Pika

While I think desalination is the way to go in the long run, I am concerned about the state of Texas being the one to do it. You know corners will be cut every step of the way there. Desalination is still eco unfriendly even when dealt with properly, if you cut those corners the damages can be devastating. The brine created destroys the eco-balance where-ever its spread over even in low amounts. Killing basically everything present. A large scale of such a project might also impact more than just the coastal waters in the gulf, that current gets swept past florida, so this could also be effecting florida’s coastal industry as well.

I’m just waiting for Doctors to start leaving Texas like they have been Florida. Not sure why they would wanna risk their license.

I mean, they posted the other day funding for the same fund between Biden and Trump, they are definitly funneling money in to do this. I think it should be expected at this point, should be looking into how to outlaw it rather than worrying if its going to happen. If it’s legal, it will be abused. The fact that it’s legal in the first place is the issue.

Being said, it goes to say, I believe an anti-trust case still goes through legal provisions, so I think he could just pardon the entire case.

I foresee part of his funding being explicitly for that.

Sadly the US government functions vastly on the honor and trust system, if you have elected officials that aren’t honorary, the system can and will be abused as there isn’t very much actual checks and balances on it for individual cases. The checks and balances existing almost completely skip the supreme court, and the actual positions of power such as the speaker, the VP and the president do not have many checks and balances for the position itself, relying on the branch itself to keep itself in line and once someone that is found untrustworthy is placed into the position, its likely not going to be reverted. It’s very much a “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing” scenario.

I like this change, I don’t think it will really matter in the long run sadly, not to say it shouldn’t be attempted but, I really think every proactive thing is going to be reversed over the next year or two.

Personally speaking I think all federal offices should be held at federal minimum wage, that way those offices that are doing the voting are impacted by the decisions they are making. It disgust me that they’re making the argument of yes we’re making $174,000 a year but think of our life circumstances, when the federal minimum wage is still $15,000 a year full time.

Or like one other person said, having their cost of living paid for by the government and having the federal minimum wage salary would be okay as well

Yeah this tactic is widely done on both sides, that’s why It was obnoxious when people bitched about how they’re hiding in civilian targets so is really couldn’t get to them and I’m just thinking that’s exactly what Israel is doing as well. Hell if I recall correctly isn’t Israel the one that set up a literal makeshift boot camp inside of a hospital?

I feel like they tried, but they found they couldn’t reduce worker hours more than they already have or else the buisness wouldn’t function. These places already struggle hard to remain open staffing wise as it is. Turns out when you have bare minimal staffing and hours, you can’t cut further.

This article becomes so much clearer, when you realize that nationstates is an online browser based Nation simulator

I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what information I was missing because I wasn’t pulling it from the article. It keeps talking about government processes and then reiterating steam accounts and Discord alt accounts and I’m like why would any Nation ever care about any of these

it’s all virtual, it’s a game. So much simpler to comprehend now