Nice to hear that reverse osmosis has become affordable. Most water sanitizing tech isn't significantly better than just letting it sit around in a brass jug for a day, but RO sure is! Brass only kills pathogens; it won't remove all the other contaminants RO can.

Nope.

There are millions of people who aren't carrying phones. I only carry one when I'm paid to do so (and provided with the phone) and that's only happened twice in the last 20 years.

It's true that smartphones are useful to many people and desirable for even more. But lots of us don't want or need them at all; they'd just be a burden of maintenance and cost, and essentially a lifestyle downgrade.

Last I checked we all have smart phones that are constantly linked to the internet and synchronized with the most precise time sources physicists can come up with.

Uh, nope. Check again.

I personally have installed an RO filter (any monkey with a crescent wrench should be able to do the same) and we have a crapload of klean kanteen-style stainless bottles...

Stainless steel is a filthy metal unless you're using the newer silver-coated stuff.

Seems a shame to use water from an expensive reverse osmosis filter in an inherently disease-friendly container - why not use a nice glass bottle, or a silver or copper one if you're worried about breakage?

Or does the choice of cause mean that one billionaire trying to influence politics is worse than the other billionaire trying to influence politics?

Well, pretty obviously yes. In this universe, anyway.

For example, a billionaire influencing politics so that certain ethnicities are rounded up and placed in offshore torture camps is clearly worse than a billionaire influencing politics so that charities that provide surgery for children with cleft palates are exempt from taxation.

Jebus, I hope you were trolling.

I live in the bottom of a little valley, and I'd need a hundred foot tower to get more than two TV stations.

In my state, it's illegal to have a tower so tall that it could fall outside your property line. My property isn't two hundred feet wide, so no go.

But I ditched Comcast anyway and got Verizon instead. Verizon sucks too, but marginally less, and the FIOS technology is nice, at least, even if the provider isn't.

.NET is really what Java wishes it was.

Uh... difficult to read regardless of your milk tongue?

So yeah, Vermont Yankee going offline will change things, but we'll manage. Indeed, losing a source of subsidized power will create more opportunities for expansion of renewables.

And that is almost certainly the whole and entire real reason for opposition to the plant closing.

Remember, Green is the New Red.

Automobile waste has a half-life longer than nuclear waste.

And the sun is radioactive! Oh double noes!

Well, let me know when automobile waste has a half-life equivalent to that of nuclear waste, then.

It's a false equivalency. Yes, coal and oil subsidies are bad, but that doesn't mean the Bush/Cheney nuclear subsidies aren't substantially worse.

Nuclear was on the way out until Cheney stepped in and threw regulated capitalism out the window in favor of Soviet-style centralized economic decisionmaking.

Well, that is how they stay competitive with all the other subsidized industries.

In theory, the government subsidies are intended to further social goals that the free market cannot adequately address without regulation.

In practice, the government subsidies are treats that the political powers (such as congressmen) hand out to economic powers (such as favored contributors).

Since our economic powers have evolved into multinational corporations that actively oppose our social goals and purposely subvert our cultural values, this means that the government subsidies are quite often doing the exact opposite of what they are nominally intended to do.

More like a human-guided scythe, cutting through damn near every obstacle during an accident - especially human bodies that are outside of the precious Tesla cockpit.

I think you might have written the best advertising material for the car so far.