Mass Murder Is a Choice. The Gun Industry Made It
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Do you seriously think that what's going on in Palestine is equivalent to the literal fucking holocaust?
The one where the entire Jewish population of a major city was massacred in a single day, with industrialized extermination camps, that killed ~2/3rds of all European Jews?
The average really isn't close enough that you only need to consider outliers.
Two generations of 30 year old first time mothers fit into the same time as three generations of 20 year old first time mothers.
Neither of those cases is an outlier, and that's slip in only two/three generations.
I still think it's a really weak definition if you give out arbitrary date ranges which inevitably leads to random smaller generational definitions and too many varying opinions on what generation starts or ends where.
The point of generational cohorts like millennials or the silent generation is that being born at a particular time in history has an affect on people.
The silent generation's earliest memories were depression and war. The great recession impacted millennials in their early career or in high school.
Age ranges captures that and makes it easy to measure things without having to find out when someone's great grandparents were born.
And yeah, 30's on the young side. Lauren Boebert was in the news recently as a teen mother who became a grandmother at age 36.
Your definition slips pretty quickly, though. Some siblings have really long age gaps. Some women first give birth at 18 or 19, others not til they're 40.
Married With Children would have ended when millennials were somewhere between 16 and 1.
It doesn't really matter how strict your parents were with TV. Most millennials weren't really in the target demographic for it when it was airing; they'd have been more likely to be watching Rugrats, Power Rangers, All That, Dragon Ball Z or whatever if left to their own devices.
They'd have watched it if it were something their parents watched. I literally never deliberately turned on Friends or Will And Grace, but since my parents watched them, I saw a bunch of them. Married With Children wasn't a show my parents followed, though, so the Futurama episode would have gone over my head.
It really seems like a reference aimed mostly at the oldest millennials, gen X, and boomers.
1 a : a body of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor
b : a group of individuals born and living contemporaneously
c : a group of individuals having contemporaneously a status (such as that of students in a school) which each one holds only for a limited period
d: a type or class of objects usually developed from an earlier type
Socially, named generations like millennials use definition 1b, because some people are grandparents at age 30, and others don't become grandparents til they're 80.
Asked this spring if it was fair for Imperial farmers to receive so much river water, California Gov. Gavin Newsom told The Desert Sun,“It is what it is. It’s called senior water rights, and they are well established in law. And they matter.”
The eastern US uses riparian water rights; everyone has the right to use a reasonable amount of water. If there's not enough water, water usage is limited essentially equally across all the rights-holders.
The western US mostly uses the prior appropriation doctrine - "first in time, first in right". Basically, as the west was being settled, you could use as much river water for a mine or settlement as you wanted, so long as you didn't impact the people who were already there. In the case of a shortage, people with the most recent water rights have to reduce their usage so they don't impact the senior water rights.
Western water rights maybe made sense originally as the first mines were being built, but they have inequality baked into them from the start. They don't seem like a great system for the conservation challenges of today.
Peak load is during the day, so initially it's not really a problem. Going from a grid that's 0% solar to 10% solar is really easy. The solar is going to just displace peaker plants. You don't really have to worry about night.
Going from a grid that's 70% solar to 80% solar is way more expensive, because you're probably using all that power at night.
The problem with solar is that the sun doesn't shine overnight. The good thing with that is that we use much less power overnight than we do during the day.
If you're relying a lot on solar, you need to build a big-ass battery that you charge during the day and use at night.
Alternatively, you build a nuclear or gas plant sized to overnight usage and run them 24/7. Then, you build way smaller batteries to handle dispatchability and smoothing demand over the course of a day. Nuclear is good for baseline power, and doesn't come with the environmental costs of a gas plant. It has a niche.
Yes, your average driver creates a fraction of the emissions of the average flight.
But there are hundreds of millions of drivers in the US. Billions of car trips. And only tens of thousands of flights.
Changing the impact of one driver is small. Systemically changing the impact of tens of millions of drivers adds up.
Before cars, he'd probably have gone into town much less, and would probably have gone by horse.
that isn't a problem that needs to be solved,
Why?
Regenerative braking is basically turning the motors into a generator to recharge the battery. If you brake regeneratively, you're not using your brake pads at all.
Many EVs can have their settings adjusted to where 90+% of braking can be just regenerative.
