I agree that Google should be regulated out of existence. Do you remember Internet before they swallowed everything up? Individual creators, websites that had viable revenue, hardly any tracking, websites that were fraction of a size that they are now. Today you can't even browse without multiple layers of protection, unfiltered web now looks like what a squatter website looked like, and it is about as harmful, and a lot more invasive.

Yes, social media is largely regurgitation, but that is not useless. Social consensus is established by many individuals regurgitating the same point. That is not the problem with Reddit.

The issue with Reddit is that consensus is distorted by moderators that are not viewpoint neutral. Reddit is a series of echo chambers, not a true representation of broader social consensus. As such, its unity and appeal is limited.

For example, Reddit for my city is an extreme example of such echo chamber. They tend to support fringe candidates, brigade everyone that mildly disagrees, and then act all surprised when fringe candidates inevitably lose in each election.

I see my mistake. I calculated in metric instead of imperial.

Sam is right about low utilization. I use my toilet only about 0.1% of the day, it has much higher throughput than I could ever realistically hope to utilize even after eating Taco Bell. I am very over-toileted.

Reddit Inc. stock is down today. A lot.

Can you explain to me why not? I do not produce code for living, so maybe I am missing something. Being able to check for flaws in code, which is pattern recognition, is not the same task as being able to create flawless code, which is creative process bound by functionality.

Boring utility company quietly handled by competent people doesn't provide the type of growth that is used to define success in CEO circles.

If this is BS, 404 Media will get sued out of existence (and they know it), because this would be industrial-scale reputation damage. 404 Media cites "The investigation is based on interviews with eight current and one former Proton employees, as well as internal Slack chats, meeting recordings". As such, they likely have enough evidence to back this up. The only wrinkle is that this could be a government-sponsored operation to undermine Proton, because they are serious about protecting customer's data from warantless searches and dragnets.

Dear Moron CEO,

I prefer, with my money, more loser thinking if it means security testing. I am not after features or capability, otherwise I would be using Google, I am after security and privacy., This requires a lot of loser testing.

Sincerely,
Your Customer.

Started burning coal for electricity after shutting down nuclear.

I too would be tempted to riot if my government destroyed industry and caused high level of joblessness by shutting down energy production. Supposedly for environmental reasons, but only to start burning coal again. Like they did in Germany.

If your argument that your environmental solution is no better than status quo, then we agree in principle.

This is unwarranted optimism, except for special permits, everyone in EU, including in Germany is getting banned. Including criticizing politicians.

I am not familiar with other points, but this seems to be spot on. You don't replace copper with aluminum for very known reasons. Recycling for most rare materials is only theoretical, as it doesn't happen in practice, and batteries in 2026 are still currently largely just landfilled instead of recycling. So if I extrapolate from these points - Michaux is spot-on while you are confusing what ought to be with what is.

We might disagree on many points, but I think we can both agree that recycling should be much further along for all aspects of common goods - batteries, electronics, consumer plastics, etc.

What in my "you had other people pay for your solar panels" response is not clear?