Sam practiced "effective altruism" which is a pseudo-philosophy for being a selfish, thieving cunt - that dressing up a self-dealing with the odd charitable donation somehow serves the greater good.

But ironically effective altruism actually worked in this case. Being a selfish, thieving cunt landed him in prison and arguably the greater good was served. It needs to happen more often.

Anyone who types "fiji hotel" can be shown a map of fiji with hotels marked on it. If they click on a marker, they can be shown as the first result the hotel's own website and rates before any other site's. If there are any sponsored hotels, or booking sites parasitizing from the search, including Google's own affiliate deals, then they also can be shown below the true result. This is not rocket science.

If I search for hotels, or a specific hotel, why not put THEIR website and THEIR prices first instead of burying it below a bunch of parasitic booking sites?

Google could send all the drivers the same way. e.g. the USA decides to conduct secret economic warfare on a country (e.g. Canada) and Google degrades journey times by creating congestion.

If that's the big problem then FSF should provide constructive advice including viable alternatives.

The FSF wouldn't be the FSF if they could a) say what the problem is in a way normal people could understand, b) what the credible alternative is, c) present evidence of this credible alternative in action. But they can't and we get these pointless campaigns which are tantamount to sour grapes which make the FSF look more out of touch than it already is.

Two dimensional plot, contrivances galore, leaden direction and script. And possibly the most unlikeable and stupid characters ever put into a series. The only time it seemed to have fun was the in-universe space soap opera. The irony is murderbot would have been completely within his rights to murder these sanctimonious assholes before putting a round in his own head.

The US pretends to support choice and competition but the minute they have their asses handed to them, suddenly it's circle the wagons.

And aside from being a stupid hot take that not everyone wants a cluster, the model Y actually does have an extra screen - for the benefit of back seat passengers who can watch Netflix - while the driver smashes into the back of a semi because they had to avert their eyes to check or do something on the touch screen because of the lack of HUD, cluster, physical controls etc.

Teslas don't have a HUD or cluster and they suck for it. They disguise this as minimalism / innovation but really it is about compromising driver safety & convenience because it saves them a few bucks. Same goes for some of the other BS they've done like removing physical controls.

They're totally big enough to warrant a battery. Not everyone is running appliances all day and certain heavy duty appliances (AC, washing machine / dryer, cooktops) are not even on the 110v circuit.

Wrong. If solar is charging a battery and the battery has outlets as most power stations do then you have a backup power supply.

That depends if people are running AC and whether it's on the 110v circuit or something else.

I think if you own a house then you should. Not only can you generate more power, but it's hooked up to proper batteries and inverters that deliver more power back to the house, or to the grid. But as the name implies, a "balcony" system is meant to be a couple of panels you hang out of a window, or put on a balcony that are affordable and easy to set up especially for people in apartments and rentals.

Hooking up solar straight to a microinverter doesn't maximize the benefit. Plug the panels into the battery, and the battery (which includes an inverter) into an outlet. During the day, the battery will charge itself with any surplus over demand then the surplus can feed in during the evening. Probably pays for itself in a few years and can also serve as a backup if there is a power failure.