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New comment by DetectDefect in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

DetectDefect — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:08:51 +0000

Simply ask to quantify the cost of shaping those materials into machinery, respective to other means of energy production. You will be met with hostility and scorn, accused of all sorts of improprieties, and ejected from the tribe, without ever receiving a data-supported answer.

New comment by DetectDefect in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

DetectDefect — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:40:53 +0000

> In fact we did and we have an electric car, replaced our gas cooking top by induction, and our gas-based heating by a heat pump. Last time I boarded an airplane was in 2019 I think.

Fantastic virtue signaling. Of course totally devoid of any mention about the individuals picking raw materials for those electric car components though, since they're not "our" children.

New comment by DetectDefect in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

DetectDefect — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:38:26 +0000

Not really. People are angry because it is likely their first time hearing a contrarian narrative about solar energy, which likely challenges their own sunk-cost fallacy as solar panel owners.

New comment by DetectDefect in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

DetectDefect — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:36:50 +0000

> I got solar panels installed two years ago

> I've washed them once.

> I'm still getting great production.

Thank you for reiterating my point.

New comment by DetectDefect in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

DetectDefect — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:19:59 +0000

> I haven’t touched ours, they are clean and have been going fine with zero maintenance, though admittedly it’s only been a year.

> Where are you getting this maintenance schedule from?

The solar panel owner does not know the required maintenance they are now permanently responsible for. Ibid, your honor.

New comment by DetectDefect in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

DetectDefect — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:14:10 +0000

The only thing strange is trolling comment history instead of rebutting the argument made on its own merit.

New comment by DetectDefect in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

DetectDefect — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:06:10 +0000

Oh, okay. Does a warranty cover sweeping snow off your panels and washing them many times throughout the years? I guess if one does not value time, then solar panels could be considered "free" - but this is a bizarre sacrifice.

New comment by DetectDefect in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

DetectDefect — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:56:09 +0000

Missing from your calculus is the cost of creating, cleaning, maintaining and eventually replacing the hardware. None of that is "free" - it is merely externalized to a vulnerable population or to your future self.

New comment by DetectDefect in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

DetectDefect — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:42:48 +0000

Because real work takes time and effort, and there is no real incentive for it here.

New comment by DetectDefect in "Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages"

DetectDefect — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:03:11 +0000

Closed-source propriety systems certainly have this effect (subjugation), but this is not the Free technology I am talking about.

New comment by DetectDefect in "Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages"

DetectDefect — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:38:12 +0000

Why is that strange? Technology's proliferation decentralizes political power nexuses, making it a near-existential threat to tyrants^Wgovernments everywhere.

New comment by DetectDefect in "Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)"

DetectDefect — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:02:47 +0000

Care to name any examples?

New comment by DetectDefect in "Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?"

DetectDefect — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:50:46 +0000

Volunteer at a local animal sanctuary to spend time with non-human individuals. It is refreshing, meaningful and also fulfilling.

New comment by DetectDefect in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

DetectDefect — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:35:01 +0000

Are you certain inflating the money supply with trillions of dollars by prior administrations did not have an effect?

New comment by DetectDefect in "The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster"

DetectDefect — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:33:24 +0000

I'm not pulling my pants down (enable javascript to have my browser identified) and wiggling anything, virtually or otherwise.

New comment by DetectDefect in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

DetectDefect — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:53:07 +0000

An "armed insurrection" is not required to deter a state's monopoly on violence - even the mere decentralization of arms across the populace objectively accomplishes this impressive feat.

New comment by DetectDefect in "The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster"

DetectDefect — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:48:49 +0000

No, the message is stating that because I don't allow Javascript to fingerprint and commodify my browser. The euphemized nonsense about malware is just an insult to reason at this point.

New comment by DetectDefect in "The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster"

DetectDefect — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:36:13 +0000

> If malicious or scraping traffic is coming from your IP, it's not victim blaming

But it is not; my IP is a residential address paid for with a credit card associated to a human who visits like 6 websites.

New comment by DetectDefect in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

DetectDefect — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:38:09 +0000

This thread is about effectiveness, not tangibility (which ironically proves my point).

New comment by DetectDefect in "PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch"

DetectDefect — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:24:52 +0000

Norms and addiction: the same reasons people refuse to quit smoking cigarettes in spite of evidence it will harm them.