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- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
That’s a state warning. It makes sense for it to be state-specific. It does not make sense for federal policy to be state-specific (though it long has been for cannabis anyway, that’s true).
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
Like, they rescheduled marijuana
As someone in the cannabis industry, that is very unlikely to be a positive thing for anyone except rich dicks who own MSO’s.
For reference, cannabis legalization in California was, by and large, terrible for the average consumer. You have people sucking on heavy-metal laden commodified cannabis (vape carts) for the first time on a large scale as a result of it, prices are generally higher, and quality is universally lower.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
So the only conclusion I can draw is America is incredibly malicious and has become hostile to all things good.
Yeah, only not “has become”, but “always was”. It was just more convenient marketing to pretend otherwise.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
Doesn’t really help the huge swathes of the country who rent and aren’t allowed to modify their homes (if they even have roofs)
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
It’s not abusing or exploiting the system. Massive wealth accumulation is the goal of capitalism and is inevitable so long as egregiously wealthy families are able to pass that wealth on.
Alternatively / additionally, “the purpose of a system is what it does”
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 1 week ago:
This country is founded on religious conservatives lol
Not to say your sentiment about them being bad is wrong, but rather to say, you should extend that sentiment to realizing that America is what America has always been. Just ask the natives, or most South Americans, or the Vietnamese, or the Iraqis, or the Yemeni people, or the Palestinians, or…
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
Religion is used by capitalists to manipulate the masses. They aren’t actually religious though, or at least a very small minority of them.
Anyway I didn’t religion has no effect on the state of the world. I said it’s not the main driver, and I fully stand by that.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
Sure they do, but if you think they’re actually Christian more than they’re capitalist, you aren’t paying attention.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
It’s not warming the planet so it’s definitely a backseat evil right now
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
People have gotten stupid because billionaires have orchestrated the gutting of education and people are too exhausted, not “lazy”, because they’re overworked by billionaires.
Capitalism is always the problem. Okay, very rarely organized religion or genuine natural disasters, but almost always capitalism.
- Comment on She skipped groceries for a week to pay for that Little Caesars. 1 week ago:
My 6th grade teacher paid to take the entire class to Knotts Berry Farm before we ‘graduated’ from elementary school
My point there not being that most teachers should do more, just that my 6th grade teacher was cool as fuck and extremely selfless
- Comment on I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK) 2 weeks ago:
I mean the electricity which powers it does. The unit itself does not, unless it was installed with a leak, in which case it won’t work for very long.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Blockchain just means every transaction is recorded forever (simplifying a little bit but not too much). You can have a blockchain currency without any mechanism to exchange / trade / transfer it.
There are also even regular cryptocurrencies that can only be traded within a ‘walled garden’ where the house always gets a cut. But I don’t think they’d allow P2P sales, ever, and going by GTA V, probably won’t allow P2P cash transfer at all either.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Battlefield… 4? did it to a limited extent - the code was required for online multiplayer, but not singleplayer.
By Battlefield 6, and enough people absolutely loathing their existence, EA took the hint and didnt repeat that model. Though BF6’s campaign is apparently online-only, so they apparently pivoted to a different insane design choice.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
A few games, like certain Battlefields, have tried making it so you can resell the disc for single player content but won’t be allowed to access multiplayer content
People didnt like that, so I think they stopped doing that for recent Battlefields… not 100% sure
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The lack of a game is ridiculous.
But not as ridiculous as the lack of online multiplayer at launch. I’m ancient enough to remember the GTA V release. The pre-release trailer specifically said, “Complete heists with your friends!” or something very close to that. Then the game launched and you couldnt do anything with your friends. Once online was finally added, it was broken for a month or two. And heists weren’t added for 2 years.
Maybe I’ll buy GTA VI in 2 years, because $80 for a single-player-only game without a disc is 100% not happening for me.
- Comment on he might be using me to fulfill his younger woman fantasy, but I’m also using him to fulfill my daddy fantasy, so we’re even 2 weeks ago:
It’s not necessarily even about your intention, it’s about leaving people alone when they probably want to be left alone.
- Comment on he might be using me to fulfill his younger woman fantasy, but I’m also using him to fulfill my daddy fantasy, so we’re even 2 weeks ago:
In fact, you’re more likely to meet people who are both old and in shape at the gym because…
- Comment on he might be using me to fulfill his younger woman fantasy, but I’m also using him to fulfill my daddy fantasy, so we’re even 2 weeks ago:
Almost no one wants “smiles and small talk” at their job. It’s not just about what I want lol. But that’s why I’m not single.
- Comment on he might be using me to fulfill his younger woman fantasy, but I’m also using him to fulfill my daddy fantasy, so we’re even 2 weeks ago:
I’m not single
or 55
but if I were single at any age, I would never approach a woman at a gym. Idk. Feels only a small step better than approaching them at work. “Captive audience” type shit, it would feel gross to me.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
Canadian moment
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
Righteous fury is a good thing.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
Hey now, some drugs are very good things
Almost no AI is
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
I get what you mean but without sufficient sources of renewable energy - which do not exist right now and cannot be expanded without exploitation of miners (including children) in the Congo and elsewhere - there’s no way this technology can benefit us in a net sense. Summaries of messages we read anyway and uncanny simulations of celebrities eating pasta will never offset the damage inherently caused to the natural world by the energy consumed by the slop machine.
Like there are no ethical billionaires, there’s no ethical generative AI (except for early-development-stage medical / science stuff like protein combinations or cancer diagnoses, though I think the cancer-detecting AI is way older than current gen AI)
- Comment on Engine auto-off 4 weeks ago:
Same, Honda CRZ (it’s like a Prius but it doesnt make you hate yourself) and I dont have any delay on quick-starting the engine.
It’s a hybrid but the electric part is just KERS, so I only fuel it up, I don’t charge it.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 5 weeks ago:
“Only a handful of people indicate to me that I’m being an asshole when I know I’m being an asshole. What are you going to do? I am helpless in this situation.”
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 month ago:
Weird how many videos I’ve seen of German police beating anti-genocide protestors and British police arresting seniors for expressing anti-genocide opinions. Maybe that was just an American psyop.
White supremacy is the problem, and America may have the worst case of that, but certainly not the only case.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 1 month ago:
Cops basically exist to prevent people from taking revenge into their own hands.
No, cops exist to protect capital.
This is just one example too, they’ve issued multiple similar rulings. Also, uh, see: Uvalde.
If there were no cops, do you think these white “Karens” would just leave the black men alone? Or do you think they’d get together and lynch them?
…you think cops keep black people safe? Are you being remotely serious here?
- Comment on Gold 1 month ago:
We need to work on our social sciences before any other science can bring anyone real benefit anymore…
Well said. I have associate degrees only in Bio/Chem, and I was going to keep going but… why? To work for an evil pharmaceutical company? To work in the shitty corporate cannabis industry? To advise rich assholes on how to cut down our national forests in a way which makes it appear like it’s not the end of the world?
The only STEM career I’ve found which seems guaranteed to be ethical is the people who do wildlife surveys, finding endangered bees and whatnot to block bullshit luxury real estate. But going through all that education to aim for a single, specific, probably-not-very-common position doesn’t seem very smart.
- Comment on Gold 1 month ago:
Oi, beltalowda