The Scaramucci is a complex number, because while he might have worked 11 days, he got fired before his contract started, so his total days of employment is weirdly negative.
Also he missed the birth of one of his children and got served divorce papers in those same days.
I think we can all learn something important from the amazing fuck up that Scaramucci achieved in such short time: Don’t do coke.
They do prevent a lot water bottles and belt buckles that would otherwise be a serious threat to the safety of good law-abiding citizens.
Yeah, companies still do that regardless of the rate.
As for understanding progressive taxation, I think the easiest way to explain it is simply to ask how much money you’d have after taxes. It always pays off to make more money. Perhaps show a XY diagram with income and income after taxes. There’s no magic bracket where the graph goes downwards.
It’s worth noting that the tax rate might be 90, but the effective taxation is a much lower percentage of the earnings.
Corporate Tax is calculated after costs, while personal tax is calculated more or less directly on earnings and then you need to cover your costs from whatever remains. This might explain the confusion.
It’s a stupid question.
Nobody is stupid enough to rule out an emergency.
If anyone would, it would be him. He just needs a map and a really big sharpie.
Sure, the lost trust was not worth it. He could’ve just asked politely for the same thing.
He talks a lot of bullshit, but even he underestimated the stamina of the Danish Foreign Minister when it comes to maintaining a bullshit dialogue.
However, I don’t think that portraying it as if the bully got framed is a good way to see it, because that acknowledges the behaviour of the bully and that Denmark stooped down to play with the bully. It’s a fair description, but not really useful for anything other than critisism. We need to look forward.
I still prefer to view it as an agreement between allies rather than a win/lose scenario. Once the passageways over the Arctic opens it will be beneficial to Nato and EU that China doesn’t have the opportunity to interfere economically.
It also solidifies Greenlands position among the “western” world if/when they decide to become independent. If they went independent right now, they’d be a 3rd world country, and we already know how China likes to “invest” in 3rd world countries for their own benefit only.
I think the trust is gone for lots of other reasons as well, so it will take decades to rebuild that. Again, we need to look ahead, and this agreement is a small step in the right direction.
I wouldn’t call it a bad deal. He walked in with nothing, asked for a lot, walked away with something, which is more than he deserved to get
I don’t think any other potential outcome would’ve been better for anyone.
Actually I’d rather call it an agreement than a deal, because the only losers of the “deal” (Russia and China) were not part of the negotiation at all.
I doubt that he wrote any of that himself.
You forget the important part: What color is the mouse? Which bathroom does it use?
It’s even dumber if that’s their reason to vote no.
The best option to achieve the apparently very important idea that UN should not be discussing this would be to vote yes. Get it over with and move along.
But nooooo. They must throw a tantrum protest vote so everyone can see how horrible it is that they were asked a question that means so little to them.
And all your water, please.
I don’t a lot. Just all of it.
I’d choose kangaroo over single mother any day.
Because of the pouch.
the article doesn’t even mention what other choices the babies had.
It runs on tracks, so it might be slimmer on the ground level than the conventional construction vehicles. Sure a wheelbarrow is smaller, but I don’t think that’s a realistic option, lol.
One of the things that this project is testing is how the foundations are made. They do not have to clear the trees to dig and level out the area to fill in loads of gravel just to make a concrete pour. They are somehow able to make the foundations around existing structures like trees and on somewhat uneven ground.
Take heat from homes
That’s the tricky part.
This sand battery works by offsetting the production of heat to be used in an already existing district heating system.
That system does not easily change into a district cooling system. It is simply not built to run in reverse. Every part of it from production through distribution, exchanging and in-house distribution are made with one purpose: To transfer heat in one direction.
It makes sense to use renewable energy to charge this battery, so they don’t need as much fossil fuel or whatever they use normally.
But, if we were to make a district wide hvac-system the same way, it would probably be better and more efficient to simply use individual airconditioners using the renewable energy directly.
I just want him to go away. Punished or not. Dead or alive. I don’t care, as long as I never have to read about him doing any more atrocities.
I don’t think he’s capable of resigning.
They have 2 reasons to do this:
The purpose is to have an army of cannon fodder when they take on NATO and to push through the inevitable failure when doing so.
It’s in the article. A journalist asked a long leading question which was a critisism of Trump and then asked if Zelenskiy felt like a scapegoat for everything.
The journalist basically already said everything worth saying about it, so there was no point in answering it.
I hate that kind of journalism, because it’s usually done in an attempt to make the interviewee admit to something they never stated themselves, or to drag out whatever point the journalist wants to make themselves in the first place.
I believe it started in sports news where the players are usually very brief, so the journalists invented this way of describing everything that happened only to end with a redundant question like “…this must be very important for your team?” or similar.
Anyway, I guess Zelenskiy was able to use it by utilizing his experience as a comedian and not answering with anything but a smile, which the audience caught as an acknowledgment of everything they were thinking themselves. Like, it’s all implied and understood, no more words are necessary.