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Under President #Biden, US Space Force had grown vocal about a need for greater offensive space capabilities due to #space-based threats from #Russia & #China.

When #Trump announced his #GoldenDome plan in January, it was a clear shift in strategy, one that emphasizes a move into #space w/ #expensive, #untested #technology that *could* be a financial boon to US #defense contractors [or just #ElonMusk].

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…Andrew Hunter, who until January served as #AirForce asst secy supervising the #AirForceOne effort, said that once the plane was acquired—by gift or purchase—it would represent a major new #cost for the #FederalGovernment.

Paying for the crew alone of an Air Force One jet costs >$37M a year, & the total annual operating cost is $134M a year…

“No one other than a nation-state—or an airline—could afford to operate this plane,” Hunter said. “It’s wildly #expensive.”

Remember, it's all self-inflicted.
It's NOT the EU's fault. 🇪🇺
It's NOT the "bloody foreigners'" fault. 🌍
It's NOT China's fault. 🇨🇳
It's NOT Russia's fault. 🇷🇺

It's the BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S FAULT.
🇬🇧💩

The UK has the most expensive public transport in the world and it is the worst in the world.

And yet they still insist that it's cheap. For who?

The UK is a joke. 🇬🇧💩

timeout.com/london/news/its-of

Time Out · It’s official: London’s public transport is now the most expensive in the worldBy Amy Houghton

@energisch_ @gerrymcgovern unfortunately, the more mom and pop, specialized, independent #home service companies get eaten up by larger all-in-one, everything home #conglomerates the harder that becomes.

Even with their #expensive #crm #serviceTitan #efficiency #constantContact #app tool for #scheduling and #pricing their new #super #skills #company needs to charge more for everything with less experienced #workers than if you had a #momAndPop #master do the work!

If anyone truly wants to #save the #Planet everyone needs to kick #bro out of the #game

Anyone that thinks replacing #human #skills and #abilities with #software and #machines is better for the #Environment than letting a human expell their own #energy doing the same things, is the problem, not part of any real word solution.

Are you the #Victim or the #Crime ?

youtu.be/Lygh4jxfvl4

#GratefulDead #BuiltToLast #MuzakLessons #ClimateChange Does one really need an #ebike for a trip through #downtown and back?

youtu.be- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

‘Like, what?’: USA’s Ariana Ramsey blown away by #free #healthcare at Olympics

In the US Patients often pay out of pocket for appointments

The US rugby sevens player Ariana Ramsey will leave Paris with more than just a bronze medal.

After ­discovering the Olympic Village ­provides not only
free food to athletes
but also a suite of free healthcare options,

she will be heading home having completed
a pap smear
and a free eye
and dental exam.

She even snagged a free pair of prescription glasses.

To quote her now-viral ­TikTok video, “Like, what?”

The Olympic Village
– where athletes reside during the Games
– began offering free medical care in 1932, according to Sports Illustrated.

In the US, healthcare is covered by #private #insurance that often requires customers to ❌pay out of pocket until a deductible is reached, ❌as well as copays and co-insurance costs,
with ❌extra fees incurred if a doctor is "out of network."

These expenses frequently make even basic healthcare such as gynaecology check-ups #prohibitively #expensive,
and Ramsey has spent the last week chronicling her experience with free healthcare on TikTok

theguardian.com/sport/article/

The Guardian · ‘Like, what?’: USA’s Ariana Ramsey blown away by free healthcare at OlympicsBy Guardian staff reporter

Taxpayers are usually the ones who are on the hook for nuclear -- especially cleanup or accidents. #PriceAndersonAct

Coalition's #nuclear plan is 'virtually impossible' without #taxpayer funding

David Chau
June 16, 2024

"Earlier this year, Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto told ABC Radio Melbourne that he did not support the construction of nuclear reactors in the #LaTrobeValley, the site of existing coal-fired power stations.

"Queensland's Liberal-National leader David Crisafulli said nuclear was not on his agenda 'because it just won't happen until Canberra sorts that out'.

"Some of the most vocal opposition has come from New South Wales' former Liberal treasurer Matt Kean, who dismissed nuclear as 'hugely #expensive' and a 'Trojan horse' for the #CoalIndustry.

In addition, the nation's leading "scientific body, the CSIRO, says it would take at least 15 years to build a large-scale #NuclearPowerPlant — and it would cost twice as much to produce electricity through nuclear reactors when compared with #renewable sources."

msn.com/en-au/money/news/exper

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