Or the intentional actions of a person who understands that his insane ramblings can cause stock market drops and that walking back those insane ramblings will cause stock markets to recover, allowing him and his buddies to make more money.

Curiosity: by “partner” do you mean sex partner or life partner?

drastically cutting down the need for traditional boilers. As a result, MARA’s two bitcoin districts have avoided greenhouse gas emissions

Doesn’t that depend on the source of the electricity and the method of heat production for the boilers? I know electricity generation and transmission is more efficient than fossil fuel burning for boilers, but what if the boilers used heat pumps or another more efficient heating source?

Not surprising. Korea has a HUGE population of smokers. While it has gone down in very recent years, back in 2017 almost half of all male adults were smokers. They still have 30% of the adult male population as smokers, though, which is double the US male smoking population.

It has nothing to do with Elon. He just said what intelligent people who have looked into the physics of the problem have known for a long time.

Hydrogen ONLY makes sense for things like trains. Do you really think it is better to use electricity plus extract then process oil to create hydrogen, burn oil to tanker truck that hydrogen to a gas station, use electricity to store the hydrogen, then waste electricity converting it to its components through a rare earth catalyst plate to charge a battery… versus transmitting electrons over a wire to charge a battery? Hell, even the fact that EVs can charge at home instead of constantly driving extra miles to get to a gas station to refill their hydrogen makes them better for the environment.

Yeah, mining rare earths for batteries is bad. But you are an idiot if you think the same thing isn’t happening in the creation of hydrogen and the rare earths used in hydrogen motors, along with the inefficiencies of transport and storage of hydrogen.

Yeah, we love traveling a lot, too. The numbers of tourists (which includes us, I know) has gone up so much in the last few years. It’s like COVID made everyone say, “fuck saving money, let’s just travel the world and buy luxury goods instead.” We went to Paris for Christmas 3 years ago, and while some of the bigger stores were crowded, it wasn’t that bad in the rest of the city. We just got back from Paris, and holy hell you could barely go anywhere due to the amount of people every place we went. It was 2C every day, and that didn’t deter anyone.

I fully support raising lodging taxes like this to help locals out who have to deal with idiots like me on a daily basis.

They might not know about their equivalent in the US: Mississippi.

A) While many of us are total morons at that age about a lot of things, by that point in your life most people know not to be hateful toward others. Even so, I will concede that we should be more forgiving of the things she said.

B) The point is not that she was too young to know what she said was wrong. The point is that she dated Elon while he was publicly and outwardly a batshit crazy Nazi. It’s one thing for the other women who dated him when he was better at hiding how crazy he was, but this child was conceived AFTER he did the Nazi salute multiple times on stage in public. At 23 years old you should know not to date a literal Nazi.

Which is both a bad and a good thing.

I don’t like gerrymandering in general, so I felt bad voting for it; but I also like that I was allowed to vote on something very important to the national political landscape.

I don’t disagree with most of what you said, but you have to agree there is some fear of Russia escalating if NATO does send actual troops. Russia is not doing as well as most people expected, and them getting their ass handed to them by NATO would back an unstable and suddenly politically weak Putin into a corner where his response would be unpredictable.

No, he got banned for blatant trolling. He outright admitted to saying he was making shit up. His first post is that NATO is “fake-ass” and couldn’t do anything, and then said that Russia was justified in feeling threatened by Ukraine joining NATO. When called out on the contradictory statements, he said he was just making shit up and didn’t believe either.

Nearly two thirds of Canadians aren’t paying attention.

I used to pine for this. I loved my physical keyboard on the Treo and Palm Pre. I didn’t keep it long, but I even rocked a Moto Photon Q for a bit.

Then I found swipe typing and will never go back. It is SO much faster

Lock him up. Kick him in the balls and lock him up.

Fuck all these people. They knew all this shit was going on and either took part in it themselves or let it happen when they actually had power to stop it.

Wait, you just said NATO was fake-ass and would do nothing. Why would Ukraine joining NATO be terrible for Russia if NATO is so fake-ass and worthless?

Also, just because I’m an American doesn’t mean I believe in the things my government does. Trying to leave NATO and attacking random countries, like Trump is doing now, is not something I think is right.

A) Ukraine is not part of NATO.

B) NATO countries are providing Ukraine with tons of military hardware, without which it is arguable whether Ukraine would have survived this long.

C) The point is that Putin is using NATO as an excuse to go after Ukraine, since NATO is “threatening Russia” and Ukraine joining NATO would put a threatening force on Russia’s doorstep.

Pretty much, yeah. Millions of Americans still think the guy who would be cool in high school is a better leader than the biggest nerd in school. They vote for the guy they want to have a beer with.

Also, millions of Americans care more about saving their money in taxes over hurting other people.

The fingerprint reader works well. I don’t like using keypads much, but they do work well.

The smart doorbell hasn’t done much yet (and hopefully won’t ever be needed to do anything), but it is nice to be able to set my doorbell ring to be a fart sound. It is both funny and doesn’t make my dog bark at the doorbell.

The President isn’t elected in a popular vote, and small states in the middle of the county have vastly more relative voting power than states on the coasts? It isn’t that inland politicians are more authentic. It is that inland voters, who have double the voting power, choose to vote for people who ACT like salt of the earth, whether they are from a long-wealthy family or not. So if you act like a coastal elite, you are at a disadvantage compared to someone who acts like a cowboy even though they went to Yale. Or if you talk like a normal person and use complete sentences, you are at a disadvantage to someone who yells and screams about being a Christian even though they aren’t.

Yeah, remote HVAC is great. I also like the smart door lock that auto-unlocks as I walk up to it so I don’t need to deal with keys… though that doesn’t always great and I end up having to use the fingerprint reader to unlock it. It is still nice to be able to unlock the door remotely to let my neighbor bring in our packages while we’re gone or to feed the dog if I’m working late.