I don’t disagree with most of what you said, and I wont say big government and more regulation is the answer, but I’m super skeptical that small government would yield better results as it relates to public health. Is your point that government, big or small, won’t solve the problems we’re facing, so why waste the money? If so, that seems like a defeatist attitude, which also doesn’t jive with me.
Many of the regulations in place today absolutely have a net positive impact on public health. Even many regs enforced by the FDA. Anyway, I’m just wondering what your solution is if big govt is the problem. Thanks.
> I’m super skeptical that small government would yield better results
Note that I did not make this argument. I am merely pointing out that these big government agencies have allowed people to be poisoned for decades.
Like I said in another comment: If people can't comprehend food labels, why hasn't the FDA come up with very basic labelling to ensure everyone gets it? Better yet, why don't we have serious restrictions on what companies can do to food?
I mean, I am very much for freedom in the classical liberal/libertarian range. However, there is a need for responsible regulatory oversight in certain domains. The FDA and the Department of Education are responsible for not working hard to ensure that both our food system is safe and kids are educated adequately. Instead we have a sick population, massive healthcare costs and all the collateral damage that causes.
> Is your point that government, big or small, won’t solve the problems we’re facing, so why waste the money?
No. The point is that we ought to demand that the people we pay to look after food, healthcare and education actually do their jobs. As I said before, some of this (a lot of this?) is a direct consequence of the failure of the very agencies that are supposed to do this work for us.
How to fix it? I'll quote a line from Fifth Element: Fire one million.
Seriously (and not), the "ruling class", so to speak, needs to be shocked into understanding who they work for. I cannot speak for other nations, I just know that what is happening here in the US is terrible at so many levels I don't even know where to start. Actually, I can speak for other nations: Argentina. I am very familiar with life and politics there. What is interesting is that everything that is happening in the US happened in Argentina in various forms over the last four decades or so. And the results are very visible. Javier Milei is working hard to fix that. We'll see if the entrenched government machinery allows him to succeed.
BTW, thanks for asking questions. I am so sick and tired of the typical HN ad-hominem approach that I rarely post any more. It's the fallacy of people who think they are smart, only to reveal the exact opposite when they speak. They also reveal just how hateful they are.
What you’re saying is possible but understand that things will shift and settle in the 90 years since she went down. Most plane wrecks I’ve seen photos of show mangled fuselages, snapped off wings, tail sections, etc.
That's kind of my point, the sonar imagery looks exactly like an utterly intact swept wing jet, rather than a straight wing electra that hit the water at speed.
I'm much more inclined to think that what the sonar imagery shows is something like the result of :
Also, "Singapore has the second largest permanent foreign military training presence in the continental United States, with almost 1,000 Singapore Armed Forces personnel training at any one time." https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-singapor...
I think it's usually implicitly communicated whenever there's a decision point to choose between allocating resources to ops or, for example, delivering a new feature. The new feature usually always wins.
Sometimes they even fall just walking on their feet, I've heard.
The point is, these springs look terribly difficult to maneuver compared to bikes. No brakes, not continuously touching the ground, constant movement up and down etc.
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