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Wwize t1_je3bcp0 wrote

Reply to U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022 by altmorty

>"Renewable energy is now the most affordable source of new electricity in much of the country," added Wetstone.

The market has spoken and it's saying renewable energy is the future. There's no way any other energy source can compete. With renewable energy, we don't pay for the cost of the energy itself, just for the equipment and maintenance. With all other forms of power generation, we pay for the energy in addition to the equipment and maintenance.

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ozonejl t1_je3ay6c wrote

Reply to comment by EmbarrassedHelp in The guy behind the viral fake photo of the Pope in a puffy coat says using AI to make images of celebrities 'might be the line' — and calls for greater regulation by Lakerlion

I’m in the Adobe Firefly beta and the content filters are pretty restrictive. Deleted what I thought were a couple innocuous words from my prompts AND I wouldn’t let me use “Michael Jackson.” To be fair, I was trying to make Michael Jackson at the karaoke bar with G.G. Allin, who apparently Adobe doesn’t know about.

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KRA2008 t1_je3ajdn wrote

Reply to The guy behind the viral fake photo of the Pope in a puffy coat says using AI to make images of celebrities 'might be the line' — and calls for greater regulation by Lakerlion

i'm sure i'm not the first to say it, but i think i'm going to go ahead and study oil painting for the next 50 years, so that the neural network in my head can create images just like this. if that doesn't work out i'll use photoshop to do the exact same thing. am i illegal?

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Azer1287 t1_je3a8wy wrote

Reply to I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz

It’s about greed and control. Why don’t they do a piece about why CEOs continue to get richer, the companies make more profits and none of that goes back ti the employees in any meaningful way? Or that Google executive who was against WFH but then decided to move to New Zealand for a year and fly back once in awhile.

No, let’s focus on the working mom who wants to avoid a 1.5 hour commute and be home in time to pickup their kid.

Jerks.

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happybarfday t1_je39u14 wrote

Reply to comment by Maximum-Carpet2740 in I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz

And coming into the office stops people from being opportunists and fucking around on the job? That shit happens all the time. Either way you can let them go and hire people who will do the job.

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happybarfday t1_je39mcq wrote

Reply to comment by Icy-Ad-9142 in I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz

No one shit on people with vocational jobs have to work on-site because of the nature of their job until they lashed out at us like the guy above.

Do you see anyone in here shitting on plumbers or auto repair workers? No, we're shitting on rich CEOs and egomaniacal control-freak bosses.

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happybarfday t1_je38ts0 wrote

Reply to comment by JadeitePenguin1 in I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz

You can't be proved right either because we have nothing to compare the full-week-at-the-office to, so it's just as meaningless. The economy is in the toilet, productively is abysmal, and people are miserable, there's your evidence.

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Living-blech t1_je38k3j wrote

Reply to comment by JadeitePenguin1 in I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz

Still quite convenient that you've yet to respond to those that provided evidence against your claims, yet still say others can't prove you wrong.

Afraid of the evidence, or think your belief is far above it?

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Dollar_Bills t1_je38jr9 wrote

Reply to comment by gurenkagurenda in U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022 by altmorty

Sorry I exaggerated, but if you cut out the fuel prices and employees required to run traditional power sources, it's probably about double what it should be costing us.

They used to say, "solar will only make sense if we can get the efficiency to 7%" and we are currently doubling that or better. Every component is cheaper than it was in 2000, too.

If you want to milk the balls of the oligarchy, you can. I won't stop you.

So yes, they absolutely have doubled.

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bottomknifeprospect t1_je38hzo wrote

Reply to comment by HighOnGoofballs in I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz

Got sucked into a job where they said it was a couple days a week if people were in the office, but my team is overseas so I will essentially be remote.

Now they flipped on us and require everyone do 5 days regardless of where their team is. My guess is they want engineers to quit so they can explain why they missed their garbage targets.

So anyways, I've been interviewing a lot.

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happybarfday t1_je38bgl wrote

Reply to comment by JadeitePenguin1 in I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz

Oh well isn't that convenient... but we won't be able to ever get that data because we all need to get back to the office in the meantime right?

If that data is meaningless then so is the data about working at the office, because we have nothing to compare it to. Working in the office could be the worst way to conduct business, but I guess we'll never know.

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