A word of warning about roof paint.

Years ago Florida Power and Light (FPL) offered rebates and encouraged people to paint their roofs white to reflect sunlight and lower bills. Many gullible people took the bait.

Then the problems started. The paint would shrink, damaging the roof, letting water in. it was a disaster. Even tile roofs were affected. Water leaks. Disaster. Ruined houses. Lawsuits.

I'd be very leery about doing any such thing to a house. Maybe if the material is engineered from birth to be reflective, but as a coating? Fuck that.

There's always someone (or large groups of someones) trying to gyp people using "The Environment" as bait.

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They are doing their jobs.

Their job is to post the stories that gets them paid. Seeing as 404 media is a nobody that no one's heard of except here, I surmise 404 is paying Slashdot for exposure.

A Slashvertisement, if you will.

After Meta announced its earnings on Wednesday, and presumably this announcement was part of the earnings call, Meta's stock dropped, erasing $237 billion in value.

As the article relates, "Meta's spending is hard to rationalize, some analysts say, as it's uncertain whether heavy investments in AI will generate compelling returns"

Further down in the article, "Significant investment in Superintelligence despite unknown revenue opportunity mirrors 2021/2022 metaverse spending," Oppenheimer analysts said, referring to Meta's recently formed Superintelligence Labs focused on AI that would surpass human knowledge. After Wall Street panned earlier metaverse-spending plans, Meta went through a "year of efficiency" focused on cost cuts.

Take this as you will.

Another solution would be to compost the body. The mercury would still be in the ground, but either stay there or be dispersed among the tree and vegetation.

He tracked their children's locations, counted their screen minutes and demanded they account for them, and imposed draconian limits during Kate's custody days while lifting them on his own [...] After they separated, Kate's ex refused to disband the family group.

He sounds like such a pleasant person.

Wow. You people really do believe he's some kind of mafioso.

I lived through the envirohippy movement of the 70's. That one died in the 80's and wasn't revived 'til Gore made it a thing again.

And all the tech bros fell in lockstep with that.

FFWD 26 years, and now you have a new scam to fleece the stupid with: AI. Like others here pointed out, AI and Environazism are not compatible, they are at odds with each others. So, they abandoned their environazi "friends" and now are making new AI-oriented friends. And I bet those "new friends" will be abandoned in similar fashion 20, 30 years from now when AI leaves a GDP-sized smoking hole in the ground when it too fizzles out.

This environmental thing of the last 30 years did nothing but raise an entire generation of climate panickers... as amply exhibited in this, and other, threads.

I got news for you. It was never about saving the planet, it was about making BIG money pretending they did care.

And you all bought it, hook, line, sinker and pole, even.

You could stopped at 'Windows is the Problem'. Everyone would understand. No need to say anything more.

China offered a U.S. Nobel Prize winner whatever he wanted after the U.S. froze grant money for research. He declined to take up the offer, but it is guaranteed others will and have done so, whether to China or somewhere in Europe.

Guess what happens to a country where people like this are no longer around.

Unfortuantely, no. There are many "doctors" who don't believe in vaccines or were touting quack products to "cure" covid. Look who heads the Florida Department of Health and his stance on vaccines. Essentially, they're not needed.

As well there are people with law degress who don't know the law. One need only look at the Supreme Court Justices who supposedly have law degrees but don't even know what the Constitution is about.

And let's not get into Flat Earthers who have degrees in astronomy.

This would do little in the U.S. to limit morons from spouting nonsense. If anything, it would make things worse because now people could use the appeal to authority when letting loose their conspriacy theories or outright lies by saying, "See! See! Dr. Combobulitz said it and since they're an expert it must be true."

Agreed. I didn't buy in nearly early enough, but my money is growing so that's all that matters. Even if the stock drops precipitously, I'm up far enough I'll still make out.

The next two years should be interesting to see where things go from here.

Who attacked Fort Sumter?

WHO ATTACKED FORT SUMTER?

That faction is responsible for the war.

Now... who was that? What side? The fucking donkeys from the south, right?

The governments you had elected decided to kill the middle class and the non-corporate businesses by shutting everything down, while the masked massess sung their praises.

Deal with the consequences now. Querian shutdown? COME SHUTDOWN, CARAJO!

Fucking people forget for every action (shutting the economy down) there is an equal, and opposite reaction (people stay home and won't come back to your restaurant.)

think on that next time. If there is a next time. I fear 2020 broke the world and it won't back together in a very long time, if ever.

I mean, how fucking stupid are people? There's this finely-running machine, and in 2020 people just decided to pour sand in to the gearbox. Fucking ridiculous. Eat your results.

When I used to be in an apartment my upstairs neighbor had food delivered every Friday and at least one other time each week. I can guarantee they were not upper middle class.

My current neighbor across the street has food delivered, as far as I can tell, once a week as well. Not sure if they have it delivered while I'm at work so it's always possible they have it delivered more than that one time. Again, they are not upper middle class and there are no special occasions going on\ that I am aware of.

There is a host of a local radio station who readily admits their DoorDash account is beyond belief. There is no way they are upper middle class.

As for bothering JD Vance, the more the merrier.

Who doesn't like paying up to three times the cost of the food to have it delivered lukewarm?

And people wonder why they're always broke.

Nvidia stock is up over 4% today (as of this writing). A tick under $200/share.

Glad to see the investment paying off.