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by WD-421 days ago |
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upvoteby autoexec23 hours ago|
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Texans often try to regulate these industries at the local level. The state government has tried to put a stop to most of that by passing the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act which took away the ability of local communities to protect themselves. The state has ruled that Texans will be exploited by industry in order to protect profits and the citizens aren't allowed to vote to save themselves.
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upvoteby charlie9016 hours ago|
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Who votes for the state government?
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upvoteby encoderer1 days ago|
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This is a self fulfilling profecy.

For a long time, it was jobs and the promise of a better future for your family. By killing that all we have is weather.

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upvoteby WD-421 days ago|
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All we have is the weather? California is the largest agricultural producer of any state, and it's not even close. Plants like growing here for the same reason people do.
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upvoteby CamperBob221 hours ago|
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Because they get all the water that can possibly be piped in from somewhere else.
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upvoteby inigyou12 hours ago|
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Good? If it's the best place for producing a product, but requires an input from somewhere else, that's how businesses work.
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upvoteby georgeecollins8 hours ago|
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That's pretty much true of half the USA.
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upvoteby mh-1 days ago|
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And if the last several years are indicative of the trend, wildfire season is now a substantial part of the year.
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upvoteby thephyber1 days ago|
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You act as though California is no longer one of the largest populations or one of the largest economies.

The “snowball fallacy” is a fallacy because there is no reason California s can’t swing the regulatory pendulum back the other direction if there is too much economy / freedom impacted.

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upvoteby jjmarr1 days ago|
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When I took a machining course, the instructor sat in the corner and showed us YouTube videos in Mandarin with English subtitles to teach us the equipment.

We are never going to catch up.

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upvoteby triceratops8 hours ago|
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China probably caught up the same way starting 40 years ago. Watching VHS tapes in English (or German, Japanese, or French) with Mandarin subtitles*. Clearly "never" is untrue because it's been done once already.

IMO this is all cyclical.

* This is metaphorical. Obviously there were also textbooks and research papers and technical manuals and everything else. The point is much of it came from abroad and they learned it all to the point that they're the experts today.

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upvoteby themaninthedark22 hours ago|
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What a myopic attitude.

3 to 4 decades ago anything from China was poor quality and US manufacturing was tight tolerance.

When we outsourced, we did the training to get them where they are today and stopped investing in our skills at home.

There are still skilled people here who can train and the knowledge is not some sort of eldritch incantation.

The main issues with learning is lack of jobs and lack of opportunity to apply skills if you have them.

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upvoteby jjmarr20 hours ago|
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I had to pay an instructor to show me YouTube videos because the college wouldn't admit to being unable to find domestic talent.

> There are still skilled people here who can train

If you don't acknowledge you're losing the race, you will never catch up.

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upvoteby ozlikethewizard15 hours ago|
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Most of the comp sci videos on youtube are indian, but is India the cutting edge producing of comp sci innovations?
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