California's energy regulator is fully captured by the private companies that "operate" the actual grid companies. Every time someone brings up prices the regulatory board agrees to raise them and let the owners walk away with the extra profit.
Oh no they did that research. The manufacturers complained because the US was the last great dumping ground for old inefficient engines. They put those highly efficient engines in European cars and used the US to empty their warehouses of old engines.
CA has a for-profit energy sector so that's not surprising. They aren't lowering bills there for anything short of the apocalypse.
That's funny, but modern solar panel power plants don't care that it's winter. The panels rotate and an arid area isn't getting that much more cloud cover.
The name is old, it used to be actual stamps in a booklet. It's a restricted use debit card now. So you can buy eggs with it but not a music CD. Still pretty degrading.
If you can't abstain then you don't have a democracy. (Yes Australia i'm looking at you) You have a system of coerced consent where the political parties wouldn't even know how to change, but that's okay because there's no incentive to change in such a system either.
It's literally the fastest way to get Party AB instead of Party A and Party B.
Yeah, the Cold War's demand for ideological purity really did a number on the military. When I got to the 101st everyone was still debating the guy who murdered someone with a sword because he thought he was gay. It's an absolutely ridiculous amount of FUD. I will say after 2003 it seemed like our priorities realigned to caring about getting the job done.
One of the ways they got women to enlist was to give them first shot at the small supply of real stockings. For their uniforms of course. Definitely not to be used for date night or making that horrid Sally jealous.
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As long as you can ruck your weight and send the hate real soldiers don't care.
Sincerely, a combat veteran.
Iirc this is what Trade Syndicalism was meant to solve. After all the talk about the people's rebellion it gets into balancing power by keeping it distributed among unions. So your political career would be to get elected in your union and then serve on the councils at different levels.
The US spent 60 years actively treating Communists as enemies of the state and propagandizing against them. There's no need to talk about shadows and conspiracies. The capitalist and political elite were very open about it.
The opportunity cost.