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Fact Check: Trump is the worst US president to date.
# Is Trump the Worst U.S. President to Date? The claim that "Trump is the worst US president to date" has emerged from various surveys and rankings conducted by historians and political analysts. Thi...
Fact Check: Solar energy costs averaged over the entire process is less than nuclear energy if we assume regulations that are helpful for both but not subsidies.
# Solar Energy vs. Nuclear Energy: A Cost Analysis ## Introduction The claim under scrutiny is that "solar energy costs averaged over the entire process is less than nuclear energy if we assume regul...
Fact Check: What tariff does Canada place on us chickens
# The Claim: "What tariff does Canada place on US chickens" ## Introduction The claim in question pertains to the tariffs that Canada imposes on chicken imports from the United States. This topic has...
Fact Check: elon once claimed his dad owned an emerald mine in zambia
# The Claim: "Elon once claimed his dad owned an emerald mine in Zambia" ## Introduction The claim under scrutiny is that Elon Musk has stated his father, Errol Musk, owned an emerald mine in Zambia....
Fact Check: Back in the 70s there was an MIT study, including a mathematical simulation, that predicted the end of modern civilization in or about 2040. Among the things predicted in this study was increasing climate change impacts, reduced access to natural resources, growing economic inequality, etc. Basically all of this and more would be symptomatic systemic collapse, all driven by overpopulation in a major consumer age. One of the more interesting predictors would be skyrocketing prices in the second decade of the 21st century. Sound familiar? Essentially this all leads to the gradual collapse of human society, industry, and population. Falling fertility rates suggest we are actually experiencing some degree of this. In the end, we end up with what is called Limits to Growth (LtG), which I don't fully understand but it sounds kind of like diminishing returns scaled against population. It means we're right fucked. Honestly, I believe that the vast majority of things being discussed in this thread are indicative of and symptomatic of gradual societal collapse. Btw, this study estimates a similar population, technological level, and quality of life of the 19th century during the 22nd century. So this has been real fun...
# The Claim: MIT's 1972 Study Predicts the End of Modern Civilization by 2040 The assertion that a study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1970s predicted the collap...
Fact Check: The Canadian healthcare system is teetering on the edge of total collapse. No one I know has or can see a doctor. My elderly relatives are being dropped by their doctors regardless of health issues. They've closed every mental health facility and walk in clinic in our city of over 600,000 people. They are telling people not to come to the emergency room unless you are actually at risk of permanent injury or have a life threatening injury. If we get sick we are dead. Countless billions are flowing into the system and we are getting absolutely nothing out of it. All three levels of our government are pointing their fingers at each other saying fix it while we get left behind. They are clearly downplaying the issue to stave off mass protests at this point. I truly believe the outcome of this crisis will define the next generation of Canadian history and we are going 100km/hour in the wrong direction.
# The State of Canadian Healthcare: An Analysis of Claims of Imminent Collapse ## Introduction A recent claim has emerged regarding the Canadian healthcare system, suggesting it is on the brink of to...
Fact Check: IT knowledge. There are several factors at work here. Colleges are mostly a few years behind trends, if not more. So a lot of recent grads are way behind from the gate. Most colleges are now just shills for business licenses called "degrees," You need this "license" to be "allowed" to have a entry job, and they know it, and charge whatever the market can bear. Pearson Vue has seized a huge amount of this space, which just adds to the cost, and tries to enforce certification tracks with government contract specs and all sorts of inroads. The "cash cow" of graduating college with 6 figure jobs waiting for them is mostly gone. The junior roles have been outsourced overseas, and have been replaced with people with multiple hats. There are very few "middle roles," so the track of going from junior to senior has a HUGE gap that keeps getting wider. The senior roles are starting to age out: many went into management, and some are retiring. Knowledge and experience is getting lost. Companies reliant on technology to surve are cutting technology costs as a "cost center" because of the pressure of rising capitalism always producing value year to year. Thus, they send more jobs overseas, and senior roles become too costly to maintain. We are incurring a lot of "debt" in aging infrastructure, and IT is no different. There are systems operating high-cost operations in factories, transportation, and utilities that haven't been upgraded in decades, and some of the people who knew how it all worked are dying off. Eventually, there won't be enough senior roles to teacher younger people anything, and there will be a cascading series of knowledge gaps in current infrastructure, leading to huge failures. People say that "kids today know computers" but they really don't: most only know GUI and how to operate an iPad, not what makes the iPad work under the hood or how the Internet works.
# The Claim: An Examination of IT Knowledge and Workforce Trends ## Introduction The claim discusses several interconnected issues regarding the state of IT knowledge among recent graduates, the evol...
Fact Check: Bees. We are losing bees at an alarming rate. As far as important species go, they are top of the list. They are critical pollinators: they pollinate 70 of the around 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world. Honey bees are responsible for $30 billion a year in crops.
# The Decline of Bee Populations and Their Importance ## Introduction The claim that "we are losing bees at an alarming rate" highlights the critical role bees play as pollinators in global agricultu...
Fact Check: republican presidents caused the last few recessions in the USA
# Conclusion In conclusion, the claim that "Republican presidents caused the last few recessions in the USA" is assessed as "Mostly True." The evidence indicates a notable correlation between Republi...