When the price goes up it’s because the renewables don’t produce power when there is no wind and sun (which pretty much sums up January here). Building more of something that does not produce power is not going to help with the price shocks.
We need to figure out grid scale storage, fusion or build nuclear power to get rid of fossil fuels. Until then utility bills will be occasionally more shocking than jamming a fork in the outlet.
Like an actor bowing on the stage, the crowd cheering and throwing flowers at you, but some of the flowers are cactii and it’s not just flowers there are random underwear and a shoes being thrown at you too.
If the opposite is true we would expect to observe two parties with very different views and tending to drift further and further away from each other to capture the extreme voters.
You don’t win elections by convincing the far left/ right to vote for you. They will vote for/against you no matter what (or abstain from voting because they see you as equally too far left/right as your opponent).
You win by convincing the undecided voters in the middle. Every vote you gain from the center is also a vote your opponent lose.
Convince them you’ll give them better living standards and they won’t care what you do with foregin policy and minority rights.
Convince them that your priorities is minorities and foregin policy and they will tell you that it’s all good and well but they are about to lose their job and the cost of living is going up so they are just going to vote for the other guy that promises to fix that.
Doing homework teaches you to do stuff you don’t necessarily like without someone watching over your shoulder and telling you to.
Yeah that was me. Come home from school after eating a big school lunch, eat a quarter loaf of bread and 1L milk. Have a 2 hour nap, eat 2 servings for dinner, ask if anyone else wants more before scraping the leftovers in the pots and pans onto my plate.
You have the self awareness that it’s shit takes.
Not much we can do, I’m also not in the US. Cancel Netflix and Amazon subscriptions maybe? I’ve changed one purchasing decision 2026 to a European brand instead of US.
I’m sorry for what may have been unfair criticism, I guess I’m getting sick of hearing about USA.
Other than making memes, what are you doing about it?
While a big mac has intrinsic value, the value of the coin is based on trusting McD honouring the agreement. Will they still accept the coins 10 years from now when they have forgotten they were issued? Will they be sued out of existence after their meat substitute mushroom burger left in the sun for too long comes alive an eats 9 customers and and a minivan?
The value of the dollar is based on trusting the US central bank and/or governmemt to be responsible enough.
While you should not blindly trust either McD or the government, the latter has a longer track record, even though they seem like they are going to eat a metaphorical minivan soon.
I prefer the pre 2007 design where Sweden and Finland can’t be unseen.
Having porn as the background saves you about 9 minutes of deciding what to crank it out to, you can just get started.
I’ve used the same pfp which is a photo of myself with a funny mask since 2007.
Running fast food chain at day, liposuction clinic at night.
It makes you more inclined to eat more calories than you need.
Reminds me of my very short prank war.
A colleague did the tape on mouse prank on me.
Then I switched our wireless mouse dongles, when I heard the “ha ha, you got me there” and be noticed nothing was wrong I started wiggling my mouse on his screen.
Then next week I wrote a script that ejected his CD tray every half an hour or so.
I billed 6 hours for troubleshooting something that was broken because the cable was not plugged in despite them saying it was.
I got him to recheck the cable by telling him to pull it out and clean the contact surfaces.
At high enough voltage everything becomes a conductor.
Possibly but the common fusions are using isotopes of H, He, Li with some amount of neutrons, not naked protons.
Heavier elements as the big blob is releases a lot less energy, and the really heavy ones are not exothermic.
I know storage is almost viable and i read articles about improved battery technology monthly, nuclear we know works, fusion has been a decade away for the last 50 years. But what transmission technology do we have coming that makes it a contender?