It's not actually rejected electrical energy, it's rejected heat energy which is why the diagrams uses BTU as an unit. Also, all states mainly uses fossil fuel generation (coal, LNG or oil) for their base-load services.

Yes, because rejected heat energy isn't a surplus - it's a measure of loss due to the inescapable second law of thermodynamics which plays the biggest role in conversion and transmission.

Yes, power lines always humm when in use but also because demand and supply must be balanced and when they aren't balanced you get things like voltage and frequency changes which introduces unnecessary wear and tear or even brown/black outs.

Are you aware that electricity needs to be transported from where it's produced to where it's used? That some surplus here and there all over the US is summed up to 10% just means it can't be meaningfully used.

Idiocy is making an argument based solely on a headline or title. To top that off, you seem to think socioeconomic issues has nothing to do with race which flies in the face of everything we know about socioeconomic issues among heterogeneous populations.

Add to that, the sheer stupidity in digging up a paper as proof for your argument and then not reading it is just mindboggling.

It always amazes me when people willingly reduce themselves to idiots to avoid factual reality.

If you have to ask this question you haven't looked at the timeline and what happened when. I do hope you are familiar with the concept of linear time and how events can't happen before they actually happen.

You only read the name of the paper, right? Then you just declared it ideologically driven activism without even being able to supply anything supporting that statement.

Trickle down economics, whether it is combined with corruption or not, has always been trickle up economics and the corruption just makes sure the trickle turns into a stream.

As usual, there are always caveats. Many youths these days can't tell time from an analog clock, or perhaps, they actually are replicants. Who is to say since we are in the age were many people think correlation is "factual" proof.

That's quite a feat, building a flying factory.

The whole thing is about perception, it wont really stop people who planned to shop-lift but the number of spur of the moment shop-lifters will drop like a rock because of the perceived risk of getting caught will be much higher. It's a cheap solution with a measurable positive economical effect for the store.

Of course, because it's obvious you don't understand that what you want isn't the same what everyone else wants.

Defensive much?

You would have known that if you actually bothered to find things out, but you went full "not invented here" and started assuming stupid things to invent strawmen why it must horrible.

It wasn't my argument, it was yours since you specifically said "without my control or supervision", that implies you are on top of everything you install.

Funny then how inconsistent you are when doing your checking since it seems to be built on familiarity and visual cues rather than actually looking up facts.

He said while using package managers that install random software from random sources.

Learn how the world and people work, because assuming everyone has the same needs and wants is just plain stupid and lazy. You imply you are big on due diligence but your responses here shows something entirely different, because making shit up and assuming things about something you didn't even bother to look into, that is a fucking professional disgrace.

And I guess all these tools makes it so you can pick 5 apps from an a la carte menu and have them installed in minutes with a few clicks without resorting to typing and running shit in an administrator console? And who uses Clonezilla to install software on Windows? Docker I can get, but Clonezilla...

Btw, in regards to professional tools - why do you think Ninite isn't one? It's not like they have a version specifically geared towards businesses.. Oh, wait! They do!

Just like you wouldn't know of any problems with any of the applications you use, right?

When was the last time you verified every source you got your software from? Because that is the basis for your argument here, and I hope that you actually do that because otherwise you are just being a hypocrite for the simple reason of not being familiar with a piece of software that hundred of thousands of people use.

So Ninite as a package-manager is now suspicious and totally unnecessary and trivial? But Chocolatey who do exactly the same thing isn't? And Scoop? The very first thing it says you should do is to open a powershell and change the execution policy so you can download and run an unknown script to install it. Funny how that isn't suspicious at all for you.

Your reaction is typical of people who instead of actually looking shit up starts throwing it on the wall for no other reason than being unfamiliar with something.

Which I guess comes from random third parties that provide tools that installs software using admin privileges.

Ninite has been around 16-17 years now and if you haven't heard of it it's because of two things: 1. There has never been any issues with it security-wise, 2. No one expect you to know about every tool available.

And I have to ask, what was it about their website that made you dismiss the tool? Was it the absence of ads and fake download links, or its simple and clean design presenting everything you need at a glance?

You are missing the point, this affects current customers which will lead to some of them becoming "non-customers" which is a win for them since they will have less problems and ads, plus they'll have more disposable income they can spend to their liking on something else.

It's insightful and clever when compared to the actions of the companies involved which seems hellbent on accelerating the enshittification.

Not in the least, and here is a recent example: Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation

Everything is cheap when you are playing with other people's money.

I should also mention that moving something the size of a space-shuttle is difficult and very expensive especially since none of the specialized transports (SCA 747-100) for is in a functional state.