I worked on a code base that ran on a variety of Unixes. One customer complained about file corruption from our software. Turns out that their Unix setup was... rather unique. Spawned programs were not given a stderr file handle! If you wrote to stderr, it scribbled on whatever file was open on file handle 2.
We, uh, reasoned with the other side - we told them to fix their stupid broken setup.
Glad you were able to sort it out properly. I guess maybe I'm also lucky to much less rarely work with, shall we say, consultation-resistant engineers than discussion forums sometimes make you believe.
Either Democrats win the midterms, Congress starts doing its job, and Trump is a lame duck for the next two years, and then Democrats put roadblocks in place to keep anybody from ever doing this again, or the next wanna-be tyrant is going to follow Trump's playbook, except faster and harder and with less restraint, and then it's over.
I'm not worried about a Trump dynasty if there are fair elections, though. Whatever Trump has, neither Don Jr. nor Eric have it.
And what they secured (if they secured anything) was basically future. It's going to take years to ramp Venezuelan production back up to what it would be with decent management.
15% in absolute terms, 22% in per capita terms. And it is state policy to allow no more additional ICE cars in less than ten years, no net emissions in less than 20 years. Investing in a refinery today would obviously be folly.
Well, things can be bad because they are inherently bad, or things can be bad because people are panicking, and panicking people react in ways that make situations worse.
Saying "it's going to be OK" doesn't change any circumstances. But it may reduce the level of panic (depending on how much the people trust the government), and that can in fact change the way the circumstances evolve.
He can allow non-California-special-blend gasoline to be sold in California, as a temporary emergency measure. This does not increase any production, but it massively increases the production of gasoline that can legally be sold in California.
(As a side benefit, he can also blame the need on Trump, if the environmentalists get on his case...)
But then you have things like "works for a living, but contributes to a 401k". Now they work for a living, and their net wealth grows from other people working. (I mean, not enough - yet - for them to be able to quit working themselves...)
So where are they? They have a foot in both worlds. And there are tens of millions of them. They work, but they're taking what they can from what they earn, and using that to bootstrap them toward the "don't have to work" category, but they aren't there yet. Those people are fundamentally different from "working class", even though they work.
> But then you have things like "works for a living, but contributes to a 401k". Now they work for a living, and their net wealth grows from other people working.
I think these are still group 1. Without their job pumping their savings/investments, they are back to "N paychecks away from broke."
At the inflection point where their spending becomes less than their passive income, they move over to group 2.
Ask it the other way around. Can you have (Marxist/Leninist) communism without authoritarianism? The answer certainly seems to be no. And since the Marxist/Leninist flavor is what almost everyone thinks of when they say "communism", then one could say that, absent any qualifiers like "voluntary" or "non-Marxist", communism is authoritarian, and did in fact kill all those people.
Was it Leninism that was so deadly in the USSR or Stalinism? Stalin was a much different leader with much different politics and philosophies than Lenin and Trotsky. Don’t confuse the Communist party with communism, just like many Libertarians in the US are not actually libertarian these days.
The US, before deregulation, had a whole lot of railroads going bankrupt. This was partly because factories closed but the railroad couldn't abandon the line that served those factories, because of regulation.
I mean, they are still regulated, and they still have to go through regulators to abandon a line (IIUC), but it's much faster than it was.
We, uh, reasoned with the other side - we told them to fix their stupid broken setup.
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