Heitterslly said he would be.

People don’t buy cars based on emissions. Car makers make them based on emissions because lower requirements are easier to meet while including things people do want.

Literally cooking the planet for next quarters metrics.

Station wagons were subject to sedan emissions standards. SUVs wer subject to truck emission standards.

Sorry to come with “um, ackshuslly” but they didn’t ask if they were convicted of a crime. The question was "were they jailed? And according to your post, they were not.

France has a powerful executive. More powerful than even the US president, inside their own system.

I have heard the French presidency described as an “elected dictator.”

Macron wants people to see what the far right has to offer and hopefully realize they don’t like it before the presidency goes up for grabs.

France made childcare and education free and relatively high quality and look at that! They have just under replacement level fertility!

Some people do want children. Not everyone, but lots of people do. It’s true that wealth depresses fertility, but you can have a sustainable society if you give people financial security.

I’m willing to believe there are some cultural issues at play, not just the economics, but that is for demographers to tease out.

The American congressional representatives have an average of 2 children. Replacement rate. Get our standard of living up to that and you will see fertility go up.

In what country?

I’m talking about raising wages by 40-70% in the US.

Pipe dream, but if it happened the fertility rate would increase.

Raise the price of labor to the point that a working family can afford to have children at the standard they consider socially acceptable.

That would devalue investment accounts though, so it won’t happen until there is suffering on a scale not seen outside of major wars.

The balls on this guy. I bet you blame the Palestinians for the bombing of Raffa.

You would blame World War II on the Polish.

Yeah, they probably told the Russians they were going to greenlight the Ukrainians way before they told the Ukrainians.

Which is tooth grindingly frustrating, but I can’t fault Biden for his efforts to avoid nuclear exchange.

Damn straight. I have a family member that paid 40k for her mouth a little while ago.

Who will bail them out when nobody is working to pay the taxes?

I’m not saying it will work itself out, but at some point the country will start to look like south Africa. The infrastructure will break faster than it can be fixed, degrading the system further and further.

I I stalled helldiver’s and didn’t realize I was doing that.

I’m not exactly savvy though.

You can’t fold after you are all in. Gotta play the hand.

Blanket? Not at all. In this specific case I wish Google faced the repercussions rlinstead of the employees.

I’ll take a crack.

Slow population loss, while concerning for policy makers, can be managed theoretically by moving money around. Taxation, subsidies, etc.

The US is currently at 1.6 fertility rate. 2.1 is replacement rate, so a pretty steep drop of 25% loss per generation. But we have substantial immigration to make up the shortfall. It’s an issue, and it’s trending down, but manageable for now.

Fertility rates of 1 or less are terrifying. Each generation is half the size of the one before. Half as many workers supporting the elderly. Retirement/pension systems will be strained then collapse, allowing retirees to fall into poverty. Half as many workers to maintain infrastructure, half as many doctors, half as many nurses, half as many experts in every field, means half as many researchers making discoveries and breakthroughs.

God forbid you go to war and have half as many soldiers to call on, from a workforce already stretched beyond any before. It’s a recipe for mass suffering in a scale never before seen.

South Korea and Japan are currently below 1. China might be even lower. People are, generally, resilient and resourceful. Adjustments will be made. People will work into their 70’s and 80’s because there is work to be done. But there will be a great deal of suffering.

There is no plan in a democracy that resulted in “people do what I want to do.” You could try a coup.

There are things you can do outside the ballot box. Unionize your workplace. (Or your apartment building, or your student body) create or join mutual aid societies. Volunteer for local organizations. Create and support power centers outside the government.

The political parties won’t listen to singular people. Even billionaires, for all their wealth and power, struggle to get what they want from government in a timely manner.

Creating power centers like unions outside of the government creates a lever of power that can move things in the future.

Electoral politics is a game of inches. Refusing to play just cedes a few more inches to the opposition.

It’s not regardless of anything he does. There is a floor. It’s Donald J Trump, and project 2025.

If he was doing, or likely to do, worse things than grifting the American people for his personal wealth, pardoning dozens of heinous criminals, stripping our rights away like reproductive healthcare, overturning the affordable care act, rigging the tax code in favor of small businesses, rolling back environmental regulations and any progress we have made towards decarbonizing our economy, backstabbing our allies and gutting the administrative state in favor of christofacists then trump would be the better choice.

I can’t imagine what could be worse, but I couldn’t imagine Trump before he took office either.

Withholding your vote for Biden is an endorcement of Trump and the Republicans. Democrats and leftists will never hear “Oh man I should be offering people some real left wing policies so they will finally turn out for me.” They will 100% of the time hear “people really like this right winger, I need to be more like him if I want to be elected.” And the Republicans will see it as a signal to move even farther to the right. The Overton window will shift until balance will be restored.

Denying this reality is a failure of imagination. Things can ALWAYS get worse. The Dems will ALWAYS be the better option. But they could be a better or worse depending on how many of the last few elections they won.

If you care for the Palestinian people, you will vote for Biden and the democrats instead of the party that are frothing at the Mouth to accelerate the genocide.

Sure, but stars don’t decay before our eyes.

Everything you just said applies to hospitals as well.