Your Nazi pals are collapsing on all fronts, McCarthyite cocksucking trash.

Even Fox News hailed Venezuela's economy before Obama decided it had to be destroyed to protect the petrodollar.

because they're a dictatorship

Even a non-dictator would have had Juan Guido shot for treason. Instead Maduro (checks notes) gave him a security detail to keep him safe from mobs. Some "dictator".

But the reason Venezuela is hurting so much is because it's a small country and they were literally getting all of their electricity from a huge dam.

Noooo, because their economy has been trashed by bipartisan sanctions from Washington. They also have a great climate for agriculture but can't compete against dumped crops from the United States subsidized below the cost of production.

Communist government decides that people see too much online. Cracks down on speech online.

Youth organize on remaining online forums, and successfully purge the communists from government. Hold a vote who gets to replace communists on discord.

Don't see too many cars on walking paths and sidewalks. The number of e-bikes on walking paths and sidewalks has skyrocketed. It's almost as if someone decided being a pedestrian is a sinful activity, and that every walkway must now be infested with morons on wheels.

Then let me get started on mobility scooters.

I'd just like them banned from walking paths. At least once a day I'm getting some crazy asshole ringing his bell as he comes flying up behind me. I'm not a fan of any kind of bike on walking paths, but at least the people on regular bikes have more control. The worst are probably older riders who often seem like they're barely in control. And the three wheeled ones take up outrageous amounts of space on smaller paths, regularly forcing other users on some of the narrower paths I frequent to get to the side of the road.

It's hard to imagine, short of motor vehicles, anything more hazardous to a pedestrian than some stupid prick on an e-bike.

That is the story, although there are some conflicting stories so it's not really clear whether "a patchy server" came before or after using the Apache name.

Either way, as far as Native American references go, I find the use by the Apache Foundation to be relatively benign.

While all the reactionaries in this thread (like the first post) are completely ridiculous with how quickly they pulled out their soapboxes to decry cultural sensitivity as "anti-white" while demonizing liberal white women, there is a small kernel of truth in their complaints that we can be a little too sensitive at times. Backlash against the "Apache" name is an example of that. Unfortunately, they take that small kernel of truth and turn it into a mountain of racism.

As you correctly guessed, I prefer people engage their thinking when they read most posts. I find that ideal.

If land use is a problem then how seriously has Brazil considered nuclear power?

You say that but then complain about this:

Fine, just don't make me subsidize your virtue signalling with government mandates requiring the utility to buy excess energy production.

Nuclear power wouldn't exist without gargantuan subsidies forced out of the pocket of taxpayers. Proving once again that nuclear is an even more unserious religion than Scientology.

Cutting down actually green plant life to make room for so-called "green" energy is not good for the environment.

Good thing that's totally unnecessary then. Existing roofs, parking lots and roads have more than enough space for solar. Wind can be installed in existing farms.

I'm just not a fan of solar panels paving over fertile land.

Solar panels over crops that don't need a combine or full sun are good for both the crops and the panels. The shade is good for the crops and the evaporation cools the panels, improving their performance.

As the summary mentions, Nintendo retains ownership of their dev kits.

Sounds like the corporateganda that you aren't buying a copy of a movie or a game but merely a "license". Just because they claim it doesn't make it true.

Putting the fact that your sole point of opposition is basically "I hate that people get paid for doing something of value for one who's paying them", which is a communist talking point and nothing more. It has nothing to do with driving laws.

What exactly do you think a role of a fairly expensive HMD would be in Amazon's logistical operations when used on the operators?

The current progress line in military piloting is Dashboard > Heads Up Display > Helmet Mounted Display.

On the road cars are already at HUD stage. There are plenty of cars that project a HUD in driver's field of vision ahead of the driver. This would be a natural extension of that, mounted directly to the head of the driver.

I see zero reasons why this would be banned when HUDs are allowed everywhere, unless it does some illegal distraction on the road. Which is unlikely.

>As for words vs concepts. You still don't seem to have grasped the square cube law.

This is why I don't like debating people who are word thinkers. They conclude that "there's some very basic thing that you don't understand, because words".

The fact that I specifically invoke the concept that REQUIRES it as baseline to be a viable concept never enters your mind. Because you don't think with concepts.

Damn you're a pussy. How come all the dudes who pine for "masculine" content are such whiny little bitches?

There are all sorts of action movies with white people on Netflix for you to jack off to. If you're watching the type of juvenile ass movies where casting takes things like race into account to get the perfect racial bingo scorecard, you only have yourself to blame for watching stories created for idiots.

I'm just going to add that you also don't seem to appreciate the temperatures involved with remote heating with the "let's just heat pump from sand to remote heating". Your refrigerant is going to be some super rare golden grade stuff to handle those temperatures, if it even exists in commercial world today at all.

As for the rest, we seem to just keep talking past each other. You seem to think with words, i.e. "but this is not a heat exchanger, so you're wrong", whereas I talk with concepts "everything is a heat exchanger because it exchanges heat, here are the criteria that make making this work well difficult".

I do not see how your post makes sense as a response to mine, but unlike the poster I was responding to you at least made an argument that was on topic and made sense.

However, I think your post largely misses the point of the complaints against the voucher system. The problem is that it takes money away from public schools to fund schools that have to adhere to less strict academic standards, do not pay teachers well, and often teach religion. Not all private/charter schools are worse than public schools, but if you are able to send your kid to one that is better than public schools you are wealthy enough that you do not need that public money. Nice private schools are not built in low-income neighborhoods.

Your concerns about public schools are also quite the over-generalization. My children attend a neighboring school district because we did not like the cultural fit of our local school district (probably for the opposite reasons of your complaints). Public school districts often reflect the culture and mores of the local community, and if they do not it is very easy to win school board races if your values are more aligned with the community. Where I live pretty much all of the rural school boards are run by conservatives and the urban ones by democrats. Maybe that introduces its own set of problems, but it demonstrates that choice exists without the voucher and charter school systems. Taking public money and giving it to non-public schools might provide even more choices, but those are low-quality choices that function as an anchor weighing down the existing public school system. Who really benefits from vouchers? Those looking to prop up low quality schools for personal profit, religious schools, and private schools that are geographically out of reach for low income students.