Imagine if we were a country that made a genuine effort to be friends with the nations around us?

WHAT? ISRAEL HAS BEEN RAPING PALESTINIAN PRISONERS?

I’m just saying it’s a huge genie, already out of the bottle. Good luck getting control of it now.

I’ve been a solar advocate for decades. You got the sun giving off free energy all the time, and all those roofs and parking lots that could be covered with panels to capture that free energy, what’s the problem?

Oh, yeah, the Free part. American Capitalism doesn’t like the sound of FREE.

It doesn’t matter. I’m NEVER buying a car from that psychopath, at least not until he’s been imprisoned, and his companies nationalized (we paid for them, after all, they’re ours), and most of the profits gone to the workers who built it, and the remainder to a government account to fund social safety nets.

Yeah, we can do hard stuff, too, and maybe we should start doing the hard stuff here.

We spent decades having to deal with other countries and our oil policies, and it’s been a nightmare of wars, embargoes, etc. Now that we can go down a completely different energy path, why shouldn’t we keep it inhouse? We need to work with other nations, but we don’t have to voluntarily line up to be totally economically enslaved to another country for the NEXT wave of energy.

I just saw a video on the first music synthesizer. It was built in 1897, and took up the entire basement of a city-black sized building. It was huge and useless, but it worked. Over the next 75 years, technology improved, until it could fit into a suitcase, and be carried around.

The concept and the tech existed in its basic form, but it wasn’t really ready for deployment yet.

I see data centers that way. Technically, they can build it, but it still has too many problems to be truly viable yet. There are too many problems with cost, the environment, the corruption, and that’s before considering the impact on society.

In 50 years, maybe we’ll have the technology and the public policy to do this right, but right now it seems like we are forcing an inferior system to accommodate something that is too advanced for it. We’re getting way ahead of ourselves.

It’s like body builder who gets on a bike for the first time, and can’t believe how fast his giant muscles can make that bike move, without realizing how out of control it will be at the same time, or how big the crash will be when it finally arrives.

Yeah, it’s creepy and weird, but we already have cameras watching and recording your every move. I don’t see how this really changes anything.

We probably can’t stop it from happening, but we can make it very socially unacceptable, and we can make some behaviors illegal.

Fun to drive? I’ve never experienced that. You drive a car. They’re all pretty much the same. I never take it above about 75. I wouldn’t call that fun. What’s fun about it?

I’ve said Fuck You, and that’s pretty close.

OR, we could build those solar panels right here in America, and not only relieve the pressure on oil reserves, but kick off a new big American industry, backed by a national energy initiative, backed by tax incentives. There would be lots of new small businesses around the country selling and installing solar, creating thousands of new jobs.

Now he’s going to want to invade Australia.

All those shithole Red states are going to get raped by data centers, while the Blue states will force them to pay their way.

This treasonous MAGA pedophile is more proof that only the good die young.

If you have to hide significant evidence from the jury, that’s a pretty good indication you’re doing something wrong.

Didn’t show up to court? Oh well, I guess that’s life in prison then.

Wow, you pulled those out, impressive! I really mean it!

I’m a big Mark Twain fan, and all it proves is that our idols can be wrong, LOL. I’m dying on this hill.

If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it’s a golden idol.

Well, sure, I’d want to see the exact context of the use. It would be one thing if Twain was using it that way himself, it would be another if he was putting it into a character’s mouth, which would add a slight nuance.

A modern example would be the guy in Parks & Rec who used “Lit’rally” often, and with emphasis, in situations that were clearly NOT Literal. I wouldn’t assume that the writer endorses the concept.

I used to use a lot more commas, to make my writing sound more like speaking, but it interrupts the flow of the thought. I’ve found that it’s often better to just keep on flowing, and only use commas for major clauses, or for side thoughts that are still relevant enough to not use parentheses. Also to separate thoughts so they don’t get mixed together.

When I end up with a paragraph like this, I’ll start editing our commas, and perhaps rearrange my thoughts.