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Comment Re:Join the union! Fight The Man... (Score 2) 60

by ZorroXXX (#66129860) Attached to: Google DeepMind Workers Vote To Unionize Over Military AI Deals

Ah, another nonsense unions-bad "argument" that is factually wrong.

Being a union member is one of the easiest ways to get higher wages:

Nonunion workers had median weekly earnings that were 85 percent of earnings for workers who were union members ($1,138 versus $1,337). (The comparisons of earnings in this news release are on a broad level and do not control for many factors that can be important in explaining earnings differences.) (See table 2.)

Comment Regarding Pakistan's increase of solar panel usage (Score 1) 293

Pakistan "has been spared some of the impact from the war, since it began drastically importing cheap Chinese solar panels a few years ago

The country's official energy production dropped 10% year over year recently (because people install their own, independent solar panels, from China).

This was mentioned by author Bill McKibben in a podcast episode of Why is this happening?

Comment Re:What is the Security Architecture? (Score 1, Insightful) 65

The architecture, BTW, must be a public knowledge, otherwise it cannot be trusted.

Tom Scott has covered this before:

The system needs to make sure your vote is securely and accurately counted, sure. But it also needs to be obvious to everyone, no matter their technical knowledge.

And this excludes any computer "magic". It is fundamentally impossible to trust and verify a computer system in that way. All security experts agree that electronic voting is a horrible bad idea.

The only reasonable way to involve computers is to do OCR counting. That way the computer is just a much faster counter where humans can reproduce or substitute at any point.

Comment Re: Government by temper tantrum (Score 1) 195

by ZorroXXX (#66009366) Attached to: Hegseth Gives Anthropic Until Friday To Back Down on AI Safeguards

unless you go back about 150 years

That is actually extremely appropriate with regards to signal leaker Hegseth, because he is literally around 150 years out of date. From this news article

Fox News host Pete Hegseth has said on air that he has not washed his hands for 10 years because "germs are not a real thing".

Germ theory was proven second half of 19th century by Dr Semmelweis and many others.

Comment Re:News Sites are LEFT WING propaganda and Fake Ne (Score 1) 32

by ZorroXXX (#65949848) Attached to: Is Google Prioritizing YouTube and X Over News Publishers on Discover?

like he was advocating violence

Trump has been advocating violence for a long time already, it is not like that is something new. Like a lot of times. Even back in the 80s he was advocating for killing innocent children in the Central Park Five case.

The BBC clip was not fake despite what Trump cultist claim. It was just a normal collection of excerpts of a longer speech he gave, condensed down to something shorter for consumption in a news program. That is what all TV news programs does all the time, every single day, thousands of times all around the world.

Could you argue that it slightly changes what he said compared to the full speech? Sure. But a map is inherently not the territory and even translating into a foreign language slightly changes things. And translators have a really hard time accurately translating Trump's incoherent ramblings.

Comment Re:Floating Bridge (Score 4, Informative) 99

by zooblethorpe (#65930024) Attached to: Seattle is Building Light Rail Like It's 1999

The particular bridge at issue is the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge, used for the Sound Transit rail link across Lake Washington, and also used for I-90.

Sound Transit could not suffer the same fate as the SF Hydro in Norway, simply because that was a ferry, and the Sound Transit rail link is a bridge.

While the Murrow Bridge did sink in the past, that was in 1990 in the middle of a reconstruction project. The bridge was closed to traffic at the time. The sinking was due to a number of human errors that resulted in the watertight doors of the bridge pontoons getting removed, combined with a big storm that hit the area that Thanksgiving weekend, which proceeded to fill those open pontoons with rain and lake water.

Provided no one repeats that particular bit of idiocy (opening up the pontoons), the bridge is unlikely to sink a second time.

For details on the bridge sinking, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacey_V._Murrow_Memorial_Bridge#1990_disaster.

Comment Re:Pulled a Steve Jobs (Score 1) 381

by ZorroXXX (#65925786) Attached to: Scott Adams, Creator of the 'Dilbert' Comic Strip, Dies at 68

And with regards to pulling a Steve Jobs, the podcast Behind the bastards does a good job of explaining why his own ego and stupidity was the reason he he died form one of curable forms of cancer. As well as exposing his other shitty behaviours.

Comment Re:How much storage is planned in that? (Score 3, Insightful) 86

by ZorroXXX (#65925758) Attached to: Britain Awards Wind Farm Contracts That Will Power 12 Million Homes

And why is UK so dependent on gas? Because Margaret Thatcher ruined a well run public infrastructure for short term gain and made producing electricity from gas the most viable option for making money fast because who cares about long term stability? And also, who cares about ordinary people gets worse outcome out of privatization as long as rich people can get richer?

Tom Nicholas has an excellent video about this, How energy privatization is bankrupting Britain

Even before the recent increases in the wholesale cost of gas, energy suppliers have been steadily ratcheting up prices. Outside of the global oil shocks of the 1970s the average price of electricity consistently went down under nationalization. Adjusting for inflation the average Brit was paying 36 percent less to turn the lights on in 1990 than they were in 1946.

Far from driving down prices attempts to introduce competition to the market have actually reversed that trend. Between 1998 and 2019 the average domestic electricity rate increased in real terms by a whopping 80 percent.

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent spike in wholesale gas prices energy bills in the UK have risen even further at a ridiculous rate in 2020 the average annual UK Energy bill was around 450 pounds by 2022 it was 2500 pounds and in 2023 it's expected to be a full three grand.

Worse still, these final couple of figures would be even higher were it not for the government's introduction of a price cap this will see the UK government hand over up to 140 billion pounds in subsidies to energy suppliers to ensure that ordinary Brits can turn the heating on far from Maggie Thatcher's dream of an energy industry in which the free market drives down prices then what we've ended up with is one in which the government is panding private companies cash by the bucket load so there is a lot of anger in the UK

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