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IT'S A BEAR DANCE

Those are called pancrepes I think

To quote The Good Place:

There's something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so you can have more of it.

Lazard is a pretty respected analyst for energy costs. Here's their report from June 2024.

In the U.S., peaker gas plants that are only fired up between 5-20% of the time, the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is between $110 to $230 per MWh. The levelized cost of storage for utility scale 4-hour storage ranges from $124-$226 per MWh, after subsidies. Before subsidies, that 4-hour storage costs $170-$296.

Residential storage, on the other hand, doesn't come close. That's $882 to $1101 before subsidies, or $653 to $855 after subsidies.

So in other words, utility scale storage has dropped down to around the same price as gas peaker plants, in the U.S., after subsidies.

It's just that I don't have any expectation of the girls in the picture being shocked

That's the joke.

Yeah, people are working on it.

The EIA estimates that there's about 30 GW of battery capacity in the U.S., mostly in storage systems that are designed to store about 1-4 hours worth.

That's in comparison to 1,200 GW of generation capacity, or 400 times as much as there is storage.

It's coming along, but the orders of magnitude difference between real-time supply and demand and our capacity for shifting some of the power just a few hours isn't quite ready for load balancing across a whole 24 hour day, much less for days-long weather patterns or even seasonality across the year. We're probably gonna need to see another few years of exponential growth before it starts actually making a big impact to generation activity.

I've heard of nigging but I've never heard of this.

Um I hope you mean negging

Even if we were to produce 100 000 000 perfect replicas of our genes they would still hit the same wall— extinction.

Doesn't matter, had sex.

From their taller exes

"Mogging" as a term originated in the early 2000's and went mainstream-ish in the late 2000's when the "pickup artist" community started getting attention in places like the New York Times. The people who originated it are probably like 45-50 years old now.

Quick etymology: comes from these pseudoscientific douchebags trying to name the phenomenon where a man tries to subtly belittle another man in front of women, establishing that he's the AMOG (alpha male of group), eventually became a verb amogging or mogging, and then various specific types of this behavior earned prefixes: heightmogging, etc.

The fact that it has this kind of staying power, 20 years later, is the surprising part.

Some daals are spicy, and could arguably be considered British?

not someone you wanna prone bone anyway

I actually laughed out loud at the specificity here. Thank you for this, you've brightened my day.

Blues Brothers and Wayne's World were successful enough that people forget that they originated as SNL sketches. And, because they were the first, they kept on trying.

The category as a whole isn't exactly very impressive, as movies.

But the originating sketches that developed the characters were...fine.

It's Pat, the movie, was a notorious commercial bomb, and sold basically no tickets.

It was made, though, because the recurring SNL sketch was popular enough to attract the investment.

I'm a subscriber to their monthly print copy, and a lot of the stories in the print version don't make it to the website as quickly. I've got the February copy on my desk with the following headlines:

• Trump Administration Offers Free At-Home Loyalty Tests: Tool That Diagnoses Disobedience to be Mailed to U.S. Households
• U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat - Wars Will No Longer Be Fought By Male Shannons, Terrys, or Carmens
• Baby Saves Affair: Illicit Relationship Rekindled by Out-of-Wedlock Birth

As far as I can tell, these articles never made it online. And they are funny. Good coffee table material.

This comment is like telling Superman not to lift with his back.

You guys are getting diagnosed?!?

Maybe I'm not up to date on my porn slang but "BBC micro" sounds like an inherent contradiction.

It's immunotherapy that prevents the cancers from deactivating the immune cells that would ordinarily kill the cancer cells. So it's like a traditional vaccine in that it causes changes to the immune system to better equip it to fight disease, but it's a pretty new methodology of accomplishing that.

I feel the same way about the first and second Terminators, and the first Rambo and its sequels.