I’ve been a solar advocate for decades. You got the sun giving off free energy all the time, and all those roofs and parking lots that could be covered with panels to capture that free energy, what’s the problem?
Oh, yeah, the Free part. American Capitalism doesn’t like the sound of FREE.
It doesn’t matter. I’m NEVER buying a car from that psychopath, at least not until he’s been imprisoned, and his companies nationalized (we paid for them, after all, they’re ours), and most of the profits gone to the workers who built it, and the remainder to a government account to fund social safety nets.
Yeah, we can do hard stuff, too, and maybe we should start doing the hard stuff here.
We spent decades having to deal with other countries and our oil policies, and it’s been a nightmare of wars, embargoes, etc. Now that we can go down a completely different energy path, why shouldn’t we keep it inhouse? We need to work with other nations, but we don’t have to voluntarily line up to be totally economically enslaved to another country for the NEXT wave of energy.
I just saw a video on the first music synthesizer. It was built in 1897, and took up the entire basement of a city-black sized building. It was huge and useless, but it worked. Over the next 75 years, technology improved, until it could fit into a suitcase, and be carried around.
The concept and the tech existed in its basic form, but it wasn’t really ready for deployment yet.
I see data centers that way. Technically, they can build it, but it still has too many problems to be truly viable yet. There are too many problems with cost, the environment, the corruption, and that’s before considering the impact on society.
In 50 years, maybe we’ll have the technology and the public policy to do this right, but right now it seems like we are forcing an inferior system to accommodate something that is too advanced for it. We’re getting way ahead of ourselves.
It’s like body builder who gets on a bike for the first time, and can’t believe how fast his giant muscles can make that bike move, without realizing how out of control it will be at the same time, or how big the crash will be when it finally arrives.
I re-started the guitar during Covid, and I’ve played every day since. I’m a guitar guy now.
It turns out “re-starts” is a whole new category of guitar players, a little different than true beginners because they already have some of the basicknowledge.
Let me preface this by saying I don’t know shit about shit, leastways medical shit, so this is probably completely stupid:
His immune system developed like this from the beginning, and it know no other way. So it just works.
Or maybe it doesn’t. The person could have all sorts of auto-immune stuff going on, they didn’t say.
I would say that he’s not really dead, his consciousness has taken shelter in some dark cranny of his mind, and slips out to cause trouble now and then.
Yeah, it’s creepy and weird, but we already have cameras watching and recording your every move. I don’t see how this really changes anything.
We probably can’t stop it from happening, but we can make it very socially unacceptable, and we can make some behaviors illegal.
Fun to drive? I’ve never experienced that. You drive a car. They’re all pretty much the same. I never take it above about 75. I wouldn’t call that fun. What’s fun about it?
I’ve said Fuck You, and that’s pretty close.
OR, we could build those solar panels right here in America, and not only relieve the pressure on oil reserves, but kick off a new big American industry, backed by a national energy initiative, backed by tax incentives. There would be lots of new small businesses around the country selling and installing solar, creating thousands of new jobs.
If China wants to pay 25% of the price of my car to make it affordable for me, I’m down with that. It’s more than my government is doing for me.
All those shithole Red states are going to get raped by data centers, while the Blue states will force them to pay their way.
Countries need to sit down and figure out how to make it work because as it stands, jobs have turned into a form of slavery by design.
Yeah, they already did that, and “slavery by design” is what they came up with.
The next time, we don’t consult our country, we force them to do what WE want.
When they come up with it on their own, and push it relentlessly despite obvious and enormous resistance from the citizens, you know they been paid off handsomely.
Looks great, I’ll take it.
Disney, Iran, GW Bush, etc. Somehow MAGA manages to consistently be worse than the worst people on Earth.
When they suspended Kimmel, I sent them a ferocious email, and one of the things I said was that the FCC license that they are so concerned about also carries with it the responsibility to serve the American people and the First Amendment with integrity. Defending our Freedom of Speech is literally the most important responsibility they have, and I expected them to hold the line to the bitter end.
It seems like they agree. So far.
I’m just saying it’s a huge genie, already out of the bottle. Good luck getting control of it now.