I think you need to check your position, some of the rinos in there right now have ties to china. Many of them have a suspect voting record on things related to socialism and big government. Would i rather they be in power than the dems? Yes, but it's not a ton better.
You know there is something up when obvious paid trolls are still combing the internet for anybody saying the election was a hoax to blather on about how all the evidence was reviewed and soundly rejected by the courts. They won, they are they still paying people to try and sway public opinion like that. Gee i wonder.
There is no such thing as environmental factors that prevent high IQ, IQ is genetic. You could maybe argue the expressed genetics will be held back in potential by environmental factors, and it certainly affects success rates. Intelligence outliers occur all over the place and are not consistent from parents, the tendency is to regress to the mean for a given population, 2 smart parents have better odds of making a smart baby than 2 dumb ones, but it's also entirely possible to have a dumb one anyway. Again this is like a sub reason under the primary one.
Because it is murder, which in an of itself is enough to care about it, but also it is murder of an innocent life with an unknown potential for greatness. We have no idea how many great inventors, leaders, scientists, humanitarians, are lost to premature death, but intentionally killing the unborn only makes it more likely that the next person that could've cured cancer or solved world energy problems, isn't born. Ultimately i'm sure most things that can be invented will be, but imagine if a hand full of brilliant people over the decades had never been born because their mothers thought it might inconvenience them, just 20 or 30 key people never existing might mean our technology would be 200 years behind where it is.
That kind of thing is ugly without some kind of structure. Just look at how fractured opinions are on this board, how would anyone agree who to hang and who to leave be, when half the community thinks certain individuals are good and the other half call them traitors. Without going in with a plan, like an actual organized militia, it would just be a rabble with pitchforks and torches. The french revolution was a bad look.
I don't see why not sticking around long would matter to a company, IT has at least a moderate level of churn/turnover, people switch jobs often looking for raises, I kind of thought it was expected, myself and another fellow at the place I work have been there the longest, at 9 and 10 years, and we've seen so many people come and go, mostly of their own accord, that it's unreal. Still in touch with some that are on their 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th job since leaving. At least in my experience, i can't see any reason why anyone would care if they don't think you're gonna work there for many years. Only if you were literally months away from retiring or something perhaps.
Now it might be different if they were looking to hire a project manager for a large project that will take a long time to complete.
Obviously everyone has different experiences, and things can vary from area to area, I imagine a high tech area like silicon valley with lots of startups, are looking for lots of young creative talent looking to build themselves up with the company.
IT is one of the most stables jobs in covid from everything i've seen, demand is up for technology and therefore support of that technology, they are almost universally considered essential workers, you can do many parts of the job without contacting people in person.
to make a bomb that you suicide in, literally one button, a battery pack, and some kind of heat element or fuse. I can think of one extremely easy possibility but i'm not going to say it and wind myself up on a fbi watch list. If you want remote detonation, it's not that much more complicated, any rc hobby shop would have the necessary supplies or could probably get off of amazon. We aren't talking about some kind of hollywood style, 800 wires inside, bomb. Does not take an electronics engineering degree to make these kind of circuits, not that much knowledge at all.
Radiotherapy and chemo has been improved over the years, it isnt what it once was. I watched two family members die of lung cancer when i was young, they were on conventional treatments and it didnt help, gruesome way to go.
More recently the plant operator where i work retired early because he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. He started treatment before he even retired and he was getting chemo treatments and coming back to work the same day, in a physical job. Didnt lose his hair. His prognosis was already improving. Its been over a year and he looks like a million bucks every time he comes back to visit. My wife's father spent years battling lymphoma, but the chemo extended his life over a decade and the only reason he died is that his kidneys which are genetically weak, could not handle filtering out all the dead cancer cells, a round of chemo almost killed him because it was too effective at killing the cancer cells and overwhelmed his sub 50% capacity kidneys. 2 treatments out of a scheduled 10 put him in remission for months, but unfortunately the steroids couldnt build his kidneys up enough to handle more treatment. A person with 100% functioning kidneys wouldve cruised to full remission for years more.
Many people have in their head the way cancer was treated 30 years ago as how it works now. It improves constantly. I have no doubt that the oil helps alleviate symptoms, but it is not a substitute for proper treatment with a good encologist(a bad one will kill you, shop carefully).
