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Comment The only example shared seems trivial (Score 1) 152

FTA: “The FCC received specific examples of how E-Rate helps local communities. “We estimate our annual Internet cost at approximately $3,120 and our annual E-Rate support at approximately $1,560,” Paul Lapka, the principal of Rock Valley Christian School in Iowa, told the US agency. "

Is this Christian school really operating on such a knife edge that the $1560/year ($130/month) puts them over the edge? Note it is a private school with around 240 students and an awesome 11:1 student/teacher ratio. My local school is more like 25:1. I get how they would rather get the money than not get it, but so would we all.

Multiplying this out nationwide somehow you get to over $2B in checks that probably fit into this same "nice to have" category.

Comment Re:Do no good (Score 0) 222

There is no keeping out of politics if you're a human on earth. The Germans kept out of politics as millions of Jews were slaughtered.

Inaction is an action. Inaction is a choice. Inaction is taking a side.

The alternative is to remove yourself from the situation, as some Americans have, by moving away. Shy of that, you're taking a side. The question is: Which one?

Oh, stop it. This is renaming a lake, not murdering millions

Comment Re:Dig Baby Dig (Score 1) 22

If coal pollutes, so does NatGas.

That's cool, Trump ensured America is winning at both

  America increased coal usage so much that America alone was responsible for 300% of the global coal increase in CO2 for 2025

In 2025 America increased coal the most in the world. And also increased Natural gas the most in the world too.

How can America be responsible for 300% of the increase? Wouldn't 100% of increase be the absolute maximum?

Comment Re:It's not really greed at that point (Score 1) 315

This is why there needs to be a 98% wealth tax on assets over $100M and 99.9% on assets over $250M. No individual human needs more than $100M in wealth.

How would Elon pay this 99.9% on the value of his assets over $250M? He doesn't have that in cash. He couldn't get it unless he sold his share of SpaceX to other people, but nobody else could or would buy it because you took 99.9% of their assets too. So maybe it goes into some massive mutual fund that has to have $1T in cash they are willing to buy the company with, but there are only a couple of those and if they tried to liquidate $1T in assets to get the cash the market would melt down.

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