Look at what the payments were in say, 1950 — about 10% of the average yearly wage. That's not a retirement; that's a little bit to keep you going.
The virtue of the old employer-sponsored pensions is that they forced contributions. Letting people decide means that lower-income wages will fall so that people can't contribute.
Social Security wasn't ever meant to be enough; it was mean to be something minimal.
There are a number of places you can see roads and foundations which have halfway-fallen as the land under them eroded away.
The Inflation Reduction Act (passed with only Democratic votes in 2021) has significant subsidies for the US to do exactly that. Factories are going up. Just not fully in place yet.
Paying for the damage being done is of course the right thing to do.
They bite through the lining of the stomach and circulate with blood looking for tissue to develop inside of. They usually do this in pigs, but it sometimes happens in humans
The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,”
I don't think you need to worry about The Onion now that Global Teteahedron took over that publication
Yeah. That's a very low-probability outcome though; we're much more likely to end up doing something like redistributing rainfall in a way that leaves us without enough food.
For rooftop, definitely. But those were (at peak) only about 5% of annual solar installs in California. It's almost all utility-scale.
We probably can't make it that hot. We can however make it too hot for us.