Gray is the color of aluminum, grey is the colour of aluminium

But you’re missing externalities. A huge reason we need better regulation is the tendency of corporations to externalize their costs to all of our detriment.

Climate and pollutions issues are a prime example. In a free market A corporations saves money by evading cleanup costs, polluting, and the rest of us pay. A justly regulated market minimizes those externalities so the corporations covers all its costs

In case your attempt to start arguments is sparked from actual ignorance ….

federal permitting and leasing for wind projects

• many wind farms are not on owned property. In particular for offshore wind farms there is no land that can be owned. Many projects are in locations leased from the government
• if turbines are above above a certain height, it affects airspace used for flying, you don’t own
• even renewables can be bad for the environment. The trope about killing birds has some truth to it, and environmental review keeps it from happening
• yes, renewables can affect your neighbors and they deserve some consideration
• yes, it’s conceivable that a wind farm offshore or near a base or a border can have national security implications

In a nation of laws, things like this are worth considering. However that is different than using them as cover for personal beliefs

Easy to say, but look what happens when some oversized oompa loompa ignores them all And just acts for personal gain

Unfortunately we’re likely to get stuck with more laws, more red tape, more paperwork, trying to prevent the current disaster from happening again

The government paid like $1B for wind farm developers to abandon projects.

Most of the time government slows things down, but the current administration actively fights against progress or shatter people want. wtf does he care about wind farms in New England enough to shut them down

I mean the alternatives are not all wine and roses. We pay among the highest electricity prices in the country and a big part of that is depending on wind farms that are already like a decade behind. Previous governments slowed them down, letting everyone be heard, but they didn’t actively oppose

I get the joke but maybe the opposite. Americans already did cross the border for cheap healthcare. If public healthcare means that only citizens get it, that business will dry up

It’s unfortunate that vaccinations somehow became political because it’s a great example of public health efforts for all being cheap with huge benefits

Conservatives see a moral hazard here where their taxes will pay for the poor lifestyle choices of others

I see a moral choice where my taxes will pay for the poor political choices of conservatives in poorer red states, but they also deserve free healthcare

Browsers have translate functions these days. Reply in whatever language you like …. Or at least a supported one. I see what you said and assume it was meant sarcastically

Seems like a step in the right direction to better serve the people, as opposed to trumping being many steps in the wrong direction for personal enrichment to the detriment of the people.

I can see how you could confuse them …. NOT

2/10,000

They probably can’t.

Arguably I’m creating a vibe coded repo now.

We have a fairly complex continuous integration environment but need to move to GitHub, because we like following fads and don’t realize that fad is over. But GitHub CI is really immature, difficult to use, and just can’t do anything beyond the basics. I’m sure it’s great for individual projects and startups but it just doesn’t scale for enterprise use. Everyone gets excited at using yaml to describe workflow, but then you’re kind of stuck with shell scripts for actual implementation and the easy stuff runs out after the first hour. I am very much not impressed.

So I’m trying to create a shared workflow for like 5,000 repos and it’s miserable. After a couple weeks I have a couple thousand lines of generated shell script that’s already beyond my ability to maintain to maintain by hand. So I’m well past “I told you so”, and my only route forward is yet more generated shell script. It’s too late to try to contribute without ai

If I’m paying for that disaster, I expect to be invited and be able to carve my initials in the tacky gold leaf

For sure, thanks. No one should have to go through a place like that

My manager, several jobs back. He put me on the layoff list so he could take my job (which he was completely unqualified for)

Or maybe the VP above him. Agree to lay me off because I was fine with being first in or last out, but drew the line at being both first in and last to leave (in a startup where everyone was working insane hours so I seriously considered working overnight as the shorter workday)

Or maybe the CFO because he let me spend money buying my options on the way out in case they succeeded (it was like $200), then immediately issued new options to zero out the ones we got

You know, that was just a really toxic startup

Isn’t that true of pretty much everything he’s tried? He fails, declare “WINNING”, and the rest of us get the consequences

The tighter we try to hold that petrodollar, the faster it’s squeezing out of our grasp. I have no doubt that’s what Trump was attempting but he’s just speeding up the end. Maybe that’s also good from his perspective because he only cares about himself and the next administration is likely to feel the pain

String ‘m up!

The current FSD subscription price is much better than the purchase price used to be and they are much closer to being able to deliver.

I’m getting tempted. I’ll probably let a million cyberCab users do a more complete validation but it’s definitely getting close

I don’t think the bar is even that high. Any mismatched sex drive is likely to get you called out.