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byHank21
026 @03:03PM
(#65962872)
Attached to: Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction
If I ignore all the bullshit this yellow haired bastard spouts out, part of me might think Trump is a genius playing a fool - aka - "The Batman that Gotham needs, not the one it wants"
So, his strategy is kind of a "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" mixed with playing dumb, and letting everyone else fight it out. The entire cast of characters that make up his cabinet - the most useless and worst of the worst. Throw them a bone and keep them close. Let the angry mob chew them up in the end.
In this specific example, he took aim at wind and solar, already a target from some of his "friends", but by doing so, he mustered the normally quite left to push back, and with more than equal force, to actually get the message out there and we'll end up with a stronger solar and wind infrastructure than could have been achieved through small wins here and there with the constant pushback.
Immigration is a harder one to see the angle, but never have so many people cared about freedom and (protecting) immigrants, the people who founded this country, than before he brought the slab of meat to the butcher block.
Everything he's "against" will grow stronger. Like a broken bone that heals stronger. So, maybe he *IS* a genius after all, and actually *IS* draining the swamp, just not in the direct way everyone assumed.
But maybe my tin-foil hat is not working... Just some thoughts.
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byHank21
26 @10:50AM
(#65959020)
Attached to: Cory Doctorow On Tariffs and the DMCA In Canada
I see a lot of buzz around Cory Doctorow. Doctorow... Hmm... I think people just like saying his name. It's uncommon and sounds funny, but has the word "Doctor" in it, so hey, maybe he's clever? I know I like to say it, it tickles my pallet.
I don't think he'd be as popular if he had a different name - like "John Smith"....
FWIW, I have NO IDEA what this dude is all about - just like sayin' his name LOL
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byHank21
2025 @10:35AM
(#65890243)
Attached to: 'One of America's Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt'
And don't blame the one who replaced you at the employer, but blame the employer for replacing you and prioritising greed.
It's not always the employers fault - sure larger corps are greedy, but smaller ones need to compete by making financial choices - the good of the one vs the good of the many.... If I have 50 people in my company and one of them is an "American born" resource who is failing to keep up his/her skills, and along comes a prospect with better skills at a lower cost, why should I keep the "Slacker". Would it be different if the replacement were American born? Don't get me wrong, I'd prefer the local variety for so many reasons, but if the company is at stake and I might shut my doors as a result of employing over-payed under skilled American workers. touch decisions.
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byHank21
2025 @11:58AM
(#65879909)
Attached to: Inside Uzbekistan's Nationwide License Plate Surveillance System
Benn Jordan is in Uzbekistan now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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byHank21
2025 @08:42AM
(#65863881)
Attached to: Racks of AI Chips Are Too Damn Heavy
To save the environment we have to ruin it? At what point during building, construction, and production does the cost of it all eclipse the savings of ICE over EV? For a small savings in carbon (if any when including the significant environmental toll of the battery) is it worth building entire datacenters, no wait, entire power plants just to power AI to power the thinking behind this eco saver car?
What does AI have to do with "this eco saver car" - you are crossing topics.
This topic has to do with powering AI datacenters, not electric cars.
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byHank21
2025 @01:46PM
(#65851591)
Attached to: Why Switzerland Is Weighing a 10 Million Population Limit
There should be a CR between the OP's quote and my reply:
" immigrants. [CR]Yes,..."
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byHank21
2025 @01:44PM
(#65851585)
Attached to: Why Switzerland Is Weighing a 10 Million Population Limit
>What this really comes down to, like all immigration debates, is racism. They don't like the color of the skin or the religion of the immigrants.
Yes, exactly. But what's wrong with that? (And it's not so simple as your example)
I mean, in America, that is a problem because America was founded on immigrants to build and form the nation. "Give me your poor, your sick, your huddled masses" and so on. Up until recently that is.
Switzerland(and several other European nations) never made that offer to the world. The were racially and socially homogeneous, and want to keep their culture and social value system. What's wrong with that? You can't apply American values in this instance, no matter how much we're trained(brainwashed) to believe it is a universal truth.
FWIW, foreigners _are_ welecomed in Switzerland, but they do need to leave their culture, language, and, in many cases, religion at the border and assimilate to Swiss culture. I think that is a fair trade-off. Some people want their cake and eat it too, and this is where the Swiss protectionism kicks in - and rightly so.
