If you are unjustly kicking a man when he is down, and then you quit kicking for whatever reason (forced to quit or voluntarily quit), you simply cannot expect the man to get up, brush himself off and say "Why thank kind Sir, for stopping that brutal kicking!"
If he gets the opportunity, he's going to F you up. Especially if he perceives you resisted the change. — James Riley
Sounds like you would need a massive rapid conversion of infrastructure, — Janus
you need to be able to store the energy, or back-up those windmills with fossil fuel generating capacity, — counterpunch
I could be wrong, but I have a feeling Musk, et al, are not stupid and they like money too. — James Riley
By all accounts Tesla has never gone anywhere near meeting projected production, — Janus
Don't forget that if hydrogen is actually viable, then it could be created by wind and solar with far less of the transportation required. — Janus
I'm not convinced it could be as simple as you make it sound — Janus
In any case, such a thing will never happen, so there's not much point wasting too much thought on it. — Janus
He could have found the money in a storm drain for all I know. But people who have that kind of loot usually have a bevvy of brains around trying to keep them from losing it, and then to compound it. Even if it's blind luck, it doesn't take a lot of genius to know one is lucky, and to then hire hands that know what they are doing. — James Riley
I also think it is likely a temporary phase. — T Clark
Chairman Mao's cultural revolution, which is very much like our wokester movement, lasted ten years. Fortunately Joe Biden is no Mao Zedong, and neither is Kamala. — fishfry
I love the discourse around "Woke". Clown's performing semantic juggling so that the term can acquire whatever vague leftist meaning is needed. I guess in this sense it means equality of outcome (an abstraction rejected by Marx and Engels). — Maw
In my experience "woke" is primarily a disparaging term used by conservatives which acquires whatever vague right-wing meaning is needed. I guess in this sense it means everything is fine the way it is. — T Clark
Musk and SpaceX just won the contract to build a space ship to go back to the moon for $3 billion, although Jeff is making a stink. They just launched astronauts to the space station. In less than 10 years Tesla has revolutionized battery technology. He's doing real stuff. Also, his girlfriend is a famous odd musician. — T Clark
To clarify, I mean that the term is snidely thrown around by right-wingers, moderates, etc. to refer to anything left-of-center that requires thought terminating dismissal (i.e. "whatever vague leftist meaning is needed) detached from the original usage by Black Americans. — Maw
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