Because eventually the grid electricity costs too much. If you consume more than the community, then the prices will be astronomical. Then it is profitable to build a power plant. If they are generous, they could even sell some electricity to the community for a “reasonable” price.
Since data centers will be run by nuclear power on-site in the future they will soon have both…
What did she do that was humiliating? I get not wanting random videos of oneself online, but why is she so anxious about the video? She was just shopping, what so embarrassing about that?
In our family we are very familiar with dementia and senility. This is not it. He has always been repetitive (I suspect rather autism or OCD). For as long as I can remember he has always retold the same story in the exact same words to me, knowing full and well that he has told me it 12 times or more before. His mother was exactly the same. But it has gotten worse. Maybe it is because I have spent more time with him recently so he gets more opportunities to tell the same story.
In this family we are on the outlook for dementia etc though. But he is aware of his repetition. It is compulsive rather than forgetful. It is just that he tells his conspiracy theories more often, explaining them in the exact same details he did before. it is more annoying than worrisome.
Yeah, that’s what I have decided to do, to stop contradicting him with his extreme views. Just try to change topic instead. It is no use, he is too old to change now, if anything the change is just deeper into what he already was.
Absolutely, but a lot of it is self-caused or because he doesn’t say no. He has had a lot of stress from work because they pile more work on him and he doesn’t refuse it. This mentality of just toughening things out and not try to change things is a life long thing of his that has tainted me too. You don’t talk back to superiors and tell them they are wrong, you just swallow their bullshit and keep your head down. He is the perfect corporate work slave and he thinks everyone else should be that way to, because it is more practical and productive for society… Especially now that he is at a high position in the company. Why won’t these young people stop trying to have a life outside of work? he never did, he was a good unhappy worker, so why aren’t they? Why do they have other ambitions for their lives?! A typical boomer attitude. Kill you inner-self and individuality and mold yourself after whatever society needs you to be.
So naturally he hates anything and anyone who espouses a more individualistic life style, because if they are right and more happy then he has wasted his own life working away and suppressing himself for other’s profit. Minorities should just adapt to the majority and stop asking for the right to live differently. Goes for everyone.
I understand that someone who has seen a lot in life and have a lot of experience will be annoyed when they see someone do something the wrong way for the millionth time, which you know has never worked in the past. But the constant complaining about it and complaining about the same thing too. It isn’t like complaining about it the 311th time is going to fix it… I just had a argument with him, so I guess I am just venting.
The thing is, he is very critical of mainstream media. There is nothing wrong with his critical thinking of other people, it is being critical against his own thinking that is the problem!
If they bring up the perspective of someone who is negatively affected by a policy that he likes, he will say that the media are biased and are bringing it up to try to affect the public, that they have some kind of agenda. I agree that all media have agendas and bias, that is the nature of humans, of course you are going to want to bring in the perspective of someone you sympathize with! But he is getting to a point of thinking it is some kind of conspiracy and only media that reports things he likes are any good and he seems uncritical of their agendas or their agenda is good.
This is certainly true for him, he is both highly educated and narrowminded at the same time. He has basically no friends, only work colleagues, is quite unsocial (like me) and rarely tries to expand his horizons on things he doesn’t already agree on or is interested in. Anything he isn’t interested in is a waste of time and wrong… I never talk about my hobbies or interests with him because he has always been entirely dismissive and even judgemental about it in the past. Especially things I do for fun, because god forbid you do something fun in life instead of something productive…
Ironically, this is probably the way it is going to go. As we keep going deeper into the information age, managing all the information thrown at us is becoming unmanageable. With the introduction of AI it will get worse, even as AI becomes the only way of handling the influx of information. Using machine learning has been a way to sort information for a long time (spam sorting is a type of AI after all) and present generative AI are an evolution of that.