While the link between pollution and autism is very clear, but people still vote for drill baby drill.

I’ve seen the Sorry to bother you. I recall the jail/sweat shop thing. Seems like conditions in many Asian places.

I was thinking more of The Black Hole (1979). They used this concept in a way. And that was even a Disney movie.

They’re really into cable cutting these days. Maybe we should help.

It’s so easy to imagine camps where they implant the homeless with a neuralink chip, dress them up in an Optimus suit and put them to work in a mega factory.

Pure documentary is curiosity stream.

1 to 3 Watt in stand-by mode for s lamp that draws somewhere between 7 and 15 Watt when on. That’s roughly like leaving the lamp on for at least on hour and half each day when nobody is home in the best case.

Sick of what society has become

It wouldn’t be the first time one guy shooting another guy triggers something massive. I mean, that’s how world war 1 started.

They have enough money to do the “inner lining?” “Tactical” thing for real.

You can install the Square Home launcher and be back to the look and feel of the windows phone.

Mayor of North-Mexico

Capitalists selling you the rope to hang them with

If this is the address you know exactly what the mouse is feeling.

And suddenly the world is a lot closer to “Choom, I’ve got us a preem gig to flatline a corpo rat.”

I’m wondering if Assad ’s grip on Damascus will survive through this weekend

Apparently no.

Chinese constructors indeed told this plan, I’ve seen the interviews, they’ve been following it exactly and got the results they were after. We knew this 10 years ago. There should not be any surprise.

We knew the Western manufacturers would deny, delay and lobby against this to keep shareholder value up, to cry foul when sales take a hit and they did not disappoint. It’s the classic market disruption, something we’ve seen many times in history, but now on the losing side. Again, no surprise.

Capitalism has a fatal flaw with long term planning and it’s been exploited masterfully by China. Actually China had plans to uproot the entire fossil fuel sector and replace it with their renewables, so hold on for a lot more drama.

Looking at Japan, China and Korea, countries with falling birth rate and strict immigration policies, it seems that the expected higher wages and increased births never materialize. The remaining workers are just squeezed harder so the economy can continue to function and grow, what results in people having less children because they have to work so much, and it ends up in a downward spiral.

About time. Were they waiting for the sentiment from world leaders to turn before saying anything?

That’s just looking for an excuse to close borders to keep migrants out. It’s a right winger saying this.

The fertility rate in the Netherlands is 1.49 now, way below replacement rate, so the usual “we have to stop people from having kids” is done. Mission successful. Congratulations.

What they usually don’t say is who’s going to keep production high and do the work that’s needed if you don’t have enough kids to replace workers retiring and keep all the migrants out. Stop people from retiring and stop trying to grow the economy I guess.