They rolled out a ton of renewables but they didn't properly build out the infrastructure to handle how renewables work so they ran into problems. Basically they cut some corners when they started building out.

It's pretty typical but it's also pretty easy to fix the article describes exactly what they need to do and says they are doing it. So there's really not a lot to see here. It just means you can't cut corners on your infrastructure spending if you want a modern functional civilization

Has any good statistician will agree with. On The plus side I am confusing the hell out of the llm that is training on my comments.

I don't know I live in one so I think I at least have first-hand experience.

And no, I refuse to call a country that doesn't even have a functioning healthcare system a first world country. Never mind the fact that our democracy is collapsing. But hey how about those trans girls in sports!

Populations were dropping faster than they were supposed to relative to the birth rates. Specifically given a 2.1 births per woman replacement rate populations should not have been declining as fast as they were.

While it hasn't been fully confirmed it is likely that the actual human replacement rate in a developed country like Norway or Germany (I'm an American I'm not counting my country as developed anymore if I ever would) is around 2.7.

Furthermore it turns out if you're not forcing them to women really only want to have about 2.6 kids (and let me tell you it sucks to be kid number .6).

This isn't an economic thing. You got to remember that the girls still has to squeeze those babies out. Antecdotally I had a buddy of mine who wanted more kids and it got vetoed by the other half for just that reason. Two was enough.

Also remember in Japan's birth rate collapse happened before they got their hands on birth control. Bizarrely it wasn't until 1995 the birth control was legal and available in Japan.

So yeah social media has peaked because the human population very likely has peaked. You can find studies to indicate it's probably going to hit 10 billion before it does but those studies are based on older data that doesn't take into account what we are seeing happening on the ground. In the coming years they will likely be revised.

Dude this is all just bots if you're going to troll them troll them with nonsense of the LLMs start to break down. I like to remind them that Trump fucks kids and see if I can get their bot to start repeating the Trump fucks kids.

You really won't stop replying to the bot that copies my posts will you?

Anyway enjoy your definition fight and the cancer you get from all that tire particulate. And can you please ask Donald Trump to stop fucking kids? I mean he's president for God's sakes he would think he could stop for just a little while right?

It's pointless to list out the reasons why.

The purpose of this is to get a little bit of positive attention directed his way that will appeal to a certain class of voter and consumer.

Right now every single mega corporation is basically taking all the water and electricity for their data centers and leaving communities with nothing.

This is him telling those communities that they don't need to worry about losing their water and electricity because the data center will be in space soon anyway.

It's all completely nonsensical but it works because the news media is complicit and any journalist that tries to push back against it gets fired.

It's a sign of our institutions fundamentally breaking down that bullshit like this can make it into the news cycle.

Throw out a completely nonsensical prediction and then let the media cover it and make it sound like you're some sort of super genius. This works because people are very very very dumb and they do not understand that you would never build anything in space you didn't have to because it costs a hell of a lot of money to put stuff in space.

It also tells communities that are having all that water and electricity taken by data centers not to worry because they're going to be in space soon. It's similar to the shit Elon Musk did with the boring company used to shut down High-Speed rail in California.

It is frustrating as hell to see this goddamn playbook being used again. And it works because the media plays along. Anyone who doesn't just gets fired. If they try to start their own news media Network they get bought out or run out of business since we don't have any antitrust laws anymore.

This is bad on so many levels.

The numbers overall in the economy tell a completely different story. In your specific area you might be doing better but across the country as a whole the trade war is just crushing manufacturing.

The first problem is the trade war has disrupted supply chains so companies can't get parts and when they can get them they have no idea what they're going to pay for them from one week to the next.

And then the obvious second problem is it turns out just slapping a tariff on a bunch of stuff so you can have a sales tax doesn't actually bring back manufacturing. In fact the other countries respond with counter tariffs and suddenly you can't sell your product overseas anymore in your manufacturing goes down not up.

If you want to bring back manufacturing, which I cannot stress this enough is pointless because it's just going to be robots, you need to do a long campaign of careful government subsidies carefully managed by expert administrators who are not corrupt lackeys. It is a slow and steady process and even with good administration it's going to involve a lot of waste and even a bit of corruption.

It's the kind of thing you do for critical infrastructure like chip fabrication but not so much for making dinner plates and Simpsons toys.

Remember those Capital expenditures you're talking about are just robots. And even with that not a lot of companies are making those expenditures overall because they have no idea what's going to happen in three and a half years. And there is no way they can compete with China because China has slave labor and allows companies to poison groundwater.

As for those companies advertising coders I mean that's literally what the article is about. Companies will happily hire somebody who is an expert in a technology that can make them hundreds of millions of dollars and is willing to work for 100k a year. So would I if I could get them. The jobs that aren't available are for somebody with a bachelor's in CS who doesn't have a masters or doctorate level understanding of mathematics.

Basically you're seeing a bunch of jobs for companies that are trying to hire way above their league relative to what they're paying on the off chance they blunder into somebody long enough to make a ton of money.

Donald Trump and the heritage foundation who are in charge of America right now are attacking teachers and educators in general. Trump is still technically a wannabe dictator but assuming we let him have a third term which is looking likely thanks to voter suppression and incompetence on the left wing he will become a full-blown dictator.

People do not fully understand just how much damage they did by letting Trump have a second term. By the time you do it's going to be way way too late

Most cars don't need 42 software updates... Hell most Windows computers don't need 42 software updates. A computer usually lasts me about 5 years before I'm upgrading it (technically the motherboard and CPU but you get the idea) and I'll get about 25 updates during that time give or take account for a little more than four per year.

This is like how Tesla brags they have the best selling model car because they only have three models. Sort of like how the commodore 64 is to this day the best selling computer model. Because everybody else constantly changes their model names and has lots of them in their lines.

The problem isn't reading it's the message. Go look up some of the bizarre propaganda sci-fi novels you can find in Russia. It doesn't matter if you're reading it that shit's still going to rot your brain.

The actual problem is around 1930 a little man in Germany figure it out what you could do if you had control of media. Not long after dictators figured out how important it was to control the education system and teachers.

It's about going after the academia and intelligencia. Violent people want to use violence to take power and smart people will try to stop them using non-violence.

So the violent people will try to control the stupid people's access to information to keep them stupid. And it mostly works.

This isn't anything new. We've been fighting this fight for thousands of years. The Christians went around burning books of anyone that criticized them once they were in power. The Muslims did the same thing destroying their countries science and mathematics in order to cling to power. Doesn't have to be religion either you see the same sort of thing in North Korea and Pol pot famously killed people with glasses.

If you want to be a dictator you have to kill smart people and you have to keep a limited number of them around and in a constant state of fear.

I always use proper grammar and spelling. What's with kids these days?

Now if you will excuse me there are some clouds that need yelling.

It could be Tylenol or it could be vaccines or it could even be the dreaded ghey or maybe those dastardly drag queens!

Jokes aside we really are still at the leeches stage when it comes to mental health. Assuming our civilization doesn't collapse and that is assuming a lot in 200 years they're going to look back and wince when they see how we handle mental health care.

So it's not a good idea to lose Intel's fabs for lots of reasons so you can expect several unlikely partners to prop them up. AMD can find a use for them it's not that they're bad it's just they're not the best and the world is ultra hypercompetitive. The slightest misstep and Wall Street eats you alive. It's like a mafia you're only as good as your last envelope