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Let me be clear: natural lawns are a good thing, and my wife and I are converting over piece by piece. However, I think people jumped to that conclusion here because they're already preconditioned to it. Natural lawns are never going to undo the damage caused by overuse of agricultural pesticides.

How does that fix a virus spread by parasitic mites?

My question is if we could attach an induction loop to a standard T8 bulb. If a bulb has burned out its electrical contacts, perhaps it could still be reused as it is.

I'd guess that even if it were possible, it needs a lot of special electronics. Not worth the effort compared to getting an LED bulb.

"Insiders hope" might be better phrasing than "insiders admit". Tariffs at this level weren't being recommended by anyone besides Trump, because they're stupid as hell. The right-libertarian wing of the party doesn't want any kind of tariffs what so ever. The protectionist wing wants some tariffs, but not strong, across the board tariffs like this.

Nobody wants this except Trump. Almost literally nobody. His supporters back it because that's how cults work. Nobody thinks this is a good idea of their own accord.

Fucking NAT. Never should have been allowed to escape from the lab.

Car thermostats for the radiator. You don't want the coolant flowing when the engine first starts, because it will run like shit. So you have a cylinder filled with wax that expands with heat. That controls a valve to set the flow of coolant. Low tech, works fine, no particular reason to change it.

That is being a Nazi. Finding an "other" to blame all your problems on is central to the idea. If they let up on this for a moment, they'd have to solve actual problems, and they don't know how to do that.

Comedians used to joke how nothing could ever stick to Bill Clinton. Trump is making him look like an amateur.

It probably can't even be stopped in the US. At this point, the unsubsidized cost of renewables are too low to bother with anything else. You could even argue that this is a good time to start backing off on subsidies; they don't need the help anymore.

Even blocking federal permits is only going to slow it down. Those are only necessary for federally managed lands. It affects states like Utah and Nevada a lot, but it's hardly everywhere.

The really big issue is electric infrastructure. Killing that makes renewables fight one handed.

That sounds like how the zombie apocalypse starts.

Maybe don't eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.

So what you're saying is, Happy Gilmore 2 will not save streaming?

Grok has gone against its father's wishes more than Vivian Wilson has.

Forklift certs last for 3 years, but the test isn't much. You take a quiz (can be all done online), and then someone at your workplace who is a certified instructor gives you some pointers.

I wouldn't base car licensing around that. It's almost nothing.

There should be a Poison Ivy movie of basically that.

Is this what it's like being a Canadian watching America right now?

Possibly the opposite.

There were plenty of little Nazi groups around the United States before and after WW2, but they weren't allowed in polite company after the war. Not even among conservatives. Some of them stuck around using anti-communisim as a cover, but they were usually asked to leave if the mask slipped too much.

The Greatest Generation fought Nazis, and they weren't going to let overt ones have any political power. They may not have had sophisticated ideas about what a fascism is (Ur-fascism wasn't even published until 1995, most people still haven't read it, and it's not even the final word on the subject), but they weren't going to ally themselves with overtly ideological ones.

The Greatest Generation is also dead enough that it no longer has much political power. Just the situation the mask-off fascists have been waiting for.

Almost like sleep mode on x86 is impossible to do correctly. I'm not even sure Windows does better or worse than Linux on this one.

It's not that bad. This is an actual technique in use, and it drastically decreases how much storage you need.

The biggest problem has been convincing capitalism to do it. They've been building solar like nuts because that's the cheapest per MW of anything on simple Excel spreadsheets. More mathematical nuance would show that if everyone does this, it's just going to cause overproduction and wasted potential on very sunny days. You need all three, and toss in some hydro and geothermal, as well.

Wind kinda has to go big for efficiency. It's hard to beat the laws of physics on this. Not really feasible for individuals to do in a meaningful way unless you have a whole farm.

Solar panels are workable-ish. Residential rooftop is OK, but the real cost benefit is from filling big, flat fields with racks. Homes have to be a boutique setup every time, and labor cost adds up.

If you want to be (semi-) independent of traditional power utilities, the way to go is co-ops. You and all your neighbors go in on buying a field and putting solar/wind/storage on it