do you think she would have done the tour if she knew that it was funded by the CIA?

I don’t know. Maybe not. But does it really matter?

A lot of what the CIA does is done through deniable means and intermediaries. Not knowing you work for the CIA, or being able claim you for not know you worked for the CIA, is standard operating procedure.

“But comandante! I did not know I was working for the CIA!” has been heard before in the jungles of South America, usually in the presence of a firing squad. Do you think claiming ignorance should immediately be a plenary absolution?

Or do you think only people who are not famous are responsible for the outcomes of their actions, comrade?

There is a term of art for people that do the bidding of an intelligence service while unaware. They are called “useful idiots”, and are managed by intelligence officers as assets.

This is just the lingo in the business. You can take offense at that if you want. Think it’s uncharitable. Call Langley and see if they care.

One way or the other, Nina Simone was duped into working for the single largest, best funded and most ruthless counterrevolutary force in the history of the world, and here there are a bunch of so-called communists up in arms because I’m mean to the poor black woman?

Do I have to remind you what the CIA was up to in those days in Latin America and Africa?

Being a CIA asset is part of her legacy. I’m not going to tip toe around it because she said strong words about capitalism.

Orientation doesn’t matter as much as you’d think on overcast days. And this is Germany. Also, transmission is a thing. So unless your “perfect world” also includes perfect weather and upgraded physics, you are just not really making sense.

In the end you’re just yet another person ginning up excuses for inaction by distorting facts. And god knows we good plenty of those.

Also, I’m a physicist that dabbled on the experimental side before going computer simulation full time. I’ve worked with cryogenic instruments and installations.

There’s no fucking way having cryogenic installations in every vehicle and on street corners in a good idea.

Industrial processes use A LOT of hydrogen, and most of it is derived from hydrocarbons. The best use for “green hydrogen”, by far, is replacing grey industrial hydrogen.

Only then you can start replacing non-hydrogen use cases, like industrial heat and power generation and (eventually) transportation.

The fact that this is up for debate is a testament to the success of the misinformation we’ve been exposed to for thirty years or more.

Panels are cheap, and the single-phase inverters they are using are too.

Even with the odd placement, they are going to yield a few hundred watts per panel on sunny days. Since it’s so low most of it will be going directly to household consumption.

This doesn’t move the needle much globally speaking, but it’s also a tiny investment and (especially in Germany when even in sunny days the carbon footprint of what comes out of the grid is horrendous) it significantly lowers household carbon emissions.

This is literally what I said in my follow up comment.

You are being extremely uncharitable to me.

Oh yeah. It’s always my mail. Not ChatGPT’s mail.

It just helps me pump up the word count to a point where the suits think it’s acceptable.

I prompt it with two sentences and I get two full paragraphs.

I understand your position, but I have to say that I appreciate communities that are at least a bit curated.

Seeing the same three guys having a go at each other about the same barely on topic thing in every post is such a let down.

The CIA set up a front organization that organized a tour of Nigeria in 1961 to promote American Values that included Nina Simone.

Honestly, it’s GREAT for replying to bull shit business emails.

That’s some big words for a CIA asset.

I have been known to put high quality renders of my PDFs in word documents (image per page) to beat the file type validations.

Excellent plan if you ever need to apply to 2007.

The program that lifted millions of seniors out of poverty. That money.

Honestly, I think her position is absolutely sane and defensible. She’s going to hold her nose and take out the trash, but she’s not going to be happy about it, and she is not going to campaign for a candidate she has no enthousiasm for - even if she’s planning to vote for her.

That’s not the position of the “both sides bad” people we have here on Lemmy.

There have always been mothers and wives and daughters and sisters, and patriarchy has been okays with ruining their lives for millennia.

Library built this way because it supposed to be flexible and provide ground for complex usecases.

It’s definitely that, and not the fact that it was written in the first half of the nineties when everyone and their mother was all in on OOP/OOD to the detriment of usability.

Rust is more like Esperanto isn’t it? It’s Latin, but regularized and with the rough edges sanded off.

Python is more like Spanish. A billion speakers in the world, and really easy to pick up a few phrases, but a small European minority still think they run it.

It means whatever you want it to mean.