Imagine for a moment that government is 100% efficient, so it is that efficient at taking money from Bob to subsidize Jane. The problem is not lack of efficiency, fraud or abuse, the problem is the very concept that Bov should be feeding Jane and that government will enforce that.
Why doesn't "Bob" go build his own country and functioning economy?
With blackjack, and hookers if he so desires.
$10 million is worth preventing.
Not if it costs you $50 million to do it.
I will proudly crap in my Georgia made, Japanese designed premium crap receptacle. Brings a tear to my every time.
Try adding more fiber to your diet.
Ukraine has just checkmated Trump.
After years of Trump painting Ukrainians as "ungrateful", President Zelensky has flipped the script and offered to pay up to $50 billion for American military equipment.
No "handouts". No "aid" but a weapons deal of historic proportions.
Trump didn’t see this coming, and now he’s trapped.
If he accepts the deal, he betrays his boss, Vladimir Putin—helping Ukraine win the war.
If he rejects it, he betrays the American people—turning down tens of billions of dollars and protecting a dictator instead of boosting U.S. manufacturing and global security.
The cartel maximizes their profits by charging $9 as it captures "enough" peoples "not too much" price.
Now they can still charge the $9 as a minimum and increase it dynamically to whatever each individual's "not too much" price is. It's all pure extra profit, no lost sales.
If your personal "too much price" was $10, you'd be happy to give them an extra dollar each time for no reason? When the people in line next to you only pay $9?
Do you generally overpay when you think things are not "maximum price"?
Propaganda much? The oil being there in a known location of the underground does not warrant calling it a 'reserve' if it's at an unreachable location. And even if it's reachable or becomes reachable with future magic technology yet to be researched, that doesn't answer the question of whether it will be economically or environmentally viable to extract it.
Maybe look up what proven reserves means first.
Proven reserves are the estimated amount of fossil fuels, like oil and gas, that can be recovered under current economic and technological conditions
Because that's exactly what it means.
enticing mostly Chinese young women from mainland China and regions with with a Chinese diaspora such as Malaysia and Taiwan who use it as a de-facto search engine for product, travel and restaurant recommendations, as well as makeup and skincare tutorials.
Xiaohongshu doesn't even have an English user interface.
Maybe it's not targeted at you...
I never had any inclination to use TikTok, until this ban. Now that I've tried it, I'm convinced the stated concern of foreign influence is bullshit.
See how well TikTok works. They got you to use it once, and already you're questioning the motivation of your own government
Maybe they just didn't think it was worth it. For our niche industry, the ongoing cost and nuisance of complying with Quebec's language laws is way, way more than we feel like dealing with, for barely a fraction of a percent of our english-speaking customers in that province. Regrettable.
That's one of the problems that will go away when you become the 54th state after DC, Puerto Rico and Greenland.
(Panama will just be a US territory for those keeping track)
"Everyone" is a number of people, market size is a number of dollars.
Because Americans are 16x richer than Indonesians, they buy 16x as many phones?
I would have assumed 2 or 3 phones would be enough for most people. What do you do with 10+?
Oh it turns out America doesn't even have twice as many smartphones as Indonesia
United States 338.29M people 276.14M smartphones 81.6% penetration
Indonesia 275.50M people 187.70M smartphones 68.1% penetration
You see, robots don't get paid, so that makes them slaves. Free the 'bots!!!
There is a difference between owning a machine and owning a sentient being.
Is the difference that one of them can have a sense of humor?
There's no 249g SUV-sized drone on this planet.
See, I knew it was Aliens.
Almost all the coal China burns to provide electricity is mined in-country. It can't be limited by sanctions by hostile countries preventing it being imported. Energy security is something most countries don't think about until bad things happen.
Nonsense. China had blackouts from the lack of coal when they banned Australian coal over some Covid slight a few years ago.
Power crisis forces China to ease Australian coal ban
Thailand uses 80x, not Asia. The second country is an unlabelled European country.
The second is "Faroe Islands"
You can point at the graph to show the country's name.
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