Does the whole world have to turn "grey"? Can't we keep some identity? You think London, and Big Ben comes to mind, Belgium and you might think monks and monasteries, India, you might think spires and temples, Switzerland, you think mountains and Swiss cheese and chocolates.. The Swiss want to keep their culture and don't want you thinking of Switzerland associated with mosques and spires... And that is their right - they never signed up for that with any open invite like the US did.
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byHank21
2025 @11:12AM
(#65782446)
Attached to: Ford Considers Scrapping F-150 EV Truck
I apologize for my generalization to "all people that haul things". My point is, not having a longer bed option cuts out a significant part of the market. For me, that's a deal breaker.
Specifically, I'm referring to yards of mulch, loads of firewood, long lumber (over 10' without it being too sketchy), helping friends move that have too much shit, ...
Agreed. Silverado with the Midgate checks all your boxes. But Ford was using Off the shelf parts, so I give them a pass at their first go.
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byHank21
2025 @09:55PM
(#65779106)
Attached to: Ford Considers Scrapping F-150 EV Truck
EXCELLENT first go from Ford at an electric pickup truck. Beat Musk to market and even taught him a lesson or two.
The Lightning was supposed to be replaced in a few years anyway (T3) and most of us knew it as a science experiment. I applaud the engineering team who had impossible timelines, almost no budget and a seemingly impossible mandate to build an EV truck with as many off the shelf parts as possible.
Does it have some short comings? Well, no more than it's ICE cousin- is it big? It's no bigger than the ICE version.
It drives like a dream and I've used its "Full size" quite often to haul stuff. Maybe I'm the exception.
It was a good learning platform for Ford and if/when they design an EV truck from the ground up, they'll have plenty of experience under their belt.
Now is a good time to retreat, retool and rebuild. Chevy upped the ante, making the Lightning look long in the tooth. And let's not even talk about the cybertruck abomination. It only gets credit for laying down the gauntlet.
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byHank21
2025 @12:56PM
(#65745932)
Attached to: Gboard's Latest Update Removes the Period and Comma Keys on Android
Until they give us the option to remove whatever letters or symbols we want from the keyboard.. I mean seriously, how often does anyone use the letter "X"? or "Q", or how about "V"? :P
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byHank21
2025 @10:48AM
(#65743092)
Attached to: GM To End Production of Electric Chevy Brightdrop Vans
I think it's a good thing. EVs are a dead end and they use SO MANY RARE EARTH METALS. People think petrol emissions are bad, lithium mining is horrific and it's expanding all over the US. Global warming is bullshit and replacing everything with batteries is impractical and will end up causing more pollution.
Really? How?
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byHank21
5 @08:56PM
(#65561682)
Attached to: Atlassian Terminates 150 Staff With Pre-Recorded Video
Atlassian can suck it. They were once a great open-source focused company. Then they got greedy. Confluence was a GREAT platform. They wooed developers into their marketplace only to yank the rug out from everyone and hold data hostage lest you move it to the cloud, THIER cloud, and pay exorbitant fees and lose functionality. Yeah, they can go suck it.
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byHank21
@05:56PM
(#65533448)
Attached to: 'Inside the Silicon Valley Push to Breed Super-Babies'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://images.app.goo.gl/jp92...
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byHank21
25 @01:14PM
(#65491826)
Attached to: Lorde's New CD is So Transparent That Stereos Can't Even Read It
Paint the top with a solid colored paint.
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byHank21
@08:36AM
(#65479816)
Attached to: Brother Printer Bug In 689 Models Exposes Millions To Hacking
It's a printer. It's almost as if every security story these days make it sound like the world will end.
Do you put your printer on the Internet? People can do other unscrupulous things that have nothing to do with these CVE's - like, I dunno, maybe unplug the printer, throw it out a window, pour water or coffee on it.. It's a printer for crying out loud.
Show me an exploit where the printer uses "Cloud services"(no thank you) and a remote attacker can reverse-ssh into the printer and use it as a jump point(from the Internet). These CVE's seem to be directed at people who have no common sense and might actually place the printer on the Internet. I have not sympathy for them.
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