Mining coal and extracting oil costs money and destroys the environment. It's insane that you didn't know that. The sun and the wind are free, on the other hand.

I spent 10 years working at Apple. You could write several books about the darkness that envelopes the psychology of Apple. From store level to executives, I saw a fair amount of unethical and sociopathic behavior in that decade. Impressive and terrifying.

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Yeah except for the super obvious solution that no one has thought of but me. And if you want to know the solution. Just figure out how to pay me.

So energy is cheaper then?

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Why not arrested if its illegel?

> With renewable energy, we don't pay for the cost of the energy itself, just for the equipment and maintenance.

We don't "pay" for fossil fuels either. We take advantage of vast geological forces and time that have done the work for us.

No, I will make fun of 'murricans praising a totalitarian law, enjoy your democracy, while you can.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/471494/americans-continue-view-china-greatest-enemy.aspx

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-hackers-took-trillions-in-intellectual-property-from-about-30-multinational-companies/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-boxed-america-out-of-south-china-sea-military-d2833768

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56410177.amp

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna43066

CEO travel a lot (including on weekends)...

Doesn't mean we shouldn't be honest about the current reality.

Nobody owes anyone anything. Labor. Paycheck. Food. Shelter.

Ladies and gentlemen, witness the wonder of the amazing moving goalpost! Watch in awe as it skips across the stage! How does it do it? What arcane forces have animated this humble object?

>You can still be trading with someone and they can still be your enemy.

How is China our "enemy"? When did China ever attack or threatened to attack the United States? The USSR was an enemy. They represented a fundamental existential threat to the United States. China does not. China is challenging our leadership position globally, but it has no intention to and gains nothing by destroying the United States.

You're literally ignoring the costs to produce energy going down every year. The cost to produce energy with a free fuel is pretty cheap, if you didn't know that. From an article "Berkeley Labs reports a nationwide average levelized PPP of $24 per MWh in 2019, or 2.4 cents per kWh. This represented a decrease of 17% over the year before (2018) and a 80% decline since 2010. "

So yeah, at least double what it should cost us and we are being charged more than ever for cheaper power.

Look at how much you love protecting regulators and big business!

Normal companies have KPI or safety calls every week for their senior managers. Apple has Union busting calls. Managers are asked to report if they even hear any employee discussing unions in any capacity so the corporate terrorist, I mean union busting team can react quickly.

Source: worked at a store for 3 years and my MIL was a store leader for 5 years.

sigh. You can still be trading with someone and they can still be your enemy. Just because we're not at war with them, doesn't mean they aren't hostile.

>The key difference is that it's a hostile foreign entity

Top 10: Countries Receiving U.S. Exports

China … $41.9 billion (up 89.6%)

United Kingdom …$38.6 billion (up 16.3%)

Germany … $34.2 billion (up 28.6%)

South Korea … $27.8 billion (up 23%)

Netherlands … $26.5 billion (up 44.8%)

France … $22.4 billion (up 17.9%)

Taiwan … $22.1 billion (up 20.1%)

The "hostile entity" is hands down our #1 trade partner and a massive source of income.

Being a rival is not the same thing as being a hostile foreign entity.

Look famous people, AI is dangerous for your imagine, we need better regulation because if it’s dangerous for your almighty individuals, it’s bad for humanity. Fucking simp.

What article did you read? You either lie or you are unable to read.

From the article:

> "Apple management said I was fired for a typo in my timesheet that I had documented and tried to correct. Yet, it is clear the real reason I was fired was for exercising my right to organize and win a protected voice on the job," D'lite Xiong, a former employee at the Country Club Plaza Apple Store in Kansas City, declared in a statement.

It then goes on to describing the intimidation, interrogation and coercion that apple has used against people who are in a union.

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Fox news is terrible and should go away, but that's an entirely different legal problem. That would be banning free speech (the government can't restrict citizens speech). The key difference is that it's a hostile foreign entity vs a hostile domestic entity. You can't treat them the same.

A CEO of a publicly traded company is basically there to raise money and kept getting large amounts of stock bought and held in the market. That is why so many no-founder CEO who rise thru the ranks to becomes CEO often are from marketing or sales backgrounds.

The USA sucks at criminal justice.

Your comparison to awful countries proves my point. The United States is the worst among western nations. When your using Saudi Arabia and China as your starting metric for human rights, that’s a fucking low bar.

I am not going to get in the gutter about what country sucks most, I am just saying that the USA is a glass house on human rights both domestic and abroad. But yeah, better than China, low bar.

Do better