And of course the American Idiots (I'm an American, but not ignorant) immediately define "communism" as Stalinism.

Which is amusing, just now, since the MAGA deity wants, well, pretty much that.

It's like Space Lasers talking about "communist socialist Dems", as if there were such a thing.

WTF? I was looking at doing passive solar back then, when I could afford a house, and I *never* heard, read, or saw any such complaint - and that would be between mainstream media and Mother Earth News. Citation, please.

So, tell us, are you one of the scum who buy everything they sell on individuals, and spam/hack/blackmail, or are you just too stupid to own a computer?

RAISING the rates on the largest users of power? I mean, my rates go up during the hours of most draw on the grid, so why not charge data centers *higher* rates?

No mention that a lot of people are trying to boycott Amazon, given Bezos' support for the demented would-be dictator.

As opposed to the current US, the world leader at stealing everything not locked down, and selling you to anyone buying.

Why, yes, as a published author, copyright does matter to me, scumbag.

Libertarian crap like this is just that: crap. Space is not "competition". Space is dangerous, hard... and is not a cash cow like some New Smartphone With New Features That No One Ever Asked For. "Competition" as you describe it is more like the Pennsy and the NYC running tracks not a mile apart to Chicago.

We're still at the explore and experiment. There's no "competition" for studies in the Antarctic.

So much for the "rational actor" in the markets.

No, mf, this is not asking for a bribe, this is life and death. But you don't care, you live in some US suburb and have the a/c running.

Speaking as someone who drove for Yellow (ugh) in the mid-seventies, this is NOT RIDE SHARING, this is a taxi service. Therefore, Waymo needs to buy the $37k (last I heard) taxi medallion for each one. That is, until they hit the city's limit.

Waiting to hear some moron go on about the world always needs ditch diggers and taxi drivers, as a way to work for a living.

As long as it doesn't have to be shut down when the river water gets too warm.

100% true. I was out of work for almost five solid years during the W Bush recession (2001-2006). One job I applied for that looked like it was literally written for me, I did something I never did: the day after emailing my resume, I called the recruiter. She said, and I quote, "Well, you're not fresh."
Infuriated, I asked if she were to take a year off to have a kid, whether she would be no longer employable, because she wasn't fresh. Gee, she'd never thought of that. Supposedly, she put me in, I didn't get it.
Then a friend dug me up online, and I fixed his small private corporate website, and listed myself as employed by him. Within six months, I had a regular job again.

They're ASSHOLES. Rather than figuring it's cheaper to hire out of work, they only want people currently working.

Take your wrong-wing bs away.

Follow the money? Sure: All the climate change denial is funded by the oil industry is making aover $100B/yr. Explain who's paying the scientists documenting climate change.

Hey, you never toook science in high school, or jr. high. What are you doing *here*, pretending to be a nerd?

Back in the seventies and eighties, as automation was hitting hard, and offshoring beginning, the talk was all about how everyone would get newer, better jobs in the "information economy".
They at least could point to something.

Now? They have *nothing* at all, and "we'll have fewer people, but other companies will pick up the slack" ... said by every one of them.