Yeah. I’ve seen great designers get noticeably frustrated when they can’t optimize the project to the level they could in school because there is a budget and maintenance factors that keep it from happening.

You also start getting into issues where that staff can vastly outperform other staff and it creates tension in compensation.

Thank you. I don’t hate you either.

Hooker Chemical sold for $1 and a list of conditions because the local government was threatening eminent domain after the company gave several warnings.

And I’m not going to defend Hooker in other locations.

The problem with using the Love Canal was that it was the local government that really fucked up.

For the time, Hooker Chemical Company disposed of the chemical waste in a somewhat responsible way; a clay lined canal that they later topped with clay to prevent water infiltration. If the town wasn’t dead set in developing the land, we likely would have never heard of Love Canal.

I think people hate me more online than here, especially on Lemmy compared to Reddit. However, I find the people here who hate me are looking to hate in general.

China is definitely pumping money into its manufacturing capabilities, but I don’t think cornering the international market is why.

What appears to be happening is that local officials pushed an industrial development policy to make economic numbers go up. Some provinces got to the point of building factories and leasing them out to companies for that sweet economic growth.

The Chinese national government is trying to find a market for this since it can’t afford for all Chinese local investment to be bad. Developing countries don’t have the funds for the cheap solar output and the other industrialized nations are putting up trade barriers since they are running massive trade deficits with China already.

He’s expecting the far right to do a shit job at governing while he is still President and hopes this kills their popularity.

Or we could see a reimagining of the EU as it transitions from a national led organization to a supernational one. We are already seeing some national heads make moves to support their party over nation in EU politics. It is possible that this continues as politics in the EU becomes more important than member nations, especially as the EU starts gaining increasing budgetary and policy power.

Germany also has an economy that is most threatened by China’s increasing manufacturing prowess, both within the EU and outside of it.

It is also becoming apparent that Merkel’s leadership was in just being able to maintain the status quo, something that Germany can’t do now.

Not really. I don’t call people not can I read in my dreams.

Generally yes. If I didn’t want it, I wouldn’t post it.

Yeah. I also find the relationship has a lot more dysfunction on Jim’s part than fans want to admit. Jim wouldn’t cheat on Pam, but Jim makes several life changing decisions without Pam and gets angry if Pam doesn’t go along with them.

The later Wesley episodes are good because you see him as a bright young man trying to do right in the world rather than a precocious kid who solves problems the grown-ups can’t.

The writers didn’t really know how to write the Crusher-Picard relationship(s) in the early seasons.

She is hated because she is acting sanely in this situation and is constantly trying to stop Walter’s insanity.

Reform property taxes to avoid squeezing out homeowners.

California has that property tax; it is not going as well as you would hope. It helps encourage communities to keep from allowing more density and freezes people in their homes as they will never be able to afford moving within their communities.

That would be the President’s plan.

Biden has given policy points, but he is largely limited as, at best, he is expected to have a tie in the Senate.

We are also seeing this get written by others since the first Trump term saw a vacuum in policy and this is an attempt to get people on board beforehand so Trump’s second term is more effective when he goes all dictator.

When there was a mobilized left, politicians were afraid to vote for certain policies since it could mean they would lose an election.

It is now seen as a fickle group that cannot be guaranteed to show up at elections.

Lemmy was designed to be a place where communists would have a community. Some instances weren’t, but a lot of the original ones were.

Isn’t that a bar?

Not since college.

After that, I had to help them out a few times.