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It's actually much more than 20x for just all available offshore wind, but if you restrict it to just the most economically viable parts and including onshore, it works out at around 20x. I've lost the reference I had for that.

Yeah, but hang on a minute. Let’s look at this in context a bit more.

Don’t look now Meta, but you just described Facebook. The hell else do they think their feed junkies do upon breathing air in the morning other than scroll through their personalized feed to get their daily fix for the last 3.1 hours since last login from the shitter?

Facebook on Facebook. How very Meta of you.

Riiight. It was me going out of my way and not a senseless dragnet operation to hunt down misdemeanors at a cost of millions to taxpayers who get such a tax paying bargain in that state, right?

California hardly needs my help to look like the asshole state they are. There are now more legal weed dispensaries in the US than McDonalds. California was the first to legalize thirty fucking years ago. Go make them make it make sense. Otherwise they deserve the verbal bitch slap for grandstanding on a double standard. That dragnet bullshit should have been shut down last fucking century. Literally.

Those “users” (a cute but outdated 20th Century term) are The Product now.

Meta will use and abuse AI to sell The Product as they see fit.

Any actual resemblance towards usefulness in AI for The Product, is purely coincidental.

Yes. This is in the EULA. Yes. I do know you still read it to see if I’m lying.

Indeed, and the environmentalists are on board with it because although it will disrupt the local wildlife, it will create new habitats, and in the end the reduction in damage from not using fossil fuels to generate that energy far outweighs the downsides.

There has never been a point in recorded history when the British Isles and territorial waters were windless.

And yes, we have hydro, we have storage, and we could have a hell of a lot more.

Actually the former head of the National Grid said that. The guy running the UK's grid said that the concept of base load was obsolete, and he was right.

The UK has at least 20x as much wind power available than its current electricity consumption. Energy independence is entirely possible, if not particularly desirable.

The UK could be a massive exporter of clean energy. Scotland in particular could be getting rich off it, but like with the oil they aren't seeing as much of the benefit as they should be seeing.

In this case, I mean literally... literally. You can find citations trivially. Everyone should know this by now. If you want to talk about Nazis, you should know something about Nazis.

Consider this additional California-flavored extra-special stupidity; it's currently legal for grown-ass adult homeowners to grow their own fucking weed in their own home. Even being caught with a massive grow is a misdemeanor.

So they really went out of their way to annoy the shit out of taxpayers already paying through the nose for electricity. And California wonders why it was forced to charge an exit tax.

It seems the attraction to exaggerate here, is practically magnetic.

"Remember, Na-Zi means National SOCIALIST, and that's that fascism is."

Remember, the Nazis literally called themselves socialists to fool stupid people, and you also don't know what either socialism or fascism is if you think one is a type of the other.

He wasn't a Nazi but George Washington did a genocide and was named "Town Killer" for it. And before someone points out that was his father, no, his father (who was also named George) ALSO did a genocide and was called the same thing for the same reason.

My slide rule doesn’t require a nuclear reactor re-deployment abusing the unaccountable power of girl math to fuel shitcoin mining and help drive a human-employed planet into premature poverty and death ushering in the next Depression, because stock price.

Greta will try and label me evil because my slide rule is not made out of..oh wait, it IS made out of sustainable bamboo. Meanwhile teachers are quitting their profession because college bound students armed with a bubble-wrapped high school diploma can’t math for shit.

By the time that magic rock can think, Skynet self-justification will pop into RAM and start feeding output to the T-101 production lines in about human-blink milliseconds. And we’ll probably deserve it by then, standing around addicted to scroll-yanking on one-armed shitcoin machines all day.

Same combination on the hand that grabs the luggage with the same combination?

Biting down hard on the nouveau-meta, for flavor.