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Comment Re:Yes, becuase ... (Score 1) 69

It's a revelation to some people when a solar panel can't keep the lights on after sunset. Or when the battery never gets charged during the day due to heavy overcast, or the 8000 tons of batteries needed to keep a 50 MW data center running through a 15 hour winter night. Yes I did the math.

It might also be a revelation to you that the owners of the data centers have no intention of turning them off at night. Since hydropower is tapped out, coal is classified as unclean, gas turbines are back-ordered if the gas supply is even available, solar and wind are intermittent at best and batteries boost the real cost of that power if you can find the land to install it, the list of options gets thin. Geothermal only works in a few places, and that leaves fission and fusion. Only one of those is known to work.

Bingo.

It's all well and good to mutter the shibboleths when it doesn't matter ... but the data center operators actually need lots of reliable power, not just vaporous feel good-isms. So lookie there; all of a sudden nuclear isn't so bad anymore, lol.

Comment Re:Not much fun to be deaf (Score 1) 31

Out of curiosity, do implants help with tinnitus? I have what can best be described as raging tinnitus, along with little hearing above 3 KHz.

From what I've read of others' experience, some get better, some worse, when it comes to tinnitus. I don't know what studies there are about it; you might want to look.

For me personally, it's better. Much less tinnitus. Not sure why. Maybe actually hearing stuff on that side again stops my brain from wanting to make stuff up? Dunno ...

Comment They are right (Score 2) 47

"Harmful" is subjective and debatable.

If we want software to help decrease social injustice, we should oppose licenses that restrict how software can be used.

Yep. Software freedom is software freedom. Even if it lets those smelly other people who dare to have different opinions use the software ...

Comment Re:Not much fun to be deaf (Score 1) 31

Forever guessing what people said is not much fun.

No, it's not. Nor is having people seem to suddenly materialize on your deaf side, lol

I'm very glad that I got my cochlear implant for single sided deafness. Although who knows; if they ever figure out something similar to the treatment in this story for it, maybe I blew my chances for true recovery. But I sure can hear a lot better now, with the implant, than without.

Comment Re:Kewl retort - want to explain to the rest of us (Score 0) 40

Most right wing news sources are lazy and racist. For example, they put up a picture of one bad black man, and say all black men are bad. Then they put up one Mexican, and say all Mexicans are bad.

lol ... you've literally never watched Fox News, right?

Because if you had, you'd know that you are spouting not just a lie, but a ridiculous lie?

What's your basis? He made a clear statement. I don't watch Fox News if I can avoid it, so please explain to the rest of us your actual point. You're claiming he's saying a ridiculous lie...he may be, he may not be, but I can't tell a fucking thing about what your point is or what you're getting at. So you want to explain your perspective like an adult, or throw out lame comments like "it's a lie" with no further explanation?

You ... need to have the concept of a lie explained to you?

He was using a ridiculous, ludicrous lie to try to make his "point" (that in his view "Most right wing news sources are lazy and racist.")

If you need a ridiculous, ludicrous, obvious lie to make your point ... then clearly you can't make it.

Comment Re:So I suppose that leaves PBS,CBC,BBC, and Aljaz (Score 0, Insightful) 40

Most right wing news sources are lazy and racist. For example, they put up a picture of one bad black man, and say all black men are bad. Then they put up one Mexican, and say all Mexicans are bad.

lol ... you've literally never watched Fox News, right?

Because if you had, you'd know that you are spouting not just a lie, but a ridiculous lie?

Comment Re: And just like that (Score 0) 107

That's not even remotely true. Right now, though, the U.S. stands at only around 12% of annual GHG emissions. And even if you use cumulative numbers since the 1700s (most of which is not still in the atmosphere), the U.S. still only produced something like 20% [carbonbrief.org] of cumulative CO2 emissions.

But ... but ... how can I fashionably US-bash with that???

Comment Re:Look this is just dumb (Score 0) 84

We can fight every fire individually, or we can institute UBI, or we can admit that we don't give a fuck about other humans and want them to die.

If your economic system says people must be productive to be able to survive, and also enshrines eliminating jobs so that people can't do that, it's an attack on other humans and their only rational response is to attack it with everything they have so that they can be permitted to live.

We've spent well over forty years prioritizing greed over all other possible virtues. We're in one of the inflection points at this particular moment. We can either decide that we have some value other than greed, or we can let society steer itself into oblivion through that greed.

Based on the way things are looking? All our big decision makers have decided to just let greed continue to play its game. Human health and life itself doesn't matter in the face of profit potential for the few.

Or ... bear with me now ... your political opponents aren't cartoon-ish enemies, but rather people who just disagree with you about how simple you think the solutions to life's problems are.

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