By nipping in the bud expensive local patchworks of building regs.

"Net zero" hvac, dishwashers, laundry machines, etc don't actually work as well as traditional alternatives, so homes built around these things need to make up the difference somewhere.

And then there's the added compliance cost. Yes it's a good idea to insulate and airseal your house, but if you have to meet a blower door standard or else it's not fit for habitation, then you need to pay people who don't work for free to run the test at a very minimum, and in practice to also chase down any residual air leaks in the construction.

They might even believe they're doing good. Politics is a magnet for those kinds of people. C suite too, sometimes, if the company is on solid enough financial footing that morons up top can coast along.

Ballots? No. Just do it.

If you do, it isn't harm. It's curating the gene pool.

When the tsar fell, everyone lost their jobs except the prison guards.

Europe never understood freedom, egalitarianism, meritocracy, or government by consent of the governed. They aped it. Imperfectly.

No no no. You need six years of environmental impact statements (per foot if pipeline) while tanker trucks keep driving the stuff on local roadways. Think of the children!

I bought a laptop for grad school 10 years ago. It replaced a then-10 year old laptop I bought at the end of college. I'm still using the 10 yo laptop as my daily driver for the little I need a full keyboard for. Recently maxed out the ram on. Might put in a new ssd at some point. Unless something physically breaks I expect I'll be using it for another half a decade with some kind of Linux and a win10 vm for tax filing sw.

Ewaste is just wastefulness. That is to say a personal choice.

Throw out your socks or patch them if possible.

Buy a new car when the blue book value drops below some arbitrary threshold or keep it until something actually breaks that's both important and not worth fixing in context.

Order door dash or cook your own food.

You have the power to decide.

You don't wear your car on your head, silly!

Yes it is indeed a shame that the English no longer teach their children how to speak and we Americans must pick up the slack.

All this agitating against evil data centers is coming from exactly the same "don't build that" crowd that hates factories, power plants, roads, housing developments and the rest.

Simple ten-liners in python or bash are almost idiot proof.

But mathy things like transformations between different kinds of coordinate systems in c or c++ are at best equivalent to a college intern who may or may not have gone on a bender the night before. Wrong sense of the transformation (sometimes switching bacl and forth through the calculation), numerical approximations where analytical form was requested, occasionally just plain wrong, frequently has to be corrected.

May work better if trained on our codebases as well as what's out in the open, but in aerospace all that code is itar and has to stay in-house, so training on it would cost a lot of time/money.

Naw it's so it can set off the thingie on your hand when you turn 25...

What? My secretary's name is Sue Doe.

The "Emoluments" page in the dictionary became notably more dog-eared in 2017. But again: did they nail him on it when they got the chance in 2019? No. They didn't. And frankly they would have had a much stronger case since actual money and favors traded hands in full public view. So what does that tell me? It could be that the dems care more about the theatrics than the substance, it could be that they don't want to open the books too deeply on this stuff because *their* extracurricular activities would be harder to ignore, it could be that they're just not the sharpest knives in the drawer when it actually counts. Any number of things that make me conclude the vote for this particular riot-inciter was overall less harmful than the vote for the riot-inciter on the D line would have been.

"Strengthening workers' rights"

Raising the bar to fire poor performers such that it becomes less onerous to tolerate some amount of them than to remove them.