Also, let's put the awkward fact out there, instead of letting the insurers get away with the self-serving lie uncontested -- generally, the abstract metrics compiled by the vehicles electronics can't actually determine whether you've been driving "recklessly" anyways.
This is as statistically useful as red cars getting more speeding tickets.
It's a transparent excuse for the insurance companies to gouge their customers.
Oh, I see! That's why my own insurance rate has gone down so much, lately...
Oh wait; it hasn't gone down at all -- it's gone up, despite not having an accident in twenty-some years (and the accident before that, the other driver admitted being 100% at fault).
"Natural forces", on their own, would be giving us slight global cooling -- and our influence has already cancelled the next glaciation period (colloquially if inaccurately often called "the next ice age").
That's right; human activity (chiefly fossil-derived CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions) account for all the warming, with a little left over.
When I was young, the depressing issues included Thermonuclear War, abuse of DDT and other bio-concentrating environmental poisons, acid rain, leaded gas, mercury contamination, the ozone hole, HIV/AIDS, etc, etc... and oh yeah, last but definitely not least the civil rights movement (and the violence by racist bigots opposing it).
There have always been grave and even existential issues to trouble the younger generations... issues that all too often have been such troubling concerns precisely because the alleged "grown-ups" had failed, and were still failing ("because reasons") to adequately address those issues.
Unfortunately, this is still true.
... in fact, if we could cut taxes to zero, the government would have infinite dollars for public spending!
/sarcasm
Seriously, you need to learn (at a bare minimum) to distinguish between the claims (a.k.a. promises or ideological fantasies) that politicians make when proposing legislation, and the actual results achieved after the law has been passed.
... looks very obviously created using artificial intelligence.
Not disputing that these portraits are fake, but it's hardly "obvious" to me.
Could some kindly point me to a resource or two where I can learn how to spot this kind of fakery?
Just about anybody. Look at how the other developed nations handled the pandemic (and as far as that goes, most of the undeveloped ones too). Sweden was the only developed nation to do anywhere near as badly -- and they at least had an actual rationale for their response.
What "metrics" are really (not) worth.
Also, let's put the awkward fact out there, instead of letting the insurers get away with the self-serving lie uncontested -- generally, the abstract metrics compiled by the vehicles electronics can't actually determine whether you've been driving "recklessly" anyways. This is as statistically useful as red cars getting more speeding tickets. It's a transparent excuse for the insurance companies to gouge their customers.
Oh, I see! That's why my own insurance rate has gone down so much, lately... Oh wait; it hasn't gone down at all -- it's gone up, despite not having an accident in twenty-some years (and the accident before that, the other driver admitted being 100% at fault).
Monsieur Richelieu! So nice to hear from you! It would appears the reports of your death were somewhat exaggerated.
Nah. It's definitely us -- by a wide margin, no matter how you measure. https://skepticalscience.com/pics/Contrib50-65.png
Global warming attribution has been closely investigated...
"Natural forces", on their own, would be giving us slight global cooling -- and our influence has already cancelled the next glaciation period (colloquially if inaccurately often called "the next ice age"). That's right; human activity (chiefly fossil-derived CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions) account for all the warming, with a little left over.
When I was young, the depressing issues included Thermonuclear War, abuse of DDT and other bio-concentrating environmental poisons, acid rain, leaded gas, mercury contamination, the ozone hole, HIV/AIDS, etc, etc... and oh yeah, last but definitely not least the civil rights movement (and the violence by racist bigots opposing it). There have always been grave and even existential issues to trouble the younger generations... issues that all too often have been such troubling concerns precisely because the alleged "grown-ups" had failed, and were still failing ("because reasons") to adequately address those issues. Unfortunately, this is still true.
It might be dangerous...
... to a few law enforcement careers. (Wouldn't that be nice?)
... in fact, if we could cut taxes to zero, the government would have infinite dollars for public spending! /sarcasm Seriously, you need to learn (at a bare minimum) to distinguish between the claims (a.k.a. promises or ideological fantasies) that politicians make when proposing legislation, and the actual results achieved after the law has been passed.
Oh... thanks for the clarification. I thought he was claiming to be black, himself.
Paging Philip K Dick... Paging Philip K Dick...
Phil, I hate to have to tell you this, but reality is catching up to -- perhaps surpassing -- your fantastical futuristic farces.
Measles outbreak, Samoa, 2019... RFK Jr "helped".
RFK Jr. is still bragging about his active role in the 2019 measles outbreak in Samoa. TLDR: RFK Jr. lied, children died. And he's not even sorry.
Far as I can tell, he didn't understand his own comment either.
In this case, I'm more inclined to think that he's just not been taking his meds.
More like... "a step sideways"?
He didn't care about evidence or decency (never has); he only cared that he could claim credit.
Never mind -- I misread the post I was responding to.
You really need to start taking your meds again.