HexBroke

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Imagine thinking any of the half dozen industry specific publishers have a right to exist in the 2020s

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

some reason they put a dye made of bugs in it

"Oh no, they'll make us eat bugs" the people say, while eating bugs in any food within three colours of red

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, NASA officials said on Thursday.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

costly service

Google already owns so much server and bandwidth infrastructure the marginal cost is likely very low

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

Shit article is a poorly written ad for YouTube premium

Better functionality Free

Imagine paying for something that's worse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

They tried to overthrow the government in 2021

A riot by a few hundred civilians in the Capitol building isn't really an attempted overthrow mate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Nixon didn't have a choice around creating an EPA because the situation was so bad, and rejected the relevant commission's recommendation.

The agency was independent in the sense that it was placed outside the formal jurisdiction of any other agency, but unlike a truly independent agency, its administrator and assistant administrators were to serve at the President's pleasure and formally report to the President through OMB.

The agency's pollution control jurisdiction was not combined with any of the federal government's natural resource management authority, but neither was the pollution control dimension of that management authority surrendered to the new agency.

For instance, the President did not transfer to EPA all of the Department of Agriculture's jurisdiction over pesticide regulation. The Army Corps of Engineers also retained jurisdiction to regulate certain types of environmentally harmful activities occurring within the nation's traditional navigable waters.

In addition, at the same time that the President proposed the creation of EPA, he counterbalanced it with the creation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ("NOAA") and National Industrial Pollution Control Council ("NIPCC") within the Department of Commerce. Commerce's pro-business perspective, the President believed, would minimize the chance of NOAA impeding economic activity within the coastal zone.

NIPCC was made up of senior officials of major domestic corporations and trade associations and was designed to provide an authoritative source within the government on the adverse economic impact of pollution control. Working with OMB, NIPCC was intended to provide the President with an institutional mechanism for maintaining control over EPA.

The average vote in favor of major federal environmental legislation during the 1970s was 77 to 5 in the Senate and 331 to 30 in the House.

As one legislator put it in describing his reluctant vote in favor of safe drinking water legislation in 1974, "[a]fter all, if one votes against safe drinking water, it is like voting against home and mother."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And why can't Samsung pull themselves up by their bootstraps and free market themselves a factory, hmmm

Or not be the largest chaebol conglomerate as a result of a US occupation then US backed military dictatorship in South Korea for decades

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

putting lives of millions at the risk of immediate death

I'm not pro nuclear but this is a bit silly

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