A new administration in 2024 or 2028 can choose to increase the funding again, but in the intervening 8-12 years the defunded scientists would have gotten jobs elsewhere, maybe in private sector, but most likely in foreign research or regulatory bodies. Also it puts us 8-12 years behind the rest of the world in terms…

He’s suffering from dementia and all he could remember is the 1950s... Though arguably if he was out of touch enough to lend his name to an 80s Cadillac...

The laws might be still on the books, but if the EPA is deprived of the funding to do the actual testing to enforce its regulations, it’ll be just like repealing EPA. See: not verifying real-world MPG of cars (Ford and Hyundai had to restate sticker MPG after consumer complaints), not uncovering diesel cheating until…

You sound like you want to pay a “real American” $15/hr to pick your strawberries and lettuce.

If the capitalists are right, if the sectors who need workers pay enough above UBI, they should show up to work, right?

The real pay gap between CEOs and rank and file employees is more like 1000x, but keep telling yourself 10x to sleep well at night.

So tell me, how does doubling what someone makes suddenly double the rent for an apartment, whose entire value is based on it just existing? How does an increased minimum wage inflate the global oil markets to double our gas prices at the pump? Does doubling the minimum wage double what Comcast pays for fiber optic…

Those are by no means hard questions, and have already been solved by people smarter than you.

That’s not a market inefficiency, that’s a low cost of entry to the snow plowing business + oversupply of service providers. The government isn’t (and shouldn’t be) able to plow every road 30 minutes after snowfall. They use their limited equipment to make it to the high-traffic roads first, then gradually to streets…

Franchise store owners’ profits don’t appear on McDonalds corporate’s balance sheets.

Also, CAFE standards have a tiny little provision in there that counts any plug-in hybrid with > 7kwh battery as some stratospherically high (80+) CAFE mpg, so really all that needed to be done was to strap a 7kwh battery to a full size pickup. What this is really about is that the shareholders don’t want the battery…

No, they want the death panels at the State level so they can federally wash their hands of it. States’ rights, remember? That’s exactly what’s going to happen though once they block-grant Medicaid.

I forgot where on kinja I read this, but about 2/3 of Asian Americans voted for Hillary... Sure that 1/3 is still too high, but the 1/3 who voted Republican has different kinds of baggage involved (anti-communist / refugee roots, ladder pullers, intra-Asian racism...)

No, naming your kid “Lexus” is just bad because that’s a Toyota with gold trim. Try for Bentley, at least.

For that budget he could easily have a lightly restomodded ‘66 for reliability. I believe pre-74 means all kinds of engine swaps are fair game, but I only recently returned to California...

In reality, the “Ford’s other plans” mostly involved selling Mazdas and Mazda-derived Escorts and Tracers...

Given this plate appears to be a vintage 1998 baseplate for California, “LOVES69" is probably the exact reason this rule was put in place.