It’s such clickbait to purposely conflate the word headquarters with legal domicile / registered agent. I mean Garmin, Medtronic, Accenture, Aon etc are all non-us businesses but no one shows up in Switzerland looking for Garmin, they go to Kansas…

But if you did show up to their Swiss address presumably the representative there would know who you were talking about and be able to confirm that they are in fact a client.

Then why not write that story?

What story? "Garmin registered agent successfully confirmed" seems much less likely to be of interest than "polymarket registered agent fails confirmation, possible fraud afoot".

Switzerland is a tax evasion heaven too. Companies don't go there for the "predictable legal framework" lol, they go there to do shady schemes of tax "optimization".

Is that giant building you can see from the highway in Kansas their headquarters? I was surprised to see it.

This is probably the most relevant metric:

https://rigcount.bakerhughes.com/

Not seeing a bunch more rigs operating means there new drilling isn’t ramping up.

If anyone was serious about energy security in North America or Europe they would be building polysilicon, ingot, and wafer capacity.

The world’s dependence on China for solar panel manufacturing is troubling, but unlike oil, once the generating facility is installed you’re no longer dependent on your supplier (at least for a decade or two). I would be more concerned about batteries if I was in government

Our dependence on China for cars is even scarier.

India has huge surplus capcity of solar panels. Sadly Trump put 100-200% tariffs on Indian solar panels. Its very easy and cheap to produce these outside China.

The whole idea of processing gain blows my mind that more volume comes out than goes in.

Also the fact that that oil is different colors (green, red, etc) and not black is always amusing.

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Maybe I’m unique but growing up part of my chores (or punishment) as a kid was weeding - weeding the vegetable garden, weeding flower beds, weeding the stone driveway etc. - we would have never used chemicals around the house or on things you’re going to eat - we were definitely not a super “environmentally conscious” household but that just seemed like common sense…

I recall reading a research piece a few years ago that basically said you’d need a ~$5-6 gas price (RBOB - ~$3.5 today) for biofuel to be profitable on an unsubsidized basis. Not directly comparable but it highlighted that it wasn’t really that good an idea.

I could have sworn that FL was like top five in solar production.

Edit : it is! It’s 3rd https://seia.org/solar-state-by-state/

Get out of here with facts! We're having a nice hate-session.

Yes! The blog uses a dataset that excludes rooftop solar. It’s only for ground mounted arrays.

I think you could make the same argument about alcohol and drugs (road fatalities + some absurd number of convicted criminals were high/drunk when perpetrating the crime) - I’m not taking a side either way but I don’t think smoking is unique in terms of harm to society there besides the user.

The same argument is made and accepted about alcohol: You can drink as much as you want but you cannot put others in danger by drink driving.

You can smoke as much as you want but smoking in public places, especially indoor, is banned not to impose your health choices on others.

This is how liberty works in a free society as mentioned in my previous comment.

Banning smoking altogether, on the other hand, is deciding for you and exactly what the "nanny state" refers to.

The problem with rail in many places like the US just comes down to door to door times. NE corridor train times are ok as long as your not going Boston <> Washington (even though it’s slower than it should be) and your going you can go downtown to downtown pretty easily - other than that there’s really not much intercity travel that makes sense by train. I’d super happily take the train if it was faster than driving or flying in the US. As an aside even for intercity travel it’s crazy the us doesn’t have more specialized trains like the Heathrow express even to make airport travel easier)