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New comment by testhest in "U.S. science is in chaos"

testhest — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:22:16 +0000

Nearly 40 trillion rollers in debt.

New comment by testhest in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

testhest — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:35:02 +0000

Addition has always been very profitable, why we allow it to be done out in the open is beyond me.

New comment by testhest in "Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit"

testhest — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:40:17 +0000

Its exactly this kind of stunt being called "art" that has devalued the word out of any positive connotations.

New comment by testhest in "This map is not upside down"

testhest — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:48:37 +0000

Its just a pointless waste of time.

New comment by testhest in "Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him"

testhest — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:16:24 +0000

Wind is only useful up to a point, once it gets above 20% of generation capacity ensuing grid stability becomes expensive either through huge price swings or grid level energy storage.

New comment by testhest in "The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks"

testhest — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 10:37:40 +0000

The people in the 10% changes wildly over time, on average people about to retire have way more than people about to start their first job.

New comment by testhest in "I Had $100k in Debt So I Moved into My Car"

testhest — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:25:05 +0000

Not only is part time work a financially good idea in the short term but it also looks good on a CV even if it's not strictly relevant to the area you want to work in after graduation.

New comment by testhest in "10% of Cubans left Cuba between 2022 and 2023"

testhest — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:38:37 +0000

Communism is great, don't you know...

New comment by testhest in "Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago"

testhest — Fri, 24 May 2024 08:00:06 +0000

Nuclear could have done it, but then the Soviets and Greenpeace came along and ruined it.

New comment by testhest in "Seven out of 10 Europeans believe their country takes in too many immigrants"

testhest — Fri, 10 May 2024 11:01:33 +0000

Uncontrolled immigration and welfare states don't mix well.

New comment by testhest in "Meta to face EU probe for not doing enough to stop Russian disinformation"

testhest — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:17:53 +0000

Unfortunately, like most silicon valley companies, Meta has spreading disinformation as a core principle of business, they are only interesting in filtering out certain kinds that are inconvenient truths in the current political climate.

New comment by testhest in "LLMs Are This Close to Destroying the Internet"

testhest — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 15:59:16 +0000

If you live off of formulaic click bait, you are in trouble.

New comment by testhest in "Intel to Receive $8.5B in Grants to Build Chip Plants"

testhest — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:45:08 +0000

I thought fabs require massive amounts of water to function, isn't AZ a pretty dry state?

New comment by testhest in "Uber and Lyft leave Minneapolis over $15 minimum wage"

testhest — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:10:12 +0000

Minimum wages just removes opportunities.

New comment by testhest in "TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America"

testhest — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:51:28 +0000

US labor unions are communists where they are social democrats in Northern Europe and Japan. Extreme antagonists vs coorporating partners.

New comment by testhest in "Norwegian shipping company bans electric cars on board classic ferry route"

testhest — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:20:40 +0000

If they cannot get insurance at a reasonable rate they have to react this way. Insurance companies are in the business of knowing risk, and they are pretty good at it.

New comment by testhest in "China solar module prices keep diving"

testhest — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 20:16:08 +0000

Once the Chinese run out of money or they have killed off the last competition the price will increase again.

New comment by testhest in "US solar market is projected to triple in size by 2028"

testhest — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 12:04:04 +0000

It's great for the Chinese to support their military buildup, it's terrible for the environment and the economy as a whole.

New comment by testhest in "Exercise Has Many Health Benefits. Weight Loss Isn't One of Them"

testhest — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 07:44:56 +0000

This has been known for decades. It's hard to resell a weight loss program that works so the marketing budget is quite low.

New comment by testhest in "Exercise Has Many Health Benefits. Weight Loss Isn't One of Them"

testhest — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 07:42:26 +0000

Correlation does not imply causation.