A number of countries have accelerated their clean energy transition. Unless you're a coal magnate, delusional or a Xitter troll, that is excellent news.

It also is accelerating the move away from the dollar as the world reserve currency. This is not good news for Usians, is neutral for some, and very positive for some others, so one's outlook on this may vary.

Basically, if you can get Stumpy McDipshit to believe his ego is wrapped up in something, there's a very good chance you can get him to kill it, like everything else he touches.

In this case, he's touching the petroleum industry like it was an ingénue shopping at Bergdorf Goodman.

Person, the reason the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... -- has the NULL HYPOTHESIS as "no correlation", is because OF THAT. Your senses LIE!!!!

Fucking take your left and right hand, and 3 buckets if water of different temperatures. Let's say ONE is HOT, ONE is COLD, and the final is LUKEWARM/GOLDILOCKS.

Put your left hand and right hand into C and H, respectively. Wait. Minute.

Put both in the lukewarm.

Do your hands agree on temperature?

No. Fucking pay attention to your mental biases. That's why science is a DISCIPLINE OF MIND.

FFS.

"This ALPR mass surveillance â" the indiscriminate, continuous collection and retention of location data on every driver, regardless of suspicion â" should not exist. But because it does..."

Because of all those who predate upon those with lack of critical thinking skills.

"Wake up to reality" is the double-think that they say is dumb when they pejoratively call people "woke."

"Woke" is just a word for "slave that doesn't know its place."

"The Trump administration's Department of Energy wants to create 'campuses' in several states to store waste,"

Given the high standards this administration sets for contractors, I'm sure there's no reason to ask more questions.

"Our secret sauce isn't secret, please regulate our competitors away."

I think they may be playing a game with the fight they picked with the math folks over the Navier Stokes finding, too. To normal folks that looks greedy and shortsighted. To a wannabe dictator, that looks like a magic mirror.

They degraded it in their homeland almost a decade ago.

This was a flex.

- Trump is a piece of shit public servant, not a king. I have as much authority to rename landmarks as that ambulatory colostomy bag. So do you.

- I expect decent humans to stand up to authoritarian shitheads. Granted, Google leadership exited the "Decent human" category a long time ago, they've become the short of trash you don't call back. But the point holds; if you're going to support ethnic-supremacist authoritarians in my country, fuck you, you will not see a dime of my money and I will do what I can to hurt your business, because it is just as much my adversary as the rest of them.

- I empathize with wishing to avoid politics, but you cannot. Word to the wise - eventually politics comes for you, and then you're at a disadvantage because you were trying to ignore it.

Think gated community dwellers, rich elderly, and other chronically afraid people.

Have no idea what a real city is like. Get back to us when you've visited somewhere you have to wear shoes.

Worked for chess.

Your king will ensure you and your wife will be subjects of struggle sessions soon enough. Worrying your pretty little head about disclaimers and other stupid shit will seem quaint.

Enjoy.

and contrary to popular belief, the government does not pay for that data

It really depends. ATT makes substantial amounts on their LEO customers. I understand Verizon has a similar program, and after Worldcom, all smaller the telecom companies fell in line.

Give Google and Zuckerbook and the others a decade of mature market profits and it'll get around to optimizing lines of business like that, too. They just make more money on other stuff now so they don't bother.

Don't forget Costco. As far as I know the only public company doing so.

Like most companies, Apple has been ethical when it suited their interests. There's always been a slimy side there - Jobs cheated Woz before Apple even existed.

No, What Apple lost was taste.

They used to profit from producing products they'd want to use. Now they make profit-maximizing devices.

I'd argue that the OSes are starting to suffer, too. I mean, bugs are up again, but that's always been cyclic. But I feel like they're losing coherence, too. And a lot of subsystems more technical users like are rotting or being made much more difficult to work with (Gatekeeper and shell scripts, for instance). (I also find it ugly now, but that's subjective and it has has ugly iterations before, too.)

Anyway, yeah, Apple will make a ton of money for a long time to come. But I'm pretty sure it is losing its sense of taste. It might make the most popular and most profitable phone, but they aren't trying to make the phone people want anymore.