The US imports 7% of its beef from Brazil, 5% from Australia, 4% from Canada, 3% from New Zealand, 2% from Mexico, and 4% from the rest of the world.
That’s 25% of our beef from the global market… and you are saying there is no global market? Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand aren’t exactly close neighbors. Brazil just got slapped with a 50% tariff, so what barriers to entry does Argentina have that Brazil does not?
I took a trip to watch my home NFL team play in London back in roughly 2015. The trip to London was great, but the game itself was boring. The locals at the game weren’t big fans of either team and didn’t understand the game. I wasn’t a season ticket holder and have a relatively high salary compared to my home population, so it didn’t impact me much. It would have been really shitty if I were a season ticket holder and if those tickets represented a significant portion of my salary. It also sucks when you have to wake up super early to watch your team play.
I know things are different for a global sport like soccer vs NFL, and it sucks for fans of Barca in Miami to not be able to cheaply see their team play; but locals made these teams what they are and locals make the game day environment what it is. Taking that away from them is wrong.
I’m torn between upvoting the TIL part of this because it’s something I know a ton about, and downvoting OP for such a wildly stupid take of “LOL go work somewhere else, hurr durr.”
A) You only have to fill it out once every 5 or 10 years, depending on what level of clearance you are going for. And when you go back to fill it out again, nearly all of the stuff you filled out is unchanged.
B) It takes a few hours to do in order to be eligible for very high paying jobs.
C) You do realize, don’t you, that tons of private sector jobs ALSO require you to fill this out? Working at Lockheed or Boeing or Booze Allen Hamilton or Microsoft or Google or… you get the picture. Any company that does business with the federal gov will have jobs with the possibility of needing this.
D) Private sector jobs can also be impacted by the gov shutdown, since many of them are on contracts with the gov that don’t get paid when the contracting officer is furloughed.
EDIT: E) Private sector companies will pay a HUGE bonus to people who already have a TS clearance. Back in 2018-ish, Raytheon was paying a $50,000 sign-on bonus to new employees if they already had TS.
Why is nobody suggesting the thieves just really love jewelry? All they want is to put them on and feel pretty.
No, it isn’t supply and demand. The supply is the same. They aren’t producing more beef that didn’t exist before last week. You could always buy Argentinian beef in the US, but it wasn’t imported more because of the price. So if you want to say that the localized supply increased, then it is because it was purchased by the government and either given away for free or heavily subsidized in price.
Subsidies is why this will make beef less expensive. Except now the subsidies are going to Argentinians instead of American farmers.
The biggest thing I will miss when I finally move to Europe is how rarely I encounter smokers in public in the US. I can only hope Europe keeps making smoking less enticing, because it’s really jarring walking around a beautiful city and having to smell smoke everywhere outside.
2500 years ago we didn’t have computers and cell phones. We do now, and they all use gold.
My computer and my phone are preeeeeeeeeetty important to my life, though.
The value of gold lies in the fact that other men may be disposed to work their ass off in order to have some shiny things to gift to women in order to have sex. As you can imagine, the power of gold amongst married couples drastically decreases.
Gold is actually useful for things other than jewelry.
Do most people have bars of gold sitting around? No. Do most people have gold jewelry like wedding rings and earrings and necklaces? Yes. Can those bars of gold sitting in banks be easily melted down into coins in the event of a society collapse? Yes. Can Bitcoin be usable at all without internet and power? No.
Yes, the thing that doesn’t work in case of an internet or power outage. Yeah, that’s a good idea to use in societal collapse.
I fully support memes on sports subs.
The current philosophy among parents is heavy early exposure. All the parents I know give their young kids Bambas, a peanut-butter based snack, as soon as they are able to eat solid foods. I had always been slightly allergic to cats until I got cats.
I think you are viewing this book from the lens of today, after two hundred years of perfecting the genre. This was a rather new type of writing back then. Edgar Allen Poe was only 8 years old when this was written. This was an 18 year old author exploring a new type of story telling heavily influenced by at-the-time revolutionary philosophical ideas. Yeah, it’s clunky, but it also explores things that weren’t being explored back then.
Also, your question about how the monster was created was somewhat described. We ARE told where he got the biological material. He sourced the body materials from the dissecting room and slaughterhouse. Additionally, he didn’t stitch the body together like the idea that was created by the movie in the 1930s. He discovered a fundamental element of life that could imbue dead tissue (not necessarily body parts, but not-alive tissues) to have it form into something that lived. This isn’t a book about science, so the author didn’t go into details for how the thing was created. Also, it’s one thing to create a work of art that sucks if you aren’t a good artist. It’s another thing when that ugly drawing or sculpture you tried to make suddenly springs to life.
Two things:
Back then, authors were paid by the word.
In Victorian times, at least, people actually DID talk like that. The privileged class were taught extensively growing up on how to talk in overly flowery language and how to debate and express thoughts. Saying simple things in a very pretty way was a skill people practiced. The reason all books of that time have people talking like that is because some people did talk like that. It’s weird for people of our time to hear it, since it sounds so contrived and excessive.
You can’t make a freakish monster without breaking a lot of beakers.
My issue is you, and many others, trying to justify serving a rapist because they are legally required to follow orders. We’ve been through this: if your justification for an atrocity is “I was just following orders” then you are a monster.
No, I’m trying to justify him NOT serving a rapist. You seemed to be angry that he chose to stop serving a rapist. Now you are saying I’m a boot licker because I am happy he is no longer serving a rapist and isn’t doing stuff that is oppressing people??? He is no longer “just following orders,” so why are you angry? Your anger is kind of all over the place.
You also never answered my request for what concrete steps do you want him to do other than retire. You are one of those people who get all angry and complain but then don’t have any recommended solutions.
Admirals, while extremely high up, aren’t the top of the food chain. He was being commanded to do bad stuff. His choices were to A) follow orders, B) not follow orders and be fired with a dishonorable discharge and all of his benefits for his family removed, C) follow orders but in a bad way that still kills innocent civilians while also slowly makes things slightly worse for his boss, D) retire honorably.
Or: the moment he had to consider doing something that was against The People, he honorably left. You seem to have this rather naive and ridiculous notion that some colonel has access to some network of willing soldiers who will gladly become a ragtag group of unstoppable superheroes against a million strong military that for the most part loves what the President is doing. Yeah, there are a lot of individuals who hate what Trump is doing, but those are mostly officers who have a stronger sense of duty than the people whom they command. And colonels don’t wield all that much power, either.
Also, since you seem to think he should have done something to “serve” The People in his role, what concrete ideas do you have for him to have done?
Maybe because most people have never even heard of a Totenkopf until now and wouldn’t know what one looks like. The dailykos story about it called it the 2nd or 3rd most recognizable symbol of Nazis, but I’ve never seen the symbol before and had never heard that term before today. Is it really that well known?