The second amendment was added as a sop to slave states which had militias to hunt down and capture escaped slaves.

They dare not let you speak the truth, Rotsa Ruck telling the captives they are imprisoned. They were born there.

'en$(#@tify'
'overcharge'
'zero choice'
'rid myself of that filth'

Keywords that others use to excoriate the streaming services. Good luck with your fiber Internet service.

He's been taking lessons from Elon Musk. (Or maybe Musk has been taking lessons from him.)
All hype and wild ideas that don't actually do anything.

As if solar and wind plants are substantially easier/cheaper/longer lived than hydro.

Ignoring the cost/kWH of construction, wind generation requires more than a lot of maintenance, and solar similarly. The relatively massive upfront cost of hydro is offset (or amortized, I forget) by the longevity of most dams, associated infrastructure, and generators. Mind you, the hidden costs of hydro power include displacement of the people who lived in the impoundment, the other life such as wildlife, forests etc.

No enterprise of Man is without impacts, noticeable, hidden, and future, and the responsible equation is the cost-benefit equation. Real costs, real benefits. Forward-looking.

MacBook Pro battery swelled up and damaged the keyboard. Never had that happen to any other computer.
Pain in the ass to fix.

Police like facial recognition because it gives them lots of "suspects" without much effort.
They can then arrest someone and get points for the arrest.
They don't really care if they have the right person or not. It's the arrest that counts. There isn't any penalty for arresting the wrong person.

Yes. There are some who run on ARM64 and would use this.

Caiso.com

Currently California is getting 80% from renewables and 2.9% from natural gas.
I'm not worried.
Sucks to live where you're dependent on fossil fuels.

In my EV.
No gas? What, me worry?

Nuclear is not dispatch-able.
OTOH wind and solar with batteries is the cheapest and most flexible energy source.
Yes, batteries are dispatch-able.

OpenWRT
This is the obvious solution but it's too complicated for many people.

I agree. There is a flood of AI on YouTube and I have been sucked in by it.
I just don't know when to trust something on YouTube.
I'd love to have a warning that specifies what part was AI generated and a filter to cut it out.

It is the foundation of Communism that social and economic classes deprive the 'lower' classes of their rightful share of economic output.

It is the effect of Communism that, having been instituted, a new class is formed, that of ruler. And they operate to their own benefit, usually with little benefit for any other class.

Unlike Capitalism, Communism will resort to physical violence when the rulers are threatened. Capitalism has this interesting feature of self reinvention. New classes spring up where opportunity arises. Though in this context, 'classes' is more like ' members', since classes are generally not so fluid.

But it is an old trope, somewhat that the rich get richer. As old as the urge of Man to rule others, and such urge should resisted at every opportunity.