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Hildegarde ,

The Soyuz is cheaper. Roscosmos is an objectively better rocket company.

Hildegarde ,

Roscosmos doesn't consider clearing the launch tower to be a success. There is value in continuing to use proven technology.

Hildegarde ,

You can use electric mowers. They solve the belching fumes problem and nothing else.

Hildegarde ,

If ur 30+ you can have romantic moments with women, which is nice.

Hildegarde ,

Regardless of gender, your 30s is a perfect time to date cute single people who just finished their first divorce.

Hildegarde ,

The issue is not that the parts aren't titanium, its that there isn't a paper trail documenting the titanium.

This is an issue, because improperly forged titanium can have issues that makes it unsuitably weak for its intended purpose. Having documentation showing where the materials came from, when it was inspected for defects and when it was manufactured is critical for safety.

United flight 232 had an engine explode in part due to defective titanium. This is a real safety concern.

Though the headline says boeing, the article mentions these undocumented parts being found in airbus planes as well. Its an industry problem, not a Boeing specific one.

Hildegarde ,

Pretty much yes. Proper documentation is important for safety, but calling the itself titanium fake is incredibly dishonest.

The rest of the headline doesn't fair any better.

The planes that included components made with the material were... Boeing 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner airliners as well as Airbus A220 jets

Headline only mentions one of the involved manufacturers, misrepresenting it as a boeing problem because they know what will drive clicks.

Hildegarde ,

MCAS, (must crash airplane system,) the system that caused those crashes is present on all max variants. The involved aircraft were max 8's because that was the first to enter production.

Every other max variant has the same system. Changes to, and knowledge of MCAS should prevent future crashes but this is an issue that affects every 737 max, despite only max 8's crashing from it.

Hildegarde ,

Someone's been reading the news and doing background research.

Hildegarde ,

Recently, a boeing 737 max had an issue where it started dutch rolling in flight. The plane landed safely, but the FAA is investigating.

The dutch roll is an osculating motion that can happen in flight, and can be dangerous if not counteracted. Commercial airliners have a yaw damper which should prevent this from occurring, but something must have gone wrong because it did.

Hildegarde ,

I hate that this article doesn't explain or show the language at all. You have to follow the twitter link which isn't labeled as a link to the language at issue.

No strike/lockout clauses are a standard thing in union contracts in the US. This isn't that it is much worse.

Hildegarde ,

The biggest limiting factor in airplanes is the production speed. Building airliners is slow which is why there are very long waiting lists. Nothing's wrong that's just planes. New planes are cheaper to operate so its a good idea to order new planes even if you're not planning a significant expansion.

This is also why airlines will be slow to react to boeing's safety record in orders. Switching orders means losing your place and going to the back of airbus's waiting list.

Hildegarde ,

True, but this article is specifically about the 737. Apart from the a220, none of the aircraft you listed are both in production and part of the 737's market segment.

The a320 neo family has about 7000 orders awaiting delivery. It is not feasible to switch for most airlines for the reasons I previously mentioned.

Hildegarde ,

I'm unhappy that after an update gdm has a logo of the distro I'm using. I don't want people to be able to see what distro it is, that way I don't get the fun of telling everyone that I use arch btw.

No other issues.

Hildegarde ,

Isn't this fair use?

Hildegarde ,

Do you really think the us is so small we can only arm one war at a time? Nonsense.

Gaza does show that the us has little say over how their weapons are used. There are serious consequences for crossing biden's red line, like having to move the red line.

Hildegarde ,

Most grocery store products are packaged in single use plastics. Cereals are sealed in a plastic bag. Meats are wrapped in plastic packaging. Milk is sold in plastic bottles. Yoghurt, bread, baking powder, pasta, medicine. Its not feasible to avoid by choice.

Hildegarde ,

The news is so awful these days they make their paywall look like shoddy journalism. There is an entire article I'll put it in the comments.

Hildegarde ,

The washington post has paywalls. The text is below.

The sweeping agriculture law hasn’t been renewed since 2018.

By Jacob Bogage
June 4, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

A battle that ties food aid for needy families with crop subsidies for American farmers may stall efforts to renew a sweeping agricultural policy law, forcing Congress to consider delaying action on the $1.5 trillion proposal until after this fall’s elections.

The law, known as the farm bill, is set to expire Sept. 30. It typically draws bipartisan support because it combines resources for such programs as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for low-income families with updates to farm supports, including commodity price guarantees and crop insurance.

