Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

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AnOminous said:
It's also terrible because he's bleached his hair all to fuck over and over again, and it's like no gay guy in the history of the world ever did that. It's not like Milo admits he's gay or anything.
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Wait, you think Milo is gay!? Next you'll be telling me Brianna Wu is a tranny.

Stop with your fucking slander it's uncalled for!
 
Francis York Morgan said:
It probably goes without saying that no publisher is going to touch the impending slander lawsuit that is Wu's commentary. I mean, just look at that title. Brianna doesn't know how to intelligently lay out a case; she can only do personal, inflammatory attacks.
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It won't even get that far.

Unless you're a legitimate celebrity, publishers demand to know what your academic and professional qualifications are when you submit a book proposal. Flynt/Wu's claims to have worked "for years" as "an investigative reporter in Mississippi" will be met with a request to provide clips of those numerous investigative pieces and a vita naming the newspapers where he worked. That will be the end of that. Reeeeeeing will ensue.

Flynt/Wu could actually write a book that might interest a publisher. But I don't see him ever sitting down in front of a keyboard and pounding out the first draft of Troon: My Life as a Tranny Con Artist.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
Typical know-nothing mansplainer, when Representative John W. Flynt is in Congress, he will pass legislation making winter illegal.

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...oh yes. *clears throat* I need to explain that.

Wu has no idea what she is talking about, again, of course:
Germany is more or less trying to 'go green' since the early 2000s, when the motion of the "Atomausstieg" ("Nuclear power phase-out") started for real under Chancellor Schröder (SPD, the left of the middle guys). Of course that stopped when Merkel was elected Chancellor (CDU, the right of the middle guys) - this was jokingly called "Der Ausstieg aus dem Ausstieg" ("The phase-out of the phase-out").

Finally Fukushima happened and it was decided, that 'going green' was the best thing to do, so we've got the "Der Ausstieg aus dem Ausstieg aus dem Ausstieg" ("The phase-out of the phase-out of the phase-out").

What I am getting at:
Doing two 180's regarding what kind of power we want to generate here, within less than 20 years, taught us a valuable lesson: You will underestimate the extend and costs of the fundamental infrastructural changes required to switch from 'a few places, where a lot of energy is produced', to 'many places, where only a bit of energy is produced'. At least you'll need a several metric fucktons of power supply lines and you'll need to figure out how to store that power, since the wind doesn't blow all day and the sun doesn't shine all day. etc. etc. Current estimates calculate 33 billion Euros... and you guys know what happens to estimates your government makes.

Germany plans to pull the plug on last nuclear reactor in 2022, because shutting them down has priority - but oil and especially coal power plants will be around for much longer.

And don't let me get started what it means for a house owner to get solar power. It is not just slapping a few panels on your roof and then roll around in the money you saved. You are looking at 14 years before that stuff pays off.
 
Von Clausewitz said:
And don't let me get started what it means for a house owner to get solar power. It is not just slapping a few panels on your roof and then roll around in the money you saved. You are looking at 14 years before that stuff pays off.
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This is why this is really a game for rich people at this point. Rich people are the only people who can throw 20 grand into their property to install all this shit and then wait for the saved electricity costs to pay themselves off, combined with whatever tax credits they get for throwing that money into it.

Poor people need to pay their electricity bill NOW. They can't afford to just pay them all up front in the hopes of eventually recouping the cost, and even if rich people who make that gamble don't, it's no big deal. They still had cool rich people stuff to boast about to all their rich people friends in the meantime.
 
AnOminous said:
This is why this is really a game for rich people at this point. Rich people are the only people who can throw 20 grand into their property to install all this shit and then wait for the saved electricity costs to pay themselves off, combined with whatever tax credits they get for throwing that money into it.

Poor people need to pay their electricity bill NOW. They can't afford to just pay them all up front in the hopes of eventually recouping the cost, and even if rich people who make that gamble don't, it's no big deal. They still had cool rich people stuff to boast about to all their rich people friends in the meantime.
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Yes and no. I mean, you're kinda right, but my old roommate (who makes about $60k/year in LA County, so she's not even remotely rich) got solar panels put onto her roof. The initial cost she paid with her tax return, and after that she pays like <$10/mo in electricity. Most months she gets paid (your excess solar power gets fed back into the grid, at least in LA).

True poor-as-fuck people, yeah, there's no way they can do this because their tax return is used on things like "paying 5 months of overdue cable bills". But solar panels aren't restricted to the rich. Even lower middle-class people can do this.

However, the real issue with solar panels is that they don't pay for themselves in the majority of the country because they're just not good enough yet unless you live in an area that's constantly sunny with very little rain and cloud cover. This'll probably improve over time, but we're not there yet.
 
proteus4994 said:
However, the real issue with solar panels is that they don't pay for themselves in the majority of the country because they're just not good enough yet unless you live in an area that's constantly sunny with very little rain and cloud cover. This'll probably improve over time, but we're not there yet.
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The lower middle class is rapidly having its face shoved into the muck of being actually poor, with the designer shoes of the limousine liberals.

