100%, glad we agree on that. :)

I wonder what will happen with their other BEV. By most accounts, it's a competent vehicle, and from my research, it's currently the most affordable used non-Tesla BEV. You can pick one up for around $25k Canadian. Not cheap, but half price? Will they keep it just to keep their toe in the water?

Gov't has many, many, many regulations including fees attached to them. If you want to 'run a business' you pay ridiculous amounts of fees.

1st Amend also allows people to complain about said fees.

Doesn't make them remotely unconstitutional or a chill on speech.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

230 requires *providers* to have a way to report content - not users.

The definition of a provider is wider than most people understand.

That they can now take down content is irrelevant to being sued for it. It can't be taken down prior to it being posted, unless you're reviewing everything before it goes public. So the suits happen - that's expressly why a law like 230 is needed.

A mom n pop store that allows reviews of purchases could be bankrupted over a single user review that contains copyrighted text.

230 has flaws that should be fixed, but the concept it represents is absolutely vital to the current internet. The *only* companies that could deal with it being repealed are the big social companies.

If the only people who can deal with the penalty are the ones you're trying to penalize....you might not have a grasp of the problem.

Entirely reasonable question...but it also invalidates the question you asked.

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Capitalism isn't a system - it's half a balance sheet. It looks great until you uncover the debits it's been glossing over.

you could google "windmill blade second life" and find numerous examples of uses of end of life blades.

But even if they aren't re-used....they are inert material just sitting in landfills. No worse than the mountains of trash society already produces.

8000 tons is irrelevant in a station building scenario.

Individual data centers already have dozens of shipping container sized diesel generators, so space isn't exactly at a premium.

The only reason batteries might not be able to fill the gap is simply ingredient supply - and new chemistries are being developed every year.

Plutonium that's mixed/dissolved in molten salt. If the baddies have enough access to be processing the fuel themselves, me thinks you have bigger problems.

To me the real benefits of these is that they can literally eat our existing uranium pellet waste.

I read something once that this jogged in my brain...

There are 4 types of people:

1. Gets work done, espouses company ethics - easy keep
2. Doesn't get work done, doesn't follow ethics - easy fire
3. Doesn't get work done but shows ethics and effort - keep and help
4. Gets work done but doesn't espouse company ethics.

#4 needs to be shown the door LOUDLY so people understand.

I worked for a gov't contractor that would have benefited from that.

Our leadership had a penchant for sending *VPs* to take *notes* to increase the bill rate to the gov. Often enough the gov clients actually complained lol

Sure, but if we're going to gatekeep employment and advancement behind a system that rigidly demands that you work well under time pressure, a lot of people never get to find something suited to their abilities.

I myself barely made it through university because I'm terrible at taking tests. I've been successful in my industry for almost 30 years now. But I was gated by the same tests as everyone else.

Some parts of the working world are a lot more forgiving than you're giving them credit for, especially now that remote work is a thing. Over the last few years I've watched companies drop the programming test from their hiring process—including Epic—because it didn't get them the results they wanted. They accidentally selected for people who worked well under stress, but 99% of our jobs aren't like that. They got better results with interviews that involve a lot of talking to reveal the things that you know.

In Canada, someone did a study of how much it cost to administer NSERC grants (a very prestigious, large grant for doing science research) vs. how much it would cost to just give every applicant what they asked for, and it was CHEAPER to give out the money than scrutinize each grant for its worthiness. Where's the value in withholding the money? There's good science that doesn't get funded and instead bureaucrats shuffling papers eat it all up trying to understand grant applications that they're not qualified to inspect.

You will definitely get people working the system in these cases, but there's an argument to be made that more accommodation will just give better results overall. Just give EVERYONE more time on the test. 100% of people get 6 hours to write the test. The people that are now trying to 'take advantage' of the system are returned to a level playing field. The people that need that time because they're neurodivergent don't have to ask for it. You get to see if people actually learned the material. There's little practical downside.

I'm a lead programmer in the games industry, and I did not show up to meetings with low value. But that said, 50% of my time was spent on meetings and managerial duties.

Critically, I consider it my job to go to meetings so the other programmers on my team DON'T. We need to talk about the state of the game. We need to discuss mechanics and timelines and all sorts of things. But I don't want other programmers in more than a few hours of meetings a week, and most of those meeting hours should be just in our team giving and getting updates.

We were aggressive about cutting meetings that people felt had little or diminishing value. Sometimes meetings are useful for a time and then they're not. I never went to a meeting that I was invited to where I didn't feel like I needed to hear the information or present something useful. Guard your own time, no matter what level of worker you are.

But yeah, useless meetings feel terrible. I didn't feel bad about the meetings I went to because we often accomplished a lot.

Nah, the deals on used EVs are great right now; I think more people are going to start buying them up. They have low maintenance and running costs, and for around town, they're great.

There are so many goddamn F-150s on the road belonging to people that never tow a single thing or load the bed up. They're commuter cars for accountants with masculinity issues. Don't tell me that we shouldn't get these dipshits into normal cars or EVs both for the sake of the environment and road safety.

Autism is a much broader category than it used to be.

There's actually some evidence now that ADHD and Autism are on the SAME SPECTRUM, they're just different manifestations of slightly different brain wiring. For some people, it's more of an impediment, but fundamentally, the impediment is that we don't allow those people to be themselves. They might stim by flapping their hands a bit or moving around (I have ADHD, and I ALWAYS have to have something in my hands during meetings; I also 'pain stim', where I might press the tip of a paperclip against my finger. It doesn't HURT hurt and I don't break the skin, but the stimulation is something that I do basically unconciously).

Anyway, when we talk about neurodivergence, some people need little to no accommodation and some people need lots. I actually don't think having tight time limits on tests makes any sense. In my work, I get lots of time to research and figure out answers, and if I do it enough, the answers become easier to come up with. Are we trying to test whether people know things, or whether they deal with time pressure the way we think is necessary (again, for no good reason).

You gotta pay people to monitor the exams anyway, just let people have the time they need. If they get 100%, great, they know their stuff. What's the issue?