SolacefromSilence

It would have been nice if the article mentioned the congestion pricing and therefore traffic drop that went into affect this year.

I guess it’s up to the reader to compare.

Incoming pardons

Sin of omission?

For a sabbatical, right?

Next you’ll tell me all those cheap Chinese routers would allow our very telecommunications infrastructure to be hacked unless we’re using end-to-end encryption.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/27/chinese-hackers-telco-access-00196082

I first became aware of the Yes Men after they apologized for the Dow/Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal. Just wanted to share,

https://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_yes_mens_bhopal_hoax

Thanks, I discarded my sarcasm detector in early 2017

It just presents data without going into detail. You’re making unsupported assumptions.

If that were true, we wouldn’t need to guess. We could just look at the data showing that new plants provide cheaper electricity.

People are desperate and Trump is unpredictable. They ‘know’ the Dems aren’t helping them, so Trump might accidentally do it!

Are you telling me the system is so rigged, that they’ll get themselves absolved for any past wrongdoing at the cost of sending everyone checks for $6.72?

These class action lawsuits are modern day indulgences, change my mind.

They couldn’t get it right before enshittification has gripped everything.

The companies involved, the industry, and the regulators currently can’t be trusted; this project should be killed.

The word from NCD, is that Zelensky wasn’t bluffing about the nukes. He doesn’t think Putin can radiologicaly retaliate after his generals looted the maintenance budget.

Israel has been taking part in a technology transfer. Any escalation in Eastern Europe takes eyes away from what’s going on in the Levant.

Iodine pills all around!

I use AliExpress for all the little items in my life that can fail without any real problem.

I need a comb and get 2/$1 to my door. $3/4/5 each in a physical store for the same. I don’t think you’re appreciating how often these are literally the same products.

The retail sector has long ago entered enshittification. I’m not blind to the real people working in the field, but paying more for a product does not increase the chance of any positive environmental or social outcome. Feeding the beast, feeds their investors.

There is no ethical consumption.