Sunlight becomes energy when plants convert four photons of light.

Whomever wrote that should be shot... from a cannon into the sun.

Right, but you wouldn't call tha car a "counterfeit Ford"... you'd call it a Ford with a rolled-back odometer.

It sounds more like legitimate, but used, Seagate drives that are being hacked to present themselves as new drives.

How much of this long, rambling story is just an attempt at self-justification for taking a high-paying job from a company that's actively evil? Maybe he's hoping to work for Meta next...

You still need to beat them until they start thinkIng what you want...

Slashdotters love Lord of the Rings, and the movies were shot in New Zealand. 'nuff said.

Sure, go ahead - keep your head in the sand if that makes you happy. But, if this keeps up, at some point in the future you might wake up and find there are only 99 Linux Distros to choose from! But then it'll be too late...

I don't see this lasting. It may lose its "official" veneer, but volume rebates are unlikely to actually go away.

That certainly explains Elon Musk in a nutshell.

But they also really love Alaska... so we Americans give them a pass regarding Russia and our 51st state.

Older people tend to skew Republican regardless. A bigger issue was a significant chunk of 18-44 year olds who voted for Biden in 2020 did not vote for Harris in 2024.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnavigatorresearch.org%2F...

I don't think I was ever asked... if I had been, I'd had said "no thank you".

Most people realize DOGE's claims have never had much relationship to actual reality. At this point, we've all seen many reports over the past several months where DOGE's fantasy math repeatedly gets thoroughly dismantled.

Most recently: as of August 12, DOGE's actual savings appeared to be just 5% of what they claimed -
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2F...

Sounds like one of those made-up job titles you see in those "what do you think" bits on theonion.com .

... for something like three-plus decades now. Yet people just keep printing more and more crap they really don't need to commit to paper.

Heck, I recall hearing - I'm pretty sure in junior high (1970s) - about the big paper companies like Georgia Pacific and Weyerhauser being very worried how computers were going to destroy their core business. The joke was on them!