Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
San Francisco: Non-Citizens Legally Register to Vote in San Francisco School Elections
July 19th, 2018Via: Sacramento Bee: San Francisco began registering non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants, to register to vote Monday in the November election for the city school board, reported The San Francisco Chronicle. The move follows passage of a 2016 ballot measure by San Francisco voters opening school elections to non-citizens who are over the age of 18, […]
The Twitch Streamers Who Spend Years Broadcasting to No One
July 16th, 2018Via: The Verge: When John Hopstead first descended into the virtual world of Dark Souls in 2013, his mission was to save a decaying world. Famed for its brutal and exacting gameplay, Dark Souls is a popular game to live stream: if you’re going to die hundreds of times, you might as well perish with […]
Trash Piles Up in U.S. as China Closes Door to Recycling
July 12th, 2018Via: AFP: Globally, since 1992, 72 percent of plastic waste has ended up in China and Hong Kong, according to a study in the journal Science Advances. But since January, China has closed its borders to most paper and plastic waste in line with a new environmental policy pushed by Beijing, which no longer wants […]
Wealthy Worried About Keeping Control of Their Minions After “The Event”
July 6th, 2018Via: Medium: The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down. This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would […]
China: 3 Year Old High End Villas
July 2nd, 2018Winston and C-Milk are great. I’ve been watching both of them for about a year. They have both lived in China for over a decade, have Chinese wives and speak the language. Their individual channels are: serpentza laowhy86 Their partnership “Adventure” channel is: advchina Very interesting viewing! Via: Advchina:
More States Opting to ‘Robo-Grade’ Student Essays by Computer
July 2nd, 2018Via: NPR: Department Of Education Deputy Commissioner Jeff Wulfson cited “huge advances in artificial intelligence in the last few years” and cracked, “I asked Alexa whether she thought we’d ever be able to use computers to reliably score tests, and she said absolutely.”
California: The Poverty Capital of the U.S.
July 1st, 2018Via: City Journal: California—not Mississippi, New Mexico, or West Virginia—has the highest poverty rate in the United States. According to the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure—which accounts for the cost of housing, food, utilities, and clothing, and which includes noncash government assistance as a form of income—nearly one out of four Californians is poor. Given […]
There Are Now Barely Two Workers Per Senior in Most Developed Economies
June 30th, 2018Via: The Sounding Line: For every American 65 years of age or older, there are now barely three people working and paying into the country’s safety-net, Social Security, and Medicare programs. In France there are barely two workers per senior. In Japan there are slightly less than two. In Italy and Greece there are barely […]
Severe Obesity Rates Surging in Rural America
June 20th, 2018Via: Reuters: Severe obesity rates have been on the rise nationwide since the turn of the century, disproportionately affecting children and adults in rural communities, two U.S. studies suggest. Researchers examined data on height and weight collected from 2001 to 2016 for adults 20 and older and for youth ages 2 to 19. Severe obesity […]
San Francisco Tourists Shocked By Aggressive Vagrants, Discarded Needles, Dead Bodies
June 18th, 2018Via: ZeroHedge: San Francisco – a Democratic stronghold known for cable cars, quaint architecture and its diverse culture, has become a bastion of squalor and crime as city dwellers and visitors alike dodge aggressive, drug-addled vagrants. And it’s beginning to scare the tourists…
