Unless you're in business communications, nobody penalizes your grade for readability.
Hence, people write in complex form to impress their superiors. You can make deep analysis without using obtuse language. The issue is that there's no incentive to.
He had to, unless he wanted to remove any chance of him coming back in 2024.
Right now, there is a small window when mainstream public opinion is completely on the Democrats' side, like it was for Bush after 9/11. He's not going to do anyone any favors by not at least pretending to extend an olive branch.
Even if like in 9/11, the people who are against the mainstream opinion and are fighting against the calls for 'unity' (ie. doing their bidding and following them to the graves) are the right ones. Just not enough people are looking at the bigger picture until it's too late to realize they've been bamboozled.
No they wouldn't. If they seceded, they may as well go on to take over the rest of the country, because that's about as illegal, and you'd need the guns and resources to stop a re-occupation anyways.
New York, Los Angeles, and San Fran cannot survive without constant inputs of resources (in particular, water) from Republican-held areas. In effect, if one could hold the line, it's either a quick death at the hands of Republican militia, or a slow and painful death as people die of starvation, disease, and thirst.
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/electoral-college-states-representation/ https://www.dominionvoting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/us-map.png
Maine, Rhode Is, Delaware, and Hawaii are all non-Dominion, Democrat, and states that inherently benefit from the current system. That's 8% by itself.
There are more than enough Republican states remaining to prevent any EC amendment from going through.
I pointed out to the other person that it's pretty easy to bomb a Mars Colony into bits if you really wanted to.
Just put explosives into the landing ships, and don't turn on your thrusters when you reach the surface.
Governments could also stop any launches from Earth.
I was more thinking rural vs city. The issue is that LEO satcoms are not great for efficiency in terms of cities. Most of the satellites are going to be underused at any given time because they'll usually be over empty water or land, while the demand is in the cities.
Thus, the system has to be designed with a massive amount of overcapacity- which is the idea behind Facebook's Internet drones.
Poland doesn't have many kids either.
The only countries in the EU with fertility rates that are even within 0.3 of 2.1 are the UK, Scandinavia, Ireland, and France.
0.1 further down are the Baltics and the Low Countries. These numbers are actually not that different if you only account for whites in these nations, eg. https://iussp2009.princeton.edu/papers/93139 (EXCEPT Scandinavia.) https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/documents/ece/ces/ge.11/2016/WP14_Rev.1.pdf https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_POPSOC_568_0001--french-fertility-is-the-highest-in.htm# The birth rates of immigrants are higher, but the base of immigrants is lower and does not contribute a massive amount to the TFR numbers. Again, except Scandinavia.
The US is 1.8-2.1, depending on how Americans happen to be feeling that year. The same statement about Native vs Immigrant birth rates apply here as well.
Australia and New Zealand are clear above the 2.1 mark once you exclude all the Chinese immigrants weighing down the numbers.
Canada is far below replacement in the Laurentine Corridor, heavily weighing down total Canadian TFR. BC TFR is also below replacement (though the infamously high Vancouver RE prices and Asian migration are to blame for these numbers).
Note: I study demographics in my free time.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-rocks-us-full-of-entitlement.html https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/08/29/elon-musk-china-is-the-future/
Yeah, I think this is a little different than having a few hotels in China...
Objectively, the chances of him succeeding is slim. Landing on Mars? Sure. 1 Million people? Not happening.
The Outer Space Treaty also makes Elon subject to US law on Mars. Which didn't stop him from giving it the middle finger.
Twitter at least will not survive. Look at their stock- its rally correlates perfectly with Trump's presidency. Trump was their bread and butter, and Twitter runs on Drama. Before Trump, Twitter was treading water as it wasn't profitable, and investors were losing patience with the company.
Get rid of the fun (ie. the Conservative/Liberal conflict), and now Twitter stops being interesting and so people start getting bored and stop using Twitter.
And Twitter is primarily dependent on the US, unlike Facebook.
Except we've already reached 'peak oil' in terms of usage due to the advent of electric/hydrogen transportation. The pipeline is being funded by the private sector, and will increases the efficiency/reduces ghg emissions from the transport of the fuel.
Renewables are not going to be able to replace fossil fuels until we have good storage options. They're already cheaper than fossil fuels, and we'd be shutting all of our coal plants down if renewables were reliable enough.