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  • Why not? We have a number of examples here of someone who has fallen for pro-union propaganda.

  • And unions doing foolish things that make them a bad option.

  • All governments are corrupt. The most corrupt are the ones hiding it. those going from most corrupt to least corrupt will publicly show a lot of it as they take care of it.

  • I only know US rules, but I expect people worldwide to read this - your country will have different rules. In theory yes, but in practice no. US subsidies come in two forms: crop insurance and CRP. A long time ago there were a lot more programs in place, when people think of subsidies they are generally thinking of programs from the 1970s (which I know little about) that no longer exist.

    Crop insurance in theory covers indoor farms, except the only a small number of crops apply - corn, soybeans, and a few others I forget. It doesn't make sense to farm these indoors as the value vs cost just isn't there. Crop insurance means that they guarantee you will harvest exactly your 10 year average (the bad year counts against your ten year average for the next event!) and you can sell for some minimal price. Farmers insure their crops in the worst case they still lose money, but at least they have enough savings to ride out the year.

    CRP is where the government rents "bad" land from farmers so they plant it into grass. In really bad years the government will let you use that grass for hay, thus ensuring there is more food (well animal feed) in bad years. If the land is good quality crop land you are better off farming it, but if it is practically a swamp CRP ensures farmers don't try to drain it. Obviously this doesn't apply to indoor farms.

  • It is very hard to compete with regular crops outdoors that get free sunlight on cheap land. Any light these get is taken by shadowing something else. I'm not saying there are no niches where this can work, but as a.niche there is a.limit.

  • You have to replace the door hinges and rollers a few times to get that life.

  • Forget about a camera, setup a local server to read the camera's data and have that server send data to the internet. There are open source servers you can use, though I have not tested any so I won't recommend one. Then have your firewall block the camera from the internet completely (you can open a hole to apply an update if you think an update would be helpful, just close it when the update is done).

    The PineCube might be a useful camera for this, but AFAIK nobody has really written software for it. still it might be an option if you want to go through a lot of work.

  • The DOJ should go after all criminals. That someone is a criminal doesn't mean their opponent isn't as well. If you allow crimes because "someone is on the other side committed a crime" you just agreed to corruption.

    If the law should exist is an open question we can debate, but that is a somewhat different subject.

  • Lead is only one factor of pollution though. You will note that i acknowledged it exists. There is no objective way to say what is the most important factor or how you compare them.

  • DO they still? Last I heard Amtrak was no longer taking private train cars as too many were not in good mechanical shape and thus a large cause of their delayed trains.

  • Plane pollution is not that much worse than a car. Depending on what metric you measure it can be better (planes are more fuel efficient and thus less CO2. Small planes like the picture generally use lead fuel and old engine designs that pollute more) on long trips.

  • I don't know what things are like in Japan, but in Germany everyone is in the union.

  • Scribes generally do a good job of checking that they didn't make an error in transcription . It like likely that what we have is what was written down around ad40-ad90. (Years approximate). Things were written mostly by eyewitness or those who interviewed eye witnesses. The whole reads like it.

    Of course things were translated to Greek, it is unlikely that the words were spoken in that language.

  • I live in des moines. The water was taken out of the river, and put right back in to flow downstream. That is what typically happens in to water.

    The did this in des moines because 80% or the power comes from wind making. Apple is building a large data center near my house. Google has one someplace as well. The large number of wind farms around the state make us a very attractive place for anyone who wants to use a lot of reporters energy.

  • I ask that of myself constantly.

  • I'm not looking intentionally, but I've been in several where the angles of how i'm turning corners (and missing doors or dividers) mean sometimes you cannot help but seeing someone else's genitals. If you know that setup you can avoid it, but that is a conscious effort that is easy to forget to do since most are not setup that way.

  • We have a difference of values here. You should be asking a different question, how much do you adjust to someone with different values. You do not have a problem with single gender bathrooms, but some do. Leave it there and quit asking why, there is no answer you will accept anyway, and no particular reason to conclude your values are better.

  • Long term they do, but often it is lumpy where your pay loses for a few years and then they adjust it up.

    Even if your pay isn't matching inflation, it can still go up more than rent

  • Many people do not have a problem with nudity and seeing the opposite sex's gentiles, or having the opposite sex see their gentiles. However there is a large group of people worldwide that do. This later group is large enough that the first should respect them and accept gender segregated bathrooms, as such there is no need for them in restrooms for males.

    Now you can argue that all restrooms should be single stall, unisex - and those should all have tampons. However where that is not the case you are being insensitive to the values of someone else.

  • Typically you see relative to inflation. While your rent doesn't go down, because of inflation you are probably making more money and so your real rent goes down. In some cases you rent can even go up, yet relative to inflation it goes down.