You don't think the increased acceptance of homosexuals and intersex people have something to do with your increase? That the Internet allows people to learn that one actually can live as one feels like? That one doesn't need to hide anything and still have a worthy life?
You mean the part where people are applying this to kids who have trouble tying their shoes? But absolutely know that they're *insert gender* because reasons. Sure. Do you or don't you remember the "autism" garbage a few years ago? I'm guessing not, otherwise you'd be seeing the same push in turns of trendiness.
No wonder you're unable to admit it though, you're committed to the lie. Ferociously so. It's like your inability to admit that the Iraq War was started by Bush the First, who wanted a reason to make the Middle Eastern Oil States beg for American help.
Says the person who can't even read? Sure glad you can't read at all. Much like the rest of your post, which can't be coherent let alone respond in context.
You mean the part where she got zero training and was suddenly using the force vs luke who got training and was still shit at it even during the next movie until he went for more training?
Both were part time pilots, but Luke was able to fly a fighter down that trench and make an impossible shot that the computer couldn't, while being chased and shot at by Vader, yet Ray immediately crashed into the ground and then a building.
Somewhat true. Except the part where luke had already had experience 'bulls eyeing" small critters in his speeder right?
Luke infiltrated the Death Star, escaped from storm troopers and immediately decided to become a hero with no second thoughts or doubts. Ray nearly gave up and wanted out, it took a force vision to turn her back. She actually did very little in the film, and barely managed to bring the fight with Ren to a draw despite him having been shot by a powerful weapon and not actually trying to kill her.
True, but then again Luke didn't really have a choice to infiltrate the death star. Remember that giant moon, no wait space station?
The problem with the EU is spoilers. Much of the build up is speculation, much of the enjoyment is being surprised and seeing something new. You still have the EU books, it's not like they burned then all.
They simply tried to burn them all because they wanted to write their own cannon instead of using the best out of the EU. Which means that they likely didn't want to pay the original creators any royalty rights.
Nope, I'm making a point. If you can't figure out why the democrats turned around, but are suddenly all over this you're simply ignorant of politics in general. Then again, shall we really go down the "what-about-ism" which shows that you really don't want to deal with issues that exist and were swept under the rug, that you did "what-about-ism" in the first place when you started screeching "TRUMP" oh boy, anything to deflect for the democrats huh? Maybe less john oliver for you?
You conveniently ignored a vital section of my post: "we should be fully subsidizing solar+battery installations for people below the poverty line. Subsidies should be a gradient so that people just above the poverty line aren't hit the hardest."
No, I just missed it. It doesn't work like that here, it's too expensive. It's cheaper to build a gas powerplant in the middle of nowhere in Ontario then it is to subsidize the cost of solar+batteries or even wind. The people who suddenly can't afford to pay for electricity, couldn't afford the cost to do this even with 80% subsidies in the first place. Things are really that bad.
Uh no, actually, the current era began with an incident on
Well I didn't really want to go that far back, but if we really want to we can start with 60 minutes back in the 1970's. I'm sure you already know that one.
Man, that is a crazy conspiracy Mashiki, and you don't even have a reason to blame the... You know, you wouldn't sound so crazy if you didn't make up such hysterical bullshit, but stuck to facts. Actual provable events.
Not your foaming at the mouth hyperbole.
Guess that's why some schools in the UK have seen a 2800% increase in kids suddenly claiming to be trans right? Not been paying attention at all?I guess not.
Nope, I'm a citizen of the United States, and you may not understand this, but I want healthcare EVERYWHERE in my country, and more to the point, there are some practical considerations that necessitate my ability to cross state lines to get healthcare, as the boundaries of states were not set according to population or economics
How do you think it works in Canada? You know the single payer system that the left loves in droves? Each province is responsible for the level of healthcare. The federal government has no input. The fact that you want some bureaucrat in Washington to decide if Atlanta gets a new hospital is sure telling.
Everybody everywhere has rationed healthcare. That's because health care resources are not infinite or unlimited.
