As a person who has been censored by Facebook for wrongthink, watching them stare down the barrel of Apple "being a private company, and doing what they want" is like watching a kid step on a lego brick that he refused to clean up.
Desal is inefficient and hugely destructive to the environment. This old saw comes up in California every now and then, but if we were able to build the most efficient desal plants available today, it would take 500 plants along the California coastline to supply all of California's water.
Aside from being an eyesore, it would ruin the coastal ecology.
This is why folks on the right roll their eyes when folks on the left say "trust the science!". What it really means is "trust the TV", which many people on the right are unwilling to do, because the TV spent 4 years calling them all evil racist bigots. Why trust someone that hates you?
> The stupidest thing California does is treat water rights as economic land for farmers that simply waste obscene amounts of a valuable resource. We need to tax that economic land at the full land rents, to encourage more economically efficient uses.
Sort of. There's no useful secondary market for appropriative water rights in California. A farmer with a senior water right can't sell that right in a dry year without risk of losing it the next year, which is why you end up with a misaligned incentive that produces silly results like growing rice during a drought.
They need to use all their water, regardless of how dry it is, or they risk losing it the next year.
> Life is more enjoyable to me when I can spend without care knowing I'm always increasing my skills, fulfillment, and by consequence earning potential.
"Believing" is more accurate than "knowing". There is no certainty that your skills today will be profitable in the future.
We're only beginning to understand the effects that this diverse, readily-accessible, in-your-pocket degeneracy has on people.
A 16 year old boy today will be able to see more naked women in a month than the previous 10 generations of his ancestors combined. This likely has terrible effects on a sexually developing, novelty-seeking brain.
Boys and girls today will both have an unnatural understanding of sex because of pornography. The sex they see on the internet is joyless an without love, let alone that the sex portrayed in porn is better categorized as "feats of strength".
It's ironic to me that the content being deplatformed by Big Tech is the content that will help people find God's path, yet OnlyFans is just fine. Sickening.
It's only a matter of time before Substack gets enough pressure from its employees or its payments provider and starts censoring "inappropriate" content.
(The definition of "inappropriate" being "whatever people on Twitter dislike today".)
> Church goers regularly give up 10% of their (gross) income to be part of that group.
We sorted out the tithe issue a while ago. Heads rolled. You can show up to any Christian church on a Sunday morning and be welcomed with open arms, no matter how rich or poor you are.