Just look at what's on the road today, there are many more older cars still running than in the past. Even in the salt belt.

Let's not create a better system that would help everybody because some people might have jobs under that system!

I think their objection is monied interests would have undue influence (they assert), not that lobbyists would be employed.

That is a common explanation, but it kinda implies the world just sat on its hands for 20 years after WWII. I suspect it's just a distraction from the high tax rates and relatively progressive policy at the time, to instead say "it can't happen again".

I always hear people bring places like Sweden up as though it derives its prosperity from being an ethnostate.

Around 25% of residents were born outside Sweden and about a third have foreign born parents. Really not so different than some of the most successful U.S. states.

Yeah, it's just benign ads and people having fun. What's all the fuss about?

/s

Is it really a mystery that there's concern about corporate media consolidation and collusion with governments to self-serve their interests over individuals?

I mean, this is beyond naive if you dismiss what's happening and will continue.

It's isn't naive. They know how bad it is and profit off this. They don't want it to get better

If you hear it from Indians on social media, there's been no benefit to the locals with that cheap oil. In fact they've been rolling out e20 and people are dealing with unscrupulous sellers causing car issues.

Only oil companies in India are benefiting (plus close political friends) from Russian oil.

> If you hear it from Indians on social media, there's been no benefit to the locals with that cheap oil.

How do people on social media know how Russian oil impacts avg Indian ?

Do you have any better sources instead of shit people say on social media ?

Unfortunately it's not an exaggeration, here's the article. https://thencbeat.com/legend-jenkins-parents-charged/

The quote seems quite on the nose to me. Einstein wasn't raised by paupers.

No, he just was forced to be a refugee from his own country. Do we really have to compare suffering?

The context of this discussion is an argument that we need to find the Albert Einstein of the world to help them go to Stanford. My argument is that Einstein never went to the proverbial Stanford. In fact he avoided those things.

Einstein was a patent clerk rather than a professor. He explicitly chose not to “go to Stanford”.

Seems like all the euro death data comes from one WHO article from 2024. Large claims require large support and all that...

Yeah, and there seem to be at least two ways to measure heat death. One is to measure "excess deaths" meaning, increase in death rate as temperature increases or exceeds some statistical measure of base death rate. The other is to count deaths medically identified as heat-related (such as heat stroke or heat exhaustion, etc) So just by searching the web, you can also easily find studies that listed the EU death rate recently as much lower.

Heat deaths are also pretty much old people close to the end of their life:

"A large analysis found that the majority of these deaths were not just among the extremely frail, but in people who likely would not have died within the next six months, and that in most cases, life was shortened by at least one year. Some cases will have less time lost, but it is rare for heat death to simply advance death by only days or weeks.

In quantitative terms, heat deaths tend to "cost" between six months and a few years of life per death on average."

You gotta die of something.