Comment I love electrons too (Score 1) 254
Comment That's going to excite the health true believers (Score 1) 113
Comment Thinking with the wrong head. (Score 1) 105
Thinking with the wrong head explains their affinity for Chinese spies. It explains their approach to business too.
Comment "Look at me, I'm doing the popular thing!" (Score 0) 45
Comment Re:Well then (Score 2) 122
"We're talking about freakin' electricity. Come up with an actual better way to get it, reliably and affordably, and they'll gladly do that." Right, someone else do the work, then they'll exploit it. Except only if it's profitable for them, and remember that part of the benefit of pollution is that it disproportionately harms black people. Gotta replace that value.
"They aren't rubbing their hands together, chortling with glee about how much damage they will do, ready and willing to pay extra to do so." Elon Musk is. As if we should take the word of a Trump supporter when we all know how sociopaths work. You can remain ignorant, that doesn't obligate any of us.
So you actually do believe that these companies are deliberately doing things in a more expensive way, just to be mean. Wow.
You know that sounds crazy, right?
Comment Re:Well then (Score 1) 122
"We're talking about freakin' electricity. Come up with an actual better way to get it, reliably and affordably, and they'll gladly do that. "
Hydro, Wind, and Solar.
Probably need to add batteries to keep it running 24*7
As for affordably - well gas is more expensive than it was 9 months ago...
So your theory is that these companies are deliberately doing things the more expensive way, just to be destructive?
Comment Well then (Score 1) 122
This isn't a 1980s cartoon.
We're talking about freakin' electricity. Come up with an actual better way to get it, reliably and affordably, and they'll gladly do that.
They aren't rubbing their hands together, chortling with glee about how much damage they will do, ready and willing to pay extra to do so.
Comment Re:People are sheep. The state is their shepherd. (Score 2) 57
Of course, Facebook does the same thing, putting all of its users in little echo-chambers that only show it news articles that reinforce what they already believe, creating an illusion of worldwide agreement with them, and giving their opinions a feel of objective truth.
Does it though?
It keeps putting Dem politicians into my feed, but not a single Rep politician. Huh.
I literally block every Dem politician profile now, as an experiment. But there's an endless supply
So yes, it has some rabbit hole algorithms. But there are clearly some odd exceptions.
Comment So ... (Score 1) 65
Comment Re:Sigh (Score 0) 133
He has a conviction for sexual abuse, not rape. One should be careful of such statements for a man known to be rather litigious re: such things. DJT does not limit his scummy behavior to just a single realm.
Comment Maybe the Gnu guys can finish Hurd now (Score 2) 88
Comment Huh (Score 1) 125
Is "slop" officially the new word for "stuff I don't like"?
(And I ask that as a very long confirmed non-fan of Apple)
Comment "Billionaire oligarchs" (Score 1) 199
Comment Why not ... (Score 1) 90
... just call them "Your Royal Highnesses" and be done with it, if you are just going to adopt whatever terminology they give you about themselves, lol
Here, I found the missing scare quotes.
The "transparency nonprofit" Distributed Denial of Secrets