While i always try to applaud any government trying to positively affect the environment, I really wish they would have used a better method in this case. The vast majority of the trees planted in this project are poplars and willows, which may look impressive now. However, all their efforts will likely not last more than a decade or two. Monoculture Forrest just don’t work., especially in harsh climates.
Yeah, it is always the most frustrating feeling just seeing weeks of work go down the drain. Two years ago we had a really wet spring and then a really dry summer, somehow the combo made the grasshoppers go crazy. They ate my whole garden in like two days, made me feel like I was in the dust bowl.
There’s a reason humans started to live in larger settlements once we started agriculture. That shit takes a village to maintain and harvest.
Yeah, this is pretty much the only way to survive. Gardening alone isn’t really enough to feed yourself, especially without the help of modern petrochemical derived fertilizers and pesticide.
It really takes a community to grow enough food that you won’t be starving in the off-season. I have a fairly substantial organic garden and I wouldn’t really want to rely on it alone. Ive had too many seasons where a blight or bug just rips through them.
On the other hand, Democrats find value in the Federal Government, and are acutely aware of how damaging a shutdown in, both due to the temporary interruption in services and the damage to morale of Federal workers.
While you are correct that the conservatives want to privatize the fed, I think you are incorrect in believing that means it serves the Republican party to shut down the government.
Even the most libertarian Republican knows that his base depends on federal programs just as much as their opposition. With them controlling the legislative and executive its hard for them to make the blame stick on Democrats alone. Which is why most people blamed the last shutdown on the Republican party, and why it was so disadvantageous for the Dems to stop the shutdown before they could leverage it for more power.
What the Republicans understand better than the Democrats is that it is not the job of the minority party to ensure the government is running as intended. It’s their job to leverage what power they have to make sure they are representing the will of their constituents.
Your understanding of the situation is through the lens of thirdway politics, a political ideology that values compromise to free up political gridlock. The problem with thirdway politics and the Democratic party since they adopted the ideology is that it forces Dems to be the adults in every political dispute, and slowly gives the opposition the advantage and control of what encompasses the middle ground. It’s the reason why the right has been able to go further and further right, and why the Democrats are mostly center right.
Not too odd if you keep in mind her family history. Her father was a Republican state senator in Hawaii who flipped Dem after Hawaii went blue. Pretty much the same story as the never trumpers, their naked self interest vastly outweighs any kind of conviction they claim to possess.
I don’t think many people really blame journalists so much as they blame the news media corporations that employ them.
Yes, if you are well informed and are actively looking for this type of journalism it’s widely available. However, you also have to know how to sift through the mountains of articles that conflict with this article run and promoted by the same organization.
The problem is that these companies are essentially advertising platforms whose motivations are not based in journalistic integrity, but to maintain user engagement.
But instead, the american public prefered to trust influencers such as Joe Rogan, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool, Benny Johnson.
I think this is an inherent reaction to be expected when people lack trust in mainstream institutions. You can’t expect people to not seek alternative knowledge when what you see around you does not reflect the story being sold over the television.
Trust in institutions can take decades to build, and all these inconsistencies with reality can eat away at that trust in a much shorter period of time. When the tickers on the bottoms of the screen constantly tell you the economy is doing better than ever and you’re having to work overtime to put food on the table. When every news outlet is agreeing with the president about invading a country because they have weapons of mass destruction. With decades of these conflicts with reality… of course people are going to seek alternative sources of information.
He’s always been like this, in the past he’s just had handlers that managed his image. I think around 2015 he fired his secretary mommy that had been controlling his worst behaviors for over a decade.
Isn’t this like a slam dunk for Weddings legal defense? The FBI doesn’t have legal jurisdiction to operate outside of the US… Isn’t this basically admitting to violating his 4th amendment rights?
Good strategy if you have the room in your freezer. We’ve tried that before, but unfortunately I have a really narrow freezer and can’t fit a decent sized pizza in there.
Depending on the time we are speaking of there were bans against citizens openly carrying swords or daggers within the boundaries of Rome. Though there were some exceptions to the law when it came to certain bodyguards or elites. A lot of people carried clubs or makeshift blunt force weapons as personal protection.
If you really pissed off the citizens the traditional weapon of choice were tiles thrown from the tops of roofs.
We make multiple dough balls and freeze them. That way if we are going to have pizza for dinner we just leave the frozen dough to defrost and rise in a bowl when we’re at work.
So to you “immigration enforcement” is a valid reason?
This is basically hating Hitler, not because the whole genocide thing, but because he was so undemocratic.
There’s room for real discussion of the democrat’s failings. This in particular did not make it into that cup.
Over two decades of thirdway politics has no complicity in creating the situation we find ourselves in?
get what you’re trying to do with constant vitriol aimed at dems around every corner. We’re still going to work to defeat the fascists with or without you.
Ohh yeah… Because one valid complaint is constant vitriol? You can fight that strawman instead of making a valid rebuttal if you want to.
