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Comment Re:Yes! Make cars expensive again! (Score 1) 504

Good timing. I bought my first BMW in 2007. I'm planning on a new M2 next year.

Sweet. You'll be able to look forward cool features such as forced ads on the in-car screens (https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/06/0414254/bmw-blasts-its-cars-internal-screens-with-aggressive-ads) and paying a subscription for heated seats (https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/07/12/1616236/bmw-starts-selling-heated-seat-subscriptions-for-18-a-month). No idea why you would want to continue with a company that does stuff like that, but it's your money. I prefer car companies that don't nickle and dime me (or try to sell my attention to other companies) after I've already bought the car.

Comment Re:Brevard County has followed suit. (Score 1) 61

You're the one who misused the word, don't get all offended. Just for reference:

discrete: [dih-skreet] / dskrit /
adjective
1. apart or detached from others; separate; distinct.
six discrete parts.
Synonyms:
unconnected, individual, different
2. consisting of or characterized by distinct or individual parts; discontinuous.

Here's the word it appears you were trying to use:

discreet:[dih-skreet] / dskrit /
adjective
1. judicious in one's conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.

Homophones are HARD, right? /s

Comment Re:Wind and sunshine (Score 2) 76

Texas has installed more renewables than anywhere else in the world in the past few years

[citation needed]

For Texas, I'm finding 2024 numbers from the Texas Economic Development Corp. here and it touts adding 9,700 MW of solar in 2024. Meanwhile, China installed 277,000 MW of solar in 2024. I'm not readily finding numbers for wind, but I don't really need to -- you're the one making the outlandish claim, you need to provide the data.

Comment Re: Already a problem regardless of underscore cou (Score 1) 224

Yes, I'm saying if they follow the processes PROSCRIBE BY SOCIETY that they shouldn't be sent to jail.

Step 1: engage your brain

Step 2: maybe comment

Certainly they could be sent to jail in that case. Because you don't know what "proscribe" means. Here's a hint:

proscribed; proscribing

1: to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state
2: to condemn or forbid as harmful or unlawful : prohibit

Maybe you should try step 1 of your system before step 2.

Comment Re:Jared Kushner (Score 1) 67

Kushner has been doing this kind of work in the Middle East since before Trump became President. Hell, before he even married into the family.

Bullshit. Citation needed. He dealt (poorly) in NYC real estate, just like his future father-in-law. From :

For much of his career, Kushner worked as a real-estate investor in New York City, especially through the family business Kushner Companies. He took over the company after his father, Charles Kushner, was convicted for 18 criminal charges

His "investment firm" was just a bribe for pulling the rug over Saudi Arabia's crown prince kidnapping, killing, and dismembering a journalist that was critical of him while Kushner was in the first Trump administration. Kushner never did any venture capital investing, but it didn't stop the Saudis from giving him billions of dollars.

From the same article:

Since leaving the White House, Kushner founded Affinity Partners, a private equity firm that derives most of its funds from the Saudi government's sovereign wealth fund.

So both of the buyers are the Saudi PIF, it's just one of them has a level of misdirection.

Comment Re:Too many EVs (Score 1) 120

So much so that utilities are forced to PAY out of state utilities to take our excess production.

I don't get this. It's solar. If you don't want the power then turn it off. The utility may not have that level of control over home inverters (though some do) but they certainly can control the output of any grid-scale solar install. Why would they be paying "out of state utilities" (presumably where the sun don't shine) to take the power? Utilities like money and that doesn't seem like a money-making idea. Yeah, they don't want their large capital investment sitting idle but it's better than running it and paying someone to take the output.

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