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tly just because of extra use of coal or just coal in general, not the extra. So here's what's interesting if it's true. Oh, and by the way, the number of people who are dying from pollution has been dropping year to year, and the drop in those deaths is being attributed to the closing of coal plants. But now the coal plants are not only not closing, they're reopening and going wild. So what woul…
← Previous segment →rm. Those are the only places that run right now. So you'd have to be a subscriber. But in addition to a daily new Dilbert cartoon that I'm doing, which is a little spicier than it used to be, I also give those subscribers the comic that ran exactly 10 years ago. So you'll see today's comic. I'm trying to catch up from my time in the hospital, so I'm a little bit behind. But in theory you would see today's comic and then what I thought was worth writing about 10 years ago.
The entire month so far of my 10-years-ago comic is about a sentient robot that works in Dilbert's office. And it's about Dilbert having to deal with the fact that his coworker is a robot. Ten years ago. And here we are. So basically I knew I was writing about some kind of future, but if you wondered what I was thinking was going to happen 10 years from now, there it was.
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So you would think if you saw the 10-year-ago comic you would think that I wrote it yesterday. It was just spot on. All right. According to one of my followers on X named Alex who is an engineer so he's probably right, he says that in 2024 alone the average battery price, we're talking about batteries for big things, prices fell by 40 percent. And it looks like there's going to be a similar fall…
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