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Comment Re:Bidding wars?? The hell is that. (Score 1) 32

I don't buy the idea that government can fix problems.
At best it creates just as many new problems.

Either corporations want government because it works in their benefit, for example by making it harder for competitors to get into their business.
Or corporations do not want government since it stops them from doing whatever they want.
The fact that they don't all support the libertarian party shows which of the two it is.

Comment Re:Bidding wars?? The hell is that. (Score 1) 32

What would be the problem?
The customers get lower prices, that's a win.
And if the surviving shop raises it's prices after bankrupting it's competition it will get undercut by others.
The only way you can maintain that monopoly is to also raise the barrier to entry for competitors with regulation like licenses.
The free market works on it's own and stops working when you let government turn the knobs.

Comment Re: I drank the kool-aid (Score 0) 209

> COVID was not started by a lab leak and vaccines are ultra safe and ultra effective. Only right wing nutbars doubt that.

There is way too much coincidence surrounding the lab leak theory to claim it's absolutely false with any degree of certainty. I'd say it's somewhere in between "unlikely" and "wouldn't be surprised if it was".
Considering previous experiments I wouldn't even be too surprised if it was an intentional leak.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

And the safety and effectiveness of those rushed vaccines was very much exaggerated. They helped a lot, but plenty of people still got infected or got some pretty bad side-effects after taking them.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fa...
"52.05% had some form of a menstrual problem after vaccination"

Seeing the weird stuff the left has been pulling calling someone a right wing nutbar isn't the insult you think it is.

Comment I'm not really sure what this means. (Score 0) 110

Going by the ideals and goals of this organisation, wouldn't the expected response to the current administration's stance on climate change be "Our work is now even more necessary than it was before."
What happened?

Is it no longer profitable? That seems unlikely since Bill Gates doesn't really need the money.
Are they admitted they're fighting windmills?
Did they have an advisory function before and are they just screaming at a wall now?
Why scale back in Europe as well? If the Trump administration is the issue, why not move effort from the US to the EU?
Looking at the Breakthrough Energy Wikipedia page, they mostly seem to be involved in technology/product development. Has interest in their work faded, are subsidies drying up?

Something tells me "the conversation about climate has been sidetracked by politics" isn't the real issue here.

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