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Comment Re: Air Conditioners save lives (Score 1) 194

I happen to live in Texas and was incredibly surprised that houses are constructed with what I consider as "garbage tier" insulation ratings. Homeowners are expected to run those heat pumps more or less constantly in one direction or the other. It's ridiculous to spend $500K on a house, and then count on your AC to account for a couple hundred bucks worth of electricity a month for most of the year.

Comment Re: We lost 200,000 jobs in 3 months (Score 1) 84

The term "virtue signalling" was defined by the political right as some entity saying/posting/publishing something to indicate some positive virtue, but not actually doing anything meaningful that would make that entity able to realistically claim that virtue.

It doesn't even mean that anymore. Its a dog whistle for the right at this point. Lefties very seldom use the term.

Some Righty uses "virtue signalling" without needing to substantiate its validity, so other Righties can get a dopamine hit because the Lefties just got pwned.

It's basically grade school discourse at its finest.

To get to the point, though, you get "virtue signalling" as a rebuttal to something like "people shouldn't shit in the street." You know, because Freedom!!!

Comment Re: We lost 200,000 jobs in 3 months (Score 1) 84

The right at this point in time doesn't do virtue signalling, they signal that they're against virtue signalling. I think they're going for freedom signalling, but ultimate freedom is also ultimate anarchy...and the responses I see often come off like a whiny kid crying about how no one should be able to tell them what to do because freedom.

It would be nice if we could get all the adults to agree that living in a functional society has benefits and obligations, and that a society can't function without a large percentage of people fulfilling their obligations.

Comment Re: When milliseconds count (Score 1) 210

Trump has made Truth Social the defacto standard for public statements from him around the clock. Since he made it the standard, and is now seeking money from interested parties to provide them a competitive advantage over all other parties, it's clearly material AND non-public up until the rest of the world is informed. It may be milliseconds, but those are worth millions or billions of dollars if you've got the resources to take advantage of them.

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