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Beckley: “Yes history has shown that technological revolutions create prosperity in the long run but every single time one of these things has happened they have forced some workers into lower wage jobs or into unemployment in the short run, and the short run can actually last an entire lifetime. So if you study the Industrial Revolution, one of the biggest technological revolutions, for the first 70 years of the industrial revolution in the Great Britain from 1770 to 1840, average wages actually stagnated, and living standards declined. The average height of men actually shrunk because they had less nutrition over that 70 years, even as output per worker expanded by nearly 50 percent, that’s because the gains from mass mechanization during that time were largely captured by business elites…

[In our future, due to automation] there could be a world where you would have sluggish growth, lots of debt, stagnant wages, for at least a big part of the population, and extreme inequality. If you had that kind of economic world that of course would breed nationalism and extremism”

Here I list it again; worst polluters in history, responsible for 70% of all carbon emissions, all time:

US, China, UK, Japan, Germany, India, Russia, France, Canada.

Private equity millionaire’s son is chosen to go to space by Bezos but he is “more of a fan” of the Tesla’s monkey boy? Dude who gives a shit?

“Switzerland’s.. Migros [plans to] deliver… its goods with green hydrogen fuel-cell trucks”

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I am not entirely convinced Cuban regime wants the ambargo to end.. Why would they? It is the perfect scapegoat. Some during the 90s did claim convincingly Castro was making moves for it, to keep the ambargo.

Then there was this and this likely hurting Al Gore and later Hilary, respectively, in Florida.

There are a boat load of examples where a Dem was screwed bcz of Cuba.. You could claim Clinton lost gov in 1980 partly bcz of Castro. Cuba sent refugees to US, Carter dumped them on Arkansas, there was a ruckus, Cubans escaped from camp and armed citizens nearly shot them to death. Some other factors were there 2, but the refugee issue loomed large.

Providing “gonzo Internet” to Cuba.. good idea.

Industrial Age society, the Second Wave began in Western Europe with the Industrial Revolution, and subsequently spread across the world. Key aspects of Second Wave society are the nuclear family, a factory-type education system and the corporation. The Third Wave is the post-industrial society based on hi-tech with all its benefits and adverse effects causing major attitude shifts in society. Institutions are built around methods of production, so when a new wave arrives, older structures around governance, education, health start to crumble despite the best efforts of people working in them.