It's not "weird", he just couldn't accept that he put his selfish greed over "benefitting human civilization and knowledge."

He spent years building a very useful skill set, then chose to use it to generate ad revenue for his employer. His choice, he could have focused on "middle out compression."

Mission accomplished?

I fondly remember an article he wrote mocking the gui interfaces that were becoming so popular back then, he clinched his mockery in a story about a 'lost tribe' that was found on an uncharted Polynesian island, and they did everything as if the lived in a GUI interface, moving a pointer around to do things, etc.

I also remember when the first iPhone came out, he had his table full of tech pundits/execs, and he calls out "who has an iPhone?" And one person throws their new iPhone on the table and John picked it up, looked at it and started laughing.

The owner asked what was so funny? John said "do you know how hard apple engineers worked to get this phone so thin? And what was the first thing you did? You ran out and got a case to make it twice as thick!"

I'll miss him

The issue is excessive wave motion (hurricane, tsunami, etc), overwhelming the generator and forcing it into a "survival mode" that suspends generation temporarily.

You are really trying to argue that we haven't invested in wind and solar power research? Really?

We (at least in the US) have subsidized if not outright financed billions and billions of dollars into researching, developing, manufacturing, and installing wind and solar power for the last two decades.

FTFY

It was the Anti- nuclear lobby that fought it in Germany

And

The certification regards strength, reliability, and safety - it doesn't make it a "proven technology" or "financially viable" - the technology may be both, but the government certificate itself doesn't do either.

Lucrative government contracts?

There was no "tens of thousands of actions trying to probe (the) site for weaknesses all at once" - you literally made that up, access was gained by stolen credentials, as noted in the very first sentence of TFS.

Did you mix this part:

Stolen credentials can get you into some very secure sites via their publicly-exposed API...

That's like saying your home security sucks because the valet at the restaurant you ate at last night made a copy of your house key and broke into your house...

It is not the case that 9.1% of the population is without power at any given moment, it is that over the course of a month (30 days) at some point in that month 0.1% of the population experience a power outage.

That is not a reasonable representation of the U.S. power grid - the statistics have been misrepresented or misinterpreted by you.

Ironically, the countries all doing so well went ahead and completely destroyed their infrastructure 75 + years ago, whereas we maintained a power grid that has evolved in-place for the last 100+ years...

Please, elaborate - as I understand it, the R administration is kicking ineligible recipients off Medicaid. If you are healthy, have no dependents, and no special, extenuating conditions, you are removed as ineligible. Likewise, if your status in this country is, as the kids say, "undocumented", you have no place on Medicaid.

There are federal funds to provide charity care, but that's separate from Medicare.

U.S. is 350M people, EU is 450M, if you want to get your parties in a bunch over Ukraine, exclude it - oh, wait, Ukraine isn't part of EU - so let's compare EU to US, relatively speaking, how often are there power outages in the EU?

I recently visited Italy, apparently they chose to do things like not run AC on very hot days - perhaps because their citizens are used to following gov't orders they all simply go along with gov't policies and mandates regarding power usage?

Buy some solar panels, dig a water well, invest in a septic field - the choice to subscribe to the corporations you clearly despise for power, water, and sewage treatment is just that, a choice.