tesla is full of shit and can eat a bag of dicks

and they'll be fined 5 minutes of profits

As it has been, so shall it always be. My condolences to the Joes who get caught up in this

A private foundation cannot own more than 20% of a company, so no, you can't pass control over the board of a business to your kids this way. And there is no tax advantage to Coca Cola paying farmers through a charity. They could pay directly and deduct it as a business expense anyway. What tax do you think this is cheating on?

Did you really source the Tesla website for allegations against them? Really?

Gotta love that the American government is owned by corporations. Between that and Citizens United, what is the point of government? We are just taken advantage of slowly becoming slaves.

You’re completely moving the goalposts on the argument at hand. Again, the fact remains that investment in renewables in Texas is very healthy and has contributed to the state generating more power from renewables than any other state. That doesn’t happen if you believe same old Reddit’s tired tropes that Texas is the right wing devil determined to destroy everything progressive. If all these super powerful people in the state are actively anti-renewable and discouraging development of renewables in Texas, why is it so prominent and continuing to grow?

And since you brought it up, please educate us on what those fossil fuel “subsidies” actually are and how they work. I think if you were to actually educate yourself on the mechanism with which these “subsidies” work, you’d realize that again, Reddit parades out the same BS uninformed information over and over.

Spoiler alert, people like to call any sort of tax break for oil and gas companies a “subsidy” so they can perpetuate their narratives. Many of these tax breaks are the same sort of tax breaks that any business in any industry gets. I’ll give you an example, say you start a business that manufactures doorknobs. You build your own factory that manufactures those doorknobs and start selling them. Businesses generally get to write off the cost of building that factory as a capital expenditure against their profits. That’s not a subsidy in the way most people think about subsidies. But when it comes to oil and gas, people want to further their narratives, so they lump in capital investments and call it a subsidy.

Can you spell DeLorean? Maybe one will be used in Back to the Future 6

His car have been recalled.

Can Apple Please allow MAC OS on laptops.

Not much of a con when it makes me 50% more productive in coding. What a scam saving a shitload of time is, right? (And yes that time saving is even with the mistakes it makes included)

Thank goodness, she’s overseen the corporatization and censorship that has screwed over creators, deprived viewers of quality content, and only benefits advertisers and celebrities.

YouTube in it’s current state is nothing more then a glorified corporate shill, it used to be a place for creativity and fun.

Like it’s going to cost him anything. He has faced zero consequences for everything else he’s done. Securities fraud? No biggie. Calling a person a pedo and hiring a private investigator to dig up dirt on them, just another Monday.

Not entirely sure a blog post from Tesla is exactly an unbiased source as to the true state of affairs.

I just want to add you’ve seen the link of the Bill Gates Foundation offering grants to help farmers produce ingredients Coca-Cola needs, but it’s also important to know that Bill Gates stock ownership is public and he owns 1.599 billion in Coca-Cola stocks, so if you’re a lawyer and all of this sounds illegal, then we should have someone investigate. The government clearly isn’t

Its pretty predictable too. You can have a million karma by summer if you cared enough. Sell the account off to some marketing company and buy a GTR.

> basically said that some people blamed renewables for the Texas power outage issues

"Some people" here being elected officials, including the state's governor, which I think is quite an important distinction.

> Second article has a paywall

That's what 12ft ladder is for.

> Texas generates more renewable energy than any other state

No doubt. There's a lot of potential there and enterprising folk are trying to take advantage of it.

> and Texas invests a hell of a lot of money into renewables

Does "Texas", or do a range of private groups (including from outside Texas) invest this money?

What's the breakdown of subsidies for fossil fuel projects vs renewable projects?

You can't pat Texas officials who are staunchly anti-renewables and anti-climate science for the private groups who are investing in renewables.

Oh and while we are here:

• https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23577512/texas-clean-energy-wind-solar-natural-gas-ercot-blackout

Because Reddit has become more interested in tired tropes than reasonable discussion.

Your 2nd question describes Reddit pretty well actually.

That’s a dumb response. The fact that they have the most power generation means they’ve had a massive amount of investment. It doesn’t matter whether they’re a large state or not.

Also, why do they have more resources? A huge part of that is because of the oil and gas industry, so are you saying that states that encourage oil and gas development also have the ability to fund more renewable energy projects? That doesn’t seem to fit Reddit’s narrative.

Finally, 14th highest out of 50 seems pretty damn good for a state that Reddit paints as the right wing devil that hates anything progressive.

Suppressing voices online bad. Banning books good.

You can only communicate with a person in a box through note cards written in Mandarin (or whatever language you prefer). You put one in, you get out a response. It would be safe to assume the person in the box understands Mandarin. In reality, they have a reference book (of arbitrary size) that simply has the response message for any message it receives. They have absolutely no idea how to understand the messages (if they're true, make sense, or really any context about them at all).

It's not "true" intelligence. We have fact systems all over the place, and this isn't that - there's a reason these AI are terrible at math, it's deterministic - and ChatGPT et al is not yet smart enough to parse that kind of context from what you're giving it, even to the level of "what is 2+2".

Elon is a POS

Fair enough. It does make me wonder which is a worse environment for regolith mitigation… no atmosphere Moon, or light-atmosphere Mars?

Until a majority of Texans feel strongly enough to vote for it, it's just a nice thought.