Probably the proliferation of opiates and, more likely, methamphetamine. Scientific progress that makes these highly addictive and debilitating substances easy to produce can't be undone.
I live in San Francisco, where it now costs over $100,000 per year to operate a single toilet, because without it being under constant guard, people start living in them.
A more efficient solution is to have a stainless steel bathroom which rinses itself with bleach every 20 minutes unless an emergency call button is activated. If it is occupied past 20 minutes a hydraulic press ejects the contents of the bathroom to the outside.
How disingenuous! The people trying to do something about socioeconomic factors are blocked from doing anything of significance by the same people apoplectic over aid to Ukraine.
More correctly: "sorry, we have to give billions of dollars in handouts to the wealthy instead."
Twenty plus years of losing foreign wars that were not only unnecessary but they didn't even have a clear objective (that both parties whole heartedly supported). Let me know when you get around to the socioeconomic factors, I've been waiting my entire life.
Friend, America is a warring state. We explicitly, intentionally ignore domestic issues while writing legislation that benefits the wealthy class, and then use foreign crises to distract the population from doing something about it.
What is your point? Ukraine is a line item in the US budget. We spent, what, 20 times that giving handouts to billionaires in 2020?
Let me know when we are allowed to spend money on socioeconomic factors. Literally the only thing holding us back from it are the disingenuous arguments people choose to believe. The same people lecturing about students paying back loans sure did turn a blind eye to PPP forgiveness. Why is that?
The people committing violent crimes don't have student loans. Paying them off would be a massive upward wealth transfer to the best off, highly educated professionals living in high cost of living areas.
Homie, the middle class is rapidly eroding and soon it will only be the hyper-rich and the impoverished, if we cannot make drastic changes to our socioeconomic policy. "Best off" is hardly a descriptor for the average college graduate that I know; Most everyone is struggling.
Most organizations that I've worked with as a consultant think Jira = Agile/Scrum and fail to do even the most basic actual Agile/Scrum things like proper story writing, filling a product owner role with someone who has even a remote idea of the product owner's responsibility, etc., etc.
Where I live, fruit and vegetable farmers are routinely required to discard significant portions of the harvest per USDA mandates… maybe we could find some middle ground between poisoning people for obscene harvests and allowing pests to decimate crops?
You clearly know very little about agriculture. Beef cattle actually graze many hundreds of thousands of acres of land that could not realistically be converted to legume production.
Please do not cross into personal attack on HN, no matter how little someone else knows or you feel they know.
Your comment would be fine without the first sentence, and even better if you had added one or two sentences more to explain why it could not realistically be converted to legume production.
Edit: having looked at your comment history, it's painfully clear that you're using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's the line at which we ban accounts*, regardless of what they're battling for, so I've banned this account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I agree, grandparent comment is pretty brash while also being substantively wrong.
Most of our meat in the US comes from factory farms.
> 70.4 percent of cows, 98.3 percent of pigs, 99.8 percent of turkeys, 98.2 percent of egg-laying hens, and over 99.9 percent of chickens raised for meat come from factory farms.
You can’t have public bathrooms in a society filled with criminals and homeless drug addicts.