I was gonna get snooty about being an indie game buyer, then I remembered that I bought a Larian game developed in partnership with Hasbro, so my snootiness will have to wait for another day.

Ha as if

Remember an M.D… voted to install this dipshit because he’s a Republican.

Dan’s Fan City

Charleston S.C.

I’m neither a man nor a Christian tho.

Dude you’re either thinking emotionally or being disingenuous. Take a step back.

I voted for Harris.

But can you explain exactly how things would have gone differently in Gaza other than the rhetoric if Harris had won? She was all in on the genocide just like Biden, Pelosi, Schiff, etc.

Just because Harris was clearly the better choice overall doesn’t mean she (and Biden) wasn’t and isn’t dead wrong about their fealty to Netanyahu.

“Bezos on Parade”

I think it’s funny how one of the core symbols of Christian love has become an insult to those most likely proclaiming the importance of that “heritage”.

Distributed rooftop isn’t supposed to be about feeding the larger grid so much as topping off local demand right when it’s needed.

I’m kind of eccentric so I got a humongous array; even then at peak production I was running the A/C for 3-4 houses in my cul-de-sac other than my own. Most installations around where I live are like 1/4 of the size I put up and rarely feed much back.

And home-scale batteries are getting cheap enough that excess won’t necessarily need to get fed into the grid anyway.

They’ve got economist-brain and view everything as a money thing, which is fucked up and a problem.

But negative net demand (the thing “negative cost” is signaling) is a pain in the ass, because you either need to shut off the panels from the grid, find some very high-capacity and high-throughput storage, or blow out your power grid.

Like some hydroelectric dams in Germany get run backwards, pumping water back up behind the wall. I think there are pilot projects to pump air into old mines to build up a pressure buffer. Grid-scale batteries just aren’t there yet.

Solar is good for things where the power demand is cumulative and relatively insensitive to variation over time (like, say, salt pond evaporation, but you don’t actually need panels for that). It’s also good for insolation-sensitive demand (like air conditioning).

Turns out distributed rooftop solar makes more sense given our current grid than big solar farms out in the desert (California built one, it was not a good use of money).

It’s not great, but we need to bite the bullet and use fission+reprocessing in a big way for the near future.

I was trying to shout out that your username is Madison, it came out a lot bitchier than I wanted it to, sorry.

But I do think it’s a valid argument. The assumption from the Federalist Papers that the different branches would not cede power to one another because of their desire to hold it themselves has proven to be untrue. Factional loyalty to GWB, then to Trump, has driven Congress to ever-greater depths of obesiance.

There’s no argument, imo, that SCOTUS is not at least as loyal to an external faction (ironically, to people calling themselves Federalists) as Congress, and actually even more corrupted by money.

Therefore, I think a morals/behavioral based argument that SCOTUS will want to preserve their power in the face of a tyrant from their faction isn’t convincing.

I appreciate you cosplaying as a coauthor of the Federalist Papers, but I think the “institutional jealousy” theory of the balance of power has been comprehensively shredded by the behavior of Congress since about November 2000.

The Navy really really does suck at procurement.

And the Supreme Court will kiss the feet of the people dragging them away.

Why else would they give him explicit advance immunity for assassinating his political rivals?

He’s not trying to act in the interest of the United States.

He works for Putin.

Eh, he still fucking hated trans people. They kept their core values.

At least she’s honest about throwing in with fascism.

The rest of the Democratic party is pissing on our leg and telling us it’s raining.

At Texas A&M you won’t get ten seconds inside a building without someone politely but very forcefully telling you that you are being disrespectful wearing a hat inside.

I use the paid version and it’s a huge upgrade. You can administer your own domain, set up a catchall email, arbitrary numbers of emails you can send from, etc.

It’s definitely not as snappy as Gmail though.