Not being serious about combating climate change doesn't make science not real.

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That's OK if your dog has no resale value. But dog theft is significant and increasing. When I lived in Marysville, the methed-up neighbors tried to steal a housemate's dog.

You thought an AC was going to get a serious response despite most AC comments being trolling? YMBNH.

The hardware isn't the problem, it's the way the software is hobbled. Can't install arbitary software on your device, can't use the browser rendering engine of your choice on your device, don't have control over Caller ID blocking on your device if the carrier says no, can't install a decent keyboard on your device... Because Apple thinks it's their device even post-sale.

The hardware is good, inadequate battery designed to sell more batteries and/or devices aside, but everything about owning it stinks.

Is it? The CPUC doesn't seem able to regulate PGE in any reasonable manner or to any useful degree.

The "houses" they were selling for $1 were mostly teardowns. When a house sits empty in a city with high unemployment it gets squatted in, the copper gets ripped out of the walls, it gets used for a cookhouse (as in meth, not chili) and toxic chemicals dumped on the floor and in the soil beneath, and so on. In the worst but plausible case you've got to pay tens of thousands to have it torn down, and then pay tens of thousands again to have a new structure built, after paying tens of thousands in permits. The mortgage problem is that you cannot get a mortgage on such a shithole/project, the bank simply just won't write you one.

Is 10% or less of the staff which would have once been required "a lot"?
Is less than 10% of the unemployed "a lot"?

Which do you have, Audi, BMW, or Mercedes? People with those brands are used to $10,000 bills from their mechanics.

That's a third of the difference. Another is that there used to be competition. And the last one is that nobody gives a shit about whether a company continues to be viable any more, as long as they can profit by pumping and dumping.

Because it produces more posts, I need them to raise my karma again.

Otherwise, why mod my clearly ontopic post as offtopic?

It isn't. My goal was to show that Christians are hypocrites who believe self-contradictory bullshit because it makes them feel superior to other people, so what they claim to believe is irrelevant as they don't actually have any idea what it is or what it would mean.

Their sudden, massive gobbling of scarce electrical resources are causing those scarce resources to be become even scarcer. Most utilities are regulated, and prevent them from operating as a free market (and rightfully so, in most cases). If these data centers were subject to capitalistic principles, they would be paying 100 times what they're paying now.

Regulations meant to protect you and me from the excesses of unrestrained natural monopolies are now working again us, which means we all pay higher prices to prop up the excesses of data centers. That is a problem that needs to be rectified. Data centers need to be made to pay the actual prices for the damages they are causing. AI companies as well. They are both severe outliers that are ruining electrical availability for most people.

That explanation depends on a degree of friction that I'm fairly sure you can't find signs of. Remember, we aren't talking about within a galaxy, or even within a galactic cluster, but rather *between* galactic clusters. I think it would also run into problems with requiring superluminal communication between the vortices.

Just about all cosmologists assume the basic principle is correct. It's demanded by General Relativity. But doing the calculations is pretty intractable, and depends on data measurements that are of uncertain accuracy. THAT's why these theories have never gotten anywhere.

These folks are claiming that now we have good enough data and good enough computers to reliably do the calculations. ... Well, most folks haven't even looked at the problem. And it's a change, so they're dubious. And being dubious is probably the correct stance, even though the theoretical basis is sound.