Where on the planet is not near groundwater?

And yet, the discovery of an anti-gravity mine where contaminants flow UP to the aquifer, should be worth billions.

Or you get hospitalized, or just really busy and forget, or you leave payoff to the last minute and the 'net is down, or whatever. This will happen to a percentage of people, so they will make a percentage on top of fees. It might not happen to you, but it definitely happens to people.

"What I don't want is a mass subpoena exposing answers I received. That's called privacy."

What you should have realized was that every interaction was being retained, and this meant it was out of your control.

"I can't imagine how anyone thinks that is funny. My problem is with the court- not the AI."

Your problem is that you're using AI with your brain turned off. Practically every slashdotter would laugh at your lack of realization that data, once out of your hands, is out of your control. There is no cloud, you are not Buddha, your data just went to someone else's server and it was always subject to subpoena and this is true of everything you ever did online. Nobody is throwing away data they have about you except as required by law, and they probably sold it first.

Maybe in Arkansas or whatever, but not in New York

If you're going to use the money they loan you to invest, then there's a good reason to do it. If not then you're just creating the chance of defaulting by accident, which is a good reason why not.

You billionaire-worshipping cucks are pathetic. You'll clap while you watch them fuck our country.

Did those open source devs willfully abuse a monopoly position in basically every way possible, as the USDoJ found Microsoft did under Gates? Fuck your whataboutist billionaire worship cuckery.

I'm willing to spend more modpoints to raise visibility of the fact that Bill Gates willfully buddied up with Epstein AFTER it came out that he was a sex criminal.

That just means you need to change your business model to one where the longer people stay, the more they spend. In the case of services around EV chargers, the sweet spot is about 30 minutes. You want to structure your offerings so that it takes a half hour to consume most of your amenities. Have a few extra options for people who might stay longer, but 30 minutes is the target.

So, what do you offer people who are traveling (other than fuel)? Bathrooms, obviously, but that only takes five minutes and you can't charge any money for it (not in the US, anyway; people expect bathrooms to be free for paying customers). If you're selling them gasoline, there's not much time left after the bathroom break, so you offer them snacks and sodas. If you're selling them electricity, you still have them for 25 minutes, which is just about right for a fast food meal plus some snacks for the road.

Your advantage with EV chargers is that your customer base is more "captive". With gasoline cars, they'll often stop for gas, then head to a restaurant a few miles down the road, maybe in the next town. But with EVs, they eat within walking distance of the chargers. They'll often do some shopping, too, if you can find the right goods.

One option to exploit this is to build amenities around your chargers, the "travel plaza" model. Another is to find a location with good travel amenities and put your chargers there, getting local businesses to pay you for the customers you bring them.

Agreed.

I suspect you're wrong, sadly. It's worked many times before. For example people now gush about "Carnegie libraries".

I was wondering who was doing the sockpuppet downmods

Oh, I see that you didn't read it, as the study was literally about which algae is required. Since you don't seem to want to read it, let me explain: The primary takeaways are that it's not beneficial to try to choose a specific algae, and you can recapture up to 80% of the CO2 emissions of a fossil fuel power plant by bubbling the exhaust through algae ponds.

If you're too lazy to read the study, at least read the conclusions.

You can easily scale your algae farm by digging more ponds and dropping liners in them. This is easier than finding more arable cropland.