>Their jobs went away, the additional money never came.
The jobs will still be gone after banning Huawei. Trump did not ban the manufacturing of crapple iphones in China.
You are still continuing to profit from cheap Chinese labor paid in slave wages while wanting to maximize margins selling at high prices in your own country but somehow Huawei is an evil company for selling the same product at a cheaper price.
Meanwhile in EU :
https://www.taxjustice.net/2018/06/25/new-report-is-apple-pa...
But yes it's our best interest in the world if the US shuts down all competition by destroying China's own corporations, while the US keeps using the oversea cheap labor and destroying their own lower classes anyway because the trade war is not really about bringing back the jobs and you're astroturfing for one of the most repulsive presidents in US history.
Fuck you.
>"For example, last year, there were no fewer than 850 traffic interruptions and power cuts because drug addicts crossed the tracks, carried out their business on the tracks, or pulled the alarm to stop the trains to either sell or buy drugs," Chaplan, who is also a representative of the trade union SUD-RATP, said.
It was the introduction of the war on drugs that introduced the need to push drugs, to pay for the habit. When clean heroin and needles were available, along with treatment for those who wanted to quit, there was barely a problem at all.
Many nations had successful history of tolerance without problems of junkies. The the US was determined to export their war on drugs globally. The hysteria of Harry Anslinger who gave the world the Reefer Madness mentality, and faked acres of evidence, was the US representative for the newly formed UN committee on drugs. It was his swan song resulting from Nixon's public enemy number 1 initiative.
India, The Netherlands, Britain and others had almost no drug addicts prior to this. There were of course some - but they were still productive members of society - yet orders of magnitude fewer than in the USA under prohibition. No police connected drugs with crime or anti-social behaviours.
Now everywhere is in a similar boat to the US, drugs outlawed with enough organised crime that going back to the old ways is probably impossible.
The presence of junkies doesn't mean that city is open to drugs as San Francisco is. Cannabis is illegal in France, yet still suffers from the same problems. However, Cannabis is legal in the Netherlands and Amsterdam is far more hospitable.
What the GP was bringing up was the attitude towards drugs, not people using drugs in general. SF was a far more lax attitude to drugs than France, yet its afflicted by similar problems. Blaming drugs is just a convenient scapegoat so that harder problems aren't addressed.
Junkies are human beings with a problem. So are cancer patients. So are veterans with PTSD.
It's our job to remember they're people and need help, not cast them out further. We're rich enough as a species that we can save those in trouble; we shouldn't forget that.
"LED bulbs with very long lives" would be pretty useless. What they don't tell you about LEDs is that their efficiency goes down the drain over time, they become so dark as to become unusable. I have a few 3 to 5 years old bulbs, which I still haven't discarded but kept in the closest as a "emergency bulb if one of the bulbs I use break", I replaced them despite them being still fully operational because they became too dark. Way too dark.
This is an issue with LCD TV and monitors too. After a while their LED backlights become really dark. Push your new monitor at max brightness and compare the old with its max brightness and even if they were rated at equal nits the newer one is much brighter.
All those bulbs I have are the namebrand that do reliably work for years, but I would not want to use them for years. I feel like I might just buy the cheapest bulbs the next time, and not care if they die after 6 months. 6 months might be the maximum amount of time they can give you their brightest.
But if they -- at least "quality" brand LEDs -- don't have really long (useful) lives, the cost premium over other types of light bulbs looks much less justifiable.