Except the part where healthcare is rationed because the government is unwilling to pay for it right?
That's a choice. Not a necessary element. If you don't like it, write your Prime Minister.
Again showing your ignorance. The PM has nothing to do with the state of healthcare in Canada, The premiers of each province do. On top of that, it is a necessary element otherwise you'd be as broke as someone in the US if you're a person who requires medications or specialized care. Why don't you go take a look at the green shield website and get an idea of how much you're gonna pay out, because many things aren't covered.
And what happens in the United States?
What's the difference between Canada and the US again? Right. You can't pay for your own healthcare in Canada at all, everyone get's in line and you just might die from waiting. Where as if you have money in most cases you can get that care.
Oh well, it's ok, I still remember you lying about
Can't figure out how that's related, but I've got a very good idea who you are now. I'll remind you, that it was the NDP that shut down the coal power plants and drove the price of electricity through the roof as well. And also required the utilities to build more transmission towers to cover cities that were suddenly off the grid. There's no lie in that.
I do like how you're so scared to stick your name behind what you're saying though. Such convincing truths after all.
Well, I just can't understand how most of Europe and Canada do it without actually going bankrupt.
The same way the US pays for it's military. By borrowing and going into debt. The healthcare system in Canada is bankrupt, has been for nearly 30 years. The only reason the entire thing doesn't come crashing down in every province is because the federal government takes "general revenue funds" and tops up each provinces healthcare system so it doesn't come crashing down. In most cases, doctors, nurses and what not in Ontario haven't had a pay increase in 5 years. Ontario has $308B in debt compared to California @ $380B, and has 1/3 the population.
On top of that, services get cut and gut nearly every year here. So you'd better have private insurance as well, otherwise you're probably going to run out of money very quickly especially if you're paying for drugs. My pain medication is nearly $200/mo, that's not counting the muscle relaxants(another $100), or stuff I use for migraine control(another $350 or so).
The massive number of solar installations that would start occurring would be a boon for the unemployed who could then get jobs as installers.
The problem in Ontario isn't the unemployment it's that most jobs being created are service sector jobs. Those jobs you're talking about as installers? Short term work, maybe a year, maybe two. Then you're right back at the same problem. On top of that, the problem is the cost of electricity is so high in many places that people can barely scrape by between rent and electricity. The peak rate is 0.185/kWh when most people are doing anything. The poorest try to use electricity in off-peak(after 8pm) already. Everything you're suggesting have already been tried and done, and the exact opposite happened. If you live in say Toronto, Kitchener/Waterloo, London, or Ottawa and you make $30k/year? You're barely making ends meet and using food banks so you don't starve to death. The minimum wage is $11.40/hr now.
That's why the DNC email leaks showed that there were multiple reporters from those organizations who leaked/wrote stories/directly published DNC material right? So what does that mean? You have a single media organization "fox" which has GOP support. And everyone else with DNC support...gee...who can't realize their shit doesn't stink.
Call me back when any of those networks gets caught colluding with the DNC
CNNpoliticoWashington Post. That's all from the 2016 election cycle, they all colluded. So did all those other networks I listed, you can find them all right in the DNC email leaks. There's dozens on top of dozens of stories on major networks getting caught sending stories to the DNC to make sure the narrative was correct, directly publishing articles from the DNC. Hell Donna Brazille was caught giving the Clinton camp debate questions before the debate from CNN. You get that? They all colluded.
Or better yet, don't call me at all you nazi.
And the current state of the political left rears it's head. Anyone who dares to question the narrative = nazi. You truly are pathetic people.
And yet the acorn videos were released, and they showed exactly what they were doing in their own words without the long dull areas uncut. So I guess that still makes it fake right? Except the PP vidoes weren't misleadingly edited, they were cut for content which is what every news organization does as well. The full PP videos are worse then the edited ones in showing how PP is violating the law.
Sounds to me that you simply don't care about something because it doesn't fit your agenda.
