Usenet wuz bitchin’. I remember getting a couple of layers deep in the rock heirarchy (was it rock.history.50s-60s? ) and some great discussions, fact- and story- trading with peeps who went deep. Feedback was NOT instant, and so patience and quality were rewarded.

Then those brats with their binaries came along and bye-bye.

It was mostly there for windmills. One of the first big US windmills was built by Charles Brush … one of the early NYC electricity pioneers … over a century earlier. Dependency on oil (political) kept people from realizing how much free energy (fuel) the Sun sends us. WAY more than we can use.

He’s not in a position to know (much, including) how many investors have put their money on green. A few months to put up a low/no-waste solar or windmill farm (he hates how they look) and start profiting … 10 years (at least) to build a high-waste nuke (and decades of paying interest on those expensive long-term loans)

LeGuin is a treasure.

Of course -corporate- social media can’t be fixed … it already works exactly they way they want it to…

Sure they can. Almost every time I try one, I wind up with a lower opinion of what they’re good for (apart from auto-generating convincing bullshit)

Ah well. They got the ‘artificial’ part working.

OK FC, come at me! But be warned, I’ve been armed by Hancock! AND Pink Floyd!

Lots of wannabe authoritarians out there in educationland.

All those decades that the schools just -couldn’t afford- more (well-educated) teachers and smaller class sizes. Lots of low-end look-good.

And then along came tech, and lo-and-behold, IT was going to be the savior. Let’s buy into that! We may not be able to teach them to read, write or think, but they can learn to kneel!

High-density doesn’t always work out so well … has it’s downsides for many. And apartments (without rent-to-own anyways) usually have landlords who invest and then reap everything - until the tenant has to move out (to where?) Low-cost housing coupled with rent-to-own, OTOH, leaves dwellers with at least the prospect of owning … and maybe a back yard, a little garden, without strangers and users wandering the hallways.

Yep. OTOH, I recently saw a regular old, nothing-fancy home built at about that same time sell for $450k.

Now, instead of a fine, someBODY needs to get jail-time. Time to cut out the fine-repeat, fine-repeat cycle. To hell with ‘corporate responsibility’, hang the punishment on real heads.

SomeBODY KNEW what they were getting out of it. SomeBODY needs to pay.

Joe Eichler Ya! Wiki sez he used post-and-beam … much simpler. And getting 11,000 built between 1949-66? Wow.

From the look of them (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eichler+homes&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images&kp=-2) they’re STILL modern-looking and something that might still fetch a pretty penny today. Amazed I never heard of them before.

Agreed that the exterior is not attractive. OTOH, in the city I live there are over 10,000 homeless people … for those who want a home, they could certainly have one quickly. (Might need to put a fence up to spare those driving by!)