R and D is funded in nations with universal health care all the time. There’s always been a pipeline and interchange between public and private health research interests. I’m not sure what your point is.

They’ve had something similar available for years. It’s a small plastic square about the size of a lego brick. You put it in your shoe and it makes you limp

North Africa. That’s the strait of Gibraltar and Spain lower left. It’s not in the orientation that you’re used to, north is somewhere to the left.

Gotta submit their timesheets.

I never understood why people did this. You can also turn an empty pop or beer can into a pipe so much easier. And they’re ubiquitous, unlike apples and potatoes.

What, you prefer to give your data to Sony, LG, Samsung, or amazon? Like they’re not selling it to anyone with a buck as well? Never connect a TV to the internet, period. After that it doesn’t matter what you buy.

but as far as cards go, it is the ace of spades.

I’m in the PV area. Trust me “all the stuff going on in Mexico” was a brief temper tantrum that lasted a few hours and some cars were burned after the head guy was taken out. Despite what English media wants to tell you, Mexico is safer today than it was before the events of Sunday.

I love it. No commute, optional shower, no pants. I’m not a very big pants guy, and that’s a huge seller.

All the well deserved vitriol aside, there’s a really straightforward explanation for this. The Maroun family owns the competing Ambassador bridge, and has been using it to extort cross border traffic for a generation now. This competition is bad for them. And guess what? They’re Trump donors. So this is just standard, run-of-the-mill gangster capitalism again.

the yella man gon’ take yer srup!

I agree with letting air out of the balloon slowly. That’s what rezoning and densification shoots to do. It is slow because development is slow. But limiting available capital (ie: competing for mortgages)? In what world does that make sense? And if primary residence cap gains aren’t exempt, then anybody that had to move for work would get screwed. That’s a corporate friendly policy, not a people friendly policy. The goal here is for people to own houses, and for there to be penalties for owning more than one. But that’s exactly where policy is right now.

The irony is that decreasing the value of homes really is the inevitability. Because rezoning encourages redevelopment, that redevelopment generally includes more dense and theoretically more affordable housing types. But developers still want to make money, so they are built to maximize profit, not affordability. So it suggests that if they sell, other houses have less demand, and demand will fall. But that hasn’t been borne out.

Probably not top ten of mind, but Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has been trotted out by the fossil fuel industry for a generation as a panacea for carbon emissions, in order to prevent any real legislation limiting the combustion of hydrocarbons.

Amen. Too few people understand this or fail to make this distinction.

Nothing is smart if you dont connect it to the internet.

It’s made a world of difference to me in my IT support services business. It’s not always right, but it’s always helpful even when it isn’t. It’s far better at looking at a page of log information and picking out the one bit that explains why the thing I need to work isn’t working. I’ve been emboldened to do a lot of projects that I was previously uncomfortable with. The key is I know enough about nearly anything that I can tell when im being led down a garden path.

The quality of the prompt is everything.

This really hand-waves away how big a deal it was for Canola growers and seafood producers to have the tariffs dropped. It cost us comparatively little. What amounts to less than 1% of domestic new car market, and with the opportunity to have those EVs made in whole or part here in the future.

To be clear, the people and the government are the same thing. It’s the same wallet.

The difference is one of timelines. As you ramp up industry, you can import affordable EVs. It’s not either-or.