Did you even care to read that article?
What do you think “investor-owned electric utilities” means? My WHOLE FUCKING POINT is that “competition” and “investor-owned” in the context of public utilities and services kills people.
Here, have a Wikipedia article;
Exactly my point. We (royal we, referring to a large proportion of US inhabitants) pay a privately owned corporation for services essential to living. They are allowed to extract profit via rate hikes and service cuts and are additionally allowed to develop monopolies. Dead people are a sacrifice private industry is willing to make in pursuit of profit (see: American death ensurance).
The “separate but equal” Texan electrical grid is a textbook example of why utilities management should remain under the purview of a publicly-accountable governing body. My quip is dark because people died. Its also true. Its meant to quietly challenge the concept that a government levying taxes is tyrannical.
Youre thinking FinnTech, easy mistake to make.
What’s the difference between Texas and taxes?
Taxes keep you warm in the winter
Couple things.
Firstly; just because they are well-paid does not imply they have the means to survive without employment. In fact that places them far closer to you and I than to somebody capable of living solely off the labor of others. Additionally, large tech companies utilize H1B visas as a form of coercion for both the visa holder and the other employees.
Secondly; you open your first paragraph with
Nobody working at facebook has any illusions
But open paragraph #2 with
Many are starting to wake up
Those two statements contradict each other.
That’s not my point, though! My point is; blame the goddamn reptilian tech bro billionaire and the shareholders. Blame the government that allows Meta to exist at all. Blame the dysfunctional and cancerous-at-best socioeconomic systems that allow either to exist.
Or, to put it more succinctly; don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Which is why Ukraine will decide when the war is over.
Same backend, different frontend
Does that price include the Pepsi cans?
Keep an eye out for the new Steam controller. It can interact via gyro, touchpad, and traditional controller input methods.
#ItShouldHaveBeenLars
To be fair, I too would be angry had I been born normal.
The whole profile, even!
I’m not sure which job sounds less appealing; collecting it or splicing it
Wouldn’t that make greed itself the villain? Turns out following a socioeconomic philosophy that can be boiled down to “Greed is Good” leads to deliberatively exploitative and harmful outcomes, even for the “winners.”
Aren’t those the same duo though? I’m pretty sure America justifying killing children and American justifying killing children are the same picture.
And his pants
Currently I’d consider them closer to 14 year olds arguing over pro wrestling, or 20 year olds fresh out of bootcamp arguing over uncleared military hardware replicated in a video game.
…wait
Just wait until Grok ingests some TS/SCI info. Its going to make War Thunder forums look like a bunch of 10 year olds arguing over comic books.
Fairly sure those units are milliamp•hour per gram which makes sense for energy density.
Yeah, exactly. SIAAS is an umbrella term for various specialties, too. My favorite is SHAAS; Simo Häyhä As A Service - very popular in Ukraine.