Counterpoint: look at how computers ended up being ubiquitous. And cars. And TVs. And flatware. And glass dishware. And aluminum materials. And microwaves. And home refrigeration. And internet.

Let's look at your example, 3d printers? They're down to a couple hundred bucks for the basics. The electronics of these printers continue to plunge in cost. And let's face it, neither resin nor filament printing really solves home manufacturing. The barrier to 3DPrint ubiquity for these seems function, not cost.

I think UBI will help in general:

It'll mitigate unemployment, let folks work on useful but nonprofit things, and (seldom mentioned) will create a cycle: Competition for those UBI sheckels will motivate innovation.

Will Rogers said it a century ago: let the money spend some brief bit of time in a poor man's pocket; it'll end up back in the wealthy's hands swiftly enough.

Talk about burying the lede. Paragraph 2 is interminable and begs the question of why, but 3 answers it succinctly: Fusion fuel / waste risks are better.

More like âif Trump says the sky is hot pink, weâ(TM)re still gonâ(TM) say heâ(TM)s full of shitâ(TM). Truth, science, the constitution⦠easy counterpoint to whatever mad daft crap pours out of this regime.

#mood

I read this story, and immediately thought: âoeif only we had this invention to use that unobtainium thing which will need these other limitations overcome.â

If I stipulate Iâ(TM)m a n00b about history can you tell me which us war was a century ago, solo, and against a colonial power?

Clippy: it seems youâ(TM)re discovering Nihilism. Can I help?

Get a book on processing disabilities, esp dyslexia. For many, study wonâ(TM)t fix it; the brain is literally using wrong sections to process language. Itâ(TM)s like saying âread a book, run a 4 minute mile.â(TM)

Life must suck to be so emotionally-invested in the failure of solar like this.

Things that have gotten better in those 30 years: Solar panels went from 12/24/48 V DC out to having integral inverters so they just burp out AC. The coatings got better. The percent efficiency got better. Impact resistance improved.

But yeah, it's all going to fall apart now (/sarcasm).

Do a taxonomic search on Lewisii, aka shit Lewis and Clark documented.

Then do Alexander Von Humboldt, Darwin, David Attenborough. That gets you to several hundred whose taxonomic names, rather than descriptive, are honorary. It is kind of weird.

For examples, Darwin had:
Darwinilus, a rove beetle
Darwinius, an extinct primate
Darwinopterus, a genus of pterosaur
Darwinula, a genus of seed shrimp
Darwinivelia, a water treader genus
Darwinysius, a seed bug
Darwinomya, a genus of flies
Darwinella, a sponge genus
Darwinsaurus, a dinosaur
Darwinhydrus, a diving beetle
darwini (multiple species)
darwinii (multiple species)
Minervarya charlesdarwini, a frog

'... pull a stunt like that and the gloves come off' comes with Streisand Effect.

The odds of my trusting you (the company) or hiring you just went to zero. Bad security, and utter douchery in how the consultant is being prosecuted. Talk about not learning the right lessons...

meh, fuck yourself. Ditto anyone else dumb and fasc enough to think that Paramount's premier property is newly-woke.

> Everyone is going to learn that VPNs are vital, and using burner cards for ID is simple. This doesn't seem like a great progression.

Wut? That sounds fucking fantastic. I'm opposed to the legislation (as an old grey cypherpunk) but totally in favor of (billions of?) folks becoming conversant in VPNs, burner devices/cards, and any other 'nunyafuckinbidness' mechanisms for subverting surveillance (again, speaking as an old grey cypherpunk).

The inverse of âdonâ(TM)t put electronic sensors and locks on doorsâ(TM) is not secure. And yeah, I will judge you for thinking dumb = inherently more secure.

(Chuckled at This is not Calif, since PG&Eâ(TM)s crisis is because of storms and fires and downed trees. Different environmental factors, but batteries would help their situation)