Dude complaining about a dude complaining about apple being proprietary in 2024, when apple has built their entire business from day one by being the most draconian closed loop proprietary hardware/software model since personal computers were invented........
You just made the same argument, but in an aggressively dumb way.
Pretty much anything with a turning wheel and axel relies on some sort of bearing system. That means traditional and high speed rail systems both require them.
There are some differences in types of bearing depending on what you use your rail system for. In the US we utilize antiquated plain bearings that are relatively easy to manufacture, but that's because our rolling stock is ancient compared to most countries. Mainly because we rely heavily on trucks for transporting most goods and haven't bothered investing in our aging rail network.
In Russia they have a much more modern rolling stock, as everything they ship goes through their rail network. Their rolling stock utilizes angled/slanted roller bearings, which can vastly increase their weight capacity, speed, and can double to triple their lifespan. The only problem is that they are complicated to manufacture.
No.. just the federal marketplace. Like it should be.
The federal marketplace is not an adequate replacement for all income levels, it's barely adequate for people who qualify for subsidies.
The federal government negotiates prices like all other civilized countries do
A large part of our current problem is that our fed government isn't negotiating prices like other countries.
As I said, we can only get rid of employer based benefits if there is an adequate replacement.
In the books it's kinda a mix of dumb luck and Sharpe being the equivalent of a British Terminator, who does nothing but kill and sling dick across Europe and India.
If I remember correctly, among other normally mortal wounds he gets shot in the dome twice throughout the series and lives.
The story kinda jumps the shark a bit here and there, but the descriptions about the military history like logistics and tactics are pretty great in all the books.
Source: nothing.
According to my study of the historical fiction series Sharpe's Rifles, I concur.
It's kinda a ridiculous series, basically about a British super soldier in the Napoleonic war. However, the author was obsessive about the environment and tactics being historically accurate. It's a fun read if you like historical military fiction.
it would disentangle health insurance from employment.
Not unless there's a viable alternative..... If put into effect today it would just be the equivalent to a giant cut for 15 million people.
Only problem is most of it's bermuda, which is a fucking PAIN to get rid of by hand
Get yourself an Action Hoe, you basically run it back and forth and it digs/cuts the roots out. It's very upsetting how easy it makes weeding the first time you use it, turns an hour long job to something you can do in 15 min.
Yeah, helicopters are the apex predators of soldiers and rich people. Even if you pull off the perfect autorotation, the glide ratio is still only a maximum of like 3:1.
I think I remember reading a report somewhere that more people have been killed by practicing autorotation than have actually pulled it off in the wild.
Mainly just copium for the pilots. Helicopters aren't like airplanes where you have glide time and altitude to decide what to do after something bad happens. If you watch fixed winged ejections there's usually about 30 seconds to a min after something goes wrong before the pilot decides to bail. Helicopters go from everything being fine, to a debris field in seconds.
criticised WWF/ZSL for failing to identify capitalism as the “crucial (and often causal) link” between the destruction of nature and galloping levels of consumption. “By naming capitalism as a root cause,” wrote Pigott, “we identify a particular set of practices and ideas that are by no means permanent nor inherent to the condition of being human” and that “if we don’t name it, we can’t tackle it”. Capitalism, according to Jason Hickel, academic and author of Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Penguin, 2020), has three main defining characteristics: enclosure and artificial scarcity, perpetual expansion, and a lack of democracy, insisting “democratic principles are rarely allowed to operate in the sphere of production, where decisions are made overwhelmingly by those who control capital”.
As a socialist, I think it's important to point out that ending capitalism isn't the panacea for climate change that this article is alluding too.
Alternative forms of economic organizational hierarchies can be just as damaging unless protecting the environment is foundational to their economic principles.
Socialism isn't inherently more environmentally friendly, it's just a different way to organize productive forces, with the entire goal being increasing production capabilities until we have reached a post scarcity society.
Even in the few examples of command economies we've seen throughout history, we don't see a more environmentally conscious society. What we typically see is rampant industrialization and an increase in production without regard for consumption.
Now I'm not claiming that economic systems do not matter, or attempting a "both sides" argument. Clearly a command economy has more ability to tackle climate change, but only if environmentalism is made a foundational priority.
If we just label capitalism as the enemy, and then carry on as other socialist governments have before.... We very well may make huge leaps on quality of life for the majority, increase industrialization in the global south, and build a more equitable world, but still end up killing the planet.
Yep, that's a tapered/angled roller bearing. They're conceptually a pretty easy concept, but deceptively hard to manufacture