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> energy companies giving up wind leases and switching to fossil fuels

If only it were them "giving up" leases -- we *paid them billions* to halt developments.

It was _great_ for the companies that collected billions in tariffs and got refunds when the obviously illegal tariffs were declared illegal while training their customers to accept higher prices... that certainly won't go back to pre-tariff levels.

Hopefully that 'somebody' that realizes is this US Administration, which to date has paid billions in fees to wind energy companies to not build wind farms. They are quite literally paying companies to not build renewable energy.

Does anyone on the other side have a credible plan to undo the damage?

Where's the Project 2028 book?

Is there anyone credible putting together the Executive Orders to undo the stack of shit, is anyone putting together a short list of District Attorneys to interview on January 21, etc?

They are some of the most annoying account reps, too.

Somehow they found my personal phone number. I do have my phone number on my Slack profile, so either they found it from external sources or they are able to read our private Slack data.

Carriers and providers don't make this easy, either.

I had a recent doctor's visit, with very good healthcare coverage, that was an in-network facility but an out-of-network provider. Coverage would have kicked in if I had a referral from my PCP, but my PCP recently retired and I was advocating for my own health for a small dermatological issue. They said it was cosmetic, my old PCP said it was not. I got a stack of 10 bills over many months all stating different things -- everything from $0 EOB to over $2k in uncovered expenses. No one would take ownership of sorting out what I was on the hook for. No one I talked to was empowered to actually solve it. It wasn't an affordability problem over $2k (but would be for my elderly grandparents on fixed income). Even asking "If I give you $2k does that resolve the debt?" was answered with "we won't know until we apply the payment" type non-answers.

Burn the whole stack down -or- earn enough you can operate on cash for the tier of care you want. Nothing inbetween seems to be working.

> They are not taking any losses;

Not really accurate if you look at the closure of rural and smaller city healthcare facilities. They don't have the base to charge "regular price" to make up for the aging, less healthy, rural populations.

We all pay for it, but some pay heavier costs than others.

> 2. Hospital spending tons on administrative duties fighting with insurers on coverage, which this would reduce

This layer won't go without a fight. Maybe it _is_ the layer we're fighting against. The owners will still make profit, the providers still have jobs.. but the middle layers are useless bloat. They don't have skills to provide care, they don't operate at the capitalist layer. They are useless today, and even more useless tomorrow.

And that is likely useless layer is millions? of jobs.

Meanwhile, the US is paying the German energy firm RWE $1.2 billion to stop a off shore wind farm that was already under construction. Total payouts are over $4 billion to _stop_ adding electricity supply.

For a lot of companies these tools exist in the world of shadow IT spend, so they can go on being paid customers with no usage, tied to various IC accounts/credit cards for a long, long time.

When can I take delivery of my 2026 NBA Knicks team, that I purchased through the commodity futures market? I'm available Friday.

This behavior would not be possible at scale without Flock's technology.

There's enough blame to go around to hit Flock and the PD both.

Hire less qualified teachers, move to even larger class sizes with less support, and move more teachers into administrative roles, furthering the decline of education.

That's my biggest fear after LLMs can pass the pelican-riding-a-bicycle test... Corporate Memphis art is a half step beyond and there's bound to be a _lot_ of it in their upstream data.

It's a mass jobs program with a powerful set of unions behind it.

Schwab still does voice passwords. "At Schwab, my voice is my password"

https://www.schwab.com/voice-id

Same. I'll read and listen and watch anything related to Shackleton.

One of his last discovered ships being entangled in fishing nets has an element of poetry to me. The few photos in the article are cute, too, in showing the ship being in an active marine environment.

'Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage' is a fantastic read.

But what if your v12 was fueling an entire economy based on miles driven?

I got mine at a tiny off-chain pharmacy. I just lied about my age. They didn't even check my ID. I did it in my early 30s, definitely did not look 50. Very happy I did so, have seen a few younger friends go through shingles and it _sucks_.

And a few decades ago, Carter put his family peanut farm into a blind trust to avoid the mere suspicion of a conflict of interest.

Even with Flock, police aren't solving those crimes.

I tried health-tech twice. Opted out both times as there are too many misaligned incentives and useless rent-takers supported by Congress and other entrenched players.

At this point maybe the best solution is door to door doctors using AI.

$12 in tokens and the OP wasn't even at the computer. OP was working on a personal matter, arguably way more valuable than fixing a CSS scrollbar.

The short film version of the original is great, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg

It stars Tom Noonan and Ben Bailey!

How much more software does Uber need?

Unless they are iteratively replacing expensive vendors and optimizing other headcount costs?

And gas stoves, why wind turbines are bad for golf courses, the effects of nuclear weapons on hurricanes, the favorability decline of Robert E Lee, invisibility for stealth fighters, the rapid death of the US farmer due to solar panels, and the impact of tariffs on consumer prices...

Wait, maybe not that last one.

Sub-companies are owned by companies. Don't cap liabilities to the limited assets of a sub-company that actively violates the law.

Or cap them to a reasonable standard: 100% of revenues derived from the game.

Now label AI ads and let us filter them out.

Leading up to tax day, every ad was a terrible AI slop Turbotax ad.

Same. I hope Apple continues to come down on these companies -- and their customers -- that abuse the trust that Apple has built up with iMessage.

Sorry OP. Not all products need to succeed.

I don't think that technology exists. Sorry.