Minorities in China are treated like second class citizens. If you’re not Han Chinese, you aren’t “good enough”. People complain about the US being xenophobic, but it’s mature hour compared to China.

Yeah, but this way they can complain about him asking folks to adjust their thermostats, and if people don’t, and there happens to be a blackout, then they can ALSO blame him as if he’s somehow running the Eastern power grids.

They should garnish his Presidential salary just for the principle of it. I bet that would irk him more than the $$.

Ok, but what if you slide the scale a little more and you do open the box, but it’s just gold colored stones. Slide a little more and it’s gold plated so even a surface scratch test shows gold. Keep going more and some of the stones are actual gold, but others aren’t.

See the problem? How much due diligence and expertise do you expect people to have before making any purchase?

Even if that happened and the $505M was allocated, he STILL wouldn’t pay

California also has the stupidest water rights with “use it or lose” it clauses that counters any incentives to become more efficient. A couple families control a ridiculous amount of water rights.

Murder By Death

“I found a bullet hole…. Never mind”

Cost and efficiency may not be the same at all. If the true cost of a utility like water aren’t being passed on to the businesses, then they don’t need to focus on efficiency.

See literally any of the giant farms with legacy water rights in California to understand why there is very little incentive for them to become more efficient with water usage.

Interesting how you attribute no agency to the locals in “once the Taliban are back”. Implying it’s all NATO’s fault and somehow assigning no blame to the locals who just allowed it all to come back with no resistance.

In parallel, initiate a scaling vacancy tax for both commercial and residential properties that rapidly ramps up the longer a property is left vacant.

Reminds me of Is California on fire?

There are at least half a dozen similar types of straits globally that could have “fees” added to them. Are you suggesting that this would be a good trend to catch on? Literally increases costs of shipping globally. Who do you think will be paying all of these cost increases?

I may have had bad luck, but I feel like this is very common across any American car brand. Recently rode in a new Rivian, and the door closing had a rattle like something was a little loose.

Try not to get any more doctors on the way to the parking lot!

So did he for sure.

Remember that Lemmy, and this sub in particular, is absolutely rabidly anti-AI. It’s like the Jellyfin vs Plex thing dialed up to 111

There’s a saying with motorcycle riders called “dress for the slide, not the ride”

Next up, turning these into AI web scraper bots!

/pleasedon’tdothis

Lucky that you got the cushy job shitposting instead of planting 🌻🌻🌻. Hope your luck doesn’t change!

We will be sending you a bill to upgrade our power plant. Thank you for your data center services.