Start a limo service in Vegas with a fleet for the novelty.

You’d better be well paid, whatever you do. Like politics, all the wrong people go into Excel.

Just read the same article about CA last week; too much solar to be used so the excess solar generated, get this, was sold-often at a loss–to Arizona(the fact AZ can’t make it’s own sufficient solar shows the willful neglect, economic and political nature of energy!) and it lowered AZ bills but not CA. We’re back to energy traders and Enron price manipulations in the US after 20 years.

Batteries will fix much of it but until the grid has proper storage consumers getting fucked by businesses per usual.

“including myself”

A better question is why hasn’t capitalism driven a market for mountain building for ski resorts?

It must be something like(only worse) what math teachers felt when the pocket calculator became cheap and easily available. It doesn’t mean you can do math but people conflate the two.

In the US and I read mountains of business and economic news,much of most of it assumes the reader supports and agrees with the underlying premises of cronie capitalism. It’s a really helpful way to understand how businesses operate, think and where economy and society will be driven.

an argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.

Prosecution calls first witness; my teenage neighbor nemesis, his 28.8k baud modem, and Warcraft2

Friendly banter is tariffed, 20% please so that we can find our soon-to-be shrinking government?

Yeah what about Thai gangster fathers, don’t they deserve to know when the call is real?

It’s the first word of the first sentence though so highly unlikely to be found absent your comment.

And why economists and sociologists are important to have in the room when marketing and sales heads throw stupid fucking ideas on the table.

“Our nascent AI technology…”

“…Monthly fee to ensure no enshittification…”

“…our mobile app does require GPS permissions to maximize…”

Coke just released an AI generated “holiday” commercial. The simulacrum slices off another level of reality for humans.

This is a good scale for democratic government. The US has lost its trashcan.

Lumberg’s stock is up .0025! Working as designed.

20 years ago I read an article in the Atlantic or New Yorker or salon or something good and it was a Japanese American author talking about going home over Thanksgiving and how her family and relatives were super gung-ho about the, then new, anti-arab, thinly veiled “anti-terrorist” initiatives that Shrub’s administration was ratcheting up after successfully getting the left to support The Patriot Act, which enshrined surveillance at a level that had never been tried before.

Anyway, the author then revealed that her grandmother had been sent to Internment camps in the 1940s in the US and her dad had been born there.

TLDR;racism overrides all rationality. If Japanese Americans who were interned as villains during WWII 100% due to pure racism can’t understand that scapegoating a minority group only leads to bad things, then the broader public has no hope.

You can’t triple stamp a double stamp.