Noise pollution is a function of speed.
At low speeds, it's mostly engine noise. At highway speeds, it's mostly tire noise.
EVs have about half the lifecycle emissions as a gas car, given today's electric grid. Which is better, but not all that much better.
However: 80% of the US lives in metropolitan and micropolitan areas. 20% of the US is rural. You can build better public transit in cities and small towns, and stop doubling down on building shitty-ass suburban stroads and sprawl. But Farmer Joe is never going to bike 20 miles to the nearest Dollar General. It's just not practical, and neither is putting a bus stop in front of every farm.
A car-lite world where Farmer Joe drives an EV to a farmer's market that 95% of people walked, biked or took a bus to seems way better than either the status quo or a car-free world.
The last I checked, the USA didn't come into existence from suicide bombings at busses and restaurants, and massacres of civilians at music festivals.
According to Wikipedia,
The IRA's offensive campaign mainly targeted the British Army (including the UDR) and the RUC, with British soldiers being the IRA's preferred target.[15][236] Other targets included British government officials, politicians, establishment and judicial figures, and senior British Army and police officers.[237][238] The bombing campaign principally targeted political, economic and military targets, and was described by counter-terrorism expert Andy Oppenheimer as "the biggest terrorist bombing campaign in history".[239] Economic targets included shops, restaurants, hotels, railway stations and other public buildings.[229] The IRA was blamed for the Abercorn Restaurant bombing in March 1972, when a bomb exploded without warning killing two women and injuring many people.[n 23][240] Due to negative publicity after the Abercorn bombing, the IRA introduced a system of telephoned coded warnings to try and avoid civilian casualties while still causing the intended damage to properties and the economy.[n 24][245] Civilian deaths were counter-productive to the IRA, as they provided the British with propaganda coups and affected recruitment and funding.[246] Despite this IRA bombs continued to kill civilians, generally due to IRA mistakes and incompetence or errors in communication.
Hamas, though, has deliberately targeted civilians for decades. Their goal hasn't been economic damage but as many Israeli deaths as possible.
Disregard Coke. Aquire Cockta.
Do you prefer
- Genocide, drone strikes, mass deportations, legal abortion, Supreme Court judges who aren't having massive ethics scandals, regulations, etc
or
- Genocide, drone strikes, mass deportation, abortion bans, Supreme Court judges with giant ethics scandals, deregulation, tax cuts for billionaires, etc?
Both parties are similarly shitty on some things, but are pretty different on other issues. Are you really indifferent to all the issues they differ on?
What happens after you merge a feature branch into main and delete it? What happens to the branch?
Afterwords, what git commands can you run to see what commits were made as part of the feature branch and which were previously on main?
Mercurial bookmarks correspond to git branches, while mercurial tags correspond to git tags.
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Millennials Control Just 4.6 Percent of US Wealth
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Old people have a lot more retirement savings than young people. It's often said that a safe withdrawal rate is 4%, so an IRA with $1 million in it can only support a $40k/year retirement.
Compounded returns also add up over time. Using a retirement calculator, if you have $0 at 20, make 60k/year, contribute 10% of your salary ($500/month) to your IRA, get 6% returns a year, inflation is 3% and you get a 2% raise a year, then at 40 you'll have saved $282k and at 66 you'll have saved almost $2 million.
Due to the way retirement works in this country, you expect older people to have much more wealth than young people if they ever want to retire.
So yeah, without historical context this comparison is pretty useless.
Solar prices have basically fallen through the floor in recent years.
The cost of building, fueling and running a new natural gas plant is actually a bit higher than building and running a new utility scale solar or wind plant, ignoring any subsidies. When you add storage to it, they're fairly comparable. When you take subsidies and tax incentives into account, renewables are cheaper.
A decade ago, sure. Solar was ~5x the price it is now. Today, most new power plants being built are renewable, because it's cheaper.
https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/
People who don't like the term "assault rifle" think it basically means "scary-looking rifle" rather than "particularly deadly rifle". In New York state law, for example,
So a semiauto rifle in .223 Remington with a wooden stock is a "varmit hunting rifle", but simply giving it a black folding stock makes it an "assault rifle".
Honestly, things like NYS's limits on magazine size makes more sense to me than banning telescoping stocks or a second pistol grip.