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Comment Re: I don't understand (Score 2, Insightful) 1605

I think the fact that you don't understand that the first sentiment of your post is exactly how the opposing side felt and why they elected him in the first place, is what is most wrong with our country today.

I think that if we as a people try a little more to identify with the majority of the opposition as opposed to painting them as the worst 5% of their number and hating them, we would realize that for the most part our values are closer than we think.

We are not a country of trumptards and libtards, but a country of people who for the most part want to live a good life for their family and their neighbors. I guess the pendulum has swung far enough that the people decided that it is time for it to swing back. Our parties largely forgot the concept of actual compromise, so the political maneuvering has been largely to hurt the opposing side and prevent them from being able to win, rather than govern. I worry same may occur now. However considering the last election and this one, and the changes that occurred in the meantime I think perhaps this is a sign that our system still works.

Comment Re:21st century...and they are wanting us... (Score 0) 61

The fact that myself and other replies are marked as "troll" is quite indicative of the broader society. Trolling implies deliberate misrepresentation or overt lies designed to offend or inflame. The only way you could conclude what I or the other authors in this threat wrote is "trolling" is if you are triggered by an opinion that is different than your own.

Comment Re: Amazon Basics (Score 1) 21

And after that they should create an Amazon Basics java programmer school so java programmers are as plentiful and get paid as much as janitors.

See... isn't race to the bottom wonderful!

Maybe we could go full Bolshevik and pay doctors 1/2 of what a factory worker gets (real numbers from the Soviet Union circa 1960s-80s).

Only the already rich and those with political power can accumulate wealth. Everyone else would be paid just enough. And you should be the one deciding what "enough" is.

That's going to really screw the people you hate for being more successful.

Comment Re:Again ? (Score 1) 142

So it sounds like we should immediately switch to non-fossil electricity generation (25% of all CO2 emissions) with the best tool we have available - nuclear power. After we have adequate electrical supply, or at least as we're on our way to that, we should work on maximizing use of electricity in transportation and heating. While we're at it we could shave a few percentage points by converting large-scale shipping to nuclear too, and minimizing use of air for transporting non-urgent goods.

We seem to be doing it the other way around - we're maximizing building electric cars while the majority of power is produced via fossil fuels. I guess if our electric supply becomes inadequate the prices will skyrocket and individual consumption will drop, which will accomplish the goal I guess. This is easier than actually having the will to generate sustained change, because forcing individual people to do or not do something is easy when you have an armed government behind you and they are powerless and dependent.

Comment Typically Inefficient Government Spending (Score 0) 163

Per the article, the government is spending $913,000,000 for schools to acquire 2,463 busses, "95% of which will be electric." (Side note, I'd love to know why 5% of buses purchased under this plan won't be electric.) That's $370,000 per bus. Enough money to buy a whole electric bus, so I assume that's what they're doing. This is typical moronic "the government is Santa Claus" spending. Those very few districts - 389 - get this massive windfall of completely free (to them) new busses. Everybody else gets nothing. Mountains of school districts across the country are replacing mountains of busses every year already, and most of those replacements are going to be gas. If they'd spent their same $913M on incentive vouchers for schools to buy electric bussesâ"ie, whatever level subsidy it would take to spur adoptionâ"they'd have made the program both more equitable (way more recipients of the funding) and had a much larger impact (way more electric busses purchased for the same amount of program money spent). That is, vouchers for say $92,000 per electric bus per school probably would have still had applicants use all the money, but 4x as many schools would benefit, and 4x as many electric busses would end up on the roads. Some economist could have surveyed schools and estimated the best voucher amount for them to optimize their objective.

Comment Re: Problem is they lump in access with improvemen (Score 2) 54

That's not at all what people are worried about.

The "neutrality" refers to content.

The concern with abandoning net neutrality is the danger of different content being treated differently, whereby your ISP can decide that only paid services will get gigabit throughput and everything else can do with 128k... or worse, start picking and choosing whether or not to deliver content based on politics.

The car analogy would be a vehicle that drives 60mph to Walmart and to 10mph or not at all to a mom and pop shop... or one that will get you to one political rally but not another.

Comment Re:This is gonna go great until rodents jump in (Score 4, Insightful) 161

I actually agree with you that a simple robot will not detectect contamination, and that people should be involved.

However, I am trying to leverage my extensive background in biology to figure out the reasoning behind your SOP of bleaching and "sterilizing" the fryer after a mouse jumps in.

I mean you can say you're going to drain and clean if because it's gross... But if your deep fryer oil is not sterile at 375F, I'm not sure what new kingdom of organisms you've invented.

Is this the new "follow the science" kind of SOP?

Comment Re: Disaster (Score 1) 279

Actually I wish they do this, and you get stranded on your way to the ER while not being drunk. Your self righteous bullshit is so tiresome. The parent post is right - the problem is people like yourself who imagine their perfect fascist regulations having perfect effects, instead of using one ounce of braincells to see how it will go wrong the majority of the time.

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