There is some real differences. If false information gets put out from these sources, which will tend to happen due to the financial pressure to be first to push out the news, they will retract the information publicly, and if it was fake then the journalist behind it, (many who were considered big names) can get fired.
You mean like the what was it? 10+ hours of the media fawning all over the wikileaks email with a date of the 4th(leaked), when the actual date was the 14th? Remember how wapo didn't retract the power grid hacking stuff for several days until after people pointed out the problems? It's not really any different then fox, if you've watched it as you say then you already know that they do broadcast retractions when they get things wrong too.
If you check Fox News website legal link, and compared to the other sites legal link. They are an "Entertainment Company" Not a news organization. They use this to push false and misleading information, or whatever they think they can get away with.
You mean this section?
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been the most-watched television news channel for 15 years and according to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll, is the most-trusted television news source in the country. Owned by 21st Century Fox, FNC is available in 90 million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in the genre.
Doesn't say entertainment company, it states that it is a news organization, and they bill themselves as a news company. The main parent(21st century) is "entertainment company" however. Which is the only section where I see "entertainment company" listed.
There's also nothing wrong with the bias either, that's one of the reasons it has the rating it does. It's actually open with that bias, it's not trying to hide it like say WAPO or CBS does.
Ancient history huh? Guess that's why democrats got down on their hands and knees and defended bill clinton right? Oh and bill and hillary also went to epstine's private pedophile island nearly 50 times before he was arrested.
See, this shows just how ignorant of the world you really are. Maybe you should watch less TV, and pay more attention to the absolute shit-show going on in the UK, like people being arrested for mean tweets.
They say it moves the universe forwards and is better than the last one.
There was an entire universe that is better then the complete garbage mary sue character that was in the last one. The EU was amazing hands down. Between Thrawn, Mara Jade, the fall of Luke to the darkside and all the rest they had decades of movies they could have made. Instead, they decided to nuke the entire thing and piss all over it with the garbage they're making now.
So now I want you to tell me: How many days will you survive while it's -14C outside(in Southern Ontario), and you have no electricity, no other forms of heating.
Brexit to me is a purely British fuck up driven by xenophobia
Uh no. It's driven more by things like mass rape gangs in multiple cities by "asians" where the councils lean on the police to do nothing, because both groups are afraid of being labeled as "racist" if they arrest them. Or the pre-teen girl who was charged under hate crime laws for calling her rapist a bad name, but her rapist wasn't charged. Or muslims running amok with "sharia zones" and the police doing nothing. It's driven far more by unhindered and unrestricted migration and people being driven out of their old towns and cities by enclaves of migrants.
In short, it was driven by people who like their country and want their country to remain their country. Not a country where it's nothing but one enclave to another and you're likely going to be beat up for walking hand-in-hand with a person of the same sex.
Ask the washington post, cnn, nbc, or abc news. They've done a bang-up job over the last few years of making fake news all on their own. You might even remember what started it in the current era, it was Dan Rather's "fake but accurate" which offered no proof at all.
But if you want a real conspiracy? Ask yourself why the transmovement is pushing their stuff on pre-teens, and believe that a 3yr old boy or girl "really knows they're a girl or boy." And pushing puberty blockers before they're even old enough to legally engage in sex. Think back if you can, to when you were that young and all the stupid garbage you believed. I can remember wanting to be a train. And you can bet your and my ass, that if your parents were fawning after the transmovement you'd do what they were saying just to make them happy. Why? Because your brain isn't developed enough to understand.
FYI if you want affordable healthcare, you need it to be at the state level. Not the federal level, even at that I hope you're going to enjoy shortages and healthcare rationing. Whether it's in Canada, Sweden, France or the UK, we all have rationed healthcare even if it's free. Oh, and I still have medical insurance here in Canada because that "free healthcare" doesn't cover everything. And if you want to see wait times, you can look here. I hope you don't mind waiting 30-50 days for cancer treatment to start, or 150 days for bypass surgery or 11 months to get into a pain management clinic.
