I've been trying to install solar since early summer. I've had quotes from 7 different installers proposing panels from Sunpower, LG, Panasonic, Rec, and Q-cell. The lowest quote I received for a system had a levelized cost of 23 cents per kWh over the life of the system. Compare that with the $0.15 I'm currently paying through my utility after taxes and fees are included. In what world is 50% more expensive, cheaper?

Define "racism" as you're using the term, and explain how public schools are racist by that definition.

Yelp is about to learn how much a libel lawsuit can end up costing a business.

~9,000 die of Covid-19 alone according to the CDC. How's that more than the flu?

Intelligence threat? Was Trump running official classified State Department business from a personal server compromised by the Chinese and I totally missed it? Maybe I was too busy learning about how he hired Russian spies to concoct a story about his 2016 election opponent and lied to a Federal judge to obtain a warrant to bug his opponent's campaign, all to divert attention from his compromised email server. Who knows. Funny world we live in.

You mean 200,000 people in the US have died after having a positive COVID-19 test. That's not the same thing. Please let us know where we can find data about the actual CAUSE of death being COVID-19. You're in for a treat because the CDC doesn't track that.

They do not oppose "hate speech," they label everything that is contrary to their ideology as hate speech. The ADL literally makes a business out of playing the victim whenever someone dares oppose apartheid in Israel. "Oy vey! This anti-semite is saying that Palestinians are people, too. It's a slippery slope to the Holocaust!"

Yeah, the irony. Doesn't OP know it's totally people fleeing the rampant conservative policies in California? They're moving to conservative places like Washington, Texas, and Colorado to escape the demented conservatives running California. When those new residents set up shop in their new homes they get busy voting in even more strictly conservatives initiatives and politicians than existed prior to their arrival. OP is so retarded.

Which is why no people should be in charge of what other people are allowed to do, because they're not rational.

There has not been any experiment conducted that involved an entire economy. It's the only way to perform a valid economic experiment. It has to be closed system, otherwise the economic effects can be absorbed externally. The data we do have is that every experiment in giving people money for nothing has ended with bread lines and starvation and failed states. Every time.

You can't explain reality to some people. When people cannot accept the most basic of facts that can be observed without even rising from their chair - things that are so obvious as the relationship between having a penis and being a male - there's no hope of explaining things even slightly more ethereal.

There isn't a single Californian transplant that is fleeing the "climate." They are fleeing a state run by retarded liberals hellbent on destroying the very fabric of the society that allowed the state to flourish in the first place. And most of those fleeing are too stupid not to repeat the same mistakes by transforming the politics of their new homes to reflect those of the place they fled. Most humans are perversely unaware of the consequences of their own actions.

UBI can't boost people out of poverty. It's literally impossible even conceptually, let alone in reality. I am beginning to suspect it's not that liberals are bad at economics, it's that an understanding of economics prevents people from becoming liberal/progressive. Didn't anybody pay attention in math class when they taught us that performing the same operation on both sides of the equation doesn't change the result?

Money is a unit of value. It's arbitrary, but one that is agreed upon by everyone using that currency. The median US 2019 household income in 2019 was $68,703. The median US rent for a two-bedroom apartment in 2019 was $1,343. People who don't understand economics are tempted to think, "if we just boost people's incomes they'll be better able to afford rent." Except that's not how money and markets work. Those median prices represent a relationship. They are not independent variables. In other words, median monthly rent is around 2% of median household income. If you boost every household's income by $500 a month, rents will increase so that they're still 2% of median income. The same will happen with all products and services. The end result being no net effect other than higher inflation.

The conspiratorial thinking is the thinking that says: Hmmm. This here video site is showing people links to stuff I know isn't true. This is dangerous. To combat the danger we should put the power over what videos can be seen in the hands of the same people who can send people with guns to kick down your front door. All in the name of protecting your freedom, of course.

Yeah, but some people want to make sure other people who they feel should be clicking that X have it clicked for them.

It's how you end up with the problems of the places they're fleeing. Do you think it's the dirt in Cameroon committing genocide? Is it the air in Mexico shooting the Federales? No, it's the people of those places committing those acts. It's not just some unfortunate force of nature causing those things to happen there to those people and not elsewhere in the world. Those things happen because their culture, customs, and traditions set in motion a series of events that led them to that point. You can move the people from the plains of Cameroon to the jungle of New York, but it's not going to change the people. They'll still hack each other with machetes given the chance. There's nothing magic that makes the United States relatively peaceful and stable. It's not the air or water. It's the people. Shared norms, mores, and social rules. Refugees who share our norms, mores, and social rules are welcome additions, but people who do not share those cultural norms are anathema. Indiscriminate importation of people's from around the world is a recipe for disaster.