Wikipedia wasn't banned, though one asshole did introduce a bill which tried.

You can't cite ANY encyclopedias after elementary school, whether it's claimed they are particularly inaccurate when they aren't, or not.

We would have fixed this with wind and solar already if the money holders didn't think nuclear was going to solve these problems any day now.

Humanity is in the end stage atmospheric we're fucked fire... And the amount of fire is increasing.

If some people didn't spend political effort to make sure of that then this wouldn't be an issue.

Slashdot has ALWAYS been a place where we discussed politics. Cry harder.

Yeah he paid billions to shut down a wind project in my area in California. PGE has made it quite clear they will not bring in more power, and right now you can't get anything permitted here that requires new service because there isn't any to go around. Since California let PGE kill net metering (fuck you Gavin) we won't be getting the power from anywhere else either. The local descendant of the Confederacy yokels are celebrating because they didn't want the wind turbines to ruin their view.

But you participate in society! I am very intelligent! Etc etc

Global warming won't work out well for them either. Permafrost doesn't magically become arable land when it thaws and AGW means more chaotic weather that will affect crop yields for them, too. And at high latitudes it means increased occurrence not just of heat waves, but blizzards too... Russia might well be one of the nations for which it will be worst. It's hard to know, that's why they call it chaotic

Cute eighties movies about inexplicably skilled protagonists doing space combat which would absolutely actually be done by a computer don't prove anything except that suspension of disbelief is necessary to enjoy Hollywood movies.

The Chinese are doing a lot more cloud shit now than in the past. For example the manufacturer of my 3d printer made it phone home for cloud crap. Naturally I loaded a third party firmware patch into it which fixed this and other things. You're right that they're not good at it, it goes down a lot from what I hear, but that doesn't stop them from trying out this new angle on monetization (for them.)

I don't know if the problems are incompetence or just being less protected by attacks from competitors...

There are far fewer factories than brands, so there is some truth to that, but it's a lot more complicated. Certainly though a lot of brands are created with randomly generated names, operated until the liabilities of whatever kind become too great, and then abandoned in favor of another equivalent brand.

Yeah, usually in the US they aren't tasked with that, though I have seen it occasionally. It's more likely you'll get attitude than information. But fair point.

Most decos are shit. They fall between craftsman homes and homes with modern designs. They also have stupid roofs.

And yet how would you know? You only know about the glasses because they are obvious.

Maybe you should talk to some people who other people agree know things instead of the people you work with who don't care enough to know the meanings of words. You'll see making decisions and various proxies for it throughout that article.

What makes you think they aren't? Maybe our cancer rates would be a lot lower still than they are now without the microplastics? Or maybe plastic is turning the frogs gay, who knows? ;)

A robot is a machine which does stuff and makes some decisions on its own. The motes being moved around externally are fundamentally not robots, and anyone claiming otherwise is polluting language with bullshit for their own ends.