EVs would be residential, not wholesale, pricing.

Big AI Data Centers would be wholesale pricing.

The Left assumes the Right is just the same sort of Cult of Personality that they themselves are, just on the other side.*

*(Sadly, as an old school conservative, I'm actually just as or more troubled by the what-we-formerly-called-neoCons and activist Republicans who DO act just like Dems just marching behind a different flag, cf the FCC/Kimmel thing I think is a conservative own-goal because it is asinine the US gov't is 'weighing in' on the content of some mid-talent late night show with like 120k viewers. Likewise most of Trump's bombast just gets in the way of what he's trying to do.)

They don't realize the Left and the Right FUNDAMENTALLY see the relationship to power differently, in a different framework, and with an entirely different context.

I know the global climate change strawman is pretty much everywhere. I've been fighting you morons on this for 30 years since IPCC 2. That's back when they left their sources online - eg tree ring data - so I could gophur it, throw the raw data into excel and see there was NO SUCH TREND as discussed.

"Climate is changing" well yes it's always changed
"but now it's warming" yes we're coming out of an interglacial, duh?
"no, HUMANS are causing this" they really aren't; the climb of temperature is basically identical in scope, slope, and timing to the previous 30x-40x spikes we've seen in paleoclimate reconstructions every 120k-ish years for around the last 4 million years. Temp spikes, then settles back to a rough norm.
"(increasingly shrill) THIS TIME IT'S PEOPLE you fascist!" well, now you have to explain a) how you can discern this is different from one of those, b) where the previous usual expected spike went, and c) how the earth's climate systems that responded to the previous repeat events won't do exactly the same thing.
"grr but 97% of climate scientists agree!" that's been debunked so many times I'm not bothering to do it again. How curious that people who make their living and gov't grants from declaring the sky is falling, insist that indeed, the sky is falling.
"fuck you nazi" yeah, right back at you.

The funny thing is I *absolutely* agree that human activity is very likely increasing the warming to some degree, or if not that, it's probable that a longer steady warming over centuries was suppressed by heavy particulate load from the industrial revolution; our SUCCESS at (and economic changes) clearing/reducing particulates has resulted in the system 'rebounding' likely appearing to be sudden warming.
I also agree it's stupid to shit where you eat, and we absolutely need to work on stronger efforts to clean water, clean air, and a cleaner environment wherever possible.

I just think that this whole discussion is a bullshit trend that the ecomarxists and left have barnacled onto and my failing to genuflect to their Catastrophist Creed and Holy CO2 Ghost marks me as an apostate. (shrug) I don't give a shit.

Is that ELI5 for you? I don't expect to change your mind but occasionally I like to lay it out there on the ridiculously small chance someone other than you reads it.

You dumb fuck already complained that "I was only talking about a study of northern cities" so it's a little hard to claim that you don't know precisely what data I was referring to.

Although I will agree you're pretty convincing at playing stupid.

Awful.

Worse, EVEN IF YOU CHANGE THE SETTINGS the shit will just revert at some random patch in the future (not every one, so you can't get into the habit of always fixing it...).

I'm an idiot, so I've now made the mistake out of perhaps weird optimism TWICE: trying to disable onedrive (or limit it), /as well as/ trying to move things like my documents and downloads folder OFF my superfast C system drive (ssd) and onto the gigantic 3+ tb data drive and both systems are a ficking mess of where files actually are. I now have 'documents' folders on BOTH drives, some of which are apparently onedriving to the cloud, I ...think? We just wiped and restored a system and lost a bunch of tax files because my wife said 'oh those are in the docs folder on that system' so copied the whole docs folder to a big usb for later review...only to discover AFTER the system was reformatted and win11 installed that those files were apparently in the OTHER 'docs folder'. Sigh.

I think anyone saying that the shooter clearly belongs to one party or the other at this point is lying. And I've seen plenty of it on both sides, including you, right now.

If you can't see the shooter is FAR LEFT...then you are either willingly blind or not listening at all.

His notes, his relatives telling his history, FFS he's fucking a gay furry guy trans.....

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck....

Fuck off with the "AI everything".

I can't do a fucking decent Boolean query of my outlook emails.
Excel combo drop-downs still don't even recognize the mouse wheel.
There are probably 100 things with MS Office that I would suggest fixing before you fucking bolt on a not-really-Al, thanks.

Oh, and onedrive is fucking cancer.
So is teams.

So present other data, you tendentious chud.

Neither is the earth getting meaningfully warmer outside of what would expect coming out of an interglacial, but that doesn't stop you saying stupid shit, does it?

That is a good post except for one thing. Charlie Kirk's killer isn't "left"

I guess you haven't been watching the news for the days AFTER the shooting.....this guy might have been raised "right", but he left that awhile back, was shacking up with a furry, trans guy....and both had pushed back on their families showing extreme hate for anything remotely conservative....hell the dude wrote shit in his notes, his texts and even on his bullet casings....

The left tried pushing the shooter was maga right off to bat, but that has long since been disproved.

It's gotten so far that some Republicans are trying to back away because they realize that those laws being used to censor "the left" could easily be used to censor them for the exact same reason. The big fun being to see how the Supreme Court will allow the censorship but then twist themselves into knots trying to deny the same rights if a (D) gets to be President.

The LEFT was ALREADY doing this....especially during the Obama and Biden admins....Obama using direct federal power/branches directory, like the IRS.

Biden, with DOJ going after people they didn't like and directly pressuring Social Media to deplatform people and cut banking abilities... Look I don't agree with recent Reps suggesting HARD to have people lose jobs/censored, but it is different than direct federal manipulations with actual branches actively doing things, behind the scenes, etc....those backdoor communications with Twitter and FAcebook are far different than someone on the FCC saying bad things about Kimmel....but they didn't force ABC to can him....

Never mind the other deaths like January 6

Jan 6ths...really?

Let's see....1 person was killed that day at the Capitol...the lady trying to climb in a window show and killed by a guard.

That's your example??

We've had guns freely available in the US for a LONG time.

Remember it's only been since the mid 80s since we had background checks....since I believe 1986 that would could'n't buy a modern NEW full auto machine gun.

Hell, I remember in the 70's, you didn't have to go to a "Gun store" to buy a gun, they sold rifles at places like Western Auto, and your local hardware store.

It wasn't long ago you could order a gun via a catalog and have it mailed to your front door without any kind of background check.

And we didn't have the "mass" shootings like you see today....

There were a few, yes, but FEW and far between...no one was shooting up schools all the time or the like.

We have more gun control today than ever...and the problem seems to be getting worse.

It isn't the guns....it's broken people. What's the coincidence?

More broken and single parent homes. Raising generations to not properly value the human life....

Let's try to figure out what changed in PEOPLE since the 80's and earlier....

A couple hours before my post here Kimmel just got drummed off the air for saying roughly this

No, Kimmel got drummed off the air for lying on air saying that the shooter was a conservative MAGA supporter..."one of their own", long after official statements and evidence have plainly stated the opposite.

He was trying to still promote the leftists lies that came out early on this to confuse the public.

addressing the actual problem of lax gun control.

You know...I have a fuck ton of guns.

And not ONCE have they spontaneously jumped up, aimed and fired themselves at me or anyone or anything around me.....not at home, or in the car or when carrying when out and about.

Guns are nothing but tools with no intrinsic evil or danger.

It's the fucking loons out there getting amped up to take out "evil" people on "the other side"....

Same people that would run a car through a crowd...mass knifing....home made explosives...etc.

Why do you insist on blaming the tool when it is people that are the fucking problem.

Eliminate one tool...and people will...Uh....Find a way.