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Simply ask to quantify the cost of shaping those materials into machinery, respective to other means of energy production. You will be met with hostility and scorn, accused of all …

> In fact we did and we have an electric car, replaced our gas cooking top by induction, and our gas-based heating by a heat pump. Last time I boarded an airplane was in 2019 I thi…

Not really. People are angry because it is likely their first time hearing a contrarian narrative about solar energy, which likely challenges their own sunk-cost fallacy as solar p…

> I got solar panels installed two years ago > I've washed them once. > I'm still getting great production. Thank you for reiterating my point.

> I haven’t touched ours, they are clean and have been going fine with zero maintenance, though admittedly it’s only been a year. > Where are you getting this maintenance schedule …

The only thing strange is trolling comment history instead of rebutting the argument made on its own merit.

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Oh, okay. Does a warranty cover sweeping snow off your panels and washing them many times throughout the years? I guess if one does not value time, then solar panels could be consi…

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Missing from your calculus is the cost of creating, cleaning, maintaining and eventually replacing the hardware. None of that is "free" - it is merely externalized to a vulnerable …

Because real work takes time and effort, and there is no real incentive for it here.

Closed-source propriety systems certainly have this effect (subjugation), but this is not the Free technology I am talking about.

Why is that strange? Technology's proliferation decentralizes political power nexuses, making it a near-existential threat to tyrants^Wgovernments everywhere.

Care to name any examples?

Volunteer at a local animal sanctuary to spend time with non-human individuals. It is refreshing, meaningful and also fulfilling.

Are you certain inflating the money supply with trillions of dollars by prior administrations did not have an effect?

I'm not pulling my pants down (enable javascript to have my browser identified) and wiggling anything, virtually or otherwise.

An "armed insurrection" is not required to deter a state's monopoly on violence - even the mere decentralization of arms across the populace objectively accomplishes this impressiv…

No, the message is stating that because I don't allow Javascript to fingerprint and commodify my browser. The euphemized nonsense about malware is just an insult to reason at this …

> If malicious or scraping traffic is coming from your IP, it's not victim blaming But it is not; my IP is a residential address paid for with a credit card associated to a human w…

This thread is about effectiveness, not tangibility (which ironically proves my point).

Norms and addiction: the same reasons people refuse to quit smoking cigarettes in spite of evidence it will harm them.