J.C.MacSwell

...and they create far more share of jobs than the average person.

They would hurt the poor states and poor regions the most, all things being the same otherwise. Compare with a universal basic income (maybe less than the $1,000/month advocated by Yang, but substantial), and lesser minimum wages set by States and adjusted for regions. Also consider exempting minimum wages for smaller and/or start up enterprises. I realize this is off topic and if a mod could split it off that would be appreciated. Thanks. Raise the wages high enough and few can afford to eat any any place...they won't have jobs. (so where is the balance...and is it country wide...or even state wide?) Of course they would. If they are paying minimum wage it's a direct increased cost. How much of that increase cost is recouped in their small market share of potential spending, with the large mops of large consumer corporations ready to soak it up? Why are they obligated to compete economically, as if they are on a level playing field, with an artificially high and arbitrary cost added to them, simply because a minimum wage is required to, quite plausibly, help offset the fact that some large business interests have an unfair advantage over many workers. Many people work for less than minimum wage and legally. They're called small business owners.

Hi Commander This is essentially your version of social democracy. Social democracies can work very well, or very poorly, depending on a number of factors including how well you balance strike balances and get general acceptance. Just comments: Poverty levels can only be arbitrarily defined. You have to balance what the state can or is willing to afford to eliminate and what those in poverty want and need. Taken literally, here you are deciding what is best for some people, whether they like it or not. I might not want everything in your basic needs package, but rather have something extra to it. Literally again, it's 100% clawback of welfare (you don't allow me anything extra until I can fully pay for all my basic needs). Your safety net serves somewhat as a trap. How? And who decides what for individuals in the welfare state, whether they are struggling to get out...or satisfied to be there?

It seems relevant to me. Why don't you report it? The fact that you created the thread doesn't entitle you to moderate it.

Stop listening to my wife, dammit!

We were all told there was plenty of evidence last time. Many many times. This time we could observe it directly, with much much less room for a favourable interpretation for Trump.

How is it different from social democracy other than even more free stuff and therefore less incentive and with it less productivity, so more wealth redistribution required but with less to distribute, leading toward less personal freedoms? Am I allowed to be a World Champion couch potato, on the couch of my choosing, if that's my desire?

I don't want to dump on Phi in particular, but much of this comes from what I would consider "political bigotry". You've espoused some conservative views, and even though you believe them to be best for all of humanity, regardless of race, creed, national origin etc, you are assumed to believe in the worst of "conservatism" as well. (again of course Phi does not go any where near that far, but he certainly didn't hold back on his opinions)

Looking at the first photo my first thought was how dark and foreboding it must be underneath those panels, but looking at the second it looks nicely shaded but still has a good bit of light. They do look like they might need a fair bit of water to maintain in dusty areas though, looking at a further photo. Blowing them off first might reduce the amount of water required, though they'd no doubt know that.

This seems awfully high. Belief in enough actual voter fraud? Or enough due not just to some fraud plus a laundry list of complaints (media bias, Hunter Biden story suppressed, States not following there own laws, too much online voting access etc etc) Because I'm having trouble believing the conservative media falls vastly into the remaining 26%. Even Fox News acknowledges there wasn't enough fraud to throw the election. What was the question asked in these surveys?

Anti trust laws have been around for 100+years, because this did not always work. I will agree that it (your "old way") Is certainly preferred in a fair and open market, when that reasonably exists. The media platforms such as facebook and twitter should be subject to the same laws as other media, at least to the degree they edit their content. Why give them a pass?

Is this gay wedding cake promising to show up at the wedding, but won't because it hopes there might be a free for all brawl?

Then why protect them from liability? Why should some billionaire, or a few of them, get to limit your speech but then not be at all responsible for the speech they accept and disperse? If you go into Walmart they can't kick you out for the views you hold, and tell you to go find another store. If they want to make the rules and interpret them they need to be able to be held accountable.

Of course as you know Canada does not govern by any measure of popular vote. With 3 major parties, in theory we could have the party with the third most votes take the majority of seats, more than the first two together. (but it's much more likely to be a minority government when it's that range of close, with the party with the most seats forming government and requiring the support of one of the other 2)

In Nova Scotia I think we have done reasonably well at those....plus for Covid have benefitted from geographical isolation and distance as well. So far very few cases where tracking wasn't fairly immediate. Two members (out of 4) in our immediate family had tests that came back negative within 24 hours. But it doesn't take much to have things turn south (pardon the expression 😉)

Nova Scotia (just under 1 million people) finally again reporting a day with no new cases, and down to 28 active ones. We did have a bit of a second wave but no Covid related deaths since the summer. I wonder if our flu related deaths are down because of our Covid measures, and by how much, but I don't think those stats are readily available or accurate. (going by a few searches)

Thanks.

Possibly. It might effect battery performance. Your test I believe is in line with what generally would be expected.

56% of all voters believe enough fraud took place to change the outcome?

If it isn't spinning...it takes that much more energy to get up to speed. So you would break even, except for the extra friction losses inherent in having the extra mass, so you don't get as far.

How would we know? We'd all still be in Africa.

"cruel and oppressive government or rule" Glad I could help...😁 I've heard the plan might be for the House to impeach Trump a second time, and that many in the GOP would be on board with that, as long as it is for inciting Wednesday's assault on the Capitol and not a baggage list of complaints. Also James Clyburn suggested that Pelosi might hang onto the impeachment for Biden's first 100 days in office, This seems like a good idea IMO. Let the new administration be about governing and enough about Trump, at least for now.

Imagine that...

No man is an island. Some of your views are too important to be suppressed, and their expression delayed.

decreased? The obvious ones....Reduce mass (except bigger and better batteries), reduce frontal area and coefficient of drag (so less drag), improved tires, regenerative braking...