1. Doing things like randomly firing the staff who were hired recently to address gaps in care is NOT the way to improve things. And it takes staff, time and money to make new processes.
2. The article points out ways, besides VA cuts, that veterans are being harmed. For instance, many of those government workers fired without cause are veterans, and the veterans' suicide hotline (already understaffed) is going to hemorrhage more staff when the edict against remote work goes into effect.
I am constantly amazed at how reputable news outlets like the New York Times misstate data from Facebook's CrowdTangle - usually in a way that overstates the spread of the questionable information. But Facebook seems to deliberately want to prevent outsiders from getting access to information that would help us judge the scope of the problem.
There are lots of roundabouts in the Boston area (where we call them rotaries). People encounter them regularly and STILL don't know how to use them. Although recently there have been great strides made in using lane markings to steer drivers through more effectively.
I guess the question to ask is: if you gave the kids a desk and a room of their own by itself, would academic performance improve? Or would academic performance improve more if you raised the parents out of poverty?
I know, the answer to the climate toll of eating meat is vegetarianism. But I like to see this more as a question of harm reduction - hundreds of millions of people will not give up meat tomorrow.
What's unclear to me is given how much extra electricity (20%) is consumed in charging up the battery, is this more efficient than just firing up another turbine?
Each kWh produced by a gas turbine has a marginal cost of fuel. By charging when there is excess power available, it’s energy that would otherwise go wasted (if the generator was asked to curtail instead) or the generator would’ve had to pay someone to take the power of their hands.
The credibility of this article is undermined by the statement that Boston's 911 calls are sometimes unanswered - backed up by a link to a 2006 article from a student newspaper.
2. The article points out ways, besides VA cuts, that veterans are being harmed. For instance, many of those government workers fired without cause are veterans, and the veterans' suicide hotline (already understaffed) is going to hemorrhage more staff when the edict against remote work goes into effect.