See also: Pakistan, where the deployments of behind-the-meter solar have been even larger as a percentage of grid capacity.
To the point that the official energy production dropped 10% year over year recently (because people install their own, independent solar panels).
This was mentioned by author Bill McKibben in a podcast episode of Why is this happening?
People that are unvaccinated have been unvaccinated for YEARS
And who is to blame for that?
Of course it is the anti-science, anti-public health republicans.
maybe your reaction is emotion, not fact-based?
So you want to appear to be very rational, right? And you want people to believe that you argue in good faith, right?
Well, are you able to form a sound and formally valid argument that contains the phrase "no one has changed the measles vaccine requirement in 2025" and a corresponding conclusion?
Has RFK, jr actually spewed out TONS of misinformation and antivaxx propaganda? Yes, he did(1).
If you do not see any problem with the current administration I can only see three possible reasons, either you
Which is it?
(1)
https://apnews.com/article/robert-f-kennedy-vaccines-trump-rfkjr-7f8dcb25de76a5a70710d22bbc63f6fa/
https://time.com/7210943/rfk-confirmation-hearing-vaccines//
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/rfk-jr-s-history-of-medical-misinformation-raises-concerns-over-hhs-nomination//
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36YC9GW/
etc
Zuckerberg has caused no damage to the stability of any country
He most certainly have!
Abstract
For the broad public increasingly critical of technology companies, the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar
has come to illustrate the evils of Facebook and its parent company, Meta. At the same time, the
Myanmar case has become an influential template for understanding the dangers of social media, past,
present, and future, as well as developing solutions. Yet this template is strikingly narrow: it has been
limited to content that negatively characterizes the victim group, such as through hate speech and
misinformation. As a result, most extant analysis has excluded other processes that scholarship on
genocide has also shown to be significant: practices aimed at constructing not the victims of genocide
but those who are supposed to support it. This paper therefore analyzes some of these practices as
they involved Facebook in Myanmar, offering new interpretations of publicly available evidence and
drawing on observations from work in Myanmar during 2012-15. It then concludes by discussing the
relevance of these initial findings for ongoing efforts to pursue restitution and accountability and
proposes concrete questions that could be taken up in these efforts as well as by scholars and
practitioners.
Why the hell do you think companies have any rights other than what politicians allow them to do?
And when pressed to define what "woke" actually means, they universally fail to come up with a definition. Even an "author" having written a book about it fails to be able to define woke.
I work in localization. Technical writing is often easier for machine-translation systems, because the writing is (ideally) deliberately clear, concise, and structured.
The terminology issue you mention can be addressed at least partially by feeding any such machine-translation system a list of words and phrases to keep as-is in the target text.
Fiction, meanwhile, often involves complicated and subtle wordplay, which no AI system is going to handle very well.
Already thrilled to learn what erotic literature..
.. will read like, after it has been dragged through the automatic translation process. Even the automatically translated descriptions of sex toys on Aliexpress are hilarious, and those are really short and not sophisticated.
I can see it now:
"I put on my robe and wizard hat..."
How about giving the choice for an analog control and taking the wasted extra money spent on computer chips + design + digital display and making the motor last longer?
I would love it if some manufacturer would produce tried-and-true analog designs without all the extra add-on, planned-obsolescence, enshittified bullshit. I suspect this approach would do quite well in the market, at least in certain product categories -- blenders, ovens, washing machines, etc.
Actually, this reminds me to take a look at Lehman's catalog, see what they're getting up to these days. I bumped into them quite by accident ages ago when a relative was living in Amish country. Poking around their website just now, I see things like ovens and hand-cranked mixers. A bit pricey, but no "ET phone home" rubbish and solid workmanship.
(Crikey, slashcode still doesn't render bulleted lists correctly. How stupidly embarrassing.)
That's going to be expensive as hell.
I thought that was the entire point of consumer IoT goods? Rent-seeking by manufacturers?
(Serious question, not just snark.)
Speaking of dinosaurs with tiny hands.
Prices of solar panels has fallen orders of magnitude since the 80s and 90s to the point that now solar is now in some cases the cheapest energy source. In a recent podcast episode (2025-08-26) of Why is this happening? the guest (an author of a book related to solar panels) mentioned that in Pakistan the official electricity production had dropped like 10-15% over a year, not because of lesser energy consumption but because people rather had bought and installed their own, independent solar panels.
When commenting "study proves X", how often do you fail to include references to said study?
Your comment was enlightening, but not in the way you intended I guess. So you only feel empathy towards people that you place in you in-group and are indifferent to people in your out-group.
Now, there are definitely limits on how many people anyone is able to personally relate to, so everyone has some kind of "out-group". However you have an unlimited supply of potential empathy and there is no reason to limit it to only your in-group.
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. -- John Muir
