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by wat10000 2mo ago
Indeed, there's no such organization. Is this supposed to be some sort of gotcha?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
It’s a nice idea but I don’t know if it will help. The history of the web is one big loop of: 1. Nifty feature that’s suitable for a wide variety of user agents, from GUI browsers to screen readers to text interfaces to automation. 2. Appro
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Ridiculous. I suppose I’m also making a wealth transfer when I buy in bulk while poor people can’t afford to, or I drive to a discount store while people with bad transportation options have to shop at an expensive local place, or I use a l
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by wat10000 2mo ago
“It's orders of magnitude more expensive to desalinate sea water than it is to simply prevent fresh water from being needlessly wasted on operating water locks...” What is the point of this statement if desalination isn’t actually need
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Did TBC ever pursue government permits and contracts for the DC tunnel? The nonsense "verbal govt approval" they mentioned makes me skeptical of the whole thing. New Roadster is over six years late and has basically gone silent at
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by wat10000 2mo ago
That would be reasonable if not for the BS “verbal govt approval” bit.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
DC to Baltimore tunnel, LA tunnel network, Chicago airport tunnel. New Roadster, possibly Tesla Semi. Battery swap stations. “Alien dreadnaught” factory with no humans on the production line. Dragon 2 propulsive landing. Self-driving ought
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Is Panama actually desalinating to make up for water they could have been getting from Chagres River if not for the canal? Panama is a tropical country that gets a lot of rain and I couldn't find any mention of this. The article you po
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Both things are true. Musk's companies have done quite a few remarkable things people didn't think were possible, and Musk overpromises to an absurd degree and has left a trail of abandoned projects in his wake.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Never going to happen. Yeah, we might get to a point where lots of people object to them in lots of places. But nobody allowing them anywhere ? Mongolia wouldn't let you build in a little corner of the vast steppe? Algeria wouldn&#x
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Yes, it is fresh water, but that's not what's interesting about it. If the canal wasn't there, then the river would flow straight into the ocean instead. It's not like they're pulling from an aquifer to feed these l
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by wat10000 2mo ago
1) Yes, because they exert far too much power over the government. 2) "Destroy their class" only in the sense that there wouldn't be billionaires. They'd have to make do with a paltry $999 million, the horror. I'm n
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by wat10000 2mo ago
The word "fresh" doesn't occur in the Le Monde article. You're doing it again when you say "consuming freshwater." You make it sound like this is a precious resource that could be used to sustain human life but
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by wat10000 2mo ago
It was better in every way you can quantify in a tech specs listing, and not in any way that actually matters to the customer.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
“On both ends”? Who has an upper age limit?
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I understand that it’s a problem that sometimes restricts the capacity of the canal. I just take issue with this incredulous “they dump fresh water into the ocean” phrasing. You make it sound like they’re depriving thirsty people of preciou
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Man, high taxes isn’t even socialism either.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
They'd still be wealthy enough that they and their children would never do another day of work in their lives except by choice. They just wouldn't have wealth comparable to that of a small country.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
“It's 2026, why are humans dumping freshwater into the oceans?” They’re called rivers and they do that naturally.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Heavy taxes on the rich is not Marxism.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
But does it work or does it just entrench the power somewhere else? I'm not really opposed to term limits but I'm not convinced they work too well. And they're just distasteful. They're saying, "we know better than
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by wat10000 2mo ago
What we really need is better voters. Term limits are a hack trying to work around the voters wanting to elect the same person over and over again. No, I have no idea how you fix that.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Extreme wealth decouples people from the game, especially in the modern world. You think the richest of the rich will suffer when it's time for the US to pay the piper? Of course they won't. It's all a game to them. Of course
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by wat10000 2mo ago
This is round three . Half the electorate saw round two and said, “more of that, please.” That’s why we’re fucked, not because of the particular idiot they chose.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
That’s why we need to tax billionaires into oblivion. The solution isn’t to make them immortal in the hopes that this somehow makes them benevolent, it’s to ensure nobody has that kind of power in the first place.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
Maybe they didn’t care. Identical twins are a fraction of a percent of the population. Excluding them (really, only half of them) from the customer base wouldn’t hurt noticeably.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
If CEOs were legally required to regularly use their own products as an ordinary customer, the world would be a better place.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
I could believe that aliens would come to visit. But the way they supposedly come is silly. They fart around doing random nonsense, not revealing themselves but also not hiding themselves very well, and there are a bunch of blurry ambiguous
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by wat10000 2mo ago
When the context is UFOs? That’s damned good. A hundred times better than the best UFO footage out there.
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by wat10000 2mo ago
They could be indistinguishable in theory, but looking up some videos of the process, it appears that GrapheneOS doesn't try to make the duress pin process look like your phone was just blank the whole time. It says "wrong pin&quo

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