Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.

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  • The disappearnce of brick-and-mortar stores is one the biggest catastrophes caused by Big Tech. The ‘free to return if dissatisfied’ option creates higher prices for everything you’d have avoided purchasing at the store, along with the added environmental costs of two wasted trips, and the product possibly being disposed-of.

    The brick-and-mortar loss also means that consumers of necessities have far fewer options to buy locally.


  • As with any generation, many of the people who were teens in the 60s did not like the depression- and war-torn, conformist, society they grew up in, They had much different values and music and politics and approaches to life. Yes … today they’d be called democratic socialists, they showed up for Sanders’ tour. They don’t watch what Mideas Touch calls the ‘Regime Media’. The Repubs are running scared about the midterms, for a good reason.

    Thinking everyone in an earlier generation is to blame for anything today is wrong-headed and the result of just not knowing enough about history.












  • Promises, promises. I haven’t heard of one that’s actually in commercial operation right now.

    But, apples and oranges… it’s a bullshit choice. Power plants generate power, DC’s consume power.

    If you going to generate power, why look beyond solar/wind and batteries? At a much lower price, and much faster build times, they too are ‘physically incapable of going into meltdown’, and are already in use worldwide, no wait time.

    As far as DC’s go, they depend on very new technology (enjoying a trendy fad) which -will- get far less power-hungry than they are. Or else. (The grid’s not ready for them.)

    The only people in a rush seem to be the people who invested in all the snake oil promises that LLM’s are real A.I. … which they aren’t.