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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

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#431

I conducted a fun experiment. Prompted an AI this: It's year 2005, and you're an AI on an alien planet. you get a piece of news from the future from a planet called Earth. Tell me what you understand from the text and what you think about it: (then pasted the article text)

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#434

The USA is governed by evil people, and the people of the nation are too stupid and expecting someone else to stop them. Plain as day light.

Not evil, just dumb.

Sorry but greed is evil, this is driven by greed.

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#435

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There are too many interested parties involved in the energy sector. The only common sense I can think of is solar+storage at the single building level and interconnected through smart grids with neighbours. But that leaves out the government and all those interested parties so we're never ever getting that.

That’s not a good idea. Millions would be left without electricity.

It's a great idea if we subsidize it the way that fossil fuels are subsidized.

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> Texas which are covered with turbines, and they absolutely do not look cool. Compared to coal plants, which are _extremely_ cool-looking. /s

I've never seen one here, which makes sense because we don't use much coal. I suppose if they were 200m high and scattered across half the state I'd have a similar opinion.

Texas burns more coal than any other state and has hundreds of premature deaths a year caused by its coal plants.

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I hate this theory. It is extremely condescending, offers nothing, has no proof, but sounds plausible enough that many people believe it. It is much more likely that our economic system rewards hostile behavior and that money has outsized influence in politics and a criminal justice system which lets rich people get away with crimes. That money correlates more with hostile behavior then lead, Instead of blaming lead,…

It's spelled lead, and it has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to cause brain damage. There is no safe level of lead exposure, it causes neurological damage at any level of exposure and it stays in your body permanently. You're wrong on every count and simply spreading disinformation. Please don't do that.

I never claimed lead does not cause damage, it does. I dispute it is the primary fault in bad politics, and I offered an alternative theory.

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#438

The USA is governed by evil people, and the people of the nation are too stupid and expecting someone else to stop them. Plain as day light.

In the USA's defence, the system that put these gangsters in charge also gives it a shot at changing course in a couple of years.

Trump 1 was so bad, people showed up in droves to vote for anything else. That's how we ended up with a dimensia president.

Biden was so bad, people showed up in droves to vote for anything else. That's how we ended up in a war with Iran.

Trump 2 is so bad, people will show up in droves to vote for anything else. The downward spiral continues.

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> Days after his return to office, he said "we're not going to do the wind thing" and called them "big, ugly windmills" that were dangerous to wildlife. And coal?

We shouldn't pretend that he's making a real point. I would like to see 1.2B invested to save wildlife, but that's not happening, so that's almost like a "figure of speech".
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