I have bought appliances in the last three years. It’s pretty easy to get “dumb” appliances, but it’s hard to find dumb, high quality appliances, and you pay a premium for them. I heard Speed Queen is the best when it comes to washers and dryers. I have a dumb LG fridge that doesn’t try to connect to the interweb or anything. My washer-dryer is LG and has an option to connect to the internet I will never allow.
He was obviously referring to telemetry bullshit that spies on you when he said “sensors;” not, like, the O2 sensor an ICE car uses to calculate fuel injection volume.
That’s also when they started putting “In God we trust” on our money. Assholes.
Oh look.
Bread has become expensive,
so here come the circuses.
When this is over, we need to recreate that famous photo of Mussolini a few hundred times all over DC. (You know the one.)
Wishful thinking?
Yep. And I’m sure you know this, but we toppled Iran’s democracy at the behest of British Petroleum (BP) through clandestine action of the CIA.
They used another tactic that I didn’t notice until one of the commenters on the Ars article/forum pointed it out:
Promising good stuff that’s not too close (~5 years) so you’ll remember it and say, “Hey, where’s my <good thing>?!” but not so far away (~25+ years) that you’ll say “That’s way too far you need to fix this shit now.” Apparently it was used in Soviet Bloc countries a lot to keep the population from revolting, and now I’m seeing it everywhere in our society. In this case, the O&G companies said things like, “Sure! We’ll be generating all your fuel with algae in ~15 years and then we’ll never need to drill again!” and “We’re developing amazing carbon capture technology that’s a mere ~15 years away and will repair all the damage we’re not doing!”
Ars Technica might be owned by Conde Nast, but it has a really smart userbase on average, so I tolerate that fact.
Yeah, yeah. I know. It’s just interesting to see yet more evidence they were lying as dishonestly as the tobacco industry. I think this article presents a pretty cohesive timeline of those lies: what they knew and when they knew it.
I think it’s a little of both, but one of my friends left my company producing weird semiconductors to go work at Micron making RAM. They’re definitely ramping up a little, but the equipment and techniques to fab those chips is very specialized. Imagine trying to drill zillions of really tiny, deep pits, and then making sure the very bottom of those pits get coated while the sidewalls are completely unaffected… and you have to do it everywhere uniformly on a hundred 350mm wafers per minute.
There’s a pretty big benefit to the solar panels: more efficient and also can be placed in a solar-synchronous orbit that is always illuminated. I can’t imagine that power advantage outweighs the disadvantages of cooling power-hungry hardware with no way to reject that heat to air or water. I’m with you: WTF are they thinking?
I heard Google just launched a test bed. Basically one mini server the size of a refrigerator that can only operate for 15 minutes before it needs to shut off to prevent heat damage. I’m guessing that thing will prove the case against celestial data centers, but we’ll see. The only good thing to come of this is that it might help advance cooling tech for satellites and suchlike.
Because the Ars article adds additional context cataloging the history of Exxon’s deception. Didn’t you read the article?
That’s if they don’t decide the best course of action is to launch them into LEO lol. If they do (they will–they’re that stupid), the infrastructure will burn up in less than five years.
I respect your argument and acknowledge your conclusion. However, I choose to ignore it.
Nah. If people say it, and aren’t mocked or corrected, it’s a word. We’re keeping irregardless out of our lexicon by force, so help me flying spaghetti monster.
New to me. Thanks, regardless!
thank you for your service
I even voted for him
irregardless
Well I know what kind of guy got duped by the dumbest con man in politics
Can you make one that’s “progressives vocally against Democrats in an election year” on the top and “right wing agitators” on the bottom?
I feel the pendulum swinging back the other way, but I fear there may too many ropes in place to keep it suspended on the side of fascism. I guess we’ll see.