I take issue with Americans taking their business to foreign governments that are happily and gleefully accelerating the corruption of said domestic powers into the exact behavior that is causing Americans to want to shop elsewhere.
It's going "I dislike how my government is treating me, so I'm going to support the people that are contributing to why my government is treating me that way."
Nice straw man.
Good, that means you're smarter than all the people in this thread using it.
Imagine being so addicted to low effort effort memes destroying your attention span that, given an opportunity to break free, you double down and prostitute yourselves to a hostile foreign power.
uh... ok? So now it'll be controlled by someone who DOES want to be the next Musk or Zuckerberg?
I mean, that's kind of my point though. You either get worse than useless, over detailed to the point of useless, or you have to spend weeks pulling hacky crap with tags to try to jury-rig your own useful billing system out of their clusterfuck.
... You realize it's in the middle of the winter, right? All greenery is going to be dry looking, you can't just not have greenery at all.
Amazon's billing tool is the most useless thing I've ever seen lol. it's like "$XYZ of your bill was server compute!" like, there's 40 ec2s, elastic beanstalk instances, fargate, kubernetes, like what the fuck is 'server compute' and what's the breakdown of the actual individual parts?
It's not even unhelpful, it's literally worse than useless lmao
The other thing they forgot to mention is that getting Amazon to actually tell you what anything will cost, or a breakdown of what your bill is, is like pulling teeth.
lmao, what an argument for them to make. "It's not a budget cut, the unions fought us, won, and made us hand over more money after we slashed their already hilarious low budget!"
"No they didn't, it was only a budget cut until the unions fought them and forced them to hand over more budget' isn't exactly the win you think it is here.
Even worse, despite call numbers increasing over 5x from 1960, the fire program has been completely unable to expand since 1960 and was basically completely at the mercy of people doing brutal amounts of overtime to keep things going... until they lost the ability to pay them overtime too! The fire department is absurdly understaffed and underfunded. Imagine still making the same salary as 65 years ago, while having to do 5x the work!
While the 53 million budget increase the unions managed to grab is a good improvement, along with the ~200 more trainee firefighters it allowed them to hire but aren't yet ready to deploy, it's the definition of too little and too late.
High winds preventing firefighting planes and copters, low water levels since the city has let nestle steal all of it for free, electrical problems to prevent pumps from sending water from afar, and not enough man hours to manage and prevent fire conditions in the first place- as it says in the article you posted, no amount of budget could have prevented this, because there was more to play here than just the budget. But enough people and man hours to properly manage things would have done a lot to limit the scope of the disaster.
That's a nice big load of nonsense you have there. Unfortunately for you, it's already been proven that Chinese interests are funding anti-american/Republican think tanks, non profits, and politicians.