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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 6h

youtu.be/W92bjv8fNTI

relevant video, includes the point that right-wingers in the USA got fed a ton of misinfo/propaganda lies [log scale graph at the end]

I Believed These Four Lies

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

youtu.be

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Joe O'Hara @joeoharadcu.bsky.social · 10h

When life imitates art

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

aye, but they can move/reallocate power, so I wouldn't be surprised to see that

or even e.g. GE clients getting shafted, similar to the masks getting redirected for “national security”

stupid money, that's what it is; i am most certainly not defending the eejits, merely diagnosing them

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

honestly feel a bit weird, got questioned so closely for making an argument which i thought was straightforward

and i just realised i'm making the same argument as _The Innovators' Dilemma_ where companies retreat up-market where the margins are higher

it's even less novel than i thought at 1st

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

aye, and that i agree with

just that the competitiveness isn't there in the USA specifically, since* trump 2. if renewables are off the table, higher margins ensue

*: even from before, when dems-in-name-only killed IRAr2 and its renewables during tail-end of Biden

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

yeh, had to mute+block

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

does it even matter? as in, the original argument was: there's more profit in generating non-renewables, hence finance will chase those, to the point where they've already killed renewables in the USA via lobbying

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

combine that w/ how they lobbied trump successfully to kill renewables that were coming online w/ IRAr2, and you get a tilted playing field where the only power generation available is the expensive one

30% margin on $5k > than 50% margin on $1k, that was the idea

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of...

Cost of electricity by source - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

? what do you mean by evidence? i'm saying that if the same 1GW of power has a sales price that wildly differs depending on source, the margin/profit also scales accordingly

wiki has a graph, but that's not the crux: even between coal/gas you have prices ranging from $2k to $6k to produce 1kW

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

“““
If you do direct payments, people will consume more, as we learned during Covid.
”””

yep, i'm listening to an eejit: covid stimulus checks were spent on paying back debt, overwhelmingly so

this guy parcap-punto-com guy has no clue

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

aye, but the guy redirected masks; i'd not be surprised by seeing assets moved/redirected as well

he's not above depriving NY from electricity, for instance

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

i agree w/ all that; what i'm talking about [i elided a few words, blame insomnia] is that, for an investor seeking returns, there's more margin in hydrocarbons than solar

specifically caused by the fact these are cheaper sources of power

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 11h

from a finance guy:

“““
Meanwhile, the rest of the world produces too much, then demands that America consumes it. They’ve bought our bonds to finance this consumption
”””

and who issued those “our bonds”? also, who holds those bonds, percent-wise?

staggering majority are held by rich Americans

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 12h

not really, i had to stop following her back during the initial Gaza timeframe because, apart from being correct re: Gaza \, she had mental episodes of implausible/malicious misunderstanding people

and then went full “i'm a white American woman on the internet being harassed” at the drop of a hat

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 13h

i get deeply embarrassed when propaganda trips me, and very very annoyed when i catch it -- it's terrible for my health

i'd call it propaganda: we're way past the “1st time is an accident, 2nd coincidence, 3rd is enemy action” pipeline: we have actual enemies taking purposeful action against us

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 13h

i would be very very annoyed at a company which fucked me over this way

Garrett Wollman @gwollman.bsky.social · 19h

UNFORTUNATELY, while Congress allows the Berne bare minimum -- a suit for actual damages -- it made both statutory damages and attorney's fees conditional on registration either prior to the infringement, or within three months of publication if the infringement happened immediately at publication.

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 14h

... cocaine

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 14h

bsky.app/profile/kloc...

what folks are missing [i think?] is that cheap power sources just don't have the margin in absolute value to be attractive:

e.g. if the same 1GW costs $1 from solar vs $2 from hydrocarbons, there's gonna be a lot more margin on the latter

and stupid money chases profits

Jamey @klocktower.org · 1d

In terms of profitability, sure. But as I understand it, a lot of solar fields are owned by relatively small, local producers, including local utilities. The amount of capital, and thus the lobbying capacity, isn’t anywhere near what the carbon-fueled industries are rocking.

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 22h

oh man, that reminds me that Kissinger's dead ;)

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 23h

they can do that OTC in the USA as well -- i do know that parties to such have to be qualified investors, maybe that's what's stopping them in the USA and not over here: restrictions on whom they can target?

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1d

oh absolutely, it's just a twitch i have these days whenever i see an etsy link: i assumed i had bought a joke gadsden flag from someone aligned politically w/ me, now i have this traumatic reflex

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1d

i'm reminded of how both Mandela and the Suffragettes got sprayed as terrorists

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1d

my face when i learnt i ordered a funny patch from a trumpet -- in other words, now i check profusely before buying

not saying that's the case here, just sharing trauma

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لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1d

the population of Russia doesn't have a say in the matter at all, that's the point

لجبر خوارزمیا @lbruno.org · 1d

no worries, i have no need to know it

it's one of those cases where i ask a proxy question without thinking: “have you been on air?” because i had forgotten your country has the tech level

but instead of asking that, i used the proxy question for some unthinking reason; it's a pattern i fall into

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