Hopefully one day we'll master that warp drive theory and surf through galaxies in an instant as we're going to need it, even if we master the speed of light it will still take us 25,000 years to travel to the nearest galaxy ... Fuckin...
We're a fucking race of monkeys and some of us are so stupid, they've legalized theft, like in Kookfornia
We won't make it outside of the solar system. I think the farthest we'll go in terms of space exploration is building stations where the elite class will go to live eventually, after earth has gone entirely to shit
Shoplifting is still a crime in most of California. It's one city, with less than a million residents, where anything worth less than $950 that's stolen is not charged. I think it's a terrible idea. I don't support this anywhere.
However, the other 38+ million Californians aren't subject to this policy.
thats the craziest thing i ever heard, how does a society even function like that?
does it apply 2 private property or just shop lifters?
I think it's only for shoplifting. I can see the bean counter's logic. It costs the local government a lot of money to charge petty crimes. Police, prosecutors, public defenders, judges, county jail, etc. The problem is that people that are thieves know what they can get away with, so the unintended consequence is more petty crime. I think they should divert people into heavy duty community service as a first change, restitution and probation.
I don't know that it will solve the problem, but it might deter some petty crime in the future. I think the real problem is probably homeless people, but I'm sure they're not the only ones shoplifiting.
Amazon Law Services, making law enforcement more economically efficient.
The consumer in SF is going to have to rely on Amazon. Quite a few retailers are pulling out. Don't you see that as a problem for the residents in SF?
Yes, but I think we are in the middle of a major shift in our socio-economic structure...I think we're looking at a softening of our urban cores, shopping malls are dying on the vine more and more technocrats can now work from home, so they don't need to live in San Jose or Kirkland, they can live in Bumfuck South East Oregon mountains....or on an Island in the San Juan's where ever...major urbans areas are being over run with the homeless, Lib towns and Red towns alike are now chasing the homeless can down the road....fast food stores are limiting hours because people don't want to those shit jobs that won't pay the rent.
...was just reminded of Carl Sagan's words from 25 years ago....
We've arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces,". "I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
He then warned that our lack of critical thinking leaves us vulnerable to those who wish to exploit our ignorance.
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking," he says. "If we are not able to ask skeptical questions to interrogate those who tell us something is true to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious who comes ambling along."
Sagan believes that a democracy cannot function without an educated populace.
"It's a thing that Jefferson lay great stress on. It wasn't enough, he said, to enshrine some rights in the Constitution and the Bill or Rights, the people had to be educated and they have to practice their skepticism and their education," he says. "Otherwise, we don't run the government, the government runs us."
America has been on a race to the bottom for decades....