The irony is that this causes birth rates to plummet, which eliminates the future workforce for the very companies forcing childcare to be untenable. One of the major contradictions of capitalism is that it does not reproduce its own labor force. I guess the resolution is to replace human workers with AI.
I live in Prague. It’s full of Americans who come to do IVF becauee they would rather pay $3,000 than $30,000 for it. They get a nice European vacation too.
Ok? Elsevier, Wiley, and Springer all do this.
Now, instead of paying a subscription, they charge a one-time several thousand dollar fee to the researcher for open access. Problem solved! Everybody knows those fat cat grad students and post docs have plenty of money to throw away on oat milk lattes.
That’s fine. Now sieze his assets and force him into a nursing home.
I’m a planetary scientist so technically this is a field, you can also be into meteorites as a hobby.
Chondrule formation. These are spherical balls of formerly molten rock that solidified and clumped together to form chondrites, some of the oldest rocks in the Solar System that predate planet formation. Essentially these are nebular dust grains that formed when the Solar System was still an accretionary disk.
Except, do chondrules predate planet formation? What causes them to melt while they’re floating around? How do they overcome the kinetic barriers to agglomeration? Are the terrestrial planets, whose bulk composition is thought to be chondritic, actually composed of chondrites?
If you want to see one of the most simultaneously esoteric and bitter scientific debates, attend a chondrule formation session at a meteorite or planetary science conference. MetSoc is a great one in August, and officially I go to present my work but actually I just love the fireworks. As an achondrite person, I don’t touch this topic with a ten foot pole, but I love to watch when someone introduces a new wacky idea (space lightning? Shine from a molten Io? Extrasolar?) and you see 15 eminent greybeards rush the mic to yell their objections.
So I was under the assumption that every time they beamed someone up or down they murdered them and an exact copy appeared elsewhere.
The point of Bernie or AOC or Zohran or any socialist candidate is the movement behind them, which represents the will of the masses. The actual figurehead is largely irrelevant because everything they do is in the interest of their constituents. They might use their charisma to win (but usually it’s the movement that actually wins the campaign), but once they’re in power they just have to fulfill their promises, and they have staff to do this.
A regular politician, by contrast, enacts the will of the corporate class. In this way they’re mostly irrelevant too.
Who would have thought putting all that lead in the environment would have such far-reaching consequences?
The guy stumbled upon 5 female elephants and a calf. Pretty sure any human would have been attacked, but yeah, who knows what’s in their collective memory.
I can see him starting his own religion instead, once he realizes how much merch he can sell.
Go to a festival with corporate kiosks and grab a free pair.
The sign translates to “buffet”. Cafe is “kávézó”
Guaranteed that no sides will agree to anything over the next 2 weeks.
Or reduced. Solar wind implants protons (Hydrogen) in the upper surface and causes darkening.
The problem is that we offloaded “world leadership” to a bunch of ultra-rich sociopaths who only care about their own profit maximization. And they then made actual profit obsolete, since the only product they produce now is hype in the service of inflationary speculative assets. From a planetary perspective it looks like the human species is committing suicide.
Nothing mysterious about this. Melting ice caps produce fresh sueface water that doesn’t sink.