HiloJulie - Where are the federal regulations that COULD be in place to curtail his X platform, and kiddie porn producing love child Grok?
Not sure why this matters - people could choose not to support Musk's anti-democratic and pedophilic endeavors right now by not using X, not buying Tesla (remember the Tesla Takedown actions?) and not buying Starlink. You can make other choices instead of waiting for the powers-that-be to take action. Unfortunately, the administration is having us all subsidize Musk's harms through the SpaceX contracts the government pays for, although I guess because it's all deficit spending it's actually the kids and grandkids that will ultimately pay for it. Being more likely to sexually exploited and being forced to pay for it, with interest, is a pretty grim bill to be handing the next generations, but that's what supporting Musk does.
And in the long run, assuming you care about tomorrow, its better than what we got today.
I still think you don't understand the embodied energy problem and why just buying the electric version of everything isn't the solution. Think of it as an investment (of energy and carbon pollution) - if the switch to an electric version never leads to less total pollution from both the manufacturing and use of the item, then not switching is the better environmental/energetic choice. It's not a moral calculation, it's a physics calculation, because at the end of the day, carbon pollution and climate change is a physics problem that results from everyone's choices from Puna Hawaii to Pune India.
As for the SCOTUS nom, Bill's stance is you can't hold anyone responsible for something they did in High School.
Um, sure you can and should, especially when it's sexual assault allegations. Consensually making out behind the bleachers, or smokin a doob of Maui Wowie (keeping it local ;) isn't harming others, like sexual assault is. The fact that you would try to equate the two is baffling - you really think everybody in high school commits sexual assault and it's no big deal?
Bill was and still is a champion of being flat out against this whole #woke ideology crap. But if you listen to a lot of what you say, there is a lot of #woke ideology being expressed there.
Define for me what you think "woke" means, because you, and Bill, wield it pejoratively like a boomer conservative. It's part of why centrist status quo libs are also seen as out of touch. You can also go back and defend Bill's Islamaphobia and wondering with that beatch didn't get slapped sooner.
As for supporting strange men, your continual support of our volcano picture taker, no matter what outrageous sexist racist thing he says, you just chuckle, turn a blind eye or just "assume the best."
So you'll need to break this down for me as while I know of Three's Company, I don't know the lore so is being called a Crissy some heavy insult? Suzanne Summers is Ms. ThighMaster to me, and she seems to have done fine in life as you noted so... Maybe put it terms the non-boomer would understand (I saw a lot of Soap and classic Doctor Who growing up - any comparable references there? :)
I have a hard time trying to accept the life of a boomer who could not have possibly lived in this world for the last 50, 60, 70 years without doing almost everything you seemingly are against in virtually every aspect.
So the Boomers inherited the post-war abundance their Silent Generation parents earned, turned it towards Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll (groovy), but then, as a whole, sold out to Reaganomics when Carter asked y'all to put on a sweater instead of burning oil by the barrel full. The Gen-X punk movement of the late 70's and 80's, of which I am a part, is a reaction to this right-ward conservative betrayal of the high ideals of the boomer's youth, who, as a voting majority, exchanged Earth Day for "Greed is Good", turn-on tune-in and drop out for DARE propaganda in schools pressuring kids to turn in their family so they can jailed for smoking weed, and Vietnam War protests for Iran-Contra and a string of Gulf Wars in which my generation served and were injured and killed.
Living now at the end of that history, it's not hard to point out the many other choices that could have been made, such as believing Carl Sagan and James Hansen of NASA in the 80s about the reality of climate change and the need to do something immediately. Or making sustained investments in education, health care, and social safety nets, instead of bombing poor brown kids around the world. But that would mean caring about one's fellow humans and making sacrifices, like wearing a sweater instead of turning up the thermostat, or maybe not jetsetting for the lols, and the demographically outsized Boomer/Me generation, as a whole with noted exceptions of course, apparently just can't fathom why they should ever do that. And the State of the World today reflects those choices, as there was a choice, as there is always a choice.
Wao nahele wahine - Showing your true colors now by doubling down on your substance abuse angle towards either one of us. Shame on you, Ironyak. You have nothing without creating lies about others. Have fun projecting your own nonsense.
Well that seems overly reductive - I still have my sense of humor, my broad educational background, my insistence on providing sources for my claims, my ability to post without using AI, and my sobriety, which seems like plenty to me. You know how Rob always likes to remind us that people may be drunk, stoned, or having a moment while posting? Surely that has to apply to some people some of the time right? You really don't know anybody that might post to Punaweb while drunk?
As for True Colors, I'll take you up on that, as yet another 80's jam.