This is why there is a President Trump, even though he shits all over their interests too, at least he pretends to pay attention to them, rather than just shitting all over them for being white.
 
proteus4994 said:
Yes and no. I mean, you're kinda right, but my old roommate (who makes about $60k/year in LA County, so she's not even remotely rich) got solar panels put onto her roof. The initial cost she paid with her tax return, and after that she pays like <$10/mo in electricity. Most months she gets paid (your excess solar power gets fed back into the grid, at least in LA).

True poor-as-fuck people, yeah, there's no way they can do this because their tax return is used on things like "paying 5 months of overdue cable bills". But solar panels aren't restricted to the rich. Even lower middle-class people can do this.

However, the real issue with solar panels is that they don't pay for themselves in the majority of the country because they're just not good enough yet unless you live in an area that's constantly sunny with very little rain and cloud cover. This'll probably improve over time, but we're not there yet.
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I basically boils down to the question, if you are wealthy enough to own a roof to put them on. (And what direction it faces... how big it is... where you live... if they are tax deductible or if you get some other form of government grant...)
 
Peace and Harmony said:
Typical know-nothing mansplainer, when Representative John W. Flynt is in Congress, he will pass legislation making winter illegal.

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Are people archiving these insane tweets for later? We really need a website that just lists all the crazy proposals Wu has talked about.

Wu wants a law that would require homes have a solar roof that costs $50,000 upfront from a company that would never be able to meet demand for a technology that could be outdated in 10 years. Not to mention we don't know the long term maintenance costs on these things.

AnOminous said:
This is why this is really a game for rich people at this point. Rich people are the only people who can throw 20 grand into their property to install all this shit and then wait for the saved electricity costs to pay themselves off, combined with whatever tax credits they get for throwing that money into it.
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Yeah I think solar roofs are a cool idea but it's currently a thing for rich people/companies who can play the long game. Not many homeowners can just tack on tens of thousands of dollars more to a new home.
 
Peace and Harmony said:
Actually I think you being kicked out on your asses is far more believable than you having a Congressional campaign.

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So now we know how were things in GSK before their inevitable demise

Peace and Harmony said:
The main reason why I can't take any of this bullshit seriously, John, is not really the subject matter but the fact that you will never, EVER finish writing anything even remotely close to book length.

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"My book" ? like that stupid thing you did last year? you were screeching that you were "co-author" when in reality the only thing you did was like 4 pages of screeching against GamerGate

And btw Frank is not going to pay a ghostwriter for your retarded idea
 
millais said:
lol and god forbid if an errant hailstorm should destroy your tens of thousands of dollars of solar panels. better hope your insurance payout will cover it
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If you live in an area that gets hailstorms you're probably not in solar country anyway.

Also, you guys are overstating the cost of solar panels, they're like $10-$12k now. Granted that's still not cheap, but it's not "tens of thousands of dollars".

Edit: Sorry for the pedantry but this is one of those topics that gets a bad rep from info that's 20 years old and my autism compels me to try to fix peoples' misconceptions. There's still plenty of things wrong with solar (the main thing being, like wind power, the areas in which you can utilize it are very limited), but cost is the one thing that HAS decreased significantly in the past 20 years. It's almost affordable now.
 
proteus4994 said:
Also, you guys are overstating the cost of solar panels, they're like $10-$12k now. Granted that's still not cheap, but it's not "tens of thousands of dollars".
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Aren't all those costs factoring in decades of energy savings? A 3,000 sq ft house would be around $65,000 for this roof. 2,000 sq ft would be around $50,000. That's still $15,000 to $20,000 more than a traditional roof. And I don't believe this factors in the $7,000 for the home battery you would need to maximize your new roof.

The calculators are also a bit on the high end when it comes to energy costs. It also assumes energy consumption won't diminish over time which it is as appliances/electronics become more efficient. Or that the cost of electricity will go down as demand drops as solar roofs become more prominent.

Don't get me wrong, this stuff is really cool. But it still seems like something a poor or even middle class household would struggle to afford upfront. And the solution I see these companies putting forth of "adding the cost to your mortgage" would seem to diminish those energy savings when you're paying interest on that extra $15-$20k for 30 years.
 
Richard Stabone said:
Aren't all those costs factoring in decades of energy savings? A 3,000 sq ft house would be around $65,000 for this roof. 2,000 sq ft would be around $50,000. That's still $15,000 to $20,000 more than a traditional roof. And I don't believe this factors in the $7,000 for the home battery you would need to maximize your new roof.
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They're factoring in tax credits and subsidies, but not your savings over time. Everything I've seen has said for a 2,000 square foot house it's gonna be about 4kW to power it, which runs about $10-$13k. It's like $30,000 without any of the credits or subsidies.

You're right about the battery, but if you're in a place where you can sell energy back to the grid, you don't need one. You draw as necessary and sell back when you have a surplus. However, I have no clue how common that is, all I know is that you can do it in LA county.

A poor family probably can't afford it, although with the tax credits and subsidies and all that, a middle class family should be able to.

I'll stop derailing now.
 
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