The big issue is where do I draw the line between generating e-waste and using older energy hungry hardware instead of something more efficient?
Where the question of longevity comes in. Compare stuff made 40-50 years ago to what's made today, including some of the stuff that has "planned obsolescence" built in or really shady shit like with video cards(see where nvidia degraded performance on cards when new models come out). My parents are still using the same refrigerator that they bought when they got married in the mid 1970's. Is it inefficient? Yep. Does the damn thing weigh an assload? Yep. But it's also built like a tank and keeps going. Where as the new fridge that they bought to replace it because "it was more efficient" and it failed. In fact it failed so badly and there were so many of them that there was multiple class action lawsuits(see Samsung refrigerators).
This covers some of it. There's a bunch of other crap relating to it you can find on thehill who've done a good job documenting it. Also includes FOIA'd documents(via judicialwatch) from during the Obama era showing that the previous administration along with the state dept., knew something was afoot and ignored it, or were so inept they simply let it happen.
By all means. Just remember you also need to break the current stranglehold that those companies hold on media while you're at it. Gotta do the same up here in Canada, and it's a damn slow process. For comparison 4 companies(Rogers, Bell, Corus(aka shaw), Telus) own 95% of all media up here.
Youtube is already doing a fine job of driving content creators to other platforms. Most people don't even make money off of the stuff they publish since the collapse of ad revenue on YT, and in general online publishing. You don't seem to be up to date or understand exactly how rudderless YT is currently. Comcast on their own has shown that they really don't care about the quality of "last mile" unless it impacts large numbers of people.
WatchMundaneMatt's or Phil Defranco's stuff on it if you really want to get caught up quickly.
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You don't think the increased acceptance of homosexuals and intersex people have something to do with your increase? That the Internet allows people to learn that one actually can live as one feels like? That one doesn't need to hide anything and still have a worthy life?
You mean the part where people are applying this to kids who have trouble tying their shoes? But absolutely know that they're *insert gender* because reasons. Sure. Do you or don't you remember the "autism" garbage a few years ago? I'm guessing not, otherwise you'd be seeing the same push in turns of trendiness.
No wonder you're unable to admit it though, you're committed to the lie. Ferociously so. It's like your inability to admit that the Iraq War was started by Bush the First, who wanted a reason to make the Middle Eastern Oil States beg for American help.
Says the person who can't even read? Sure glad you can't read at all. Much like the rest of your post, which can't be coherent let alone respond in context.
Ray seems like less of a Mary Sue than Luke was.
You mean the part where she got zero training and was suddenly using the force vs luke who got training and was still shit at it even during the next movie until he went for more training?
Both were part time pilots, but Luke was able to fly a fighter down that trench and make an impossible shot that the computer couldn't, while being chased and shot at by Vader, yet Ray immediately crashed into the ground and then a building.
Somewhat true. Except the part where luke had already had experience 'bulls eyeing" small critters in his speeder right?
Luke infiltrated the Death Star, escaped from storm troopers and immediately decided to become a hero with no second thoughts or doubts. Ray nearly gave up and wanted out, it took a force vision to turn her back. She actually did very little in the film, and barely managed to bring the fight with Ren to a draw despite him having been shot by a powerful weapon and not actually trying to kill her.
True, but then again Luke didn't really have a choice to infiltrate the death star. Remember that giant moon, no wait space station?
The problem with the EU is spoilers. Much of the build up is speculation, much of the enjoyment is being surprised and seeing something new. You still have the EU books, it's not like they burned then all.
They simply tried to burn them all because they wanted to write their own cannon instead of using the best out of the EU. Which means that they likely didn't want to pay the original creators any royalty rights.
Nope, I'm making a point. If you can't figure out why the democrats turned around, but are suddenly all over this you're simply ignorant of politics in general. Then again, shall we really go down the "what-about-ism" which shows that you really don't want to deal with issues that exist and were swept under the rug, that you did "what-about-ism" in the first place when you started screeching "TRUMP" oh boy, anything to deflect for the democrats huh? Maybe less john oliver for you?
