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  • The covid one is really the only one that really stands out as being a unique naturally caused crash, but what makes it most unique isn't the market stuff at all.

    This one has been just waiting to happen for a while, but this one being intentionally caused is fairly unique, I guess.

    The size of the dotcom + great recession combined is fairly unique, making immediately before the dotcom bust one of the worst times you could have retired in the US since at least the great depression. But that doesn't affect millennials directly and it's the affect of two back to make crashes.

  • Having zero/negative prices incentivizes programs to incentivize consumers to use energy storage to get cheaper prices. Anyone who uses AC/heaters has at least their residence as a thermal battery and people can do things like shift when they do energy intensive activities as well.

    Also, if you want enough power generation to power through the evening, then having excess generation during the peak generation hours/days is the expectation. When building new solar/wind is less than half the price of building any other form of energy production (even before considering the externalities of most of those other forms of energy production), its still cheaper to "overbuild" by a factor of two to reduce the need for other sources of power and provides the expectation of excess power needed to justify building storage.

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  • You could use spherical balloons with really long, but different length, strings for each person. Of course you'd have to avoid tangling your balloons together while walking around like that and given wind can vary with elevation....

  • The stated point was electability. Given the DNC's reaction to repeatedly being shown that pushing right has given them essentially 0 votes and they've double and tripled down on that strategy and have explicitly said they want to go after big dollar donations instead of small donors, seems like it's more ideological than electability.

  • Technically all estrogen users are steroid users (and so are people use certain medications for reducing inflammation). But I know what you mean. I know men needed estrogen for certain things like bone health, but that's cool high T can be balanced by higher E for some of its side effects.

  • Doesn't matter how short or long it is. People intentionally write simple short sentences all the time with extra words that like 90% misread. The easiest of of these sentences to make are those that happen to have a word repeat after a linewrap, especially short common words. Than and that are close enough to fit into that same overlook.

  • Another way to differentiate would be things like rendering technology. While raytracing is starting to be partially utilized a little bit, I'd hardly say it's taken over yet, so there's not much technological difference between a 360 and a PS5. Mostly boils down to more cores and faster with some minor extra features. Far more difference between even the SNES and the N64 than between the PS1 and the PS5 imo.

    You could also use Internet access as a determinant, but then even snes and Sega Genesis wouldn't be retro (at least in Japan).

    Could just define retros as anything that fits at least one or 2 of those 4 characteristics of retro video game consoles, but the xbox360 is pretty much modern by all of them.

  • The only way I got that to happen is by putting in my two-month notice and then signing up for the exact same unit when they listed it. Didn't even have to moveout and they ended up charging us the lower rate for the two weeks between our current lease ending and the new one starting.

  • If they know what email and reddit it are, Lemmy should be pretty easy to understand, at least from a user-perspective. Replace reddit with Twitter/Bluesky for mastodon, Instagram for pixelfed, etc, etc. I don't think understanding how email works at a tech level is important for being able to use it. Ditto for fediverse.