Dedicated to keeping him from making decisions. I used to see that with IT where you would have an owner who is a complete moron so you would have all sorts of little IT things designed to make the owner feel like they were doing stuff when they weren't. Like fake copies of databases for them to pour over when they were bored.

Basically if you're going to have a mad emperor you need to corral them. Personally I think just not having emperors would be a better solution.

Was the best investment Elon Musk ever made in his entire life.

Whataboutism.

Means the ability to consistently supply power to the grid and meet everyone's needs. Like everything in the English language the term gets used for different things. Although I haven't heard it used as requiring 95% of time before. Maybe if you're talking about a single means of power generation with no storage...

Doesn't matter. Wind and solar can provide base load. They do need a little bit of battery here and there but not all that much. Because when the sun is down the turbines are still spinning.

You're contradicting yourself in that first sentence. The thought has crossed my mind that Japan does have plenty of land for wind and solar I just don't think anyone has done the math. But if that's the case nuclear is basically worthless except for a handful of military applications.

It allows you to Levy fines and collect them. If people don't pay the fines you arrest them and make a lot of money locking them up. If they do pay the fines then if you're a rich asshole you can cut your taxes while maintaining government services you depend on.

We have been cutting taxes on the wealthy non-stop since Ronald Reagan. Cities are starting to run out of money to run the police to protect the wealthy. We have been covering that up by robbing Peter to pay Paul taking money from one state and giving it to another so that they can fund their police. We have cut taxes now so much that even that system is breaking down.

So if you are working 60 hours a week because you're underpaid and too tired to cut your lawn or paint your house or you can't afford to do author of them and you certainly can't afford to pay somebody else to do it then you are going to pay a defacto tax on that. Then you're going to work more hours at your shit job and maybe pick up a second or third shit job so that you can pay those fines and lather rinse and repeat...

It's basically a sign of our civilization collapsing.

It's a scam from the plastic industry. So there isn't a lot of actual value sorting garbage.

Drought because we broke the water cycle. Drought causes fires.

What pisses me off is all the old farts voting Republican or whatever the fuck your local equivalent is who enjoyed a period of time when water was plentiful and electricity cheap and now everything is falling apart because the environment is collapsing and instead of learning from that they just keep pulling the ladder up behind them. More right wing politics and more expensive dirty energy that we have to get into wars for.

But at least the 34 trans athletes in this country of 340 million people can't play in sports so there's that... Got to have your priorities. Good old ethics in games journalism. Just ask Jeffrey Epstein. Or was it heavy metal music? I don't know what's the current moral panic that has right-wing voters in a tizzy?

Old people never learn because they never had to learn. Everything was handed to them on a silver platter. And absolutely nothing pisses them off more than pointing that out. I remember Obama briefly suggesting that people had had assistance from the government to achieve things and it almost ending his campaign. He was smart enough to drop it though. American exceptionalism is a blight on humanity.

From the dementia patient himself. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/...

How do you stage controlled burns in an area where the nearest road is hundreds of miles away?

Most likely proposed by a Karen who doesn’t work for a living.

Not getting run out of business by the existing manufacturers. There is basically no antitrust law enforcement to speak of. Here in America egg producers just got caught making billions off of collusion and the Trump administration slapped them with a 3 million fine. So if I'm going to collude and make literally billions of extra dollars by doing it and the fine is going to be 3 million then that's a no-brainer.

So if your Huawei you need to price in the inevitable price cuts from your competition designed to run you out of business

Seriously I would like you to explain to me in detail what mighty powers the bureaucrats who enforce smog regulations have gained?

Also I don't know if you figured this out but you need to reread your own post.

The bureaucrats don't write the laws. They're cops. They enforce laws.

So your complaint isn't with the bureaucrats it's with extremely large corporations that are going to make your life more difficult. So yeah your car is going to accelerate slower and cost more so the data centers can be built while still having breathable air.

It's like nobody here remembers what a city was like in the 1970s. I am so sick of people who don't know what a chesterton's fence is. Look it up....

Basically large corporations get the to pollute and your life becomes more difficult and inconvenient because of it. But you've been trained to immediately blame bureaucrats for what the large corporations are doing. And you don't even seem to realize you're doing it...

Getting rid of the bureaucrats doesn't get you a cool fast car, it gets you lung cancer in your 40s from the smog even if you don't smoke. You need to start getting angry at the right people. The people who are actually making your life worse

It shouldn't be, but it's so hard for graduates to get through the door because every job ad demands experience now. Employers don't want to train or develop talent. The whole thing needs fixing, but it's the tragedy of the commons where most employers just see that they can demand experience and put no resource into training.

They probably think that an ad blocker isn't original enough, because many other browsers have them. Not a unique selling point, and to be fair they are probably right.

Unfortunately there aren't any other good options for running uBO. Brave is shady, nothing else both supports full uBO and a reasonable set of other features. Firefox is the only choice.

Great reply, but arguably too long. In today's world just the "Why would you proof read" part probably gets it done... ;-)