But I see your true colors, Shining through
I see your true colors, And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors
Are beautiful like a rainbow
Not sure why this matters - people could choose not to support Musk's anti-democratic and pedophilic endeavors right now by not using X, not buying Tesla (remember the Tesla Takedown actions?) and not buying Starlink. You can make other choices instead of waiting for the powers-that-be to take action. Unfortunately, the administration is having us all subsidize Musk's harms through the SpaceX contracts the government pays for, although I guess because it's all deficit spending it's actually the kids and grandkids that will ultimately pay for it. Being more likely to sexually exploited and being forced to pay for it, with interest, is a pretty grim bill to be handing the next generations, but that's what supporting Musk does.
And in the long run, assuming you care about tomorrow, its better than what we got today.
I still think you don't understand the embodied energy problem and why just buying the electric version of everything isn't the solution. Think of it as an investment (of energy and carbon pollution) - if the switch to an electric version never leads to less total pollution from both the manufacturing and use of the item, then not switching is the better environmental/energetic choice. It's not a moral calculation, it's a physics calculation, because at the end of the day, carbon pollution and climate change is a physics problem that results from everyone's choices from Puna Hawaii to Pune India.
As for the SCOTUS nom, Bill's stance is you can't hold anyone responsible for something they did in High School.
Um, sure you can and should, especially when it's sexual assault allegations. Consensually making out behind the bleachers, or smokin a doob of Maui Wowie (keeping it local ;) isn't harming others, like sexual assault is. The fact that you would try to equate the two is baffling - you really think everybody in high school commits sexual assault and it's no big deal?
Bill was and still is a champion of being flat out against this whole #woke ideology crap. But if you listen to a lot of what you say, there is a lot of #woke ideology being expressed there.
Define for me what you think "woke" means, because you, and Bill, wield it pejoratively like a boomer conservative. It's part of why centrist status quo libs are also seen as out of touch. You can also go back and defend Bill's Islamaphobia and wondering with that beatch didn't get slapped sooner.
As for supporting strange men, your continual support of our volcano picture taker, no matter what outrageous sexist racist thing he says, you just chuckle, turn a blind eye or just "assume the best."
So you'll need to break this down for me as while I know of Three's Company, I don't know the lore so is being called a Crissy some heavy insult? Suzanne Summers is Ms. ThighMaster to me, and she seems to have done fine in life as you noted so... Maybe put it terms the non-boomer would understand (I saw a lot of Soap and classic Doctor Who growing up - any comparable references there? :)
I have a hard time trying to accept the life of a boomer who could not have possibly lived in this world for the last 50, 60, 70 years without doing almost everything you seemingly are against in virtually every aspect.
So the Boomers inherited the post-war abundance their Silent Generation parents earned, turned it towards Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll (groovy), but then, as a whole, sold out to Reaganomics when Carter asked y'all to put on a sweater instead of burning oil by the barrel full. The Gen-X punk movement of the late 70's and 80's, of which I am a part, is a reaction to this right-ward conservative betrayal of the high ideals of the boomer's youth, who, as a voting majority, exchanged Earth Day for "Greed is Good", turn-on tune-in and drop out for DARE propaganda in schools pressuring kids to turn in their family so they can jailed for smoking weed, and Vietnam War protests for Iran-Contra and a string of Gulf Wars in which my generation served and were injured and killed.
Living now at the end of that history, it's not hard to point out the many other choices that could have been made, such as believing Carl Sagan and James Hansen of NASA in the 80s about the reality of climate change and the need to do something immediately. Or making sustained investments in education, health care, and social safety nets, instead of bombing poor brown kids around the world. But that would mean caring about one's fellow humans and making sacrifices, like wearing a sweater instead of turning up the thermostat, or maybe not jetsetting for the lols, and the demographically outsized Boomer/Me generation, as a whole with noted exceptions of course, apparently just can't fathom why they should ever do that. And the State of the World today reflects those choices, as there was a choice, as there is always a choice.
Wao nahele wahine - Showing your true colors now by doubling down on your substance abuse angle towards either one of us. Shame on you, Ironyak. You have nothing without creating lies about others. Have fun projecting your own nonsense.
Well that seems overly reductive - I still have my sense of humor, my broad educational background, my insistence on providing sources for my claims, my ability to post without using AI, and my sobriety, which seems like plenty to me. You know how Rob always likes to remind us that people may be drunk, stoned, or having a moment while posting? Surely that has to apply to some people some of the time right? You really don't know anybody that might post to Punaweb while drunk?
As for True Colors, I'll take you up on that, as yet another 80's jam.
But I see your true colors, Shining through
I see your true colors, And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors
Are beautiful like a rainbow