There's several judges that have made decisions adverse to Elon's actions and I'm not sure why you think they are activist aside from Elon's self-serving description of them. Where did you see that their decisions were overturned, I have not seen that anywhere. The last I did see on the issue is that Elon is calling for all of them to be impeached.
Would you mind providing a caption for such an appeal that the administration has won? I’d love to read it. Right now I’m only finding the CA1 upholding the funding freeze, and CA9 is about to take up the birthright citizenship order.
The problem here is people die when those things are removed even for a few weeks or months. You don't get to "put back" security for SSN data when it's already been accessed by foreign governments. He's not doing this in good faith, he's convinced he's the smartest man in the world and should literally be a dictator.
It's fine, it won't hurt Musk himself. All these wild experiments are perfectly okay from his perspective because, to him, there's basically zero risk.
You can't just charge the farmer based on a particular crop because they can easily change that from year to year. Alfalfa usually last 4-5 years before they replant. So they would have to basically raise the prices of water for all farmers.
A huge portion of our nation's food supply is grown in CA. It would/could drastically raise the prices of food worldwide because some tax hungry politician wants a larger tax base.
This article is very short sighted. This is CA. You know once they ban one crop or start charging more for that crop, then they will start charging more for everything else. CA likes to suck companies dry through regulation and taxation. Once they go down this slippery slope, it won't end and prices on all foods will increase as a result.
The water is being subsidized. Other people are paying for it. Alfalfa is a low-value crop. It's a stupid and economically inefficient crop to grow in a desert.
You can't waive away actual physical constraints as being due to "big government" or whatever.
I'm working on a near-future sci-fi novel that revolves around automating food to the point that work is no longer a necessity. Would greatly enjoy your thoughts on the subject.
My biggest question is: who cares? Lot’s of people in this community (and the media) love to pounce on people and companies who don’t think the same as them. These people/groups talk about being inclusive right up and until the others don’t share their points of view. It’s exhausting
There are 1,000s of companies across the country do this very same thing without any fan fare.
You see the same thing when a Tesla car catches fire after an accident. It's front page international news. I saw an F150 on fire on the side of the highway a few weeks ago. I'm sure there's a large public outcry about Ford as well.
F150s have gasoline, which is known to catch fire. In fact, that's kind of the whole point of gasoline: it it flammable. With a car fire, it is simply that the fire has escaped the part of the vehicle where the fire is supposed to be contained.
EVs are not supposed to catch fire, thus it is news when they do.
Lithium isn't supposed to be flammable but gasoline is in your mind? What kind of logic is that?
Both are flammable and both take as many precautions as possible (with our knowledge) to not be in a car, but still can in extreme conditions (crashes).
The main difference is chemical fires are harder to put out, but you just have to carry the right suppressant.
But with Tesla, yes they make the news than other cars, including other EVs, because... politics.
No, Tesla makes the news more than other cars, including other EVs, because they try to market themselves as the best, safest vehicle but they have substantially worse build quality, abysmal software (i.e., AP/FSD), highest likelihood of being in an accident (whether on an absolute basis or adjusted for market share), and the highest fatality rate of any vehicle in their class (luxury vehicles) compared to all other manufacturers worldwide.
It's not politics, it's people targeting the sheer incompetence and hypocrisy that is Tesla.
The BMJ draws a distinction between the terms assisted dying, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. It depends on the health of the person dying, and who’s administering the drugs:
I understand that assisted suicide is inaccurate, but assisted dying sounds like a too broadly applicable euphemism. We might say we assist criminals on death row with dying, for instance. However, a euphemism is necessary in these circumstances because the obvious non-euphemistic way of expressing it is "killing the patient' or maybe the more gentle "consensual execution."
I’ll give you a hint, the best locations are not in the city. Check out small towns. The people are down to earth. The cost of living is much less and the people are generally awesome to be around. I love in a small farming town and your neighbors would give the shirt off their back to come help you. One of our daughters has to go to the hospital for about a week and we came home to a clean house and meals for a week.
Those who think the city is good place to be, explore a little outside your urban bubble.
In addition to this, we have lots of kids and there are plenty of ways to have kids affordably. You don’t have to send your kids Ivy League schools and if they do, they can get their student loans to pay for it.
Lastly, yes, kids can a source of frustration and pain but they are by the one of the largest sources of joy, pride and happiness in our life. Watching them grow and develop is amazing.
I've done both. I liked being able to walk around an empty little three-street downtown taking pictures of buildings in various states of decay and renewal without anyone bothering me, but it's no way to live. The people you meet are nice until they aren't, and then they can be dangerous. Younger people there are usually better, but they're all trying to get out.
> Those who think the city is good place to be, explore a little outside your urban bubble.
And for those that thing “small towns” are some homogenous idyllic 50s family fantasy, be careful. Last one I lived in was a pit of unemployment, methamphetamine and heroin.
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