You conveniently ignored a vital section of my post: "we should be fully subsidizing solar+battery installations for people below the poverty line. Subsidies should be a gradient so that people just above the poverty line aren't hit the hardest."
No, I just missed it. It doesn't work like that here, it's too expensive. It's cheaper to build a gas powerplant in the middle of nowhere in Ontario then it is to subsidize the cost of solar+batteries or even wind. The people who suddenly can't afford to pay for electricity, couldn't afford the cost to do this even with 80% subsidies in the first place. Things are really that bad.
Uh no, actually, the current era began with an incident on
Well I didn't really want to go that far back, but if we really want to we can start with 60 minutes back in the 1970's. I'm sure you already know that one.
Man, that is a crazy conspiracy Mashiki, and you don't even have a reason to blame the... You know, you wouldn't sound so crazy if you didn't make up such hysterical bullshit, but stuck to facts. Actual provable events.
Not your foaming at the mouth hyperbole.
Guess that's why some schools in the UK have seen a 2800% increase in kids suddenly claiming to be trans right? Not been paying attention at all? I guess not.
Nope, I'm a citizen of the United States, and you may not understand this, but I want healthcare EVERYWHERE in my country, and more to the point, there are some practical considerations that necessitate my ability to cross state lines to get healthcare, as the boundaries of states were not set according to population or economics
How do you think it works in Canada? You know the single payer system that the left loves in droves? Each province is responsible for the level of healthcare. The federal government has no input. The fact that you want some bureaucrat in Washington to decide if Atlanta gets a new hospital is sure telling.
Everybody everywhere has rationed healthcare. That's because health care resources are not infinite or unlimited.
Except the part where healthcare is rationed because the government is unwilling to pay for it right?
That's a choice. Not a necessary element. If you don't like it, write your Prime Minister.
Again showing your ignorance. The PM has nothing to do with the state of healthcare in Canada, The premiers of each province do. On top of that, it is a necessary element otherwise you'd be as broke as someone in the US if you're a person who requires medications or specialized care. Why don't you go take a look at the green shield website and get an idea of how much you're gonna pay out, because many things aren't covered.
And what happens in the United States?
What's the difference between Canada and the US again? Right. You can't pay for your own healthcare in Canada at all, everyone get's in line and you just might die from waiting. Where as if you have money in most cases you can get that care.
Oh well, it's ok, I still remember you lying about
Can't figure out how that's related, but I've got a very good idea who you are now. I'll remind you, that it was the NDP that shut down the coal power plants and drove the price of electricity through the roof as well. And also required the utilities to build more transmission towers to cover cities that were suddenly off the grid. There's no lie in that.
I do like how you're so scared to stick your name behind what you're saying though. Such convincing truths after all.
Well, I just can't understand how most of Europe and Canada do it without actually going bankrupt.
The same way the US pays for it's military. By borrowing and going into debt. The healthcare system in Canada is bankrupt, has been for nearly 30 years. The only reason the entire thing doesn't come crashing down in every province is because the federal government takes "general revenue funds" and tops up each provinces healthcare system so it doesn't come crashing down. In most cases, doctors, nurses and what not in Ontario haven't had a pay increase in 5 years. Ontario has $308B in debt compared to California @ $380B, and has 1/3 the population.
On top of that, services get cut and gut nearly every year here. So you'd better have private insurance as well, otherwise you're probably going to run out of money very quickly especially if you're paying for drugs. My pain medication is nearly $200/mo, that's not counting the muscle relaxants(another $100), or stuff I use for migraine control(another $350 or so).
Which is why they all colluded with the DNC right? CNN politico washington post donna brazille handing debate questions to the clinton camp before a debate and on, and on and on and on.
The massive number of solar installations that would start occurring would be a boon for the unemployed who could then get jobs as installers.