This year, however, the Republican-controlled House is writing a version of the bill that would spend less on future low-income food assistance and more on large-scale commodity farmers, while the Democratic-controlled Senate is mulling a proposal to do the opposite.

Lawmakers say the probable outcome is a stalemate that would force a temporary extension of existing policies. That would benefit Democrats and their allies by preserving the higher nutrition benefits in current law. But it would mostly leave commodity assistance unchanged, frustrating Republicans and their allies in the agricultural community.

“The world today is drastically different than it was when the current law was put into place,” said Sam Kieffer, vice president of public policy at the American Farm Bureau Federation.

/The farm bill is supposed to be renewed every five years. But the last one was written in 2018, before the coronavirus pandemic caused historic inflation and snarled supply chains; before Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, one of the world’s largest agricultural producers; before the cost per acre of U.S. farmland skyrocketed; and before President Biden and Democrats passed first-of-its-kind climate policy that weighs heavily on agriculture.

Congress must pass some sort of agriculture and nutrition legislation before the current law expires or face massive upheaval in agricultural commodities and dairy markets. Leaders in both parties said a temporary extension of current law is looking increasingly likely.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, told The Washington Post that continuing the 2018 version of the law temporarily might prove the easiest option to steer through Congress, saying, “I’m not going to support a bad bill.”

The committee’s top Republican, Sen. John Boozman (Ark.), agreed: “If we don’t make meaningful improvements, if we don’t put more farm in the farm bill, we’re better off not having a new farm bill.”

Lawmakers are already discussing a brief extension that would push a vote on a longer-term measure into the “lame duck” session after the November election and before the new Congress takes office in January. Lawmakers also have discussed another year-long farm bill extension; Congress passed similar legislation in November, which is why the 2018 law is still on the books now.

“A lot of people forget why we need a five-year farm bill, why it’s so necessary to balance fiscal responsibility reform with anticipatory policy and why the legislation we pass today ought to reflect the needs of agriculture producers and consumers. It’s because farm bills are felt in every corner of America, in every field and pasture, in every grocery story and agribusiness. The legislation we pass today will have ripple effects for years to come,” Rep. Tracey Mann (R-Kan.) said at a House Agriculture Committee meeting in late May.

The 2018 farm bill authorized the administration to reevaluate the formula used to calculate food assistance, which Biden leveraged in 2021 to approve the largest-ever increase in SNAP benefits. The 2018 bill also guaranteed minimum prices for certain agriculture products — promising that the government would pay the difference between the market price and what are known as “reference prices.” But those levels haven’t changed despite the subsequent upheaval in global markets and rising inflation.

That means producers have struggled without as much help as Congress may have envisioned, Kieffer said.

Republicans are trying to push those levels up. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) advanced legislation in late May that would pour billions of dollars into raising the price floors for agricultural commodities by as much as 20 percent.

Soybeans, which in April traded at $11.80 a bushel, according to the Agriculture Department, would have a guaranteed price of $10 under the legislation, up from $8.40. Wheat in April traded at $5.91 a bushel and would have a $6.35 price floor, up from $5.50.

“Over the past few decades, the farm safety net has lost its ability to protect those who are the backbone of our great nation,” Thompson said at the May 23 committee meeting. “American farmers face natural disasters, take huge personal risk and are at the whims of regulatory overreach. It is a privilege to deliver a farm bill that strengthens the risk-mitigation measures available to producers, providing certainty in a time of volatility.”

The GOP bill would pay for those increases by limiting the White House’s authority to increase SNAP benefits, which would cost recipients nearly $30 billion in enhanced food assistance over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Nearly 42 million people a month use the program, which is designed to cover about two-thirds of a household’s monthly food expenses. A household of four people can receive maximum monthly benefits of $973 in most states.

Limiting benefit increases is a nonstarter for Democrats, who have united against Thompson’s bill on both sides of the Capitol.

“I want a farm bill; it’s just that I’m not going to have my legacy going backward,” said Stabenow, who is retiring in 2025 after nearly three decades in Congress.

Other issues that divide the parties are negotiable, lawmakers said.

Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act set aside almost $20 billion to pay agricultural producers or landowners to enact “climate smart” conservation practices. The program has been wildly popular and oversubscribed, and Thompson’s bill would remove the climate guardrails from that funding to allow producers easier access to conservation funds.

