China draws hard line with firm rejection of stiff allegations

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By god! Its the ghost of Richard Nixon off the top rope!

One man’s debt and illness is another man’s profit opportunity

Considering the long term goal for them is to have them in planes at 30k ft, im sure they are entirely designed with the idea of humidifying the air to an ideal point prior to it getting to the catalyst for the reaction

Im certainly aware many people are using it for real necessities too, but even then I take issue with a 0% interest 3-6 month loan being labelled as “predatory”. A 0% interest 6 month loan is borrower-favorable at worst, and downright kindness by the lending company quite frankly. And they dont even really penalize as harshly as they should considering they are basically taking a loss on the initial loan.

And some might say “well they take the loss on the loan to trap people in debt”, but only 17% of their income is generated by penalty payments. Really Klarna is best described as a business that is doomed to fail because its terms as a lender are too kind on borrowers. I just dont see how people can call them a predatory lender. Like yeah, they primarily loan to people who cant get normal credit, but the alternative would be those people having access to no credit. And the terms are clearly not predatory. So I dont see why people are up in arms against them

Im no chemical engineer from MIT, but I would assume that trace amounts of sodium hydroxide that are readily reacting into sodium bicarbonate well before they make it near the surface of the earth are probably not an issue of concern. Especially considering the acidification caused by traditional exhaust gasses

Humanity on the brink of capability to write half decent fucking article, scientists say

According to the article, Klarna posted a nearly $100M loss in Q1. So I suppose people just keep doing what theyre doing, at the expense of their own credit I guess

Characterizing this as the lender’s fault is kind of silly though. Were talking about people buying door dash and cochella tickets on 0% interest credit. If anything its surprising the lenders are stupid enough to offer that in the first place. If you buy door dash on those terms and dont pay it back on time, its hard to see that as predatory in any way. Thats not remotely similar to a subprime loan on a car or a payday loan

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This wont go over well in whatever makeup department the military has for our heads of state

Its what they are about to do to her as well, as they already explicitly announced she will have to undergo this testing before her next competition, or she wont be allowed to fight

Disposables would never have been the problem they are today if it wasnt for the blind regulatory stabs they were taking to “protect the children”. All those regulations banning vape shops and liquid mixing, or sales by mail.

Back in the day, disposable vape shit was a terrible waste of money that was not enticing to anyone. Reasonable devices that didnt waste massive amounts of batteries or plastic were the norm. You would just change coils. The US government basically banned that from existing and let the disposables run wild. So now instead of buying and tossing a small bit of metal and cotton every once and a while, you buy and toss the entire fucking device. Its one of the most clear cut modern examples of poorly thought out regulation making a problem infinitely worse in every way than it ever originally was.

Only people with motivation to quit cigs and people who nerd out about gear were ever gonna keep using the old style vapes. Everyone else might hit it and quit it eventually. Now the disposables have hooked an entire generation of kids because they arent such a pain in the ass to use or procure

Yes but they still use what is effectively slave labor in those states as well, to make all kinds of stuff. Its only better in that they arent locked up for profit

Is there a reason you dont want to live in Wyoming? Wyoming is more reasonable to try and live in than Colorado, as is Montana (although only slightly less so in MT)

I get what you mean. Tbf at least they do have their own mountains in New Mexico, but I imagine living in them might as well be as expensive as Colorado. But you could probably live closer to the mountains in NM for a reasonable price, and be closer than OK is to the Rockies in CO.

Southern Colorado appeals to me but its just insanely priced out. Even houses in Lamar, nowehere near the mountains, go for well beyond what you would pay to live in Kansas 50 miles away

Honestly if you love Colorado its worth considering moving to Kansas or New Mexico, in my opinion. Better to live a normal life within a spitting distance of the mountains than it is to try and make it living in the hellish economic environment of the mountains themselves. All the good aspects of living in the mountains are basically unavailable to you unless you are a millionaire.

So many people working three jobs to stay afloat out here, there is no time to have any quality of life

Any burrito that sucks is not a true Coloradan style burrito. Burritos are like the premiere food item of Colorado as far as general quality goes

Odds are the guy is not a Coloradan. There arent many actual Coloradans. Colorado has never had more natives than immigrants at any point in its entire history as a state. Although the few “native” coloradans do tend to be insufferably hoity toity about being from Colorado

Thats only half of the story. Most of these medical workers are making over 2x what the average service worker is trying to survive on. The fact that they make that much when so many other people dont is part of what keeps their wages deflated. Theyll say if you dont like making $35 an hour then go flip burgers for $17

If medical workers “cant survive” on $35/hr then obviously the average person is well beyond fucked, but the average person is expected to survive on half that much. And so long as there is a cycle of people attempting to make it on <$20/hr wages then no one is gonna raise wages for skilled work

What it means in corporate America and what it means at a company that works with government contracts is two different things. The federal government mandates strict drug testing at companies they give contracts to. Most companies dont voluntarily choose to be that restrictive with testing