I'm an IT professional, not a "geek" or a "nerd". I find such terms to be hateful speech.

...is more Hybrid choices. The Ford Fusion Hybrid was one of the best cars I ever owned. Low maintenance, reliable and phenomenal gas mileage. For me to do an EV, I'd have to invest in new service and electrical work to my home. There aren't many charging options in my area. And I think that there's a whole lot of people like me in the market. I feel like hybrid cars/trucks never really got developed further when E came out with the Tesla. Car companies jumped all over the market and moved on from other technologies that worked NOW for a larger market segment.

I've seen this movie and it didn't work out so well...

And you don't know either. I'm more inclined to believe the scores that knew him and reacted positively.

..is their Secretary of Defense.

I suspect he doesn't know about - or thinks most people don't know about - ad blockers, and so offering a browser that has more relevant ads will attract people who hate the irrelevant ads but figure they're unavoidable.

Obviously, for those of us who are smart about adblocking, who almost never see ads we don't agree to see, it's stupid.

But shockingly, there are probably plenty of people who will happily sign up for that "improved" experience.

You know, you make good arguments, except they're irrelevant to this case.
The police used the DNA markers found from testing the blood left in knife sheath and found a strong connection to the defendant's father using those databases.
Once the connection was established, they did a cheek swab test and the DNA found on the knife sheath on the crime scene was confirmed to be his.

I'd say that was pretty good detective work, and anything but circumstantial.

"The work we do is mysterious and important."

Got really worried there for a sec, read it as HP to aquire parts of humans and immediately thought "Holy shit, they beat everyone to the AI punch and let Skynet loose".

Interestingly enough, you glossed over the graph lower in the page, in the section titled Size Matters.

They list the miles of transmission and distribution lines running through High Fire Threat District (HFTD) areas as compared to the other power providers.
The investor-owned utilities dwarf the public-owned utility companies, because they have vastly larger infrastructure (and costs) to serve far more customers along significantly larger areas.

Looking at the Net Income for PG&E, they made $2.242 billion in 2023, or roughly $140/person/year in the entire market they serve.
Since PG&E's rates have to be approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, who is made up of 5 commissioners appointed by CA Governor Gavin Newsom, well... they're getting what they voted for.

The consequences of the big government's War on Fat will be felt for generations. The loving and caring lesser governments even went so far as to outright banning butter in public schools...

Libertarians hate being proven right...

USSR — and then Russia — were/are the supporters and often outright instigators of most of the world's terrorism and other evil.

All efforts should be aimed on defeating that first and foremost.

If the Ukrainians are on the tip of that spear today, they must not lack for weapons, supplies, nor other support.

And you represent the essence of neo-feudalism where my bank account is the sole determiner of my worth to society and those poor's should just die more efficiently to pave the way for the glorious ubermensch to rule the masses.

You libertarian types

There is nothing — zero — in the Libertarian doctrine, that mentions anything anywhere near the strawman you attributed to me. Indeed, your verbiage is straight out of the most infamous (though not the most evil) Statist of all L-)

Live on a different planet. Go live where you are alone and die well there.

This is an interesting attitude — considering, that Libertarians don't at all mind other people organizing themselves into any kind of Collectives they genuinely want to. A Libertarian government wouldn't touch you — as long you don't coerce anyone to join you.

It is the other way around, that is impossible — Statists wouldn't leave the Libertarians be. So, if anyone ought to be exiled to a different planet, it is you — the oppressors — not us...

Yeah it looks like Putin is going to be your new best buddy.

On the contrary, that is quite less likely now, that we've avoided Obama's fourth term.

Baltic nations said this week they are investigating whether the cutting of two fiber-optic undersea telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea was sabotage.

Of course, it was. We even know, who the saboteurs are.

Though the collective "Biden" may not realize it, Russia's been at war with the West for many years... They started it, and we ought to end it — on our terms.