I agree, and instead of selling stocks, most smart people would sell BTC first. I guess that would make BTC the proverbial "canary in the coalmine". ------------ Late Thursday, market researcher Ed Yardeni blamed some of Thursday's stock market sell-off on "the ongoing plunge in bitcoin's price," reports Fortune:

Solar sails is my possible solution, thousands of them 1km square. Bonus if they pass light that is beneficial to plants, and reflect the rest. As far as putting more particulates into the atmosphere, no, just no.

Even if, and assuming it is true, it is not like the land cleared is useless. After building the windmills, anybody with an imagination can think of many different beneficial ways to use the land that has a "pole" every five acres or so.

Numerous studies of "agrivoltaics" (solar PV combined with farming) has shown that solar PV improves yields, reduces water use by providing partial shade. Good for both plant and animal farming.

John Oliver had a piece this year on Companies like Enron, and Boeing. He made some very good points. Lets see... There is a bank that was blatantly laundering money for Cartels and Gangs, the US Government said.. hey stop, i'm giving you three years probation. They kept doing it. Nothing happened. At Boeing, over 300 people died after many engineers said their airplane design was crap. They were put on probation, nothing happened. Hundreds of people died because a defective switch in GM cars, and the big wigs at the company seemed to have done a cost/benefit analysis between deaths, and the cost of the recall, and waited. Trump basically legalized bribery overseas (and probably fired anybody prosecuting in the USA). Unfettered Capitalism is clearly failing in certain places, and it certainly should not be blaspheme to point that out.

"It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another." --Malcolm Reynolds

(Ironically applies well to Joss Whedon himself. Kind of wonder if one of the show writers was thinking about Joss when they wrote that...)

The only single-source point of failure is me.

More and more I'm encountering AI as customer service agents (both online and by telephone).
I have not had a singe good experience with any of them. They provide wordy generic useless responses.
The worst experience was with Tesla Insurance. They randomly sent me a message that they were cancelling my insurance because they didn't have a home address for me (in spite of them being able to see my car parked at home every night for the past three years). I thought I could just call them to straighten out the confusion. AI agent was useless and said I had to talk to a real person. I spent hours a day over a week and never got to talk to a person. I ended up just cancelling and getting a new (cheaper) insurance company.

Are they using Musk's Nazi-Grok AI?

Tesla has been collecting extensive data on all their models since the beginning.
They used to do it without charge (how generous of them) but now charge about $10/month if you want extra data services (maps, etc.). Even if you don't pay they still collect data on the car, location, etc.

Interesting to see all the deniers here.
China is ahead in robotics, automobiles, and manufacturing of all kinds.
The US is "great" at borrowing money and buying stuff from the rest of the world.
Oh yes, don't forget our military bases all over the world. All these do is cost money and make people hate the US.
The US has lost the plot. It's not military power, the winning ticket is economic power and China has it.

I think I saw someone swimming in some sewage en route from scraping a bear carcass off the road, let me go check.

1. I got asked once if I played world of warcraft since they say a guy with the name "thegarbz" playing. I said no. By the way I know exactly who that person is because he impersonated me as a joke. I found that flattering and funny, but it has no impact on my life beyond that.

Reminds me of my first email account ;) One of my professors said we all had to register for an email account (this was in the mid-90s) so we could submit our homework to him, so I registered his name at hotmail.com to mess with him ;)

I don't trust single points of failure.

Yeah, this. If I have to sign up to some site that I don't care at all if it gets hacked, I use a throwaway password. Oh noez, someone might compromise my WidgetGenerator.foo.bar account and generate some widgets in my name, heavens to betsy!