https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#Capital_costs

I already did. New nuclear isn’t economically viable.

Solid rebuttal, good job 👍

New nuclear is dead in the water, there’s just no economic argument for building it.

Pretty much. He has the attention span of a toddler so he’ll find a different target soon enough.

Ok.

Somewhere along the way we decided punching Nazis wasn’t cool. I worry it’s too late now.

This springs to mind:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity

Thus begins four years of trolling. Did he? Didn’t he?

I understand it’s tempting to get pissy and to seek to downplay legitimate criticism when called out on your bullshit.

Try and do better next time, yeah?

Oh, important distinction alert. OP is only blaming some of the voters.

You’re “done here” because you’ve got no persuasive argument and you’re giving the Democrats a pass they absolutely do not deserve.

Pretty sure Trump won it.

Will you be doubling down on blaming the voters next time, assuming there is a next time?

Did they win?

Ultimately, calling voters “petulant” and that they haven’t “been adult enough to take the stick out of their ass” is a real problem for the Democrats. There’s a complete lack of self-reflection which means the same mistakes keep getting made over and over again because if they don’t win it’s not on them, their messaging, or their policies. It’s all the fault of those moronic, feckless voters.

The good news is, in 2028, trump won’t be able to run again.

Yeah, about that …

… standing on their moral high ground because of whatever scruples they had about her.

You’re blaming the voters but you’re not able to successfully articulate why they didn’t vote. You didn’t even try and dig into why people weren’t buying what Harris was selling and ultimately that’s the core of the problem.

Can anyone explain the benefit? I would’ve thought putting the motor in the wheel would subject it to way more wear and tear from being only a tire wall’s support away from every pothole and bump in the road. Mounting a motor on the vehicle frame and using a driveshaft offers much more protection.

Oh damn, this one hits hard.

RIP David.

I remember there being a lot of innovation in all kinds of directions. The tech looks old and crusty these days if you look back on it but at the time it was exciting, it seemed like something cool and interesting was happening every week.

I think that’s the difference. Back then it was diverse and small companies could quickly gain market share by doing something new and different.

The current bubble is mostly based around a disconnect between what a LLM can actually do, and the hype, VC money, and established tech giants trying to sell a vision of what it might be able to do with more time and investment. There’s little diversity in the tech this time, it’s just LLMs being stuffed into various roles, some of which have utility and many which don’t. That’s why the bubble will burst soon. For every interesting use, like summarizing code there’s an AI powered fridge nobody asked for and nobody cares about.

The other big difference is that while the dot com bubble had the big players participating, many of which are still around today, there was potential for a startup to come along and eat their lunch. Now we just have a bunch of massive tech corporations who are out of ideas, so they’re pushing AI because that’s all they have left to hype because growth must continue at all costs, even if the average consumer couldn’t care less about ChatGPT or CoPilot.

Let’s be fair here, they only had 4 years to get this done. A mere 1460 days or 35040 hours.

That’s just so sad.