Don't let this stop you. Wind and solar is cheap - often the biggest barrier is NIMBY not allowing construction, so demand your local/national political climate stop that. Allow solar by right on any roof. Allow wind turbines by right on all ag land. Encourage your utilities to put in storage systems to use that renewable energy "when the wind doesn't blow". Encourage good programs to buy renewable power over fossil power (everyone should pay for their share of the power lines and storage batteries - this is a large part of the cost of power)
Electric cars are already becoming popular. There are many things that you can do to encourage that. Better yet, your can encourage great transport in your city (most cities don't have great transit!)
There are many areas already running their grid on a majority renewable power. We know this works.
The above measures won't get rid of all fossil fuels, but they get rid of the vast majority. They work with today's technology as well, and are affordable without subsidies!. No need to invest anything new/more. Just ensure that laws don't get in the way.
Nothing. I hate debt. I have a house payment as for me it is a better deal than rent, but i'm not happy. I'll probably get a car loan when the id.buzz comes here, but i'll hate it.
Debt that makes money work for you is okay, but most doesn't do that and is a bad deal. I have no interest in running a business, and if you don't make money because of it, debt cannot work for you. (I.could pay cash for a.tiny home in middle of nowhere places that I prefer not to live)
Logically it makes sense, but the real world is years and often we don't use the right logical systems. It makes logical sense to most people that a heavy object falls faster then a light object ,but we know that is false (and a also a non obvious logical system that also shows it is false)
As an American i'm required to not ship anything to Canada that would then be shipped onto Cuba. As a.Canadian if I ask you if you will reship this to Cuba you are required to answer no, no matter what (that is if you would ship to Cuba you must lie).. these two make is really tricky so such a business to exist as I can't put in enough protection to ensure things don't get shipped onto Cuba to satisfy American laws.
There are similar laws around shipping things to Israel, Russia ,Iran (to name counties in the news), mostly US and Canada are aligned on them, but specific details can be different and they matter.
Note, laws like the above change all the time. My facts are ten years out of date since I don't keep up.
@technology@ajsadauskas@jordanlund@pixxelkick@7u5k3n if there is nothing to discuss my meetings take 3 minutes. I can't verify spelling of just my status email in that time. We don't leave our desks for the meeting, so it is three minutes. They are called standups for a reason, sitting down should not be worth it (except for the one disabled person )
You are not the only one. Any sane military analysis showed it was a.bad idea. Where you (and everyone without access to classified information) messed up was assuming Putin was sane.
They are living for free with someone else, eating their food. Or.they are abusing welfare to have a house even though they could hold a job. Once all such programs stop supporting their lazy ways they get a job and prove they can work.
There are a lot of people deserving if help because they are unable to help themselves. However I have personally known a number who are pretending to need help so they can be lazy. Telling the difference is easy in practice, but hard to write down formally.
the argument in this thread has been about if fixed vs variable costs where more. I fully agree cars are expensive no matter how you do the math, and most people underestimate it (in part by only considering gas). However I stand by my claim that once you have the car you may as well use it as the additional variable costs from all optional trips is tiny (I'm assuming that you have the car for some purpose that cannot be done by something else - towing the proverbial boat for example).
Some people do not deserve help. Some people continuously make bad decision. I've seen such people turn their life around - but only after every friend gave up giving them free beds and meals. These people got straight A's in school until they figured out they could cheat society to get everything for nothing.
The problem is that is a tiny minority of homeless. Most homeless either are trying but things are set against them, or don't have the ability to fix their problems. Bay area housing is horribly expensive, and so there are a lot of homeless who would like to have a house but they can't afford anything on the income they can earn (long term the solution is fix zoning so cheap housing can be built, but best case this is 20 years to make a difference). There are a lot of disabled people who cannot work a good job - often the disability is mental, and thus they will never be able get a good job and support themselves.
How do we turn the "folks standing around in a welfare line" conversations to reminding people that those exist but are a minority and most homeless have problems that we should help them with? don't attack the message of lazy people - it is a real issue, just reminding people that we are looking at those who are not lazy.
I have had cars that I drove twice the national average, and cars hardly driven at all. In all cases the fixed costs exceed the variable costs. I don't know where the others are getting there data from, but it doesn't match mine. Of course different driving habits, but per lifetime of the car (not km!) the fixed costs are more in my experience.
Semi-functional at best. A bayonet is just a knife on a gun, what different does it make? A pistol grip effects ergonomics, but it isn't any more/less functional.
Thanks for this. I'm starting to learn it, but already feel like I make less mistakes without autocorrect. Sad as I'm a bad speller.