$40 billion per year to end world hunger.
https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/how-much-would-it-cost-to-end-world-hunger/
In "Bewster's Millions" he also had to have nothing of value at the end.
So yes that is a good method for this formula of the question.
Do we actually know the military is majority Republican now?
(I grew up hearing that, but have since learned a lot of repeated things from childhood was a lie.)
Not to make light, but one does not simply "start a civil war". A civil war needs armies and territory. It is just terrorism without those.
Honestly, why doesn't Europe have universal veterinary? That will drive Americans nuts.
(Source: Am American)
Pretty good message, well delivered. 3rd panel thought bubble for something that should be yelled bugs me. Distinct art style that helps encourage my inner artist. Nicely done.
Not far in the past.
In China, 47.4GW of coal power capacity came online in 2023, GEM says. This increase accounted for two-thirds of the global rise in operating coal power capacity, which climbed 2% to 2,130GW.
China’s 70.2GW of new construction getting underway in 2023 represents 19-times more than the rest of the world’s 3.7GW. As the figure below highlights, the country’s trajectory (red line) is diverging significantly from the rest of the world (orange line).
Huh, some commenters raise a good question. What are the non-capitalist countries doing to fight climate change?
China is building out massive renewables and massive coal.
My list is short, please add to it.
Kalama has stepchildren. They are about to be dragged through the mud.
This is true. I tend to do my best thinking away from work, and not part of my current work time.
You raised a number of great points. I won't address all of them.
Setup and organizing parts/resources would need attention. Deliveries, messages, and decisions would all need adjustments. I expect that while one may work 3 hours a day, they may not be the same 3 hours every day, or even continuous.
What would a 3 hour work day be like?
It often feels like there are only 3 productive hours in typical American white collar work day.
What if we just cut out the rest?
Edit: Some great responses. So responses must have also been said about the 5 day and 40 hour work weeks.
Does it have to be connected to the dirt I live near? Maybe we can all vote for people and those with more votes can represent us more?
I get there are regional issues, but not everything is regional.
I had hoped Biden would serve 2 years and a day, then retire.
Transferring campaign money is going to be an issue. Harris has little name recognition.
Both Biden and Trump have been president. We know what to expect.
The fuck will Harris do? Fuck if I know.
She hasn't been in the news or public in 4 years in America. I doubt she would win the nomination if she ran on her own.
Explore the geographic distribution and demographics of America's major religious groups.
In the USA, 3.1% claim Atheist, 4% Agnostic, and a total of 22.8% "Unaffiliated".
In Minnesota, 3% claim to be Atheist, 4% Agnostic, with a total of 20% Unaffiliated.
Posted as I often feel there are few Atheists in the USA. Turns out Atheists are under noticed.
What is "Toastify is awesome”?
I keep getting a red banner saying “Toastify is awesome” when updating. What does it mean, and what should I do differently?
Question: How to Calculate Just Pay for Work
How would one actually calculate the full "fruit of labor" in work that includes several people doing different tasks?
How to calculate between people doing the same task producing physical items seems easy. Add in customer service, sales, and development, and it seems easier to focus on what other groups pay for those skills, which is not what I want.
It also seems looking at the difference between having the role, and not. However some skills are mandatory, just less involved.
Feel free to simplify, but different tasks is a must.
Anything I buy must be physical
I don't like subscribing to nonphysical things. I can read a physical paper a month after it arrived. Digital is faster, but I tend to lose it before I have read it.
I need a recipient in my pocket. Too often my virtual thing is lost, my device fails, or things reboot and I don't have my secure 24 digit password with me.
I won't subscribe to a digital only anything. Physical and digital is nice.
Edit: They don't even have to be identical. A digital daily with a monthly print would be nice.
Req.Incoming Email NOT my Focus? Client/Server
Hello friends. Work email is crushing me. The ticketing systems, plural, email me on everyone's tucket. (Because some people only work tickets via email and others through the web interface.)
Are there any email clients or servers that allow new email to land somewhere other than the inbox? Or allow my view to start elsewhere?
I declare email bankruptcy daily....
Send whiskey.
Edit: I was unclear.
I have filtering, but those all happen after the mail is in the Inbox. I get a quarter second of crazy emails and previews and things moving, then they are gone. (Outlook sucks.)
I don't even want to see that shit. Not at all.