Democrats have balked at that idea but said there is room to compromise; the vast majority of the most popular conservation practices that farmers employed even before the Biden administration’s incentives kicked in are already considered “climate smart,” said Michael Happ, who studies climate and rural communities at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

While GOP proposals on price floors have caused an uproar among Democrats, Thompson’s bill otherwise aims for bipartisan agreement: The legislation is loaded with Democratic proposals to try to preserve the political alliance that has traditionally propelled farm bills. One provision would require new administrative procedures to help young farmers acquire land. Average farm real estate values have increased more than 30 percent since 2018, according to the Agriculture Department.

Thompson’s bill also would allow individuals with felony drug convictions to receive SNAP benefits after completing their sentences, a longtime Democratic priority.

Hildegarde ,

Someone must love paywalls.

Hildegarde ,

The frumpet is a much more fun instrument. Sadly, no wikipedia page, too weird and obscure. Getzen made a big trumpet pitched in F for some reason. Much more fun name to say.

Hildegarde ,

If the economy is booming and the median american is struggling, your metrics for analyzing the economy are faulty.

Hildegarde ,

everyone who disagrees with me is russian or chinese

Hildegarde ,

Did you put the words in the right order? I do not understand what you're trying to say.

Hildegarde ,

Make sure you vote so you can get a say in how enthusiastically the federal government implements the same policy on the southern border.

If you want an easier path to legal status in the us to disincentivise illegal crossings, you can get fucked. If you want a north american schengen agreement, you can get fucked. If you want any change in policy related to the southern boarder, get fucked.

If you care about whether the president leads chants about border policy, then american style democracy is for you.

Hildegarde ,

Cats don't meow to each other. They meow to humans, and kittens mew to their mum. Meowing is always one sided. Do not meow back. Stop misrepresenting their culture.

Hildegarde ,

And there were some attempts/requirements to bus kids from rich neighborhoods into poor schools and poor kids to the rich schools.

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If I'm booking a flight and the plane is a lockheed TriStar, I'm going to fly another flight. I am that pricipled in boycotting the wokes.

Hildegarde ,

Not enough for voters who are undecided about whether to vote or not.

Democrats win when turnout is high. It's not enough to be better than the opponent, to win they must beat apathy.

Hildegarde ,

Anyone who is eligible to vote actively lived through the trump years. And a third of those voters disagree with you. Calling them stupid is not an effective way to help them change their minds or voting decisions.

Day to day economic realities matter to the average voter.

Hildegarde ,

The aircraft involved is a short-haul Embraer jet used by KLM’s Cityhopper service, which operates flights to nearby destinations such as London, Dutch news reports said.

If it was a boeing it would be in the headline.

Hildegarde ,

Fell is a strange word to use. Sucked or injested would probably be better. Even at idle jet engines are powerful and they will suck up things that are close.

The areas front and back of running engines needs to be kept clear for this exact reason.

Hildegarde ,

"Said one group." That language is suspiciously vague. Do you know what group said that quote?

Hildegarde ,

Google has literally deployed crypomining malware through adsence. They don't check ad code before deploying it.

Can Trump Really Slam the Brakes on Electric Vehicles? He has vowed to shred President Biden’s E.V. policies and has threatened that “You won’t be able to sell those cars.” ( www.nytimes.com )

While a Trump presidency couldn’t slam the brakes on the E.V. transition, it could throw enough sand in the gears to slow it down. And that might have significant consequences for the fight to stop global warming.

Hildegarde ,

Does he mean he's going to shred the 100% tariff? That seems to be core of biden's ev policy.

Hildegarde ,

Because white supremacists own guns and cops are cowards.

Hildegarde ,

Good choice!

Hildegarde ,

Voting third party has the same effect on the outcome as not voting. From the last presidential election, there were 24 times more nonvoters than third part voters.

They blame third parties to suppress their ideas, not because of the negligible effect on the outcome.

The 33% of eligible voters who chose not to vote could have swung the 2020 election if they voted.

Hildegarde ,

That's a strange response when they claim they don't recognize the court.

Either sign on to the agreement and file a motion in opposition, or refuse to recognize the court and ignore it, like a responsible adult.

They are acting like a baby having a temper tantrum. Grow up.

Hildegarde ,

160,000 borrowers have earned $7.7 billion of loan forgiveness under a federal program put in place under the obama administration.

This headline is incredibly misleading. Biden had little to do with this.

Hildegarde ,

Because the US is not allowed to put boots on the ground in Palestine, they are relying on isreal to build the part of the aid pier that connects it to the land. This plan relies on having the people who are blocking the aid, build the pier that bypasses their attempts to block the aid.

It's not surprising that no aid trucks are able to enter despite the pier.

Hildegarde ,

I'm pretty sure the dutch government has laws making such an invasion illegal.

