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Comment Re:but isn't capitalism the most efficent system? (Score 1) 237

From an excellent video by Tom Nicholas, How energy privatization is bankrupting Britain:

Even before the recent increases in the wholesale cost of gas energy suppliers have been steadily ratcheting up prices. Outside of the global oil shocks of the 1970s the average price of electricity consistently went down under nationalization. Adjusting for inflation the average Brit was paying 36 percent less to turn the lights on in 1990 than they were in 1946. Far from driving down prices attempts to introduce competition to the market have actually reversed that trend. Between 1998 and 2019 the average domestic electricity rate increased in real terms by a whopping 80 percent.

So in addition to Margaret Thatcher just "normally" fucking up prices for consumers by privatizing the electricity production in Great Britain, it now also is additionally fucked up unstable (and additionally expensive after Russia invaded Ukraine) by making it so massively dependent on gas.

Comment Re:This is the most corrupt administration (Score 2) 84

Speaking of selling your house and right-wing grifters, Ben "Aquaman" Shapiro is special kind of stupid.

And speaking of Peter Thiel, it is perhaps not possible to describe him as special kind of authoritarian due to how normal it is with such people in Trump's administration, but he is definitely not hiding it:

"Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

Also worth watching is Some more news' video about him: [Peter Thiel and his dorky little goons](https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F4WfHXt1ZQhg).

Comment Re:Strong CP (Score 1) 40

... this has lead to a search for a new type of Dark Matter particles, axions, which arise in theories that explain why there is no CP violation in strong interactions.

Does this imply that theorizing and philosophizing, by producing more axions, may in fact hasten the end of the universe??

The end is nigh! Oh dear, now it is nigher! And nigher yet again! AAAAAAAGH!

Comment No shit, Sherlock (Score 5, Insightful) 110

Given the goals of Project 2025 and the expressed intent of effectively gutting any service provided by the federal government to the population at large, this scrapping of FCC policy goals meant to aid the public by constraining corporations from offering the bare minimum of service for the maximum of money, without regard for any other goals whatsoever, falls firmly into the "No shit, Sherlock" category of disappointing but unsurprising news.

Comment Re:Good news bad news time (Score 1) 88

Bold of you to assume that this administration, which also includes Pete Hegseth ('Germs are not a real thing': Fox News host says he hasn't washed hands in 10 years) in addition to Robert F Kennedy Jr and Christi Noem, has the capacity or will to do what is the proper health response.

Trump killed hundred of thousands of citizens with his reckless covid-19 response in his first term, there are absolutely no indications that he or his administration has improved or learned anything (on the contrary, they are now in the process of killing hundred of thousands of persons world wide by gutting USAID).

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