<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Jun 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>A few years ago when the federal government was working overtime to destroy the coal mining industry, they told the unemployed miners to learn to code. Now, AI is displacing many coders while the demand for energy is off the charts. Perhaps the unemployed coders can learn to mine coal.<br></i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Telling unemployed coal miners to learn to code was a very stupid thing to say, but not <u>NEARLY</u> as cosmologically stupid as expecting coal to be the thing that will power future AI data centers <span class="gmail_default" style="">when</span> solar is far more economical thanks to <span class="gmail_default" style="">the </span>MASSIVE improvements in solar cells over the last 15 years And turning coal miners into computer programmers is a positively<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>brilliant idea compared to spending $928 million of taxpayers money to a French company to get them to <u>STOP</u> building 2 massive wind farms off the coast of New York and North Carolina. That decision by He Who Must Not Be Named belongs in the Stupidity Hall of Fame.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b> <span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span> </b></font></div></div>