uhdeuidheuidhed

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Unlike wind and hydro, which require dealing with governments and experts, solar can be sold to anyone with enough money to buy it.

This means that there are a ton of scumbags looking to profit off of those who do not know any better by spreading misinformation and, well, any other tactic they can think of to enrich themselves further.

I've started thinking about this because whenever a discussion about clean energy comes up, there's almost always "solar shills" trying to peddle rhetoric that makes solar out to be the superior option even when it clearly isn't. I have a feeling this is because those individuals have been manipulated by businesspeople into believing and sharing falsehoods so the next time one of their salepeople tries to sell a layperson solar, said layperson is more likely to have come across some propaganda to tilt them more towards making a purchase.

Money brings out the worst in people. I unfortunately don't hold the people in the solar industry above what I'm accusing them of, and if you've been convinced that solar is some kind of panacea relative to other forms of energy, it's possible you've been subjected to propaganda to exploit our naivete.

All the money spent enforcing this could've been spent helping out Nebraska's poorest residents.

I mean, that's just business as usual for engineering.

All money and resources that could be spent improving the lives of the poorest Texans.

There's another side to this.

This means there's a lot of programmers who are available to work on other things. It's an opportunity for businesses to start and new programs to be made.

Kiss the ring.

[–] uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

To counter everyone saying "they do," could you be referring to more high-profile cases?

Trump was shot at, but not killed. Would've made history if he was.

The US doesn't have political assassinations on the level of say, Mexico, but they are frequent enough for someone to be able to point to them still happening. Usually it's about some congressperson that we've never heard of.

I'm not sure if there's greater protection based on the popularity of politicians. It would make sense if someone like AOC gets more protection than, well, someone we haven't heard of.

[–] uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Very very bad.

I thought Hillary would win the 2016 election.

It's up to you whether or not it's important. I see your point on whether or not it's possible, and I'm inclined to agree with you.

I'm glad that pretty much all of the artists I enjoy didn't do anything like drug and rape women or come out in favor of oppressive nonsense (as far as we know.)

It doesn't surprise me that the businessmen posing as artists routinely end up being pieces of shit. It's always good for a laugh when the morons who liked their art find out for themselves.

I dunno about brita specifically, but my walmart water filter has served me well throughout the years.

Back when I moved in to a friend's house and started drinking his tap water, I would get sick all the time. I knew it was the water, I could feel it. Every time I drank it, it tasted weird, metallic, and I could tell I was poisoning myself.

Ever since I started filtering it, I stopped getting sick. Haven't looked back and have been drinking walmart-filtered tap water ever since.

Haven't been sick in years, either.

Food.

That's honestly all my money goes towards these days.

And utilities.

You can get 4 months of Internet with Visible for only $25/month with unlimited data.

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What is an anti-hero? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

There are no wrong answers, only your opinions 🙂

Personally, I think an anti-hero is a bad guy that does good things. He might cheat on his wife, steal, gamble, etc, but when it "matters," he ends up on the side of what's good.

Han Solo is an example that comes to mind.

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