There's not really any NEED to grow almonds. Most agriculture in California is not required to sustain life in CA. However, without AI people wouldn't have jobs that could afford CA rents, so AI is required so people can live. Lets get rid of unnecessary uses like agriculture, unless farmers can justify that the usage is actually required to sustain life.

If you look at water distribution you'll find that its unevenly distributed so farmers should pay a water tax and distribute that water to the less water fortunate. CA has an extremely high water GINI with a few farmers consuming far more than their fair share.

0.00000718742 degrees = 31.5 inches / 40,075 km * 360 or 0.000451599142 arcseconds obviously its not very much,

Can you check your units? in/km? 31.5" is almost exactly 0.8m

It's alive and well in south america. let the haters hate.

add AI to the products and features you want to ship, don't add AI to the ones that don't.

You want to start with at least an AI Roadmap that outlines whatever you want to do, and sprinkle in some AI love.

That's why there is work, no supply of fresh grads.

I can tell you living in south america that this is true. Three drinks esp. caiprinhas even at the expensive places would be about $13, $8 or $9 on promo. Cover for the fancy place is $17. Bottle service is $34.

Plus the bombed out building post war Berlin industrial feel is 1. Real, and 2. free for the promoter and the drinks are cheaper there. Yes, that's real barbed wire, and yes, its really electrified.

Come to the southern cone of south america (brazil, paraguay, argentina), late night dance is alive and well. Colombia too to a lesser degree.

in some places in Chile its gone down though https://www.emol.com/noticias/Economia/2025/01/03/1153139/lo...

Chile is awful (Santiago specifically). Sorry if you are from there. High prices, high crime, full of feminists, everything closes early. Might as well move back to the west.

Some of us like smoking...

I second that. Sure I know smoking or vaping isn’t the most health conscious decision, but it’s something I enjoy doing.

> Finally, if unions are so bad, why do many of the largest companies in the world continue to hire from unions?

Because it's illegal not to. I dunno if you know this but if you have a union shop, the company can't just hire non-union employees. (In most cases) Once your company unionizes you can hire union employees, or go out of business.

Realistically what companies do is incorporate a subsidiary in a non-union jurisdiction and outsource the jobs to the subsidiary.

One where people were expected spend more time working than being offended.

Ah yes, labour unions, that invention of 2010s woke culture... You seem to be a bit confused.

"If working with dangerous machinery without union representation for 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, for company scrip was good enough for my great-grandfather when he was 8 years old, it's good enough for me!"