The problem in Ontario isn't the unemployment it's that most jobs being created are service sector jobs. Those jobs you're talking about as installers? Short term work, maybe a year, maybe two. Then you're right back at the same problem. On top of that, the problem is the cost of electricity is so high in many places that people can barely scrape by between rent and electricity. The peak rate is 0.185/kWh when most people are doing anything. The poorest try to use electricity in off-peak(after 8pm) already. Everything you're suggesting have already been tried and done, and the exact opposite happened. If you live in say Toronto, Kitchener/Waterloo, London, or Ottawa and you make $30k/year? You're barely making ends meet and using food banks so you don't starve to death. The minimum wage is $11.40/hr now.
That's why the DNC email leaks showed that there were multiple reporters from those organizations who leaked/wrote stories/directly published DNC material right? So what does that mean? You have a single media organization "fox" which has GOP support. And everyone else with DNC support...gee...who can't realize their shit doesn't stink.
Call me back when any of those networks gets caught colluding with the DNC
CNN politico Washington Post. That's all from the 2016 election cycle, they all colluded. So did all those other networks I listed, you can find them all right in the DNC email leaks. There's dozens on top of dozens of stories on major networks getting caught sending stories to the DNC to make sure the narrative was correct, directly publishing articles from the DNC. Hell Donna Brazille was caught giving the Clinton camp debate questions before the debate from CNN. You get that? They all colluded.
Or better yet, don't call me at all you nazi.
And the current state of the political left rears it's head. Anyone who dares to question the narrative = nazi. You truly are pathetic people.
Fox news = GOP news network!
So.....
ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, WAPO, USAToday, Boston Globe, and several dozen others = DNC news network!
Right?
And yet the acorn videos were released, and they showed exactly what they were doing in their own words without the long dull areas uncut. So I guess that still makes it fake right? Except the PP vidoes weren't misleadingly edited, they were cut for content which is what every news organization does as well. The full PP videos are worse then the edited ones in showing how PP is violating the law.
Sounds to me that you simply don't care about something because it doesn't fit your agenda.
There is some real differences. If false information gets put out from these sources, which will tend to happen due to the financial pressure to be first to push out the news, they will retract the information publicly, and if it was fake then the journalist behind it, (many who were considered big names) can get fired.
You mean like the what was it? 10+ hours of the media fawning all over the wikileaks email with a date of the 4th(leaked), when the actual date was the 14th? Remember how wapo didn't retract the power grid hacking stuff for several days until after people pointed out the problems? It's not really any different then fox, if you've watched it as you say then you already know that they do broadcast retractions when they get things wrong too.
If you check Fox News website legal link, and compared to the other sites legal link. They are an "Entertainment Company" Not a news organization. They use this to push false and misleading information, or whatever they think they can get away with.
You mean this section?
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in cable, FNC has been the most-watched television news channel for 15 years and according to a Suffolk University/USA Today poll, is the most-trusted television news source in the country. Owned by 21st Century Fox, FNC is available in 90 million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in the genre.
Doesn't say entertainment company, it states that it is a news organization, and they bill themselves as a news company. The main parent(21st century) is "entertainment company" however. Which is the only section where I see "entertainment company" listed.
There's also nothing wrong with the bias either, that's one of the reasons it has the rating it does. It's actually open with that bias, it's not trying to hide it like say WAPO or CBS does.
Dear idiot, HAM is the fallback for all police, ambulance and fire services in north america.
Ancient history huh? Guess that's why democrats got down on their hands and knees and defended bill clinton right? Oh and bill and hillary also went to epstine's private pedophile island nearly 50 times before he was arrested.
See, this shows just how ignorant of the world you really are. Maybe you should watch less TV, and pay more attention to the absolute shit-show going on in the UK, like people being arrested for mean tweets.
They say it moves the universe forwards and is better than the last one.
There was an entire universe that is better then the complete garbage mary sue character that was in the last one. The EU was amazing hands down. Between Thrawn, Mara Jade, the fall of Luke to the darkside and all the rest they had decades of movies they could have made. Instead, they decided to nuke the entire thing and piss all over it with the garbage they're making now.
