The last point is important.

Suicide, firearm deaths, deaths from obesity, deaths from smoking are all higher in America.

Opioid deaths are way, way higher, which pulls life expectancy way down because the age of death is tragically so young.

Your first point I'm not sold on. The US pharma system is beyond inefficient. They may output more but there certainly exists a system which could do 10x as much with the same funding.

The fact that half of these movies have twice the score they should have says a lot about the film critics.

Half of these films are worse than bad, and the other half are mediocre at best.

It'd be awesome if there were away to capture it in a way that is cost effective and safe.

But, alas. Space is hard.

This would be so expensive.

If it's kept in space it becomes a major risk to contribute to space junk.

Yeah I'm no fan of the labeling either.

I'd rather at least a predicted amount of annual energy produced. If batteries are to be included, it should be the amount by which they improve solar and other intermittent sources' efficiency.

This is just nameplate capacity best I can tell, so it's just the maximum output rate that the installed batteries will be able to do.

Solar and batteries will definitely occupy a much smaller portion of real-world energy.

99% of the risk is in higher altitude satellites and in non-active satellites and other debris.

Starlink could cause a lot of problems for 10 years and some problems for 50 years, but wouldn't disrupt space access on the long term.

This is specifically the 747 though, not Boeing aircraft.

How does having 2 reps instead of 1 grant you more representation in a congress of 435?

0 x 2 = 0

Even right now in a fairly split congress, you are 2/9ths of a potential swing vote. You'd need 4 additional over-represented small states fully on your side.

You do have equal representation in the senate, by design.

Meat requires far more agricultural production per calorie, nearly an order of magnitude.

Eating plant-based reduces the death of animals killed by harvesting by 90% all things being equal, on top of the cruelty reduction of factory farming on slaughter.

There is no such thing as perfect ethics, but that's not a valid reason to make things 10x worse.

Does that even include depreciation, fuel, insurance, and maintenance on a vehicle?

Even without that... Just brutal on a per hour basis. I have no idea how this industry is still going.

I think you should try to 5x your earnings by doing something with data or graphic design. Good job on the data!

We never tried to go to the moon from 1972-2016. The technological development stopped.

The SLS technology is integration between 60 year old components.

The only new Moon-capable technology being developed is Starship, which really only started in 2016.

The more confident one was always by 2024, but that was before Starship development even really started.

Gwynne Shotwell gave about 10 years in either 2018 or 2019 I think.

I think 2036 is realistically possible. It may require far more resources/effort than are economical or reasonable, but it will probably be possible.

No they aren't. That's less than 1% of bottled water usage. Probably less than 0.1%.

I live in Alberta. We have among the strictest water quality standards in the world, far more stringent than bottled water. Yet every grocery store sells palettes of bottled water a week and there are entire service industries created around businesses purchasing bulk water for water coolers that are shipped around on trucks from far away distribution plants.

All of that can be replaced with a metal water bottle and our tap water.

And for the communities without access to clean drinking water, there are dozens of other solutions, of which 0.5 L plastic bottle water containers are among the worst.

I get they're separate issues. I think plastic is much worse considering the trend lines. That is, it's the bigger problem 50-70 years form now on our current path.

We are on the track to solve the carbon problem within 100 years, and can probably start reversing the damage.

But the damage we've done with plastic is continuing and it's going to take hundreds of years to undo it, even if we find a way to do it quickly.

Well, 99% of communities don't need bottled water. It serves no function.

I've been to communities that bottle their own water. You can do it and sell it profitably for $0.50.

Ban bottled water by corporations. If a community wants/needs bottled water, they should bottle it themselves with their own treatment facility.

Consider banning basic flavoured beverages. Just have consumers and businesses buy the powder and add to tap water.

For 1 L and less switch to aluminum (but ban packing plastic)

For 1.25 L and above switch to either vending style with powder or wax carton, or just have consumers buy multiples of 1 L.

Carbon footprint of transportation is already a problem being solved and can be accelerated through carbon pricing.

Bottled water is among humanity's worst decisions.

The drop in ad revenue will continue as interest rates rise.

I don't think they will care to retain the same headcount.

Maybe they can continue with just attrition, but they'll likely want to clean 10-15% too.

Lyft, Shopify, Snapchat, Robinbood, Booking.com, Opendoor...

That's just the last week.

There are hundreds of other tech companies announcing significant layoffs in the last 3 months.

Google is coming soon.

Apple and Microsoft probably just more strict hiring freezes and internal attrition.

It can be reduced but it can't be eliminated.

Elimination in the UK would require elimination across the world.