LemmyLives

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give them the incentive and they build here...if not they go to texas

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Why would Texas be more economically advantageous than Louisiana without piled on incentives, one wonders...? We'll never know!

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Not sure if good or bad, but Houston is a great example.

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Cool, now include the south side, Alief-Clodine, West Oaks, Holly Park, Greenbriar, etc. Shitholes, all. A bunch of yuppies in the Heights and oil/medical money in Rice, Bunker Hill etc., doesn't make up for all the trash I can see out of my office window, and have driven through repeatedly.

As for ATL, subtract Cobb and North Fulton, and the percentage of whitey drops like a rock. A bunch of liberal whitey live in DeKalb, but they're not exactly floating in money outside of their equity in their way too expensive craftsman shitboxes.

From a different article:

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Yet, these technical details obscure a more fundamental truth: the Iberian Peninsula’s energy grid, heavily reliant on intermittent renewables, is dangerously vulnerable. A poster child for green energy, Spain derives 56% of its electricity from renewables—primarily wind and solar—with nuclear at 20% and fossil fuels at 23%. Portugal has followed a similar path. This shift has left both countries exposed to systemic fragility and unable to cope with sudden disruptions or unexpected demand surges.

Driven by ideological zeal, left-wing governments from Portugal’s PS and Spain’s PSOE parties have embraced renewable energy while enthusiastically dismantling the infrastructure that once ensured energy sovereignty and stability. Coal plants, which provide consistent baseload power, have been put out of service across Europe under pressure from loud, well-funded, and media-approved green activists. In Spain, the share of electricity production derived from coal sank from 40% in 2007 to under 2% by 2023. Nuclear power, a zero-carbon source with unmatched reliability and competitiveness, has faced similar hostility from fact-blind politicos. Spain’s seven operational reactors are under an immediate threat of being phased out, with the Sánchez government plotting to close all plants by 2035. Portugal, meanwhile, has no nuclear capacity at all, having abandoned plans for nuclear development decades ago. Instead, Lisbon leans heavily on wind and hydroelectricity, both of which falter under adverse weather or technical strain. These policies, rooted in an anti-scientific green dogma, have greatly weakened the grid.

This irrational fetishisation of renewables ignores their inherent limitations. Solar panels generate no power at night, and wind turbines stall. On April 27, 2025, Spain reportedly ran its grid on 100% renewable energy—green advocates cheered it. Yet, just days later, the same grid collapsed, plunging the nation into chaos. Low wind speeds across Western Europe, coupled with high demand, likely exacerbated the crisis, forcing reliance on aging gas plants and imports from France and Morocco

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EU Air Passenger Rights

At the end of this section, there's a helpful button labeled, "Claim your rights!" (I would try for 100% of the downgrade cost with the carrier before trying for 75% through the EU first)

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If you are downgraded, you are entitled to reimbursement of a percentage of the price of your ticket, depending on the flight distance as follows:

a) 30% - flights of 1 500 km or less

b) 50% - flights within the EU of more than 1 500 km (except flights between the EU and French overseas departments), and all other flights between 1 500 and 3 500 km

c) 75% - flights not falling under (a) or (b), including flights between the EU and French overseas departments.

If you have 2 or more connecting flights included in a single ticket, you can only be reimbursed for the flight which was downgraded and not for the entire journey. The reimbursement should be paid within 7 days.

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don't think they're background checking these folks.

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Why would they? They can tell if a driver is stealing packages within 72 hours or so, I'd imagine. You background check people, your labor force disappears, but you don't need to, because you'll figure out who is a thief before you incur very many losses.

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first class to coach

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Make sure you get compensation. Because you're flying from an EU country, the carrier (assuming AA or DL) is likely going to fight you a lot less. At a bare minimum, the difference in fare (hopefully an upgrade certificate or a chunk of miles for next time as well). I'd be careful about pushing them too far for lodging, etc., because they'll just claim force majeure.

Super Hornet, not the original.

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There is no defense against the multiple stage rockets

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Mid-stage they're moving at 15k mph, I assume the MIRVs are moving somewhat slower than that.

OP must not have grown up in the 80s. Jane's Defence Report was required reading for this elementary school kid back then. Every year, looking at what the Soviets pointed at us, :lol:

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backpacking.

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GoRuck has both lined and unlined, quick drying shorts with zippered side pockets.

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some preliminary stuff I can go ahead and do in the MPC app though, correct?

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Yes, add the info of everyone traveling with you so they're pre-loaded (I think the picture I have in the app is from 2018?) The journey you will "check into" when you land requires almost no data at all, but it's only valid for approx 4 hours from when you create it, so you won't be able to do that process while you're still sitting in Cali.

For the other poster that flies through IAH and has never seen the MPC line, take a right just before you get to the general queue and the Global Entry kiosks, go close to the end of the entry area, and it'll be a "gate" or two near the end. Dependent upon how they have the retractable barriers configured that day, of course.