No argument there. If you’re off the grid you’re not getting electricity service to your house by a utility. Same if you buy your own milk at the store.

I thought they were lawyers?

Is the controversy because they’re having sex in the hospital?

We watched an educational movie from the 1950s by Frank Capra, which my 8th grade science teacher had liked as a kid. He admitted they were somewhat dated, but still basically accurate.

In it, the scientist explained that they still don’t understand how chloroplasts transform sunlight into energy. The cartoon chloroplast hid what she was doing and said something like, “The Russians don’t know either.”

I was pretty blown away by a scientist admitting they didn’t know something, at that age, but when I looked it up, I discovered that scientists had pretty much figured it out, but it’s very complicated.

Clip if you’re interested: https://archive.org/details/our_mr_sun around 36:09

Or yt: https://youtu.be/VEfomqnif34?t=36m09s

Whoa, til

I was in college when I learned Columbus thought it was pear shaped, as opposed to the globe idea that was most popular (and true). He though the northern hemisphere was smaller than the southern which is why he expected to sail to India in a relatively short distance.

There have been some very long lived hoaxes on Wikipedia, but they’re basically the exception that proves the rule. Nothing is infallible.

This is just semantics. Companies are often called services because they operate and maintain the network of service to your house, whether it’s electric fields moving around, gas particles, laundry pick up and delivery, trash and recycling, milk, newspaper delivery, Internet service, cable subscription, whatever else. Perfectly reasonable to call home electricity a service operated by your utility.