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Recent Content by JuanValdez

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    Bitcoin is destroying the environment + energy grid to make scammers rich

    I'm not going to defend any of what the feds are doing to try to help coal. It is dirtier, more expensive, and less agile than gas and it's...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Israel Goes To War with Hamas 2023

    I don't let Trump off the hook at all for this. It is as much his famine as Netanyahu's. He collaborated with this UN-condemned alternate food aid...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    republican gerrymandering

    Bump. Is there not a thread about what Abbott is trying to do to House Representation for the Houston, TX area? This mid-decade redistricting...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    White's Only Town

    I think the rub might be in trying to claim some monolithic American White Culture. I'm a white American, but watching the 2 minute news clip,...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 31, 2025 at 10:50 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Bitcoin is destroying the environment + energy grid to make scammers rich

    Well, I think I do understand it since I'm in the industry and look at this stuff every day, but whatever. But the solar industry won't be...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Bitcoin is destroying the environment + energy grid to make scammers rich

    I don't like how you make me come to the defense of the bitcoin industry, but as some in the power industry, I feel like I have to caution you...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Debunking Trump's Inflation Lies This Week

    I'm down for nuclear energy- if we can finally make a permanent repository for the spent fuel. That was the question I never got a straight answer...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Debunking Trump's Inflation Lies This Week

    I'm not sweating it too much. Wind and solar sited in the right places don't need subsidies to have a good business case. It's the marginal cases...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Debunking Trump's Inflation Lies This Week

    I'm at a utility conference and just witnessed the full court press from the White House for nuclear, specifically small modular reactors. Utility...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Bitcoin is destroying the environment + energy grid to make scammers rich

    Bitcoin mining is very sensitive to the price of electricity, which drives the majority of its costs. So mining operations want to get very close...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 28, 2025 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    Bitcoin is destroying the environment + energy grid to make scammers rich

    I think Bitcoin is a cool idea, but I don't want it around. That said, if anything, the grid benefits from Bitcoin, because Bitcoin mining makes...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 27, 2025 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    How old is 15 really ?

    Yeah, I'd quibble about calling Trump and Epstein pedophiles. Seems like the girls they raped were pubescent. So, it could be worse, I guess. But,...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 27, 2025 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert CANCELED

    Ehh. I suspect Trump might have pushed to get Colbert cancelled. But the format is dying anyway. Conceding to that stupid 60 Minutes suit is a far...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 27, 2025 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion
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    AI ART: Art or Not?

    My expectation is that this greater efficiency will result in the long run in regular people only being able to afford AI art in all its various...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 26, 2025 in forum: BBS Hangout
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    Why is Trump covering up the Epistein files and lying to the public?

    I think you answered your own question. And I think it is up to MAGA. If they will accept and forgive that Trump had sex with underage girls, he...
    Post by: JuanValdez, Jul 24, 2025 in forum: BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion