breakyerself

The graduate is a strange movie for me. I watched it in my late teens and easily identified with Hoffman's character and saw it through his eyes. Seeing it later as a married middle aged man I kind of despised him and his choices.

YouTube itself needs a competitor. There's too much ads.

I loved Mark Twain when I was a kid. Read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn multiple times. I didn't even consider reading it to my kid when she was younger. Wasn't a good way to handle all the N words.

Rooftop solar and grid scale solar farms are two completely different things. Rooftop solar requires a custom install for every home. Solar farms can leverage economies of scale to drive costs lower and lower.

The cheaper solar gets the more of a gold rush there has been to develop projects/technologies that take advantage.

They're ruining fucking everything. Their impact on the environment is massively outsized. Their influence over politics has allowed them to rewrite tax codes so they pay lower taxes than people who actually work for a living while government contracts and subsidies increase their profits all the time. Their ownership of old and new media manufactures consent for all of this and more.

But yeah I'm entitled because I'm sick of living in a world designed for an elite few. I didn't say give me their money did I?

Thank God. The Amazon gets to borrow a little more time.

Ok do you want to share any interesting ideas the method produced?

Because it's selfish and entitled?

This is some of the most embarrassing shit ever. Man with more money than God is too selfish to pay some taxes. Needs giant corporation to give him even more money to keep him from throwing a fit and moving away from where his job is that made him unimaginably rich. The entitlement of these billionaires is boundless. Take all their fucking money. They don't deserve it.

The BYD Seagull costs $10,150. If there wasn't tarrifs on China EVs would be significantly cheaper. The cost of batteries has been decreasing exponentially just like the cost of solar. Electric tractor trailers are already on the road. Your pessimism about electric heavy machinery is misplaced.

From my perspective it's like you're looking at the market for telephones in 2004 and remarking that most phones are landlines and most portable phones are flip phones and therefore you don't see a future for smartphones.

Solar and wind are cheaper than any other form of electricity in history. (Often even when paired with a storage facility) The fact that it doesn't always shine or blow when needed is driving massive investment into storage technology. The world is changing rapidly. You're not paying attention.

None of this requires fossil fuels and small rural villages in poor countries are never going to get electricity if they have to wait for large power plants and long distance transmission lines to be built. It makes far more sense for a village to have a solar farm, a battery bank and a small local grid.

I didn't know that. Maybe someone could invent a device to convert PV electrons into coal electrons.

That would be dumb of them to add one of the most expensive forms of energy

Unfortunately the party that claims government can't solve problems can point to the failures they create when they get power to prove their thesis.

This is like assuming people in africa need telephone lines strewn to every home in order to have telecommunications. The developing world doesn't need oil. It needs solar panels and ever cheaper batteries.

Meat isn't a health food. Most Americans eat an unhealthy amount of meat. Especially red meat. You could probably eat half as much meat and not be in any danger of not getting enough macro nutrients.

On the bright side it causes global warming

I'd argue FDR was a populist. It just depends on what kind of populism and to what end.

Greta who?

What's that mean?

Are these companies going to start being held accountable for the crimes their models do? Can I just break the law if I have an agent do it for me?

I remember reading years ago that Google was going to start doing voice transcription on device, but to this day it my Internet connection is cutting out it ruins voice transcription for me.

This is where I learned about it. Veritasium video

https://youtu.be/ksn5yrsC3Wg?is=GIaOMC0Jqg7qptlC

There's an AIDs drug that no longer exists because of an isomorph of the drug compound that formed and spread making it so the original compound couldn't be made anymore.

When you find yourself stuck in a hole the first step to solving the problem is to stop digging. We're still digging at a superhuman speed. Meanwhile here you are talking about how you aren't worried because ladder building technology is really coming along, but nobody wants to talk about ladders.

I don't think it's his responsibility, but that was the outcome. I would say most of the responsibility lies with the fossil fuel industry and their PR agencies who funded propaganda that took advantage of the situation.

In that same time period we discovered global warming and ocean acidification as well as developed better ways of getting power.

The only downside we've discovered for having an accepting immigration policy is xenophobic backlash.

I don't know what point you're trying to make with that article. Less immigrants is causing hardship for their higher-ed system. How does that make your point?

I think Al Gore did more harm than good. He made himself the face of global warming and it helped spark a partisan backlash. There was a time when Republicans were not particularly skeptical of global warming. That shifted as climate change and Al Gore became more and more synonymous in the public consciousness.

For decades the US has managed to be the most powerful economy in the world while taking in tons of these immigrants. Rejecting them is likely to have a negative impact. Xenophobia comes at a cost.