Rivalarrival @ Rivalarrival @lemmy.today

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Dude probably gets a standing ovation every time he enters a room.

Bread was preceded by porridge (crushed grains in water or milk), which was preceded by gruel (raw, whole grains softened in water). Gruel also gave us beer.

The constitution is to protect the government from the people.

Revoke it at your own peril.

just be sure to pick up on cues

Yeah. About that...

Can confirm. Like bubbly water being squeezed through a thin tube. As a kid, I thought it was air bubbles farting their way through a narrow blood vessel.

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Looks like I'm gonna have to buy another newspaper tomorrow.

I found that I can't convince google assistant (via bluetooth headset) to find my phone unless my phone is unlocked. The only workaround I've found is to set a 1-second timer.

I don't worry too much about how I address peers and superiors, but anyone significantly younger than me, anyone who provides a service to me, and anyone I am teaching gets a "sir" or "ma'am".

So, they left a bucket of water to stagnate next to a bus stop?

I'm not trying to solve any problems with Crypto. I'm trying to use their purchasing of electricity to solve a different problem: seasonal variation in solar production.

Due to long, clear, summer days, and short, cloudy winter days, if you have enough solar panels to meet your demand in winter, you have about 400% of what you need to meet demand in the summer, even after accounting for air conditioning loads.

That excess power on the grid crashes the price of power. Unless you can find someone else to buy it, or some way tonuse it. To have enough solar generation capacity to meet your needs year round, you need something that can suck up excess power in the summer. If you can't monetize that excess, you'll never be able to get enough solar online to meet demand year-round.

Storage can conceivably address daily fluctuations, but it won't solve seasonal variation.

https://youtu.be/bBkqI7EQp0A

You having a bad day? What can I do to make your life better?

The issue is monetizing the excess power produced by adequately-sized solar facilities for 9 months out of the year. Getting enough people to point giant lasers into space would solve the overcapacity problem that comes with solar generation outside of the tropics. Crypto has a slightly higher ROI.

Desalination, fischer-tropsch synfuel production, hydrogen electrolysis, demand-shaping of conventional industries like steel production and aluminum smelting, widespread adoption of electrified parking garages are some other options. Even other maligned, power-hungry technologies like AI can address the overproduction problems of solar better than conventional grid-scale storage solutions.

Also destroying the planet for literally no reason

Not necessarily.

Solar has a problem where, if you install enough capacity to meet demand during short, overcast winter days, you have twice the capacity you need in spring or autumn, and 4 times as much capacity as you need during long, clear summer days.

That excess production tanks the value of the power produced. Itnis already regularly driving power prices negative, making it impossible to recoup the value of your installation. Since it's cheaper for you to just buy electricity on the market than to install solar, you don't install solar. Nobody does. Solar installation never expands enough to meet winter demand.

Unless we can monetize that cheap summer power. If we have some way of profitably consuming that excess power, we have every reason to maximize solar rollout.

Crypto can do that just as well as anything else.

Worked in two factories since Covid. The first stockpiled components we produced in house, and relied in JIT logistics for external components. Which was basically the stupidest arrangement they could have cone up with. They had 10+ years worth of parts they could make in house, clogging up their warehouse. And couldn't ship anything because they were waiting on suppliers.

The other built two new warehouses to stockpile external supplies, and never let up on production.

Its not electoral reform or state action that we need. Its the DNC. Their policies and positions support the billionaire Problem Class. The Guillotine Party needs to decapitate the billionaire class and their political lapdogs in the Democratic party.

The funny part is that this is an actual centrist position: there is broad bipartisan support for attacking the oligarchs. If the Democrats would actually go after them, the GOP would have to do the same. We would end up with two parties focused on class warfare instead of none.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y42qgkBf6s4

Guillotine Party.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/of-course-grindr-gay-dating-app-crashes-in-milwaukee-during-republican-national-convention/ar-BB1qiAQH