I think that culture and the environment you grow up in can make you think something is a good idea or even "cool." People might not feel like there is a better option. But I think ultimately the issue is that there really isn't much of a better option. De-unionization and wage stagnation has made it basically impossible to live with any dignity on a multiple tiers of jobs. Maybe the culture that certain classes of people don't deserve a living wage is contributing to this?
Why do you think it's not enforceable? You can prevent any kind of house ownership or change incentives with taxation. Random example: Taxing non-primary residences. Taxing rental income etc.
Yes let's keep making weird incentives for law enforcement like asset forfeiture. I want police to be like an American ambulance and run my credit card before saving my life.
I think you're assuming they are not available because they pushed back on the one specific thing about island size and not something else all together. It's not really proven that they are not available because they have that much integrity.
I'll never respect Shopify. I gave them my CV with decent experience and the recruiter never even spoke to me on the phone. They told me that I would need more of a social media presence or maybe open-source work. It was completely baffling but I'm glad I never encountered another company like them.
I think there is a real thing happening there. Luxury things are going up astronomically. It's just not for the middle class anymore. A bunch of the population just won. They got to upper middle class and it's no big deal to spend a few thousand here and there. $500 meal etc. There's a huge divide and there just won't be home ownership or all sorts of things. It just for the highest bidders now and they somehow have 10x more than you.
I agree with everything you are saying except that pocket operators are actually quite neat. But yeah, everything else is actually really pricey and actually has a lot of reliability problems. You see a lot of people paying that $1200 for the OP-1 and it just breaks and TE doesn't support their product either.