Beside the tracks on racks would be better? Lets make rail maintenance an electrocution hazard! What could go wrong? Surely this wouldn't make railwork happen less often if you've got a few hundred volts DC and AC both between the rails. When that results in derailments, I'm sure there is no way whatsoever that 50+ ton railcars could do any damage to the wiring that'd break the jacketing and short a wire to the rail or a car, right? Trains never derail in the rain do they?

Great! For a moment I thought there could be serious downsides to this idea beyond the obvious aiming and dirt/oil issues...

This concept has some really high hurdles to overcome. Placing the panels there, they need to be disposably cheap as they'll be damage and degraded quickly and the sorts of damage are too great to just make them tough enough to withstand. Most railwork would require them to be removed, so you'd need a quick way to pick them back up. You could imagine a car that picks them back up to allow track work & refurb at a depot. The catch though, is you need robust wiring/inverters and grid tie outside the rails that's fixed infrastructure so they can't just be loose laying on the ground. You'd need an auto-cutoff for safety on each panel for derailment safety, but that's the opposite of 'cheap, disposable'. So... do they have a cheap inverter/safety cutoff system? Do they have a setup that can survive the rail area long enough (high heat, vibration, oil, soot, weather - floods, water flow, freezing etc) while not being a hazard? Presumably they'd use lower efficiency panels that work better obstructed, but that cuts into the payout.

I'm failing to see how this beats simple metal racks. If you want it in a rail area, then elevate the racks a bit higher so they shade the tracks. Shade all the passenger stops w/panels, shade all the grade/road crossings - you've got power for the warning lights, grid tie the panel inverters there since you've already got mains lines. Load standard solar rack frames on your train car, you'll only have to put cement footings down. Then you can use properly aimed panels and higher efficiency ones. I'd really need to be convinced that this between the tracks idea beats beside the tracks on racks over 10, 20 yrs.

Why did I learn about the epidemic sweeping through Wuhan in Nov '19 for the virus that didn't strike and begin to spread until Jan '20 according to official sources that must be believed or you'll be canceled? (non-political evidence points to ~Oct as the start of spreading) Surely though... we can all agree that the CCP searching for and destroying all samples from '19 is the sign you can take everything they say at face value.

It really was an odd experience to have the CCP, WHO and NIH at least all unite to gaslight everyone, followed by such a large amount of poo flinging as it became a culture war thing. What a total fubar.

Here is a link to the video. His whole channel is worth watching. https://youtu.be/dNs_kNilSjk

Destroying all samples at the Wuhan lab, Wuhan hospitals and Wuhan universities and making Wuhan lab workers 'unavailable' absolutely proves the complete innocence of the CCP on this matter. Coercing the WHO to deny even the existence of an epidemic for months only re-enforces that fact.

On a more serious note, the CCP was concealing something. Take your pick about what that was. It could be simply to hide a policy of allowing international travel (to Italy in particular) to infect their competitors while buying up so much PPE they stripped the world supply all while denying the existence of the epidemic. If that were broadly known, it'd stoke generations CCP opposition. (aka, the cover-up doesn't prove a specific origin, does suggest guilt about something)

Why would wet market samples after the fact be conclusive in any way? The pathogen infects animals. No matter the origin, it would jump to live animals at the market. You'd need samples from at least Oct 2019. Genetic sequencing of all of those CCP destroyed early samples is the thing that'd have had utility. Those early samples would have either had, or not had characteristics of splicing. Separate from origins, those providing samples for sequencing to the WHO in Oct would have given the world a head start on treatment, containment and general preparation. Lives would have been saved.

We really need some anti e-stalker laws, as that's what the pervasive surveillance this is an example of amounts to. The 'BuT muh PrIvAte corp' ignore the Constitution dodge needs to be shot down as well. Those are gov't actors when intel or police agencies are co-mingled, no matter the rhetorical obfuscation.

Yep. They want to have their '3rd party' but really 1st party 'data brokers' selling the same information for top dollar instead.

This is the same WHO who said no epidemic, then no pandemic and basically repeated whatever China demanded? That WHO? Why would anyone consider them to have any credibility whatsoever? They may by chance happen to be truthful at some point, but they've got to maintain access as a primary concern and that'll compromise what they can say in public (assuming they're interested in honesty at all).

Those weasel are all you need to hear to know they're still doing it. data companies gathered specifically for advertising purposes Yeah, so now they're using data gathered for data brokering instead. Or they're using data specifically gathered for sale to intel agencies. Intel agencies have considered themselves above the constitution since at least the 50s, and those houses have never been cleaned meaningfully. If you're wondering whether they'd use that info for gaining power, look at how many high office holders have been either formerly high ranking intel operatives or their direct family members and it'll be an eye opener for you.

You must agree to a contract of adhesion as a condition of care. It either requires you to waive your HIPPA privacy rights or agree that contract terms can be changed at any time without notice. So long as you can be forced to surrender medical and financial information privacy as a condition of care, HIPAA doesn't meaningfully exist.

With GPS they can make every road a toll road, charge a 'congestion tax' on any road, make a 'surge toll', give automatic speeding tickets, charge per mile driven in state... so many U$E$ of this tech! That's before you get to tracking attendance at political events so wrongthinkers can be outed to employers for canceling (termination just for twitter follows is old and busted), reported to taxing authorities for audits (not just for donations anymore!) etc.
It's a brave new world, isn't it!?!?

Then the government coerces or colludes with private actors with monopoly power between them to censor in coordination. Private censorship becomes the sort prohibited by the Constitution in that case, which recent events reveals has happened.

Agreed. There is no 2a citizenship requirement. Arm everyone, with laws equally and justly enforced in the light of day. Also there is no 'not in my backyard except for servants' exception for illegal immigration that applies to caviar class retreats like The Vinyard.
And you can be censored in any written medium that's not quill pen on vellum, or single page hand engraved press. We're playing by the same rules all around as are applied to the 2nd Amendment, right?

The plugin has to randomize reported mouse locations, then teleport to the clicked area for user input; P2P swap tracking cookies etc with other users; visit one random link on a random page for every real user click; swap browser fingerprint with other users on compatible systems (with setup to spoof that). You can pick the fly poop out of the sugar. Try getting it out of the pepper...

and yes, if this took off it'd be an arms race - then it's a fight instead of the abject total defeat for privacy we've got now.

While laudable, it's hard not to stand out doing that. (I'm all for ramdisk storage for software that may track) What about a plugin that P2P swaps trackers; randomizes reported mouse cursor location until you click so you look like a bot; then add random browsing automated fake traffic on that? Maybe randomize your apparent config as well.

Yes! We need fun browser plugins with a diversity of methods. Adblock, but it accepts the cookies it can 100% identify as trackers (aka, safe for this trick), then peer-to-peer share with other participants to randomly swap the cookies between folks who agree. A plugin that alters real user input so as far as the website sees, the mouse teleports etc so real input looks like bots. Then then also add automated clicks and it's harder to tell wtf is real.