Rivalarrival @ Rivalarrival @lemmy.today Posts 3Comments 3,569Joined 2 yr. ago
Which wouldn't be so bad if they actually had shit that people wanted to buy. But all the guillotine shops are out of stock, with expected ship dates after December 4th.
No doubt, no doubt. There are plenty of articles claiming JSO protests are effective.
Of course, if they were actually effective, you wouldn't need to point to news articles promoting the virtues of standing around in the street. You'd be able to point to oil consumption rates. If their protests were actually effective, oil consumption rates would be falling.
The reality is that those articles do nothing but make you feel good, like something is being done. But reality doesn't care about feelings, or the fiddling articles designed to make us feel good while the world burns.
I was an agent in a former life. Your understanding of the purchasing process is deeply flawed. If you don't fix it, you're going to get screwed over again and again. Fortunately, it's an easy fix. Here's the process you should follow:
- Look up the house you want to purchase.
- Write the offer, sight unseen. Get some kind of offer in front of the seller as early as possible. Sounds scary? It's not: You're going to include "inspection" and "financing" contingencies, and you aren't going to send earnest money until you've actually seen the property.
- Only after the seller accepts or counters your offer do you schedule your first showing. Here is where you confirm the property is what you actually wanted, and is in the "good" condition you assumed. If you don't fall in love the first time you see it in person, exercise your inspection contingency and walk away. If it's not in the "good" condition you assumed when you wrote the offer, plan on renegotiating.
NEVER waste your time "researching" or getting emotionally invested in a property until you have it under contract. If you don't have a contract, it will get sold out from under you.
Your inspection and financing contingencies are your escape route. Use them. Lock the seller in early, and plan on walking away if you don't love everything about the house and the deal.
It's not something they need to know about, and certainly not something that should be specifically disclosed at an interview.
The only reason to disclose is if I need a specific "reasonable accommodation" from them to be able to do the job, and they indicate they are unwilling to make that accommodation without a formal request under the ADA. I won't be making even an informal request for accommodation prior to actually starting the job.
You can even add a search plugin directly in the client.
Huh. Well, that'll make things easier.
No, that's not true at all. The EPA can still set specific standards on what, when, how much, and how often they can dump.
They just can't offload responsibility for ensuring water quality to the dumper: They have to actually enforce their dumping standards.
Whatever you say, honey.
Fair enough. I leave you and your merry band to continue on your irrelevant way.
Basically, the EPA has been saying "we don't care what you actually release, so long as the water you release it into is at least [this] clean" after you do it." With this approach, the city has to monitor the water, and they become responsible for whatever anybody dumps in the water anywhere, even outside the city's jurisdiction. When a cruise ship dumps its sewage tanks overboard 30 miles up current, the city is responsible for that dumping, even though they have no jurisdiction over the ship.
The court said this isn't acceptable. They said the EPA - not the city - is responsible for the water. The EPA must specify exactly what can and cannot be released. If they aren't satisfied with the water quality, they have to tell the city to release less, and/or go after the other entities doing the dumping.
This ruling is much ado about nothing.
Excellent.
Might I suggest that instead of targeting fellow victims for undue harassment, you direct your attention toward the actual perpetrators and their supporters? For environmental causes, might I suggest some sort of shop where an oil-based product like gasoline or diesel fuel is sold? Perhaps an entity that sells or services the vehicles that consume those fuels.
Perhaps you could publish a manifesto telling the public and these businesses alike what businesses need to do in order to avoid Molotov-flavored "civil disobedience". Things like "a majority of the cars on a dealer's lot must be EVs" and "EVs should be priced lower than comparable ICE vehicles". Or "fuel stations should have at least as many charging stations as fuel pumps".
When you publish your manifesto, make sure it gets sent to insurance companies, preferably the companies insuring the businesses responsible for the environmental catastrophe we are facing.
We have enough laws against public use of the street. There is no need to demonstrate for more.
Give JSO time to lobby your legislators. They'll get around to it.
Excellent retort, but I can cite the legislative record supporting my point.
You would have a point if "protesting" was "life". But it's not.
When demonstrators were pissed off at Elon Musk, they didn't picket grocery stores and kindergartens. they didnt blockade old folks homes, delay firefighters and ambulances.
They burned Tesla dealerships.
JSO could learn a thing or two from these anti-Musk demonstrators.
I mean, Daylight Wasting Time is probably going to finally end this year, so what are you going to do next year?
What are you going to do next year?
In terms of pure numbers, if you removed all of the US carriers, China will have a similar number of aircraft in their navy.
To be fair, I assumed 30 aircraft on the Wasp and America class ships. 20 is a more realistic number, so my estimate was high. I don't know why I had it in my head that they could carry 30 aircraft each, but that was the basis of my claim. I was also under the impression that that 003 was another STOBAR carrier, rather than a CATOBAR.
Still, 9 US ships times 20 STOVL aircraft:
- 180 US aircraft total.
001, 002, and 003 are reported to carry 24 STOBAR, 24 STOBAR, and 50 CATOBAR aircraft, respectively:
- 98 Chinese aircraft total.
My claim of "more than twice as many" was wrong, but by single-digit margins.
Their Type 075 and 076 ships are described as "Helicopter Docks". To the best of my knowledge, China doesn't currently have any STOVL aircraft to operate off these ships. They are developing a STOVL aircraft, the J-35, which would almost certainly be able to operate off 075/076, but it's not operational yet. I'm disinclined to count the four operational 075s, and the 076 they are building.
The US Navy has 13 "Landing Platform, Docks" (San Antonio Class) that I'm not counting, because they only carry helicopters (up to 78 total) or tiltrotors (up to 65 total). They did do some evaluations on using them with the Harrier, but I dont think that went anywhere.
Pretty much every large ship in both navies can embark a couple helicopters; I'm not counting any of them either.
Blocking roads in protest has proven effective at exactly one thing: Increasing the enforcement and penalties for jaywalking.
It is counterproductive at everything else.
did you think that huddling on sidewalks holding signs was supposed to do something?
Where did I say huddle on sidewalks?
I think JSO should be firebombing ICE car dealerships, gas stations, muffler shops, and other entities and agents of the oil industry. Not harassing victims of that industry.
The helicopters and personal assistants and private jets and staffed mansions aren't the problem. With all of those, money is moving from the rich person to pilots, crew, maintenance staff, laborers, builders. Workers are making a living, earning paychecks from all these expenditures. Their lavish lifestyles are not the problem.
The problem is their stock portfolios. They aren't converting their wealth into worker paychecks. They are leveraging their wealth to take more and more wealth from workers throughout the economy.