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Comment Use tax money (Score 1) 27

At least here in America if these hugely important open source projects are in need of support we should have some grant money for them to keep these hugely economically important things moving, particularly if the foundation/engineers are based in the US as that makes it much easier but I would encourage other regions to do the same if they don't already. Some things are too important to leave to charity alone.

The cost of these things breaking can far outweigh what the cost to keep them maintained would. The total economic cost of just this particular incident? Millions? Hundreds of millions?

Comment Re:They're gangs (Score 3, Interesting) 25

There is a really good case that public sector unions should not exist and I am generally a pro-union type of person but the dynamics of public vs private sector just don't make sense, the negative factors unions try to correct for are already baked into statutes. Police unions really bear a good portion of the negative opinions law enforcement has today.

Comment Re:uh no (Score 2) 169

Absolutely amazing, Republicans have ceded the concept of American hegemony and being a leader on the world stage to Democrats; along with Freedom of Speech, the NFL, affordable energy and even domestic beer.

Now we can't even get Republicans to fight Russians when they are acting like Red Dawn style cartoon villains. Like I don't think you're a Russian agent but yet Putin could come into your house and fuck your mother and you would just cry and say "no foreign wars"

Comment Re:Deal with it? (Score 1) 95

I had to give that guy the ol "Look, it's not your fault, I know you got a job to do. I don't envy you having to do this."

Seriously, between ATT, WoW, Frontier, CenturyLink my old neighborhood and my new one they really are finally pulling fiber everywhere it seems. Not good if you're the cable company. On top of that whenever anyone on Nextdoor complains about the cable co most people tell them to go to a fixed wireless plan if they don't game.

Comment Re: Fuck Trump (Score 1) 322

Really? Cell phone coverage today compared to 20, 10 years, Coverage ago is almost universal at this point.

Same with chargers and that's with half of America trying to stop their progress. Imagine once we really put some effort into it. An astounding number of DC fast chargers came online in 2025

Also we finally are starting to break that paradigm that EV chargers must emulate petrol stations. New homes pretty much all are getting the circuitry for an EV charger installed, more apartments are installing them, more shopping centers etc. It's just wires! It's all just wires!

Comment Re: Fuck Trump (Score 1) 322

Also never safe to assume "things will stay the way they are forever".

For my case though we have the past decade to prove a trend:

Batteries have gotten cheaper
Batteries have gotten denser
Battery lifetime has proven to be almost a non-issue
Batteries have gotten safer
Charge times have gotten faster
Ranges have increased
Prices have fallen
More chargers are installed

Why would we expect these advancements to suddenly stop? Particularly when there is profit motives driving them forward?

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