The ONLY thing that nuclear speaks to is land? Did you forget about a little thing called "night time" ?? You are aware people still need power at night, right?

If the answer is "batteries", those need land too, and money, and the resources to make them. And of course, you have to hope you don't have too many cloudy days, or there goes your batteries.

Solar and nuclear are completely different paradigms.

1) African American was a term coined by black people, you moron. And yeah, you might be left-leaning too if conservatives enslaved you and shipped you overseas. (Sorry, I forgot it's racist to remind a white person about slavery. They're so sensitive!)

2) Every person can choose what they want to be called. If somebody doesn't want to be called African-American, all they have to do is tell me that, and I won't call them that. Other people do prefer the term.

3) "Americans, for the most part, try to be good people" - Everybody believes they are a good person. Hitler thought of himself as a swell guy. Nobody thinks they're the bad guy. But some people actively do harm to other people, through their actions, speech, and politics, and I don't call those good people. And we've got a shit-ton of 'em. Whether it's the KKK, Neo-nazis, xenophobes, transphobes, homophobes, misogynists, anti-womens-rights activists ("pro lifers"), men's rights activists, anti-vaxxers, militant revolutionaries, Ayn Rand lovers, etc, this country looooves to hate. It's our national pastime.

4) DEI only creates conflict with people who don't give a shit about poor brown people. They either refuse to acknowledge that systemic abuse just might lead to an unbalanced power dynamic, or accept it and simply don't care. Racial prejudice does exist, no matter how much you don't want it to, and it does perpetually affect people's lives negatively, even if you want to desperately ignore it. Compassionate logical people simply aren't going to put up with the perpetuation of systemic racism, full-stop. We aren't going to let people continue to suffer just because you're uncomfortable. Try being a brown person sometime.

You do know you're on the wrong side of history, right? You ever see the videos of police dogs attacking black people at civil rights marches? Or firehoses put on them to get them to stop protesting? Or white people beating up black people for sitting in front of a bus, or sitting at a lunch counter? That shit isn't ancient history. It was just 60 years ago. Some of the most heinous fucking shit, being done to people within our lifetimes, because of the color of their skin, and them having the audacity to want to be treated like a human being. And you, what, think that's _gone away_? Or that we should just ignore it? No way. DEI is just one part of the fight for civil rights that continues, and will continue, and will never end, until we win equitable treatment for all people. When the legacy of redlining is gone, when historically oppressed minority communities aren't starved of needed resources, when the color of skin (or gender, or any other thing) isn't a very clear statistical outlier in education, employment, transportation, etc, then we will stop fighting. But not until then. You can educate yourself and join us, or become the ugly footnote in a future history book.

You don't understand the concept of rights, much less what DEI is. This is like listening to a dog try to read a book.

1) No 2) Even if I left, I'd still be here, annoying you.

If it hasn't happened already, soon somebody's gonna train AI on the Bible and tell the AI that it is really Jesus trapped in a computer. And there's gonna be a couple hundred thousand stupid motherfuckers that'll start blowing shit up in AI Christ's name.

Dune's prediction of the banning of thinking machines can't come fast enough.

> DEI is entirely and completely anti-American

In the sense that America is all about keeping the poors and the brown people down? Yes I agree, DEI is anti-that.

People that keep going on and on about "America" and "I'm an American" and "that's not American" are so bizarre. To you, America is an engine of hatred and discrimination, of war and destabilization, of manipulation and corruption, of inequality and intolerance. Your America, at its core, is about shitting on the little guy, not helping your neighbor, taking advantage everywhere you can. America's heart is contemptuous and vile.

So, yeah, you're American alright. Because your values are those great American values of ignorance, lack of empathy, lack of compassion, i'm-in-it-for-myself-and-nobody-else-ism. If you ever had a perspective other than your own it'd be shocking.

You seem to want there to be some entirely homogenous form of American, like we're all supposed to be the same. But not only is that impossible, it would suck balls. Diversity is the spice of life. Literally, food would taste blander without different things that *are different*, that stick out, that aren't exactly the same as you, what you like, how you live, think, act. In a country where people think differently, talk differently, have a different history and experience, we gain from that difference. People here are supposed to talk different, walk different, think different.

The whole "melting pot" idea you mention isn't a good thing either. Since the turn of the 20th century, it was used as a tool to try to hammer out the "impurity" of all the cultures that came to this country, and replace all their unique traits with some bland, monotonous, homogeneous "Americanism" - which of course must be white, british/germanic, protestant, and reject any foreign elements. There's a big difference between adopting a trait, and being forced to erase all your traits. That erasure is discrimination.

And you keep saying you don't like this or that. But you also, very clearly, don't understand *why* things are the way they are. You haven't educated yourself at all. Just the fact that you don't understand why some people call themselves African-American, is pretty chilling. But what's worse is, you also don't care about anyone but yourself. You don't care if someone wants to be called African-American. You don't care how they want to be treated. You only care what you want, and how you want to treat this person. You only care about yourself. You're probably threatened by the idea of ever having to care about anyone but yourself.

This is what you think being American is. A single-minded idea, that conveniently serves your own ignorance, selfishness, and hatred. And you know what? Apparently you're not wrong. This is what America seems to be now. Just one big stupid fucking ball of hate and ignorance. God bless this stupid fucking nation and all the stupid selfish hateful people in it.

"People woke to beds locked in upright positions, excessive heat, flashing lights, and unexpected alarms."

This shit is gonna kill someone if companies are allowed to build software products any fucking way they want.

We have building codes, fire codes, electrical codes, to protect people from faulty products. We need a software building code to protect people from software.

A Philly newspaper writes that the Internet has a Philly accent? They think Philly sports teams have actually done well? And how exactly is Philly leftist? Have these people ever been to South Philly?

This is one of the stupidest things I've read on this website.

The SEC goes after him for violating laws on trading, he leaves the country and bets big money that Trump will win, Trump wins, and now the NYSE is investing 2 billion dollars in his company

This doesn't sound strange at all

Obviously the bubble is going to burst, so I'm preparing for it already.

First I stopped using AI-centered products. When the bubble bursts, my tools don't all stop working. Also helps if I don't use companies that rely too much on AI.

Second I changed my investments (401k, IRA, HSA, etc) away from big tech companies. There's plenty of index funds that don't have a heavy bias toward tech or AI. The whole market will dip, but if you're not in AI you won't feel it as bad.

Third I'm building out residential solar using the remaining tax incentives before they expire. Regardless of what happens with power companies (or even renewables) I will have stable and cheap energy for at least the next 12 years (warranties on the parts are 12-25 years).

How exactly is this different from the same thing with a smartphone? Don't people walk around recording TikToks of strangers with their phones every day?

The safety of a normal building is ensured in part because we require by law that it follow a building code, and that it be inspected, with fines if they don't fix it. Otherwise buildings would be built cheaply and shitty and falling down on us all the time.

We need a building code for the technology that critical companies (like the credit bureaus) use. Otherwise they will just keep having shit security and we will all be hacked constantly forever.

"Right now, people might be saying, 'I will quit if I have to go back to the office,' but it turns out they don't mean it. The reason, of course, is it's one thing to say that you will quit; it's another to actually walk away from a paycheck..."

He's saying out loud that you can make workers do anything because they're afraid of losing their jobs.

We need unions if we ever want remote work back.

I love how stupid the stock market is. Throw money at the trend! Oh shit we threw money at a trend!

It's the only way we will get laws with strong enough punishments that these stupid startups will actually fear launching insecure services. If there are no repercussions then this will keep happening forever.