AnotherDirtyAnglo @ AnotherDirtyAnglo @lemmy.ca

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It's the lawyer that you need for your criminal trial that's the expensive part.

Maybe should PP should 'butt out' of the conversation between doctors, parents, and minors who need puberty blockers.

I know that hypocrisy is 'on brand' for the far-right, but fuck, it's annoying.

Restricting puberty blockers until after puberty is like taking birth control pills after the baby has been born.

I mean, do fans of the CPC have any functioning critical thinking? Or are they mostly just hateful nosey pricks who can't mind their own business?

Uh, why not just keep charging them more for power? Or let them consume power in the off-peak hours? Or have them install massive battery packs to help them stabilize the grid if they want massive amounts of electricity?

There's got to be a way for BC Hydro to make money with this.

Like, I know it's a Toyota and all... But there's a good chance that these 20+ year old vehicles have already been scrapped.

Feels like it goes without saying, but if you did the crime and paid the time, there's no reason you shouldn't be re-integrated back into society in the free-and-clear.

Sometimes physical damage (like a frayed cable on the charger, or a damaged connector) can't be monitored remotely -- but they would certainly see that a station's usage stats have suddenly dropped, and could send someone by to check on it.

Yup, we're all so spoiled by a hundred years of momentum in fossil fuel delivery. I remember my great uncle telling stories from the 70's about getting stuck at his in-laws farmhouse for three days because the gas station in town was out of gas, and he didn't have enough in the tank to make it the 70km to the next town with a gas station, and even if they did, they weren't sure they had any gas either.

Uh, yeah, because once dying is the recommended alternative to fixing the mental health care system, there's going to be less demand, and government will use that as an excuse to not fix the fucking problem.

Will they be properly equipped? Will they be properly trained? Will they be well paid? Will we take care of them (and their families) when they inevitably get hurt in the process of helping us?

I think we all know the answers to these questions.

Precisely. Not sure why their example isn't being replicated in every city and suburban town.

Why not just build tiny homes? Built to code, 200sqft, well insulated, power, running water, and phone/internet, close to public transit. A fixed address with access to a social worker and a nurse on site, and the ability to get back up on their feet.

The idea would be to give people something between 'tent' and 'apartment' as transitional housing. Nobody freezes to death, nobody gets caught in the rain and loses everything they own. A community centre for socializing / education / laundry / showers, etc. There's a ton of unused / underutilized lots in most cities - buildings ready for demolition, behind on taxes, and better used to deal with the housing crisis.

This isn't rocket surgery. Someone please take this idea and run with it!

I've had a 50A unit in a 1BR apartment, and it was fine. Enough heat for showers and for someone to do dishes in the kitchen, or the dishwasher to run. You'd need the larger unit for a home with two showers and four people, but in some use cases, it's really efficient.

Electric hot water tanks are a thing. So are electric tankless systems.

Developer: "Hey, there's a lot of waterfront land people would like to build their homes and cottages on."

Town: "Yeah, we don't build there because it flooded a hundred years ago."

Developer: "Pfft. A hundred years? Think of all the property taxes you'll be able to collect on these modern luxury waterfront homes."

Town: "Well, since you put it that way..."

If you're building anything under 100m above sea level, you're fucking crazy. My place is around 120m above sea level, and I'm considering selling and moving up to the 250m-500m level.

There's a stupid idea... Ignoring professionals who spend their lives trying to identify and mitigate risk... It's the same reason you never co-sign a loan for anything -- if the bank says someone is at a high risk of default, don't fucking ignore them, and don't sign the paperwork.

When I was a kid, a woman tried this in the first class cabin, but the staff managed to intercept her and force her back into her seat as the plane pulled away from the gate. The story was, that she was terrified of flying, and chose a trans-atlantic flight for her first flight. The worst part was that her husband was sitting beside her and said and did nothing to either stop her, or console her. The flight attendant kicked her off the plane, with her husband, and their child, who was sitting at the back of the plane in the economy section (WTF?).

It's other companies garbage, not mine. ;) I make sure stuff here gets refreshed and donated.

I usually grab old PCs from the loading dock before they go out for recycling. I know that they're not refurbed, they only ever go for disposal. I usually test them out, tidy them up, and throw in any RAM or better CPUs I have lying around. If I don't think I can make a decend PC out of it, I strip it for parts, and tear it down to steel / plastic / wires / boards and take it to the eco centre.

Nissan in Japan already resells Leaf batteries with >80% capacity as home backup and camping power packs

A buddy of mine is desperately working with grid-scale green energy companies to integrate second-life batteries into their production, to smooth out demand on the grid.