Disarmament and non-proliferation is an ecuse to meddle with the many not-so-small-as-the-big-boys-would-like nations.

Give a dictator "the bomb", and it becomes clear that he is the boogey-man holding his nation hostage. No excuse to consolidate power where it can all be destroyed at-once by your own side, and pretending anyone wants to invade your killswitch'ed capital becomes a much-thinner facade.

That's precisely why the west won't give its favorite dictators the bomb, and why those dictators know-better than to seek it.

Am I saying North Korea and Iran aren't fascist-dictatorships? No, but keeping them from having the bomb isn't really a good excuse to *help those governments isolate, dominate, and radicalize their people by punishing them economically, restricting their peoples' freedom of movement, and bombing them whenever too many of their best-and-brightest get together in one place.

It's no better an excuse than Oil, nor "drugs" or communism.

I was referring to the EPA-and-other-federal-agencies permit-revocation and refusal-to-permit bullshit.

I'm pretty sure Solar and wind are still the most economical options, even after everything you mentioned. You and I will look at these now more expensive options and go "shit, well I guess I can't afford to reduce my electric bill". Corporations either build where there is supply to meet their intended needs(running out of options), or they build the capacity themselves.

The reason I brought this up, is that those wind-and-solar farms being built by public-entities and challenged by Trump don't have the vested-interests versus a factory that's going to use, and cannot do without, the power-capacity its building itself.

Energy companies are content to keep selling from existing plants and raise prices when available supply is "low"(demand-based-pricing is profit-seeking, not "eco-friendly"). The local-and-state politicians backing the newsworthy projects only really care about fighting for them when the voters are watching or they need more campaign-money from big-Energy, who again, has no reason to care what gets built or doesn't.

... in a World News community that happens to be hosted on an Aussie instance. Hi, I'm American who came to Lemmy via a .de instance because that's where the most-active Machinists communities decided to move/mirror/whatever from Reddit.

Maybe you're right that trans-bashing would be a bad idea on blahaj, but is getting possessive/territorial about an international problem really the best look?

That said, did I call this an Australian-media problem? It's worst on British media. Honestly, Australian media seems a little better about the headline name thing than some of His Majesty's territories to me, or I wouldn't even implicitly make a joke of it re: an admittedly, eventually-discernable-as, Australian article.

The media's obsession with naming people whose names don't matter to most without context front-and-center is the joke. Even just including his job-title would have helped. I recognized the New South Whales abbreviation in the byline, or I would have had to read the article to get it 100%.

My own fascist-moron-in-office is already using the attack as an excuse for travel-bans, so why do I suddenly need to recognise a name I've never seen before and likely never will again, just because his excuse is slightly "better"?

I hate to suggest privatization, but ... are private Solar plants and wind under-attack, or just grid-connected ones?

Cap (at least new)corporate/industrial grid-demand, outlaw new fossil-fuel plants, and watch the corpost fight the feds for wind-and-solar tooth-and-nail. They aren't the ones demanding/defending more coal and gas so much any more, as its not the cost-effective option.

Throw in net-metering across-the-board too.

Net-metering first. Okay, both, but still...

Oh good. I didn't need Minnesota added to the already too-long list of places I could never stand to move.

You're situation is far from what I was getting at, and a nightmare to 95+% of the people I intended to describe.

I haven't minded jail, in-patient treatment, nor any number of confined living/work situations, but I don't think that outlook lends itself to ignoring the suffering of others per se.

The suffering of others is one of the more overt ills of society that makes me appreciate a situation where I have a full stomach, a warm bed, and an extremely-confined combined-work-study-and-social-circle which I have little-to-no control over all-the-more.

The society outside of that, where suffering of others is acceptable so long as one is not forced to associtate with anyone-in-particular, is something its entirely moral to flee from imho.

Basically, your situation is almost the opposite of what I was complaining of, even though for most people its a situation that is only symptomatic of the narrow set of problems they find personally-inconvenient about the status quo. These are people who implitly have a problem with you or I getting to be being fed, warm, and detached from the zeitgeist they know, and/or even slightly happy, but they will also never admit it.

Far from all of that 95+% I mentioned in my first paragraph are like so, but is at least 60% of people-in-general, divided closer-to-evenly among, and therefore the majority members of, whatever tribes you could name ... and its extra stupid because the rest are just as invested in pretending the ones that agree with them somehow aren't the problem.

No, you see, its addicts, "psychopaths", "the other guys" and you or I that are the problem to them. Even though society would both fall-apart without us, and has no right to call itself society if it can't allow for us. We can't pretend those suffering don't exist as easilly as they, and our comfort away from those that can, with mixed-company no matter your criteria no-less, is anathema to their outlook.

When I started on windows, and even with the textual pseudo-GUI's of DOS, once you got it working you could customize the hell out of everything(or it didn't pretend otherwise), and it would just continue to work until something physically broke or I broke somethin; with a tweak I would generally just undo and get back to it.

Windows is nothing like that now. My phone is more customizable, smooth, enjoyable and stable than Windows(OOBE, anyways). Its arguably better at things like, idk, working with scanners, which Windows insists are dark magic only the manufacturers can help you with(TWAIN was literally cleaner, and still is, when you can lift the hood to find it); I'm not saying its all-that-weird to need a driver - what's weird is refusing to look for an entire device-category until a third-party app tells you how, when EVERYTHING ELSE is basically plug-and-play, including the printing functions of networked copiers or fax machines.

Rant from this-specific-day's bullshit at work aside, my first experiences were with an Amiga and some Apple ii's, OS2Warp was an experience that barely struck me as much-different than what I was used-to, and I've messed-around with Macs as much as much as anyone.

What's weird isn't moving away from Windows, basically the most overtly Black Mirror-esque OS of what's out there today. What's weird is how hung-up people are on it.

Every brain-controlling or addicting substance or species on Futurama has more to offer; Windows, like facebook, is trying to be the ads injected-into dreams. Who the hell wants that?

Amazing how awesome a little comfort is when you can just ignore others who don't have what you have, and ignore how little separates you from them. Injury, illness, mistakes, accusations, random layoffs... Its all so fragile.

Little I have seen here has made me regret subscribing anywhere close to this much. Some poor woman not only slept with, but married that piece of shit. Let's hope that last line in green is spot on.

Sure, blame the kids. Not like that's exactly what previous generations have done or anything. All I see here is more blame-shifting and passing the buck.