Ontario did that. Electricity prices are now unaffordable, and the government just finished passing a law that stops the utilities from disconnecting people in the winter. Your entire idea hurts the poor.
So now I want you to tell me: How many days will you survive while it's -14C outside(in Southern Ontario), and you have no electricity, no other forms of heating.
Brexit to me is a purely British fuck up driven by xenophobia
Uh no. It's driven more by things like mass rape gangs in multiple cities by "asians" where the councils lean on the police to do nothing, because both groups are afraid of being labeled as "racist" if they arrest them. Or the pre-teen girl who was charged under hate crime laws for calling her rapist a bad name, but her rapist wasn't charged. Or muslims running amok with "sharia zones" and the police doing nothing. It's driven far more by unhindered and unrestricted migration and people being driven out of their old towns and cities by enclaves of migrants.
In short, it was driven by people who like their country and want their country to remain their country. Not a country where it's nothing but one enclave to another and you're likely going to be beat up for walking hand-in-hand with a person of the same sex.
Ask the washington post, cnn, nbc, or abc news. They've done a bang-up job over the last few years of making fake news all on their own. You might even remember what started it in the current era, it was Dan Rather's "fake but accurate" which offered no proof at all.
But if you want a real conspiracy? Ask yourself why the transmovement is pushing their stuff on pre-teens, and believe that a 3yr old boy or girl "really knows they're a girl or boy." And pushing puberty blockers before they're even old enough to legally engage in sex. Think back if you can, to when you were that young and all the stupid garbage you believed. I can remember wanting to be a train. And you can bet your and my ass, that if your parents were fawning after the transmovement you'd do what they were saying just to make them happy. Why? Because your brain isn't developed enough to understand.
FYI if you want affordable healthcare, you need it to be at the state level. Not the federal level, even at that I hope you're going to enjoy shortages and healthcare rationing. Whether it's in Canada, Sweden, France or the UK, we all have rationed healthcare even if it's free. Oh, and I still have medical insurance here in Canada because that "free healthcare" doesn't cover everything. And if you want to see wait times, you can look here. I hope you don't mind waiting 30-50 days for cancer treatment to start, or 150 days for bypass surgery or 11 months to get into a pain management clinic.
The big issue is where do I draw the line between generating e-waste and using older energy hungry hardware instead of something more efficient?
Where the question of longevity comes in. Compare stuff made 40-50 years ago to what's made today, including some of the stuff that has "planned obsolescence" built in or really shady shit like with video cards(see where nvidia degraded performance on cards when new models come out). My parents are still using the same refrigerator that they bought when they got married in the mid 1970's. Is it inefficient? Yep. Does the damn thing weigh an assload? Yep. But it's also built like a tank and keeps going. Where as the new fridge that they bought to replace it because "it was more efficient" and it failed. In fact it failed so badly and there were so many of them that there was multiple class action lawsuits(see Samsung refrigerators).
That doesn't count the battery FYI. Tesla's are far worse on the environment then his old F-150.
This covers some of it. There's a bunch of other crap relating to it you can find on thehill who've done a good job documenting it. Also includes FOIA'd documents(via judicialwatch) from during the Obama era showing that the previous administration along with the state dept., knew something was afoot and ignored it, or were so inept they simply let it happen.
Can we nuke Comcast first?
By all means. Just remember you also need to break the current stranglehold that those companies hold on media while you're at it. Gotta do the same up here in Canada, and it's a damn slow process. For comparison 4 companies(Rogers, Bell, Corus(aka shaw), Telus) own 95% of all media up here.
Youtube is already doing a fine job of driving content creators to other platforms. Most people don't even make money off of the stuff they publish since the collapse of ad revenue on YT, and in general online publishing. You don't seem to be up to date or understand exactly how rudderless YT is currently. Comcast on their own has shown that they really don't care about the quality of "last mile" unless it impacts large numbers of people.
Watch MundaneMatt's or Phil Defranco's stuff on it if you really want to get caught up quickly.