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New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:08:44 +0000

Do we even need one?

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"

thinkingtoilet — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:35:49 +0000

I don't understand. You asked for a source and I provided one. Arguing in bad faith and moving the goal posts. This conversation is over.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"

thinkingtoilet — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:30:16 +0000

It's in the article. Give it a read.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"

thinkingtoilet — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:47:11 +0000

I don't understand comments like this. This isn't theoretical. This already exists in reality. It is reducing demand at peak times. It is preventing outages in rural areas during/after storms. It is so successful they are closing down power plants. I'm guessing you don't like solar/batteries for some reason? I don't know. This comment confuses me.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:26:29 +0000

We can't address concerns if they aren't based in reality.

"the unhoused man in a fit of rage yelling at passers-by is never filed with the police"

Good. That's not a crime.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:24:15 +0000

Good news! They aren't filled with used heroin needles today as well!

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:03:31 +0000

Let us also acknowledged that we're living in the safest time in history and modern American cities are extremely safe, despite the unhinged propaganda from the right.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:42:16 +0000

It's also the economy. Everything is expensive. Young people are less successful than ever before (at no fault of their own). When it costs $10 a beer with tax and tip, most young people simply can't afford to do that with any regularity.

It's also also competition. In 1970, your option was to stay home and watch one of three TV channels and that's it. Now, your options are literally to watch any movie ever made, watch any TV show ever made, or play any game ever made... all connected with your friends online.

It is a part of it, but it's not just weed. I would argue the economy is the most impactful factor here.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

thinkingtoilet — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:35:00 +0000

If you had to guess, what do you think they might do? I feel like questions like this are in bad faith. Think about it for a minute, and try to come up with some things that they might do.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

thinkingtoilet — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:19:34 +0000

How can you compare the economics of it if you just have the bandwidth and not the cost?

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error"

thinkingtoilet — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:20:20 +0000

You deliberately left out facts to support your bias. 4,000,000 votes case. So 0.01%. If the election was that close a recount would be done anyway. It does not effect anything at all because our system is already solid and that's a good thing. There is no crisis. There are no major issues in this area. There are major issues with Texas closing down polling places in black neighborhoods but lets all pretend it's illegal voting.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error"

thinkingtoilet — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:53:42 +0000

And how many votes were cast? Did it impact the election in any way? It's a non-issue and we should be happy about that.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error"

thinkingtoilet — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:52:58 +0000

So we have 'anecdotes' from chat gpt. Totally valid.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated"

thinkingtoilet — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:06:10 +0000

Thanks for sharing. And well done admitting you need help and getting it.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error"

thinkingtoilet — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:30:06 +0000

Yes. Just like there is basically zero fraud in America. This isn't a problem. It is only for the dumbest people who believe Trump that 'millions of illegal immigrants voted' yet they haven't produced a single bit of evidence to prove it, but I'm sure it's real.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Claude Opus 5.5"

thinkingtoilet — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:10:08 +0000

You have to understand you are in a bubble. 99.99% of people will never be effected by it nor care about it. It will have nothing to do with Anthropic succeeding or failing.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

thinkingtoilet — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:34:34 +0000

Yes. California is famous for cheap housing. Excellent point.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Claude Opus 5.5"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:01:37 +0000

Has Opus 5 been absolutely terrible for people today? Like they took resources away from it to make room for 5.5? It is getting very basic things wrong all of a sudden.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game""

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:20 +0000

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New comment by thinkingtoilet in "More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older"

thinkingtoilet — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:15:50 +0000

We're not making these problems up. Reality exists. These problems exist. The government is doing it because the population is failing to do it on their own. It's very obvious and not up for debate. If it wasn't a problem, the government wouldn't have to do it.