I am very much pro solar, wind, and geo renewables. However these sources need to demonstrably reduce the price of electricity to households. especially after this latest US election where the message is loud and clear. Voters absolutely do not want the virtue signaling of prior administrations nor the object incompetence and corruption of the current administration.

in California, for instance, there has been a tremendous build out of solar and battery storage, which is great. but then the politicians have fumbled on transmission in California has the highest electricity prices in the nation. how can you make a compelling point about renewables being economically viable in that scenario?

And to make matters worse, California regulators are pushing forward strongly on electrification measures, even as the price of electricity remain stratospheric. thatâ(TM)s the sort of tone deafness that gets the electorate turned out and droves. good thing those regulators are appointed I guessâ¦.

In addition I would like to have a conversion between American units and international units. Like the power consumption of one American house would be equivalent to six Costa Rican households (not real ratio)

SpaceX spent about $10-15 billion on the current number of starlink sattelites. And now they need to spend billions more on a third rate cell phone leasee ? Given that there are only three actual networks, Verizon, ATT, T-mobile and that you can get a Mint plan for $10-$15/mo before taxes, and cell signal coverage is not really a problem for 99% of the population 99% of the time.. I really don't get the business case.

Feels like a Virgin Corp sorta play. They wanted to brand a bunch of stuff, where it was just their brand and nothing value-add. Virgin mobile, Virgin money, Virgin America airlines. But who really wants to be Musk or X-branded?

Plus one here. Iâ(TM)m more or less already blocked on my phones default browser âoei.e login to read this post.â

But hereâ(TM)s the thing, its too much friction for me to switch browsers and the relative value of Reddit to me is infinitesimally low. I can get the same answer from other sites and of course AI summary.

IMHO Reddit vastly inflates their value to the marketâ¦but then again I value FB at nil and yet they seem to be doing fine over the years

What I cannot wrap my head around is that trillion dollar Google, trillion dollar Facebook, etc are all still just advertising firms.

There was a certain amount of money in advertising in the 20th century for print, radio, TV, etc. In the 21st century Google, Facebook, and some others captured all of that. But how was that bucket of advertising dollars enough to make these mega-corporations? Not like Time-Warner, or New York Times group was worth a trillion (adjusted) dollars back in the day.

Bet there is a Beowulf cluster in the basement of University of Toronto under a pile of magazine covers featuring Tasya Teles.

The buyouts are a solid indication that Skydance is looking to reduce headcount. Announcing a 5 day RTO policy at the same time shows that the management also views RTO as a pathway to reduced headcount. Less about being quiet and more like being very conspicuous.

It would be nice that if instead of a full competition, space race, there was cooperative competition, similar to, but better than, the International Space Station. Plan the first lunar base together, but each country works on their own rockets, landers, etc. Share the cost, have a vested interest in making space accesible

Bring India into the fold, as well as Japan, ESA, etc.

Russia is excluded.

I mean maybe Starlink would be able to put some price pressure on other carriers. But that Mint mobile is like $10 month (= taxes and fees, etc etc) that's a pretty competitive market. I would much rather buy from an affable Canadian than a ...well the other guy

And in 2026 you have to be pretty remote not to get some version of a terrestrial signal. Even the times I was on vacation, away from urban areas, but not like wilderness remote I could tether just fine with my off-brand cell service. When I am actually in wilderness I'm not dragging a laptop and I'm fine without service. That's kind of the point. ( Requisite "What happens in an emergency" Well, I'm not that guy in sneakers and shorts All-Trails-ing up Shasta in the late afternoon without knowing the weather. I'm fine outdoors.)

"Buy on the rumor, sell on the news" old but pretty accurate description of herd mentality of stock trading. Now codified in algorithmic trading.

Recall that Moderna stock (MRNA) is up over 600% YTD and that is based on the "We cured cancer** " rumor narrative. A little pull back when this is narrowed to "only" better outcomes on certain cancer in combination with an existing drug and at exorbitant expense...I think a little pullback on the stock price is warranted. Its also a little weird to me as a lay-person that this is tied together with Keytruda.

More interesting is that the tools and techniques around mRNA are still progressing in meaningful ways. As others have posted, the mRNA research started on therapies like this melanoma treatment, with covid interrupting to an extent.

"NATO turned what was originally intended to be a mostly peaceful show of force like the temporary invasion of Georgia into a war of attrition."

That's a pretty wild assertion. Like did I totally mis-understand the movie Red Dawn ?!?

As a thought experiment, let's say the supposition above was correct? After being rebuffed in Kyiv, rather than demonstrating Russia could & would walk into Ukraine any time and call it a day. Putin pursued a bloody, multi-year ground war, and calculated attacks against civilians. That seems to contradict the 'peacful show of force' bit.

Nah, there's no nuance here. Putin wanted to topple the Ukraine government, take Donbas to add to Crimea, and then install a puppet for awhile. But he blew it. And here we are. He's not super smart, he's not super brave, he's a --clown

Not for nothing, but this is the unlock schedule. There will be twice the number of shares tradeable in 2027 as there are now.

October 9 328.4 million shares (7%)
October 24, 328.4 million shares (7%)
November up to 1.3 billion shares (28%)
Dec.8, 2026: 797.6 million shares
2027: Elon Musk’s 6.42 billion shares unlock in stages, with Musk’s block fully tradable on June 12, 2027

Same reason no (rational) person will sign up for Sam Altman's crypto / retinal scan ...scam. These guys are not trustworthy, particularly so for the 'plebs' like us. I wouldn't give my kid's SSN to Musk for $100. Probably a scam, or likely something that it will be narrowed or have strings attached to make it far less meaningful if not down right pointless.

For the record below is what the State Bar dinged Jenkins on. tldr; The prior DA's office let a guy with 73 felonies and 34 misdemeanors in S.F. alone be allowed to be free before his last crime which was armed carjacking and then killing two people in his getaway attempt. Jenkins emailed the criminal's record using her city gov email to outside address.

https://thevoicesf.org/exclusi...

Mission Local
"The subject line of Jenkins’ email was “Troy McAllister Police reports.” It contained three police reports regarding the serial offender who, while driving intoxicated on Dec. 31, 2020, struck and killed two pedestrians. All three police reports were unredacted and, significantly, one contained a lengthy, unredacted rap sheet for McAlister, dating back to 1993.

Following their exit from the District Attorney’s office, both Jenkins and du Bain officially joined the nascent recall effort of Boudin, and highlighted the details of McAlister’s extensive criminal history contained in the police reports and/or rap sheet."

Separately I am curious on how a criminals 'rap sheet' is not public record. Note I voted for Brooke and will vote for her again. She is an important part of the re-making SF livable again.

Wish I had mod points. Very interesting paper from 1999 no less. That's an informative keeper for me and to have my kids read.

It's dispiriting but not un-expected to see comments in /. basically to the effect of scientists being corrupt, dumb, something, something.

As though the USGS of all groups is some politically motivated shadow group. The USGS. And 100 years of a parade of people measuring the sea at Fort Point and writing down the measurements.

I need to sit down and record myself today doing a testimonial on my perspective, ideals, thoughts etc. And then send it to my extended family. That way when I become older and somewhat un-hinged people can point me back to video when I was not a kook and hopefully it will knock some sense back into me.