I don’t know, but if I had to guess like everything else it comes down to money. It’s energy intensive to desalinate seawater to the degree it’s drinkable, and now we’re talking about adding even more energy to refine it even further to make it suitable for human consumption. That makes any recovered salt expensive compared to natural salt deposits. Much easier (read: cheaper) to just scrape salt deposits that have already evaporated.
The problem with desalination is that there’s a super-concentrated salt sludge that needs to be discarded after the process. Dumping that back into the ocean creates excess salinity which fucks up the ecosystem in the immediate area.
Not saying that desalination isn’t a good idea, just that there’s more to think about than “put seawater in, get tap water out”.
Bluesky is still running on VC cash. We haven’t seen how they plan on monetizing it yet, but if anything that is where their major fuckup will happen.
What do you mean “trying”?
The only legitimate concerns I’ve read are from contractors with tools and small businesses who deliver.
Maybe, but anecdotally the lighter traffic allows contractors to accomplish more jobs per day because they spend less time in traffic, which more than offsets the congestion charge.
Going from three hours per day in traffic down to even just two means there’s an extra hour a contractor has available to make money each day.
Surely this means the party of law and order won’t support him, right?
Right?
…right?
The only way Trump whines about this for just six months is if he dies in six months.
The bad news in a good way. Yes, I can do that. The bad news in a good way. Well, here it goes…
Which is how you know he knows fuck-all about America, cause we’re kinda indifferent to both collateral casualties and gun violence being the number one cause of death for children.
If they think their editors should be ignoring all that, then what the fuck should they be doing?
Hey, they didn’t vote for the white woman either!
HE SAID HE WAS GONNA
This smells exactly like one of Trump’s “successful businessman from the 80’s” power plays- someone won’t do what you want willingly, so you publicly announce they’re going to do it anyway to shame them into it so they don’t lose face. It’s not the first time he’s done this and Gates is probably one of the last very public billionaires who hasn’t fellated Trump yet.
Don’t lie to us. We know better.
Since you missed it the first time, let me rephrase what I said:
If we’re all going to get the shit that Trump supporters deserve since they won the election, then I’m going to enjoy all the schadenfreude of watching them suffer getting exactly what the voted for. America is not great. Trump and Musk’s administration won’t make it great. But I’m going to enjoy their voters realizing that fact every day for the however it takes to get that fat orange fascist and his illegal-immigrant financier out of power.
It’s getting harder and harder to enjoy the faces being eaten by these leopards,
Not for me.
This is what they voted for three fucking times. If I have to get what they deserve, then I’m damned well going to enjoy watching them get it too.
“America will be a Law and Order country!” says convicted criminal President.
People are free to believe whatever they want. However, the second those beliefs are shown to be factually incorrect, and those people refuse to acknowledge that, then we absolutely can and should criticize them.
You want to believe in Bigfoot? If the thought of a wild cryptid makes you happy, fucking go for it.
You want to believe the earth is flat and there’s some global (lol) conspiracy to prevent people from finding out the truth? Here’s a bunch of videos and articles on why that’s wrong. Oh, you still believe it? Get the fuck out of here.
Americans spent a record $41 billion over Black Friday weekend. People don’t have that much money to spend when the economy truly is shit. The real egregious part of it all was corporations using COVID to gouge consumers even long after the supply-chain issues had been resolved, and the most dysfunctional Congress in US history refusing to do anything about it.
“The economy!”
-People who spent $41 billion three weeks later.
they elected Biden and right-wing news told them for four years their material conditions worsened and ignored that 1) cleaning up Trump’s COVID mess left America in a much better spot than every other developed country and 2) how they felt about the economy and the facts about the economy didn’t match.
Trump exhibits zero-sum thinking- if someone else is getting something, that means he is losing something. Thus if Carter is getting respect, Trump thinks he is losing respect.