Cops in the US get paid a lot. Plus health insurance and a pension.

When you impose a tariff, domestic producers raise their prices because they face less competition

Its probably a lot more effective at convincing folks that we shouldn’t have billionaires

There are a ton more legit immigrants than people doing this

I notice how the article casually mentions that there were like 300 lost in Georgia alone

Per the article:

The porters jockeyed with one another to carry the plutonium capsules, Captain Kohli and Mr. McCarthy said.

“The Sherpas loved them,” Mr. McCarthy said. “They put them in their tents. They snuggled up next to them.”

Done well, it can be ok. Catastrophe bonds are decent as a means of buying insurance for really big but infrequent damaging events, like earthquakes. Not that its done well on any kind of consistent basis

He isnt stopping them; they just move the work oveeseas

There wasn’t…but we know what happened then and can try to do better

I think they call it the fiery furnace

None. Its always been about the racism. They were just less blatant about it.

Yeah, the Republicans got Tate out of Romania to prevent a trial

He’s universally hated except by high-level Republicans who worked to protect him from prosecution

Somewhat. It is possible to have poor siting, which people found out after deploying the first wind farms.

I think the Republican threats to burn down their homes might have backfired just a bit

It depends on where. The subtropical dry zone expands so significant areas get less rain overall

Pretty much all farming west of 100 degrees longitude depends on irrigation, with most of it being fodder for cattle and ethanol that’s blended into gasoline. Both of which are even less efficient than almond growing.

There isn’t “more water” — its distribution changed. Warmer temperatures mean that water evaporates faster, the air holds more, storms become more intense, and have a different distribution than they had before.

In a world where every home has a stove, 23 million across the US is uncommon, enough so that people don’t even know that they exist.

These things exist, but are quite uncommon compared with poorly vented stoves, or people who have a vent for their stove but don’t run the fan at the necessary high power