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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by Bud on Saturday May 07, 2022 @02:43PM (#31297308)
The bad-faith narratives about Al Gore's personal life were hilariously wrong and offensive and irrelevant 25-30 years ago. I guess some people still haven't caught on.

Al Gore was right about, well, basically everything he said on major policy issues.

BTW, that supposed "megamansion"? It's a 5-bedroom home, really quite modest by the standards of today's billionaires. It's basically what you'd assume a former Senator and Vice President might have. Efforts to paint this as somehow offensive are obviously in bad faith.

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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by autoexec on Saturday May 07, 2022 @03:04PM (#31297504)
I don't know if I'd go so far as to say that everything he said on major policy issues was correct... seems like that'd a lot of room to be wrong there, but he was sure as hell right that global warming was real and needed to be addressed.

The attacks on him for his house were just to distract from his message. He also paid extra cash to his utility company to get blocks of "green power" produced using renewable sources to help offset the extra power his home consumed each year.

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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by Bud on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @07:13AM (#31338280)
He was right about the Internet, too, very very early, and gets zero credit for it.
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