@SirBoostALot @Umbrias @usa I have no affiliation with the nuclear power industry. I just think global warming is an important problem that cannot be solved by wind and solar power. The risks associated with nuclear power are very small and completely outweighed by the benefits.

The Joshua trees are not a red herring. Their sacrifice is completely unnecessary and it exemplifies the insanity of our clean energy policies.

@Umbrias @SirBoostALot @usa The Joshua trees are relevant because it’s an indictment of the system that produces the incentives that make destroying a forest of them a good business plan. We have the technology to safely generate plenty of reliable, clean electricity nearby to where people will use it. Instead, we go out into the desert and then pick one of the worst spots in the desert just to cheaply conjure up some renewable energy credits and call it good for the environment. It’s sickening.

@ptz @nostupidquestions Oh no. I don’t think I default to the Tucker Carlson confused face, but I’m a little worried that I might. I just signed on to a Teams meeting and my CEO immediately asked me why I looked confused.

@CrimeDad #hydrogen #HydrogenEconomy

@Kory @asklemmy I’m 38. To me people older than that are objectively older people. I can’t think of anyone younger than 45 with whom I’ve had this problem.

@jlow @asklemmy https://jorts.horse/@fathermcgruder/112536047583834481

@enbyecho @asklemmy Well, geriatric pregnancies start at age 35, so it’s really a flexible adjective. If you took it incorrectly, that’s on you.

Based on the mixed responses I’m getting, it is not an established stereotype that older people write emails and text messages poorly. If I knew it was then I wouldn’t have asked if others had similar experiences to mine in the first place.

@enbyecho @asklemmy I’m well aware that I’m somebody else’s elder. I meant it matter-of-factly, like “geriatric pregnancy”.

@MissJinx @asklemmy I wasn’t sure of the right word to use. Geriatric seemed correct enough. To be clear, I don’t think there’s anything especially wrong or bad about my elders. I just think there might be some kind of technological and cultural collision happening that makes me feel like I’m crazy sometimes.

@NABDad @asklemmy okay maybe I’m being a little hyperbolic.