Steve Milloy, hired by the DoE decades ago to debunk the EPA's bullshit:

No, EPA's Energy Star program has not saved consumers $500 billion since 1992:

1. The $500 billion is just a bureaucratic fantasy guesstimate based on zero real-world/actual use data.

2. The reality is that energy efficiency standards -- like gas mileage standards -- have been cynically used to raise product costs and to advance the green agenda, with no actual benefit to consumers.

3. Throw in the higher energy costs caused by the climate hoax, and everything green has been a consumer disaster.

"the Republicans are a death cult"
I'm trying, but it's hard to see your speculation past the Democrats' actual pile of a MILLION dead babies PER YEAR.

- critical race theory
- that a person can change sex by simply wishing it so
- that pronouns change according to the whim of the subject
- that unhappy children should have their genitals chopped off or be fed castration chemicals
- that COVID came from bats

If they're "scientists" that believe:
- critical race theory
- that a person can change sex by simply wishing it so
- that pronouns change according to the whim of the subject
- that unhappy children should have their genitals chopped off or be fed castration chemicals
- that COVID came from bats ... Then please, by all means, fuck off and take your toxic bullshit to Europe.

I can't reply to the other parts of your screed because I don't know but "... You can't make oil because you don't have the right kind of dead dinosaurs."

What the fuck are you talking about?
The US produces more crude that any other country, ever: Crude oil production in the United States, including condensate, averaged 12.9 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2023, breaking the previous U.S. and global record of 12.3 million b/d, set in 2019.

Further, the US is at the top of the list for recoverable reserves and probable reserves (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aogr.com%2Fweb-exclusives%2Fexclusive-story%2Fu.s.-holds-most-recoverable-oil-reserves)

Further, the US produces some of the lightest & sweetest crude which is the easiest to process. The only reason we continue to import oil is twofold) 1 - it's cheaper to import oil, for now, so we might as well use theirs before our own reserves, 2- because historically most crude is worse, our refineries are designed around heavier oils. Again, cheaper to use what we have than tool up completely.

So I presume if the level of ignorance/mendacity in this post is indicative of the rest of your post(s) I'm not sure why you bother writing them?

I can smell you piddling your pants from here.

"admitting you have a problem"
I'm pretty sure that showboating some sort of (likely invented, either by the individual for attention, or by a parent/counselor/medical "professional" as variously proxy-Munchausen, grooming, or political affirmation) self-diagnosis is the point of the comment, not a revelatory admission of a personal issue. "Look everyone, look how I'm sick like everyone else standing around here! I'm so brave!" is hardly the path to self-realization; more like the opposite.

" I am skeptical you've never said anything stupid in high school."
Except, when I said stupid shit in High School generally I got mocked, ridiculed, or other group-persuasive behavior that TAUGHT ME TO THINK MORE CAREFULLY BEFORE I SPOKE (eventually). Think instead on what the message is and the long term consequences of constant gratuitous affirmation and praise for stupid behavior.* (cf today's https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/story/25/...)

PS: "Look at fucking white people...you ask their ethnicity and they give you a rambling TED talk about what type of white they are..." Then why do you ask if it angers you so much? Or is it only minorities that have valid ethnicity?

*I'd say it's more Democrat voters, personally

Glad you /s because over the last couple years (and certainly the last 6 months) Slashdot has sort of sunk so deep into the Poe's Law it's hard to tell.

Except in this case, people are rewarded either formally (here's your government check, crazy person) or informally (you are so brave!) by their virtue signaling.

I think we're pretty nearly done as a species so (shrug).

This also explains wives.

This thread.

There's no question that there was a Yasuke. He was kept around by the nobility as either a slave or a trained monkey likely in the same sense the Habsburgs kept around Pedro Gonzales ("the wolf man of the canaries" https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.artsmia.org%2Fstorie...), even likewise maybe giving him a noble title like one might name a beloved pet Lord Rover.

Was he actually a samurai? No.
Were the Japanese pretty pissed about an assassins creed game that was supposed to be about THEIR culture being hijacked for some DEI bullshit by a woke Ubisoft? Yes.

Has this (& other such failures) catastrophically affected Ubisoft as a business? Yep.

Has this thread devolved into worthless arguments over strawmen where the Righteous Left insists that "woke isn't even a thing, yo" or that "it's all just incels"? Completely.

.... That the first serious discussion I saw about this sort of open alignment of government databases (I rather suspect this is now quite routine in the bowels of the NSA) was during COVID, when the left and Biden administration agreed that such practices might be justified to catch and punish those dastardly folks who didn't want to take the vaccines.

Isn't this vaguely like what Canada ultimately did to identify (and, of course, punish) the protesting truckers and their families?

And the pastors get arrested, sent to prison when they're caught.

Are you agreeing then that Disney producers should be treated the same way?

Except... facts. (Always your Achilles heel, buddy.)

We have been desperately short of truck drivers for DECADES, exacerbated by arbitrary Obama-era environmental, logging, and hours-changes annihilating the small trucking firms and self-employed that (were) the backbone of US transportation in favor of massive nationwide corporate firms.

This has deeply impaired the ability for hard-working drivers to make good money, and Led to decades of non replacement rates of drivers selling their trucks and quitting the industry.

Even today something like 5/6 current drivers are over 55, meaning it's only getting worse as they retire. Crash-hiring (pun intended) immigrants (including, in some cases, illegals) isn't keeping up: the average driver of that 45 ton truck barreling down the highway at 80mph next to your family has just *25 hours* of experience today.*

*And oh look: *fatal* accidents involving trucks or buses increased 21% from 2020 to 2021
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fmcsa.dot.gov%2Fsafe...

"According to a recent study, more than 80,000 drivers are needed to make up a shortage in America this year. ... It is believed that by the year 2030, there will be a shortage of 160,000 truck drivers. "

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ajot.com%2Fnews%2Fthe-...

I know it's critical for some people to insist the sky is always falling. In this case it has been for years, this is why this industry NEEDS automation as quickly as it can be deployed. And filling that shortfall of 160,000 missing drivers is obviously not costing jobs.

Nothing about the physics seems to add up on this.
So ... if we assume Schmidt isn't just a moron, how does he solve those problems, or is there venture capital eager enough to lose their money o-questions-asked that they will just invest anyway?