During a recession, as tax receipts fall, European countries simultaneously spend more on welfare.
There's something about the deficits! inflation! story that evidently resonates with a lot of people no matter how often and how badly the worldview fails in practice — and is also completely resistant to attempts to point out that things must add up, that everyone can't simultaneously spend less than their income.
We can quibble on the adoption curve, but I for one would much rather be carted around on-demand and simultaneously spend less money than me driving myself everywhere I need to go.
Cities, states, and the federal government often negate their own efforts to nurture public transit by simultaneously spending huge sums to make it easier for people to get around in cars.
For much of my 20s and early 30s (I'm now 44), as I tried to get a filmmaking career off the ground, I simultaneously spent nearly all of my time watching and writing and thinking about movies.
Dictatorships may still feel the need to bribe their citizens (eg, via subsidised fuel prices) to ensure their acquiescence while simultaneously spending large amounts on the police and the military to shore up their power.
If a country is spending so much money and energy on one group of children that it is making these children miserable, and is simultaneously spending so little on another group of children that those children are going hungry, homeless and uneducated, then I think we've got not two crises but one.
Evidence appears to suggest that the company worked since the 1980s to confuse the public about climate change's march, while simultaneously spending millions to fortify its own infrastructure against climate change's destructive consequences and track new exploration opportunities as the Arctic's ice receded".
Meanwhile, the former head of the catastrophically bad Islamic Al-Madinah school in Derby is now about to join another school, this time with creationist roots, in Newark, Nottinghamshire, a town with surplus places, where the DfE is simultaneously spending millions rebuilding an improving local academy.
I've simultaneously spent the last two months gaining a deeper understanding into what it's like to be a carpool driver.
Asked another way, how is offering accurate, more convenient tests, at a lower cost, using industry-leading technology while simultaneously spending tens of millions on R&D that could further reduce the cost, complexity, and pain of blood testing a bad thing?
