i'm not saying anything about the content of infowars but I can't believe how much money people will spend on "supplements", and pills and artificial products. and yet, somehow don't have any money for fruits, vegetables and beans. i can only imagine, there's something broken in how people are being raised.
One of the big takeways from Art berman, Nate Hagens and other experts on this subject is that the growth of GDP is very heavily dependent on Oil and it's impossible to decouple that within the next several decades. That may sound unlikely but the evidence they've shown is overwhelmingly convincing. One of the things I've learned is that reknewables aren't actually reknewable: they are mostly all tied to oil in some way, almost everything is because everything is either made of oil or uses oil in it's production, hence it's "the hemoglobin of the economy".
So there will always be more demand. It's the mainstream media that has it backwards: they're the ones always saying peak demand and that's misleading.
you joke now (because oil is dirt dirt cheap right now) but just wait a few decades. I've listened to some of the most knowledgable people in the oil industry (Art Berman and others on Nate Hagens podcast) discuss Oil. And it looks like Hubbard's curve at least on a worldwide basis is true and oil supply is only going to go down in the long term. The peak is much much closer than most people expect. The world is so much more dependent on oil than it realizes and the impacts will be far more profound than most economists currently realize.
a moat is any product or feature set so good that you absolutely need to use it or it's just that good. for example, Gmail and google maps was a moat for google in the early days.
but, could you just imagine having to filter through 45 GB of emails! to try to find any value in that at all, might be expensive, even if you try to automate it.
I'm able to fix the front flat tires much more cheaply: just the cost of the inner tube about 6$. but the flat tires happen most frequently in the rear.
the problem is I can't remove the rear wheel myself because the frame doesn't fit perfectly. so, it's nearly impossible to remove the rear wheel unless you're really talented mechanically.
I spent almost an entire year e-biking to work 7 miles and back 7 miles. I can tell you, all the issues you mentioned are correct.
I think, if we had dedicated bike lanes that were away from the main roads, at least we can address the safety issue. that would go a long way towards getting me back to commuting on an e-bike.
One more big issue for bikes is the cost of it. I've commuted almost 1100 miles on my ebike and already have had 3 flat tires! That's a cost of about 10 cents a mile which means that the cost of flat tires is twice as much as all my other bike commuting costs (depreciation and repairs). So, we also need to address the nails and screws on the paths issue. i think that would be greatly solved with increased bicycle adoption.
absolutely. pavement is just everywhere. loads and loads of endless pavement in front of every freakin store, whether it's needed or not. It's disgusting and dipressing to be locked in a concrete jungle.
it's a good counterpoint. but basically we're saying the car is a good bandaid for the foolishness of city planning (spacing things way too far apart, having the stores be min of 2 miles from most houses, placing disproportionate office space to housing ratio, nearest library like 4 miles away and yet its the size of an amusement park).
it's not so much about profit. your earnings (taxes you pay) are paying for other people's debt. and if you save up a little cash then you're really screwed because FIAT is loosing 5 to 10% per year: that's what pays for all that deficit spending.
and for the most part it's all those insanely expensive pickup trucks. you'd be surprised what people are willing to pay just for a crappy pickup truck (like 50k, 60k, 70k all the way up to 100k or more).
not necessarily. so many products are bought from a top down approach where the end user is not the decision maker. i mean, how many times has a company's top managers purchased abysmally awful software, taht then needs to be used by it's employees. it happens govt all the time. our school district has purchased subscriptions to an absolutely awful online homework platform: it's clear the designers of this platform didn't do any usability studies. and now all the students and teachers in this district are screwed and forced to use this abomination.
When you build a business that makes money, you need to create value for someone. It can be anyone really: your neighbor down the street, people in another zip code or country, a demographic all over the world, etc. There's just one person in the entire world for which you can NOT create value for: yourself. No one will pay you to create value for yourself. This is the essential difference between work and play. Work is creating value for others. Play is creating value for yourself. Money and "Meaning" are far more mutually exclusive than people realize. the fastest way to make something UNfun is to get paid for it. Just try this experiment: imagine anything you want to do for fun, then realistically imagine what it's like to get paid for it. If you're really honest with yourself and understand the equivalent job, you'll see that it becomes quickly unfun the moment you get paid.
personally, i can only extract so much meaning from the text itself without rely on experts and explanations. i find it helpful to have it interpretted as well by people like Jason gregory.
there's one big problem. It looks like they're creating distilled water. The WHO has stated that distilled water without the minerals that they normally contain puts people at increased risk of health problems. and you can't just get minerals from another source: that's not the problem. the problem is the water itself lacking in minerals creates problems for the body.
as far as vitamin and mineral intakes, vitamin C is the thing you need to worry about the least because it's so highly abundant in so many fruits and vegetables. I've calculated VitC density in foods and normalized it to calorie intake: It's incredibly abundant in many real foods.
personally, i'd like to see big tech get into new areas that actually matter. It only takes a quick look at maslow's hiearchy of needs to get good ideas: take a look at that lowest tier (shelter, food, water, medical), that's where over 60% of consumer spending goes in a developed country, considerably more for the latest generation (now in their 20s). And in poor countries, the lowest tier is like 99% of their spending.
its not that they're running out of ideas. It's just as good as it can ever get, period. I mean the paper clip came out 100 years ago and you don't see 15 versions of that. Every device reaches a point after which it's way more than good enough.
personally, I'd only like to see them get cheaper and maybe longer product life ( i hate replacing everything after just 7 or 8 years).
I could care less if someone or the whole world knows that I like elvis presely, fence repair or cucumbers and gardening and a whole host of other random facts. i mean so what? that data can go out of date very easily. any second now I could decide I don't like elvis presely, etc. the vast majority of "data" collected is all nonsense anyways.
the things I don't want getting into anyone's hands are things like: financial info, address, phone number, social security, my middle name, birthday, etc. none of those things are stuff I share with a social network.
what really gets me, is when the CPUC proposes plans to punish energy savers by increasing the base billing rate and then reducing the per KW charge. It's the exact opposite of what we need to encourage for reduced power consumption. Also, the ANTI solar campaigns that the CPUC has launched are really egregious. I'm surprised CA would allow such a thing as the new NET 3.0 crap.