The shutdown isn't about fiscal responsibility, give us a break.

McKinsey doesn't have a fucking clue.
As demand for coal drops the oversupply will cause a price drop, mines will shut.
Coal fired power stations will fail, be too expensive to maintain or operate and be shut down.
Solar, wind and batteries will continue to get cheaper,
undercutting coal fired causing more shutdowns.
Electric vehicles will prove to be much cheaper and more reliable
and backup the home electricity supply.
Transport will get cheaper, power bills will drop to near $zero.
All the dinosaurs will die and good riddance to them

From an innocent grandfather,
can you get pirate downloads from legit websites,
I thought I had to use my vpn and torrent.

Retirement allows us to sleep in and have sex, sex, sex, sex.
No rushing off to drive down a motorway to the 9-5 grind.
The only grinding is in the bed.
Just go to a caravan park full of grey nomads touring your wonderful country side.
If the caravan is rocking, don't come knocking.
Yes, might make the youngsters gag a bit, granny having sex.
So I'll question the statistics, they're wrong for my age group (65+)

We have the best filtered, uv treated rain water at home. Puts trendy water to shame.

FU BP

Carbon credits is a fucking, big, steamy pile of dog shit.
CO2 driven extreme climate is driven by consumerism and the market.
The market of carbon credits can not be the answer.
Actually not burning stuff to reduce production of CO2 is the real answer.
Servers and AI = enormous amounts of CO2.
Carbon sequestration is the next pile of dog shit.
Just maybe in the future it might really work well.
It has been a delaying tactic, give us lots of money and we'll get this concept up and running.

I'd be very cautious about building and selling batteries which are potential bombs.
A safer alternative is needed for domestic solar batteries, as well as automotive.
Fuck, I don't want to be in a car which turns into a fire which can't be extinguished.

At first mail order shareware on floppies
then Slackware, Debian and Redhat on CD ,
ah, those were the days
(still have a usb dvd drive, just in case)

Fucking politicians couldn't organise a fuckup in a brothel.
The hardware designs in the various units of the riscv processor are what has to be protected.
Cores might only run code half as fast because the magic sauce is in the hardware.
So it is a great form of competition on a field leveled by a common free instruction set.
This is what capitalism is all about - competition.
You can't stop someone else from being cleverer than you.
Because the Chinese government owns the IP, it can't be bought out by some sleezy US corporation.
Suck shit.

A business makes profits for it's shareholders.
There is no interest in workers, customers or the community.

Unless you live with the hippies in Nimbin,
idiot anti-vaxers

HaveIBeenPwned? reports I have been breached on 2 websites using one of my email accounts.
On one I am registered with a different email address,
the second, I'm not registered and haven't used the site.

Feels like a shit security checkup

As we shift from petrol to EVs the price of petrochemicals will increase, increasing the price of plastics to a point where we won't take plastics for granted.
Right now I can make a wooden surfboard cheaper than a plastic surfboard can be made.

We don't have daylight savings.
Our curtains don't fade.
I hate daylight savings and hope you are successful in dumping it.