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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

P. J. O'Rourk

PLA is biodegradable. Good luck.

What happens when sites refuse to work with this browser? This kind of nonsense is already a thing. Do RFCs still matter?

"If people can't have both benefits for the now with benefits for the future then maybe we need to work harder on providing options to hold off global warming."

I agree with this. Because everything you talk about involves reducing emissions in some way, which is not working. An asking people to go hungry now for the sake of the future is not going to happen. Other options needed.

A cost-benefit analysis comparing various options for responding to the reality of global warming. Reducing emissions being only one of the options, and which has not made a difference up to now and looks certain to fail in meeting targets.

Western North Carolina, residential flat rate:

$14/month basic customer charge
12.119c per kWh
11.119c per kWh for the additional kWh over 800, October to April
https://www.duke-energy.com/-/...

I guess our power costs a lot more the California's because we don't have so much wind and solar. I assume power is essentially free there, like the wind and the sun.

Assuming you are a poor American, you are still far richer than most non-Americans on the planet. So why don't you go first and start living like a Congolese peasant?

The subject sentiment remains valid. But yes, the "solutions" of NCLB and a myriad of other political quick-fixes are debatable. No substitute for hard graft and high expectations.

George W. Bush

Anyone care to refute this?

"Let the market decide"

What?! This is capitalism! Are we all supporters of Adam Smith, Hayes, Mises and Friedman now? What is the world coming to?

The rest of the world does not exist to take care of you. Stop telling others how to run their business and you will find the world is a better place.

I predict the UK will go first, followed by Hungary, Germany, France, Italy. The USA will not change, because the Americans are being tracked already.
https://theintercept.com/2025/...
https://www.theregister.com/20...

"Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Agreed.

But I have little sympathy for those corporations who take advantage of the system broken on their behalf, when they whine about theft of their property. People (not you!) are losing respect for the law, which is a poor outcome for everyone.