Pretty sure the sentence was intentionally insane so it could be appealed.

The US has a serious problem with who is able to sue for what damages when it comes to pollution. Depending on if it’s noise, water, or air, the legal codes are not effective at protecting property or people.

The entire revenue is paid by the customer. Sales tax is itemized out. It’s been intentionally pushed towards the consumer as to prevent it being known as a business tax.

The tax is meant to be on the business selling the product, not the person buying it. There are added rules requiring the tax to be added on after the sale price so that it remains a visible tax, thus making the public more likely to support repealing it.

At 5 years it’s possibly a viable therapeutic device, at 10 it’s a viable bio modification or upgrade. At that point society also tends to get railroaded into several possible dystopias.

In order to have a winning strategy, you first have to have a strategy.

Gotta play the both sides game, or it’s not ‘balanced’.

Oh no, I hope it’s painful.

No group is a monolith.

Dems don’t care who the leader is. What matters if they’re advancing the agenda. Same reason Republicans cheer on a pedophile rapist.

This is like saying you’re going to steal your enemies favorite grenade. Sure you might be able to do it, but it’s going to blow up in your face.

That expense is what keeps them off the battlefield. War is just violent economics after all.

I’m kind of curious when the directed energy tech catches up to drone tech. At some point drones may very well become useless because they can’t soak up or dissipate enough energy. It’s probably a decade away at the least, but it’s on the horizon.

Canada was British at the time, about 40 years later Canada became a country.

Jacobin is going all out to fight the dems ever since AIPAC became toxic. Sounds like a bunch of whiney bullshit.

Business success is a skill, and knowledge set, that’s crucial to the economy, without which the US wouldn’t be a global leader. The point of having multiple skill set leaders on a small council is to prevent the ‘business above all else’ mind set from prevailing, while also making sure needed expertise is at the table.

The global economy is severely weakened, but stable. There is also a long list of developments that could crater everything, both literally and figuratively, and very little to look forward to for the vast majority of the population.

Best case scenario is the ending of multiple hostilities, allowing the resumption of trade, and a slow grinding recovery.

Worst case scenario is an extinction event, either caused by escalation in Ukraine, or to a lesser extent Iran, leading to nuclear conflict.

Both extreme’s are unlikely, and the entire range between them is just various levels of who is going to get fucked.

Make it a small council, 3 to 5 people chosen at random from a pool limited to those with some list of qualifications. Make it a point system based on academic, civic, and business success. Those that have enough points are automatically in the pool.

Depends on the actual spot, there a holes in the bottom of some of those canals, there could have been a head injury when she fell. Until someone is actually standing where she fell in, you don’t actually know the depth.

She’d be great as Senate Majority leader. Especially if AOC were to take Schumers seat.