Take a rails-and-trails tour of abandoned railways around the Twin Cities metro, as our author explains their history and current uses.
Annuities as UBI conceptual model
Today, I was playing with an immediate annuity calculator. For about $106K (USA Dollar), one can get a 10 year Immediate annuity that pays about $1K per month.
For $1 million, 9 people could be covered for 10 years. For $1 billion, 9,400.
Every American could be covered for the next 10 years for ~$35 trillion. Rolled out over 10 years, it could be $3.5 trillion per year.
I am better able to reason about annuities, than government spending, so this started to put the costs in perspective for me. The costs also stop being as "squishy".
UBI would be life changing for many. Those with lots of income already would be paying about 30% back to the IRS.
There are lots of optimizations. For 60% more, the term could be doubled to 20 years, cutting the annual rollout cost by 20%. I bet costs could be improved when purchasing $1 trillion of anything. Annuity rates are also not great right now, so there a likely better structures.
Thoughts?
The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.
> Last Thursday, the medical colossus UnitedHealthcare applied for an emergency exemption that would fast-track its takeover of a medical practice in Corvallis, Oregon, in a letter warning regulators that the practice might close its doors if the merger were not approved right away.
The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.
How to protect Intellectual Property from new employer
Pretty sure I will be asking a lawyer, but I want to learn more words and concepts first.
A possible new job wants to own any intellectual property I create and wants me to declare anything I want to keep as my own. This seems normal in my industry as they will be paying me to do some thinking.
Issue is that I have a number of ideas I have been developing. I am going to float some of them as products in my own time, though this may be years from now. Most of these are outside the current market for the company as far as I know.
How is this typically handled? I presume I don't need to have copyrights or trademarks prior and can just list tentative titles.
I am also a little unclear on the spread between "intellectual property" and "an idea I am playing with".
Thoughts? Concepts to investigate?
Edit: I did Internet search this, but I have not found working keywords.
I'LL TELL you this, but you'll have to promise that it will go no further. Not long after we moved here we had the people next door round for dinner and - I swear this is true - they drove.
Article from 1999, referenced study likely from earlier.
> The average American walks less than 75 miles a year - about 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.
Thank you to @[email protected] for pointing this out.
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240218142310/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/bryson-s-america-why-would-you-walk-1079183.html
Child care business owners urged lawmakers to reject a bill that would expand the state’s recent ban on noncompete agreements. The bill would ban provisions in contracts between businesses and customers that restrict workers’ employment choices. For child care centers, that would mean dropping contr...
Mayor Jacob Frey quips that choosing remote work over office makes you a 'loser' (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
> "I don't know if you saw this study the other day, but what this study clearly shows, is when people have the ability to come downtown to an office and don't, when they stay home, sitting on their couch with their nasty cat blanket diddling on their laptop ... if they do that for a few months, you become a loser! It's a study. We're not losers, are we?"
Be careful who gets to hold a gun to your head.
The great Jeff Vogel discusses the Unity event.
Xcel Energy customers in Minnesota will likely soon have good reason to hold off on running dishwashers or charging vehicles until bedtime. The state’s largest utility is asking regulators to approve a major change to how residential customers have paid for their electricity for decades. In December...
Xcel Energy customers in Minnesota will likely soon have good reason to hold off on running dishwashers or charging vehicles until bedtime. The state’s largest utility is asking regulators to approve a major change to how residential customers have paid for their electricity for decades. In December...
Recent changes to the Minnesota laws regulating political advocacy have expanded the definition of a “lobbyist” and the universe of people who now have to register as one. The changes will have little effect on existing professional lobbyists but are expected to mandate a bevy of new people register...
Non-computer standing furniture
There is evidence that standing is better for the human body than sitting. For work we have standing desks for computer work and such. Some aim to stand 8+ hours a day.
What about for other activities? How do the unemployed, retired, and homemarkers get in enough standing? Are there good ways to stand while reading a book, or sipping a coffee and enjoying the dawn?
What happened to the Batteriser?
While looking for uses for old disposable AA batteries, I ran across the Batteriser from 2015. Clearly, it was a flop of some sort, as I am posting in 2024. What happened? Are there any iterations that do work?
https://money.cnn.com/2015/06/02/technology/make-battery-last-longer-batteriser/index.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteroo_Boost
Also, are there any uses for old batteries?