The green movement caused climate change with its simultaneous opposition to nuclear power and reduction in particulate sizes and quantity of smoke emissions, and so this is a problem they created. To trust their solutioning to the problem at this point is absolute madness.

Dropping a bunch of nuclear waste into an ocean trench is far less dangerous than the CO2. Just build loads of nuclear power plants, with the Feds eating the capital cost of construction, as, we're going to need mountains of electricity to scrub the atmosphere anyway in any conceivable process put on the table.

Wait, do you think that's not true? It's literally the basis for Five-Eyes which is not new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The idea is that it's illegal for some governments to spy on their citizens, so they ask other countries to do it for them and share information. This isn't fantasy, this is real and has been since 9/11.

He's an accountant, of course he hates anything that cannot be directly valuated.

Tubi with Brave browser = no ads. It's non-stop shows. Pretty great.

Also in an episode of The Orville and Sliders I believe.

Here's a starting point.... for W10.

https://wpd.app/

The study says that 22% of people with Ivermectin got severe problems, but only 17% of all those that got the standard medical "all the things" did. That's actually pretty interesting, because, it means that if you go to Tractor Supply and hook yourself up with the drops, then, you've got a 78% chance of not developing severe COVID for like, $20. By contrast, if you spend thousands of dollars on prescribed steroids and experimental drugs, then, your odds are only 5% better. That premium for that extra 5% is rather telling, because if you believe that ivermectin is junk, then, what this study really says is that all that extra money for the "good stuff" is basically wasted. That's actually the real complaint underlying this controversy. Exorbitantly expensive treatments actually only provide marginal value over stupid things. There is really nothing or little that medical science can do for you in some cases except charge you (or the public, for those on national health insurances), a titanic amount of money for things that basically provide false hope and don't actually work. The numbers don't lie - 17% of the people doing what the doctor said still got into trouble, versus the 22% who just went and got the same stuff they use to keep their livestock going. Yeah, you can rail on about how these people are stupid, but, if you look at the way they evaluate the odds, they are doing a damned better job than you are!

The end goal is undoubtedly a subscription model, they've admitted that's the plan years ago. This is one of the final steps.

Sad times.

I recently switched from a Xeon machine to an AMD Threadripper and I gotta say... it's a much better all around experience and more bang for the buck as well. I couldn't be happier, and I can't think of a good reason to ever buy Intel again after all their 'security' patches reduced my render machines efficiency by 15-35%.

Intel has lost their way, they really have.

Nope, your bad planning. If everyone didn't do this or do that is a ridiculous plan. You have to have a plan that understands that many people are not going to do "the thing", and manage it. HIV and the war on drugs and all of that had ridiculed proponents that just said "just don't use needles, have gay sex, and don't start on addictive drugs". That totally did not work, because people used needles, had gay sex that was unprotected, and started on addictive drugs. What do you do? Knowing this, one would have thought a credible public health plan for COVID would have considered that as part of its model making, but no, it did not.

That's actually why the public health failure. Planners can never plan in a free society that "everyone" will do the thing. A good plan is one that manages a society where everyone doesn't.

Neither does AR/VR, frankly. It's the same pile of poop it was in the 90's.

The irony is that the left wing has been a bunch of seditionist traitors for a hundred years, and, suddenly now they have a new found piety. It's just so hyprocritical its nauseating. It's not like liberals just spent the previous summer, I mean decades, burning down American cities and de-railing any public or private initiative for human benefit they see until they get communism.

That's silly. First off, most people pay to have sex, in some way, rather than expect to get paid for it. Europe has had cradle to the grave services for decades and the one constant there is the birth rate is the worst on the planet. By contrast Africa has a soaring birth rate and much of the continent is third world.

If you have to pay people to screw, you've already got much bigger problems on your hands, and social services isn't going to fix it.

Honestly, when it comes down to the brass tacks, is, any time you have a society that is sufficiently wealthy, women are going to want more out of life and raise their price for it, and men simply are not going to want to pay it, and so they don't. Seriously, if you are a guy, what would you rather do, run the risk of being the next me-too, go through a bunch of rejections, invest all this time into getting a halfway almost cool girlfriend, or even a wife, and then, when you do, run the 50-50 chance of having your life be destroyed in a divorce... or just fire up World of Warships and count your 401k earnings later on?

For younger men, the pursuit of women is just too much work and there's too much risk and no payoff. Remember, even in the days when women were basically property, you still had families paying the men to be married to them, and you expect, gosh, with less value and more bills, what is going to happen?

You can call it what you will, misogyny, whatever, but the numbers don't lie. Men are bailing on married society, if not society altogether. It's just too much of a pain for some people.

Toyota is just looking for a way to turn a thing you buy into a subscription so they can get additional money.