Most of your dollars shouldn't be in cash anyway, they should be in appreciating assets or stability hedges like precious metals, which are not affected much if any by fluctuation in the value of a dollar, they just become worth more dollars, like stock shares, land, PMs, or even crypto. Inflation is for sure a problem for those on fixed incomes though. Personally I like the idea because otherwise the money i pay in just goes to crap that's not for me anyway, at least this way i get money myself which i can use for whatever i want to benefit myself. Most people will come out ahead if they actually make good use of the money, if it is the difference between you keeping your house or being foreclosed on, then it is worth it for some inflation. If you haven't had any interruption to your employment and you are getting this money, if you can use it to pay off high interest credit card debt, or to invest, or even to replenish your rainy day fund so you don't go into debt if there are unexpected expenses, you will almost certainly come out ahead vs if you hadn't received it at all. The majority of people will probably buy useless crap with the money because they are dumb, so don't be dumb like the majority and you will be fine.
I understand it plenty well. The block chain ledger still has the bitcoin in it, but if you lose access to the cold storage wallet for any reason, the only way to recover it is with data you most likely won't have. Some online wallet services, and vendors of the hardware wallets will generate you a hash of the encryption key that is a long multi word code, but if you lose that also, like say you had it written down on paper next to your computer, thumb drive with your cold storage, and your house burns down, it's gone unless you have a savant like memory for it or your online service remembered the code for you but I think most of them do not retain the code for security purposes. Even if it was 100 billion dollars worth of bitcoin, it's gone. To avoid this people have multiple backups including off site, like in a bank deposit box. 99.9% of bitcoins users are not this thorough. No system is 100% perfect, and I understand full well the advantages of block chain and having a currency not controlled by evil governments, it still has it's potential flaws and drawbacks. Flaws inherent to the bitcoin system itself will likely see it replaced eventually with a better crypto as the backbone of the crypto market, there are some contenders out there already, but nothing big enough to push bitcoin out.
Okay first of all, doing business in china is different than doing business with the ccp. Many large businesses in china are in part owned by the chinese government and have high ranking ccp members on their boards. Second, many, MANY parts of the hunter biden story take place before joe left office january 19 2017. The ride on airforce two to china, the 1.5 billion there, the payments from the first lady of moscow, kazakastan deal, ukraine burisma. All before then. A helpless drug addict that couldnt keep a job was somehow jet setting all over the world picking up bags of cash wherever his fathers influence extended. Third, even if it is after being in office, it is completely unacceptable for a vice president to be office mates a few months after leaving office, with a government official of a hostile foreign government.
What are you talking about? Part of the timeline here overlaps when he was in office, as testified to by bobulinski, and now he's running for office again despite deep financial ties to the COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA. We do not need better than that, but likely further digging will reveal more. Also did you miss the whole incestual statutory rape thing? Or the part where biden lied that he didn't know about hunter's business dealings, including when he was vice president and directing a foreign country where hunter was expecting to extract cash, to fire a prosecutor.
I'm not sure which subsidies he means. The raw price of a solar panel now is in many cases under a dollar per watt, with no tax rebate applied, just like you went to amazon and ordered a solar panel, and it shows up to your house. The manufacturer potentially could be subsidized in some ways, I'm not sure, like low interest loans or whatever. Anyway a sunny place like florida, texas, or southern california, you can generate about 1.5 kwh per day from a 200 watt solar panel that costs $180. This is about 18 cents of electricity per day, so 1000 days, about 3 years, to offset it's cost. Most panels have 20-30 years warranties.
A gallon of gasoline produces in the mid 30's kwh of power, except ICE engines only harness about 40% of that. If your commute to work is 20 miles, you need about 9 of those panels to harvest enough electricity for that task per day, say 10 to be safe. A 40 mile round trip at average passenger vehicle mpg is 1.6 gallons of gas per day, with holidays and vacation, lets say 50 weeks a year, 5 days per week, that's 400 gallons of gas per year. At current average prices that is $1028 per year, so the panels take less than 2 years to save you money in that scenario.
The real cost savings are in DIY, you can buy panels from wholesalers as low as $0.60 per wat rating that i've seen, and make your own lithium iron battery packs, do the install yourself, it can for sure be cost effective. If you go for a commercial install, you get into more sketchy territory.
The main reason I like solar is the independence, if an idiot like biden takes office and starts jacking up prices of energy with a few strokes of their pen, you are independent and unaffected, at least directly. I think individual independence is nearly as important as national independence, when it comes to things like energy, or the nation's food and medical supplies, we shouldn't be dependent on nations like china or middle eastern dictators literally for our survival, and on an individual level I think most people should have gardens, maybe a few chickens, a tilapia pool, and some solar panels, plus emergency supplies for reasonable natural disasters. Then you still have the grid as a backup and mostly industry is powered by the grid so more energy available for businesses to utilize. As far as that goes, nuclear and solar go hand in hand, solar produces the most power during the day, which is when demand is highest, unlike wind which produces whenever it feels like, often at night, when demand is lowest(if you have batteries it's okay but grid scale batteries are way too expensive). Nuclear creates steady power output so you have to build excess capacity to meet peak needs, but not if you combine with solar.