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Comment Does anyone trust Wikipedia? (Score 1) 171

I don't! But there are millions that read something on Wikipedia and believe it as gospel! It's a left leaning site, pretty much has been for years. A lot of teachers tell their students to NOT use Wikipedia when researching subjects. When you have pretty much a anyone-can-edit-anything-they-want website, that is controlled by really no one, that is what you get. SLOP.

Comment That's minor compared to iPhone outlook (Score 1) 64

My work phone is an iPhone, and we're required to use Outlook for work email. On average outlook gets patched twice a week for iPhone. The biggest flaw in it though has been there for years and clearly won't get patched.

Namely, Outlook for iPhone always defaults to reply all for emails with multiple recipients. It doesn't matter how long the list is, it will reply all unless you go out of your way to reply only to the sender. This has catastrophic consequences at large companies.

It is not uncommon to have email threads at my employer with dozens, or even over 100, recipients. When one goes out with any ambiguity we quickly see who on the list is reading it on their iPhone (vs their laptop) as they inevitably will end up doing a reply all without meaning to.

Apparently Microsoft sees this as a feature, even though they don't force this feature upon us in Windows.

Comment Duh! I know why (Score 1) 101

40+ years of shutting down coal fired plants, shutting down nuclear plant & building up wind/solar. Instead of BOOSTING the power grid, we "just kept even". And, with energy generation that can't "increase" output like a coal GENERATION or nuclear GENERATION plant can. WOW! Perfect time to start building AI data centers too! Brown/blackouts in the future!

Comment Medicare funding (Score 1) 32

Medicare caused a LOT of rural hospitals to close. I remember growing up in the 60's. Small town at the time 2300 people. We had a 30-40 room hospital where most people in a 30 mile range were born. When medicare came along, the hospital would have been forced to make a TON of "mandated" upgrades to qualify to be able to take medicare patients. They closed the hospital, the doctors stuck around for a few years then they left too. After that happened, if there was an emergency, instead of being a couple minutes from an ER, you were sent in an ambulance 25 miles away. Not only that, once medical insurance, medicare/medicaid came along, RATES for doctors visits, hospital stays went through the roof! Companies started buying hospitals, doctors offices and what not. Now, in most towns & cities, there is ONE hospital and all of the doctors are "owned" by the hospital. So you can't really shop for a less expensive doctor. Other than the urgent care places you are really screwed.

Comment Re:LOL!! (Score 1) 10

As I stated though, I fully expect that when the GOP digs themselves out of Trumpism, they will eventually deploy the "No True Scotsman" defense to claim that their cult leader was not a "true conservative" all along. But when they move the goalposts that far, will they be required to look at what they have so willingly mischaracterized in the past on the other side?

Comment Former land for growing FOOD. (Score 0) 103

Just doing some checking, using google earth map, 3,000 acres for one solar farm, 2500 acres for another one, and this one will use up 2,400 acres of land. From the locations, this is FARM LAND that was used for GROWING FOOD. I have no problem setting these things out in barren land, but FARM LAND? That's around 9,000 ACRES of farm land that will now not be able to grow food.

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