Hildegarde ,

It is not treason to question the results of an election. It is not sedition to contest an election. If there is evidence that an election not handled correctly in a way that is sufficient to change the outcome, those with a stake in the outcome should not accept it.

This idea that it is a high crime to question an election is genuinely dangerous. And it is especially bad coming from democrats, because tactics like voter suppression disproportionately benefit republicans.

No one should accept an unrepresentative election.

Hildegarde ,

Democracy relies on elections actually being fair. Questioning the process is the only way to make things fair, and the process being robust in the face of questions demonstrates it.

This idea that elections are unquestionabe is genuinely dangerous.

Hildegarde ,

This is another article that claimed a jet engine burst into flames, when all that happened was an engine surge. The engine didn't catch fire, the engine did the jet version of a backfire, and only once during the takeoff roll.

Hildegarde ,

Article below paywalls bad

Housing costs may have gotten out of control, but there’s another expense that now poses an even greater burden to many American families: child care.

Jessica Norwood, a working mother of two in North Carolina and host of the financial-literacy show “The Sugar Daddy Podcast,” said daycare costs when her two children were ages 3 and 4 added up to nearly $3,000 per month — almost twice her monthly mortgage payment of $1,580.

“We were spending easily 55% of our pretax household income on our mortgage and child care,” said Norwood, who grew up in Germany. Her family looked into getting a nanny or an au pair, but found disadvantages to both.

“It’s no wonder so many people (i.e. women) leave work to stay home with their children,” Norwood told MarketWatch in an email. “It’s all excruciatingly expensive.”

Norwood said her friends who work outside of the home and have young children all face this dilemma. “It’s a frequent topic of conversation in our group because there is no escaping it and, in most cases, there are no other viable options.”

The average cost of child care for two children is now greater than the average rent in all 50 states, and greater than the average mortgage payment in 45 states, according to a new report by the nonprofit Child Care Aware of America.

Child care is considered affordable if it costs no more than 7% of a household’s income, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Yet the typical cost of care for one child, which was $11,582 on average in 2023, is 10% of income in married households and 32% of income for single parents, according to CCAoA. The actual expenditure is often higher, as the average American family has two children and most single-parent households also have more than one child, Census Bureau data show.

The financial challenges facing families have impacted some people’s decision to have children. In a 2021 Pew survey, finances were the third-most common reason people said they didn’t plan to have children, after not wanting children and medical reasons.

“The reality is that for most families, everywhere, child care is very expensive, and it is a very large part of families’ monthly and yearly budgets. That is true in every region,” said Anne Hedgepeth, chief of policy and practice at CCAoA. “There may be different extremes, but child-care prices outpace almost everything else.”

In the largest metro area, New York, the typical monthly cost of child care for two children is $2,634 while the typical monthly housing cost is $2,451, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator, which estimates the typical costs for a modest standard of living around the country.

But the problem is not unique to large, pricey coastal cities. In a smaller metropolitan area like Scranton, Pa., child care for two typically costs $1,541 per month while housing costs $1,008 monthly, according to the EPI’s calculator.

Even in Danville, Ill. — one of the lowest-cost housing markets in the country, according to Realtor.com — the typical monthly cost of child care is $999, outstripping the monthly housing cost of $878, per the calculator. (Realtor.com is operated by News Corp subsidiary Move Inc.; MarketWatch publisher Dow Jones is also a subsidiary of News Corp.)

The American child-care system today is not only unaffordable for many families who need care, it also does not provide livable wages for many of those who work in the field. Workers in child-care centers earn an average of $30,360 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“If parents can’t contribute more, and educators are making so little in the child-care and early-learning system, I think that really tells us that our investments are going to need to come from elsewhere, from places like our federal government,” Hedgepeth said.

A Biden administration rule announced earlier this year reduced costs for families that receive child-care subsidies, limiting the amount they pay to 7% of their household income. It is estimated to impact 100,000 children.

“President Biden and I believe that every family in our nation should be able to access affordable child care,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement.

CCAoA’s policy recommendation is for lawmakers in Congress and in state governments to expand funding for the system, so that states can “provide more families with subsidies, lower the price of child care, support and retain the child-care workforce, and increase access and supply.”

How has the cost of child care and housing affected you and your financial decisions? MarketWatch would like to hear from readers about their experiences. You can reach us at readerstories@marketwatch.com. A reporter may be in touch to learn more.

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Hildegarde ,

You do know that the states elections are the ones that count the votes, right???

Hildegarde ,

Then earn those votes.

I do not vote for genocide.

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