It's supposed to be, what, -5C or something? I've shovelled my driveway in shorts and slides in -5, as long as it's not too windy and the snow's not deep. And if "I should really put pants and real shoes on with a light jacket" is the bitter cold they're dealing with, yeah, that's fuckin' silly.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
The level of money laundering and corruption already taking place is astounding with the new cryptocurrency. I sure would love to know which billionaires/groups/countries have already bought which favors.
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Trump's treasury secretary openly said his top priority is to give 4 trillion dollars in tax cuts to our oligarch welfare queens. We can forget about any crypto regulation and Saudi Arabia will probably get a nuke. There's going to be so much I doubt we are going to be able to keep up with it all, this is just a replay of Putin's Russia at this point.
Yet the same thing has happened in cities all over Europe in the last 20-30 years, it's odd that these things always appear to be insurmountable in the US!
I completely get that it's not possible in some areas with frequent seismic activity, that is why they don't do it much in countries like Japan.
It's a matter of infrastructure.
Shutting down streets systematically in Europe might be more easy if public transportation, upon which the majority of the populace relies, is adapted around the construction and is robust enough that any given block/avenue that's shut down is largely inconsequential to the overall transportation network.
But systematically shutting down streets in US cities, where cars are king? Large cities in the US are already traffic nightmares infinitely complicated by street closures, and public transportation is sparse such that taking out one stretch of road necessary for a lynchpin of public transport would massively gum up the works. And then doing that for weeks... months... years on end? You're going to have the public at large real unhappy with the elected officials of the city. Especially for no immediately apparent benefit.
Don't get it twisted, I'm not saying to not update infrastructure and put it under ground. But know that it's not simply a logistical hurdle of digging a hole and sticking a power line in it.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
"Law and Order", lots of places have had that, Russia, North Korea, Saddam's Iraq.
Laws can be made to enforce order of cruelty and brutality.
Equality and Justice, that is how you have peace and a society that benefits all.
Good news, he's not leaving his followers standing out in adverse weather!
He's telling them they can't come at all, and that the tickets they spent money on are now "commemorative."
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-6C, I believe. For reference, the last time an inauguration was held indoors was 1985, because it was going to be -14C with a windchill of -32C.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
It never ceases to amaze me how absolutely, gobsmackingly ignorant you can be while shilling for the incoming clusterfuck of an administration.
You think 2k per household isn't going to have an impact? Are you forgetting that something like 60+% of the US population is effectively barely above the poverty line, living practically paycheck to paycheck, where a single unexpected major expense is likely to financially cripple them? Increasing their annual expenses by 2k a year will absolutely fuck over huge swathes of people who are barely clinging on.
Tax cuts? That 60% I just mentioned? Tax cuts for their bracket of income will be peanuts. Like, fucking pennies. It'll be a drop of water into a bone dry bathtub.
Energy prices? Nothing's going to happen to energy prices. Hell, energy prices may go up, since Trump is determined to piss off Canada, who've been providing your entire eastern seaboard electricity at sub-standard rates for decades. Wanna take a bet on what energy prices are going to do if Canada decides that that arrangement needs to change?
Also, you completely ignored the fact that a literal fuckload of trade occurs between Canada and the USA. ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL of that is going to be impacted by Trump's trade war. 2k extra costs out of your pocket because of Trump's tariff fuckery isn't going to mean squat to all the people who could potentially lose their jobs as a result of the fallout across supply chains and industries that rely on Canadian imports to survive.
If Trump goes through with his plans, he's going to rapidly find out that people don't really just "accept the hardship" when they are capable of putting a name and a face to their pain, and he's likely to end up with angry mobs who want his head on a platter.
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Originally Posted by Douglas Adams
It's going to be a lot more about how the tariffs shift business around. 25% is a massive price hike. What happens if businesses just close up shop because they can no longer afford to import Canadian products. Products they CAN'T source anywhere else.
And Canada's potential retaliations could hurt just as bad. Like, Canada ships a shitload of meat to the US because we don't have the in house processing capacity to butcher it. So what happens to all those American jobs if Canada decides to say: you want to fuck us over? Fine, we'll increase Canadian capacity and all those jobs will move north of the border.
This kind of shit has the potential to affect hundreds of thousands of people's livelyhoods. They aren't going to just stand by and suck that up on vague promises that things will get better if you just eat the pain.