The house willing to vote to fund ice is surely a sign of fighting fascist.
There is no third party that’s going to win in 2028 or 2030. Ranked choice is great, but we’re still just working on continuing fptp for an election or two. We have immediate problems that need to be dealt with, and intentionally or unintentionally, you’re not helping.
When did I say anything about voting for a third party? Who are you arguing with?
Making valid criticism against any party is important… Most importantly your own. The DNC isn’t going to move away from thirdway centrism unless they hear from it from their own voters.
If the Dems had control of the Supreme Court OR the Executive OR Congress, this wouldn’t be happening.
If dems supported progressive candidates instead of centerist they wouldn’t have lost the supreme court or the legislative branch…
They hold some culpability for that, but they’re not directly responsible for every shitty thing the nazis do.
Did I say they hold all the culpability…or are you just arguing against another strawman of your own making again?
Thirdway politics is the reason the Republican party feels emboldened enough to be fascist in the first place. When the common people can’t differentiate between the two parties because both sides are just looking out for the top tax bracket then they are going to only care about punishing scapegoats.
I was speaking in relative terms in regards to expansion. Relative to something like the US’s use of the Monroe doctrine, China’s handling of the south China sea is pretty mild.
While they are heavy handed in the scope of modern time…they aren’t exactly having their version of Teddy Roosevelt invading Cuba or anything.
It also takes complicity from the “opposition” party. Even with the loyalty of the legislative and judicial branch their actions should be moderated by the balancing quality in the Democratic process of “turn around is fair play”.
Meaning that you don’t want to do anything that gives grounds for your opposition to copy if they were to get into power. The problem being that the DNC has shown itself to not have a spine, equating tit for tat politics as beneath their dignity.
I think the valid complaints you can levy towards China are similar in respect to any nation that is becoming a dominant superpower. I think the problem that most people are having is that they weren’t around when the US or European powers were securing their own hegemony.
Pretty much any developing superpower is going to have an issue with nationalism, historical revisionism, and eyeballing territorial/cultural expansion. I am Korean and have had quite a few Chinese friends. Of those friends opinions can vary greatly depending on where their from and when they migrated. What I can attest too is that recent migrants from the mainland tend to be very nationalistic and have some very worrying opinions about history compared to the Chinese people I grew up around. Particularly that China is basically the motherland of all East Asia, and that all East Asians are basically estranged children that should be folded back into the greater body of China.
I would argue that China is doing this with a much gentler hand than the US or Europe did historically, however it still sticks out due to how those types of actions are viewed through a modern and western centric lens.
For now… With the rise of right winged parties in Europe it would not surprise me if they start chipping away at universal care.
The games that hospitals and medical providers play with bills is unreal.
As a medical provider at a hospital I can attest that we really have little to no control over any of your medical billing. Not saying that mistakes don’t happen, we are dealing with tens of thousands of people and billing departments usually have a lot of employee turnaround.
That being said, the vast majority of things like duplicate bills, incorrect bills, and redundant documentation is a byproduct of dealing with private insurance companies.
Even if we’ve already done a prior authorization the insurance company can suddenly decide that we didn’t provide the exact right information, or that we didn’t have the right type of referral, or even used the wrong color of ink pen… They can deny a claim, which usually will prompt the billing department to automatically send you guys a bill. At which point you guys call us understandably upset, which prompts us to start the whole authorization process over again.
Dealing with Medicare and especially Medicaid is so easy compared to private insurance, as they have a very clear motive to erect as many reasons to deny or delay coverage as possible. The entire reason the American healthcare system is so archaic and management heavy is because we have to deal with private insurance.
I can guarantee the medical providers hate the situation more than anyone. The day after the United ceo got assassinated was one of the more jolly days I’ve seen at the hospital for years. It was almost unreal to hear my older and very uptight professional colleagues crack jokes about a man being murdered in provider meetings.
Yes a spreadsheet sum of potentially incorrect items, which the only way you’d know about is if you see the items, not the summary. Hence OPs post.
Not saying that it’s impossible… But, the way most of these codes are input is when a provider scans in a medication or procedure before they administer it.
Electronic medical records systems like Epic basically streamline physician notes with medical billing. It’s actually a lot easier nowadays to accidentally forget to input a billing code than it is to add extra billing information.
Tbh if you get a large and unexpected bill from the hospital, a more effective route is to ask if they have a hardship, charity care, or financial assistance program.
Hospitals, especially state funded ones like the one I practice at are so used to people not being able to pay their bills that we regularly have to write off a ton of medical care. They are usually more than happy to drastically discount care for people who are willing to pay for even part of their bill.
Yeah… People seem to be forgetting that bush stole an election via the brooks brothers riot in one county. With just how fucked up the American electorial system evolved it only takes one country to vastly change the course of American history.
As far as the courts, just in the last couple years we’ve seen the judicial branch is more than willing to reinterpret history and law to empower the current administration.