The idea of a personal "Carbon Footprint" was spread as an idea by BP in order to make people believe individual action/responsibility was more important than systemic change.
It worked really well.
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A tariff is what you pay to the government of the port of call to get the item you shipped.
When you pay $1000 for a DJI drone and it get's to Seattle the US government says "pay us $600 or it goes back on the boat."
The Chinese company sees literally zero impact other than possibly less orders and probably a wave of refused merch. Which they might keep some or all of the purchase price of anyway.
It has to do with morphic wossname. On the Disc only one person gets to play City Skylines, but he gets to do it with infinite detail.
There will be a surge in "nobody wants to work anymore".
If they have the same mass they weigh the same until you blow up the beach ball and are weighing the beach ball + the air inside.
So a beach ball weights more than a bowling ball?
That's an embargo.
A blockade is military stopping traffic. "Effectively a blockade" is an embargo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Mason
She cast a provisional ballot, a mechanism specifically designed to check and count a vote only if the voter is determined to be eligible, on the advice of a poll worker, and was sentenced for voter fraud.
As much as I love Tom Scott and it's a fantastic visual/temporal representation, I doubt a lot of people have the patience.
I like "1 Million seconds is 11 days, 1 Billion seconds is 31 years" as a more succinct example.
One person earning $3600/hr, 24/7, without spending any of it, would take 31 years to become a billionaire.
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And "The Fall" was a Roman general mad his army wasn't being paid, and ignores that the capital had moved, Rome the city was still ticking along and the "Byzantine Empire" called and considered themselves Roman.
Civilization Ending and The Fall of Rome was very much a Renaissance narrative about how great they were more than actual History.