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Crypto Currencies: Damaging Greed?
Since 1971 dollar notes have been the only form of printed money in the United States and that is unlikely to change because of crypto currencies. But what will change is the perception of the dollar as more and more investment pours into the tens if not hundreds of virtual non-asset based collectibles that people think are financial instruments that - a destructive worm dropped into a crypto currency system - could evaporate. As the NFTS and went, through the crypto market has and will last longer yet, buyers have a hell of a lot more to lose than sellers. And that especially goes for the exchanges that charge commissions on the both buy and sell transactions. Not that crypto's are cabbage patch dolls, but you could think of them more like the Babe's rookie cards - without the printed image.
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Build to Rent is Ruining America's Small Towns
Developers under the guise of providing affordable housing are offering investors high returns under 'Invest to Rent' developments which in turn are sold to local authorities as solutions to the affordable housing in areas that have been flooded with new and often undocumented arrivals. Such developments might be a block of 150 apartments with ten percent reserved for 'low income' individuals and families and while such developments are win / win / win for the developers, investors and the builders, a win for the local authority collecting building permits and other fees, a win for fifteen or so individuals and families THEY ARE a giant loss for locals who have lost the character of their city to multiple massive holiday apartments that over-burden roads and services.
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A Tangled Web
Thanks to human ingenuity, and never wanting to pass up a buck, since launching in 1995 the internet's once simple page displaying information has descended into an animated Penny Saver dotted with false news articles. Email has to be protected from an ever growing avalanche of toxic and stealth data-stealing spam and any and all search query pages thanks to Alphabet are data scraped by upwards of 20 sites that buy and user's query and purchase data. Add the GOOGLE 'partnering' (distorting searches) with over muscular companies such as Pinterest or Reddit and validity of searches is now at an all-time low
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California Water
Thanks to California consistently ignoring the cyclical water shortage, even though it is well understood that exporting food products exports water, farmers export produce around the world driving up the cost of water for consumers. No consideration has been given to creating new water storage for the excessively wet winters and the precious water which runs to the ocean , through some cities are eying the creation of nonsensical desalination plants to attempt to lessen the excess fees for domestic water consumption and to make matters worse what water that comes out of taps is polluted with pesticides and other chemicals worse CALIFORNIA sells water to bottled water companies.
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Smartphones: Miracle Devices or Societal Disaster
The innovative device that built the first $3 trillion company spawned a generation of similar devices has been accused of both opening up the world and ruining society by encouraging isolationist tendencies. We ask is it possible that this miracle product is the worst invention of all time? Walk down any busy street and more often than not any teenager or younger child will be on their smartphone. The device is also a babysitter for on the go parents as any young child shopping with their mothers is bound to be using a smartphone and face to face communication has almost been relegated to the history books. Theatres, restaurants almost all other public areas are often dominated by the loud phone conversations of people who either inconsiderately and annoyingly speak too loud or worse still use the phone's speaker. So we ask, while used as a phone or for internet searches or reminders or many of the other useful inbuilt functions is it possible that this miracle product is the worst invention of all time?
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Social Media's anti Social practices
The billions of people visiting social media sites enable the owners to establish trends and set or modify social norms and these sites permit criminal spammers, pornographers and false news yet claim that they are only conduits and not publishers but during the last two US general elections social media sites - as did the publisher W R Hearst - the owners exercised political preferences in line with their own ideals. It is time to regulate social media sites and to hold the owners accountable for all the HTML and every graphic that they PUBLISH
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Electricity for Consumers
Would there be a shortage of electricity if the electricity for the technology companies that operated the Cloud, mined Cryptocurrencies and drove AI servers were made to provide the power needed for such services before their deployment? As rently disclosed these companies have contracted with nuclear power suppliers but that not only will take time and expose the country to the previously acknowledged dangers of such power generation, but in the meanwhile and for some years consumers will be suffer high bills and peak period brown outs.
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Technology's Rat Wheel
The publishers of the PC and Smartphone operating system have users - as none of us are owners of the software or the hardware - over a barrel Whenever a technology company choses to update the current version of the program it simply forces the user to comply with a download. And every few years a new version of the operating system is released that needs the apps and other software on equipment to be updated and his results in the hardware to be bought anew. It's a form of rat-wheel for users and it is past time that the FCC became involved.
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Wind Turbines Are All Puff
Wind turbines dotted all over the landscape are ugly and to the point of lessening the quality of life, and not are they often effectual, kill birds in many hundreds of thousands a year, the blades are exposed to UV radiation, which can cause degradation, leading to cracks and delamination, consume oil as a lubricant but studies are now disclosing that prominent wind farms block the wind from going onward to drive more distant turbines. We ask is it right to save the planet at the expense of the ruining the landscape?
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Immigration and Housing
It is estimated that the US has twenty million or more illegal immigrants and it is also estimated that the US is short some six million homes. Netting these two figures would result in a massive surplus of homes so is there really a housing shortage. The other side of the coin being if a government allows its borders to be crossed by individuals that have no legal rights yet many of which pay taxes has tacit permission to stay been granted?
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5G is just for AI
Where is the highly promoted genuine benefit of As 5G phones to consumers when the short battery life and when a 5G signal is not available 4G or 4GLTE. Many 5G users report that they'd rather have stayed with 4G and not been convinced to buy a 5G phone. The sad truth is that 5G is to enable AI implementations for businesses not consumers as illustrated by the General Motors lawsuits that prohibited their practice of in-car behavior tracking that was sold to insurance companies to vary individual driver's insurance premiums.So as church spires, hotel roofs and other tall buildings start to feature more and more ridiculous looking 5G masts just know that only business will benefit.
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Laws Made Local
When it comes to legislation Americans do not live in America they live in California, Alabama or any of the other 50 states because local laws, though arguably they are not supposed to, constantly overrule federal laws. An examples of such a law inconsistency is consuming pot is legal in California and some other states but it's banned by the federal government as are self-declared sanctuary cities in direct opposition to federal policies.
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