For the most part excessive fines for defacing rocks and stuff is just classist to me like speeding tickets. But actual historical sites and artifacts need to be respected and preserved.
I live in Utah and this is such a huge problem for the Native American petroglyph sites out here. I work with an environmental team from time to time and they’ve taken me out to a relatively unknown site to see some undisturbed art. It’s amazing, and one of the last sites in the state that hasn’t had rock climbing gear driven into it or someone’s name written on it.
Duck the idiot for craving his name, absolutely. But, I’m not sure if the government realizes that they’ve just set a super low price of admission to have your name engraved on a historical artifact in their country. :(
Although I lead a team of 20 whose job requires them to physically attend, I agree that WfH is here to stay and only will expand. Smarter companies and investors should divest themselves of real estate holdings.
I was one of those people who turned over thanks to return to office. In the two years between the start of the pandemic and when RTO happened at my company, I bought a house (which requires upkeep), moved farther away from the office (from 5 miles away to 20), and had a kid.
Once you taste the freedom of being able to do laundry, wash the dishes, mow the lawn, etc., with the free time you're saving by not having to commute, it's really hard to give it up.
Likewise, my wife switched from a full time in-person job to a full remote job which eventually turned into a 2 days per week in office, then 3, job, and it's getting harder and harder to manage. We're hoping she can change departments within the company to a team that's full remote.
I genuinely don't know how people made it work with kids before. If I was spending an extra 3 hours a day "on the clock" (but not getting paid for those) commuting, taking an unpaid lunch, etc., I literally wouldn't have a single minute to engage with my hobbies or hang out with my wife, my house would be a mess, and more.
Maybe it’s your attitude and insulting manner? None of your arguments required your comments about “liberals”. Given those, it’s disingenuous to attribute the downvotes to your “facts”.
China is the main reason I’m not a complete doomer when it comes to transitioning off fossil fuels. They’re showing that it’s possible to do at scale and rapidly.
China seems to be able to easily start and complete megaprojects without much bureaucracy. It is a trait I wish the west would inspire to. Of course there are also traits that are not as appealing and should be avoided.
Regarding fossil fuels, I am beyond surprised how both superpowers are not placing significant funding into fusion. ITER in theory (and almost certainty in practice) has shown that you can generate a 1< Q factor for energy projection.
Imagine a Manhattan project for fusion instead of nuclear weapons. A project to this scale would very likely be able to fully transistion the world into clean, reliable, and cheap energy that doesn’t require batteries, sunlight, or natural terrain to exploit.
The amount of lives you would save from free energy is also incredible! Place a few reactors in Africa and you have a way to desalinate ocean water, as well as provide free energy for food generation.
Actually, China’s been investing into fusion research pretty actively. They recently achieved the longest sustained reaction lasting 403 seconds. If sustainable fusion can be achieved that would definitely be a game changer in terms of energy production.
It looks like China is taking a fairly broad spectrum approach towards its energy transition where they invest in renewables, fission, and active research into novel stuff like fusion and space based energy delivery.
The revolt itself is very interesting. Odviously they knew Russia was already under heat from the invasion and that would likely help thier cause. But why stop? Were they waiting for other to join who didn't? Did they think they were going to face more resistance earlier and panicked because they got close to Moscow and suspected a trap? Was there some other motivation and the rebellion was a distraction? Whatever the reason it definitely shows that Putin is losing control and that people who used to be his allies can turn against him.
my best speculation is that Prigozhin comes off as a stupid brute who was reigned in by wavy politicians after brute force was more effective than anyone expected. but it’s really just rando speculation.
Per this interpretation, Prigo was hoping that more of the army would start rebelling along with him, and they had until his convoy got to Moscow to start doing it. Seems that he miscalculated though.
The more I think about it (and I’ve thought a lot past few days) the more this seems to be the case. He thought there is going to be more support and backed out when it didn’t materialise
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