Lot of people think it'd be fun to make the tools. Nobody volunteering to be the one wading around a clogged sewer.
People who play garbage truck simulator don't have to smell the work themselves nor ever have to actually lift a single trash can. Definitely not the same thing.
Go into the sewers to break up a fatberg in a literal river of raw sewage and then try to tell me it's just emptying dustbins on a grander scale. There are a lot of jobs that are vital to a functional society that nobody wants to do, things that only get done because they get paid a lot to do it.
Okay, where do we find the volunteers to haul garbage and unclog sewers who are just in it for the love of the game?
The problem isn't really with the structure of the government. It started with the voters. This chucklefuck got elected twice. Twice. If the first time wasn't bad enough we fucking knew how awful he'd be and he was elected a second fucking time.
The mechanisms to remove him from office for being a senile insane pedophile rapist murdering war criminal are all in place, but half the government sees him as THEIR war criminal and the other half are too timid to do anything.
Even if we restructured the government or reinforced impeachment powers, it doesn't matter so long as imbeciles will vote a monster like him in and cowards will keep him there.
Yeah but state charges can't be pardoned by the president, so there's still a chance.
There is, but it doesn't work when most of congress sees him as their deranged lunatic criminal. Laws are only as good as the mechanism of enforcing them.
Do you guys remember back when Elon insisted he was a Free Speech Absolutist? How he wanted to ensure nobody was censored on Twitter? That shit just gets funnier every day.
Yeah, no. Musk bought Twitter because he HAD to. He very publicly made comments about buying Twitter at absolute meme-stock prices, but didn't disclose that he already owned a LOT of Twitter stock. So, when his comments predictably increased the price of Twitter stock, he had two choices: Either it was just talk, and he was BLATANTLY guilty of stock manipulation and the Feds put a target on his back, or he acts like he totally meant it.
So he went with option two, acted like he was serious and wanted to buy twitter. Then he tried everything he could think of to kill the deal, accusing Twitter of all sorts of wrongdoing and lies, but Twitter was more careful than that. They got their shit right, and Musk couldn't back out. So he bought Twitter, rather than go to prison.
The fact that he could also kill the tracking twitter account was completely incidental. Musk is an idiot, but even he isn't that stupid. Musk initially offered $5,000 to the account holder to stop, and then balked at the return offer for $50,000. Now, I may not be a billionaire tech-bro, but I'm pretty sure that spending $50,000 to achieve a goal is preferable to spending $44,000,000,000. He's dumb, but he's not that dumb.
Remember back when Elon kept calling himself a Free Speech Absolutist? That just gets funnier every day.
For anyone who stopped reading at the headline, it's because the material they were using didn't reach the strength requirements of the project (5,000 psi), despite what previous tests had suggested (6,000 to 8,000 psi). With revisions to the material used, they intend to begin working on the second planned house in the spring.
It still requires going down into a backed up sewer and breaking up a mass of congealed fat and human waste that is blocking a river of more human waste. This isn't sitting back on a nice spring day being satisfied as you powerwash an old sidewalk.