Considering the Overton window, there’s also the fact that what is left and right varies from country to country and culture to culture. For example, a centerist in America would be considered right wing when compared to a centrist from Vietnam or Cuba.

“I can’t believe you didn’t put me in your top 8 on Myspace!!”

Also, “w00t!!”

Looks like the pudding is eating him.

But there’s so many exits!!

Maybe we’ll finally wake up and realize this country was not built on good intentions and is operating as intended.

Mushrooms.

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If you’re trying to apply reason to the theory, I think you’re misunderstanding the theory.

When you dig to the roots of flat earth, it’s a “don’t trust the secret globalist government feeding you lies” kind of thing (Aka a dog whistle for antisemitism)

That’s why he needed such a high compensation package from tesla lol.

SAVING ELECTRICITY LOL WUT

Making a calibre server has elevated my reading more then I thought possible. It’s like I have a library everywhere I go.

I grew up on the internet of the 90’s and 00’s. Lemmy is a far cry from that, but it’s more like the original internet than reddit or facebook. So here I am. I miss the small, interest driven internet holes you and they’re here more than on any other platform.

Do you know any examples of which companies that have done this? I’m not asking to be facetiois, just genuinely curious.

Do you mean a simple audio or visual test that will test for diseases/ailments other than audio/visual issues? I’m not aware of any, and I doubt they exist. I’m not an expert though. I feel like most of the things mentioned in the meme don’t need a test, imo? Like as long as you’re in touch with your body and pay attention to what you intake these maladies should be easy to differentiate between.

They’re based on color blindness tests. They work because the background and the numbers appear to be the same color, making the number indistinguishable from the background if you have that specific kind of color blindness.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishihara_test

The power companies here are privately owned, and America has a lot of laws dealing with what the government can and can not tell private companies what to do. Most of the laws deal with what the government cannot do. Basically, the company sells electricity at cost, then sends the government a letter that’s like, “Hey, we need $$$ for repairs, upgrades, and stock holders. Here’s all the upgrades we want.” And the government is like “Sure, this is America, gotta turn a profit,” and gives the utility companies whatever they ask for. Then the utility companies just give all the money to the stock holders, perform the bare minimum repairs to operate, and just lie to the government about what they did with the money. There is an especially egregious case in South Carolina where a utility claimed for years that they were going to build a nuclear plant to help meet energy demands in the area. Well after an audit, turns out the owner just pocketed all that money. That guy was punished, but see how bad it has to get before anything happens?

This video does a much better job at explaining it than I ever could. It’s long, but they explain how utilities make a profit in the first 15 mins. https://youtu.be/2n_au5Hje_E?si=S9e8o7QQpFjueZta

I’m speaking from an American perspective, but what you’re describing is part of the problem. Power companies are legally not allowed to make a profit from selling electricity here. They make a profit from the government giving them money to expand their services (this model was developed following world war 2 to encourage post war growth).

Again, under America’s current model, solar is not profitable, especially not for large corporations.

It doesn’t matter how cheap solar is. Fossil fuels are still more profitable, because once a fossil fuel plant is built, it needs fossil fuel to run. You can’t do the same with sunlight. We literally cannot shift away from fossil fuels under the current profit driven model.