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Imo one of the examples of renewables that someone needs to push (and I don't care who, whichever team does it takes the win) is geothermal in hawaii. They import massive amounts of coal to generate 90% of their electricity and thus have some of the most expensive electricity in the US.

Easy win, it would make everyone on the islands life way better, and of course it isn't even on the radar because it wouldn't cost that much and it'd be really effective immediately.

Memento Mori. Most people in history community will know, but it means "remember your death", and it was allegedly something Roman emperors or generals made sure to have someone whisper into his ear during the celebrations of him.

A lot of things that look absurd in history are just a mortal man who had done great things being mortal. In the end we're all going to die, it's the great equalizer.

In the end, then, the question stops being about trying to achieve literally mortality by being great, and instead making sure that the life that you lead is great and that the thing that you leave behind is great. Because as we've seen, great kings can die from a bad swim, mighty emperors can fall to a single bullet, men who conquered the known world died to some bad booze, and feats alone don't stop those things.

Ya got me.

I registered a domain 23 years ago, maintained the site in various ways, set up a threadiverse instance with the least used federated link aggregator back around 2021, Expressed opinions that got me defederated by tons of instances and pissed off most of the remainder, and stayed following this community for years, all so that I could use a bot to respond to a post.

I don't even know why I needed a bot at that point, since apparently I'm friggin Xanatos the chess master.

Feels like a category error to say that Trump is necessarily against renewable energy rather than just against specific types of renewable energy.

A lot of greenies are against hydroelectric because even though it provides base load power for decades or even centuries, the building of reservoir and the damning of a river typically has major environmental impacts that they feel override the benefits.

If there's concern about offshore wind because of the potential -- the actualized potential by the way in a limited number of cases -- then that would explain why there would be the pushback against offshore wind.

The problem with water is that unlike land which tends to be fairly localized, just a little bit of pollution can affect an absurd amount of water. That's why they tell people not to dump their motor oil in the ground, because one drop of motor oil can pollute thousands of gallons of water.

I tend to be less interested in solar because empirically speaking it seems to drive up electricity costs for actual consumers regardless of the cost of a specific kilowatt hour of electricity at peak production, and less interested in wind because sometimes it is bright or cold and the wind doesn't blow, the Germans already have a word for this because it is relatively common.

That being said, there's no reason to be against good technology that actually does what it's supposed to do, and that can mean hydroelectric, it can mean well regulated nuclear, it can mean geothermal, but just because something is marketed as green doesn't mean that it is actually good for the environment. Everything at an industrial scale is a out trade-offs. Different people will look at things through different lenses and find different trade-offs more example and other trade-offs less acceptable.

"Yors world he's the man! Yors world he's the man!"

Let them eat cake, n'est pas?

Typically they'll set up the laws with a floor, because otherwise some kid setting up phpbb would need age verification and that's not gonna fly.

Source: I made it up!

Lots of sites forget about ease of importing.

Can confirm, used fire in 2011.

"Your proposal is acceptable."

Think of all the multi-million dollar single family homes they'd have!

git isn't part of your powershell path.

Given the way that these negotiations have gone, I think we better wait till Friday to find out if this is an actual peace deal, or.if it's another "make sure the markets are happy on monday" thing.

I was actually thinking of exactly that today. People try to rehabilitate it by saying it's better than stuff that's even worse, but that doesn't make it good.

George was trying to write a bunch of things he's not good at writing, even if he was earnest about it.

Our main choices being the browser funded by Google, the browser funded by Google, or the browser funded by Google.

That story is a reminder to us all that even people who are highly competent make mistakes.

This guy was literally the posterboy of the airline, tons of experience, trained others, horrible outcome due to a massive collapse in judgement regardless.

Apparently the chainsaw was invented by doctors.

Terrifying. I bet chainsaws were invented before good anesthetics.

The famous TV show said that space is the final frontier, but the truth is there are limitless frontiers. The world is so infinitely complex, a square foot of soil from your back yard is like a tiny mostly invisible universe.

These guys will never get ahead.

It was the minoans all along?

I feel like it's important to remember that a lot of these countries still have a lot of these territories. You'll be looking at a map out in the middle of nowhere and it's like "Oh, yeah, this island is france" what? "Yeah, france. get wrecked."

I thought about switching to the forks for new features, but I like that conduit is a nice boring piece of software that I've got set to auto-update so by the time I hear about a new update I'm usually running it.

I like boring server software. Excitement is not something I have time to enjoy.

congratulations, neighbor.

The time flies, and soon it's like "Wait, how long have I been running this instance?"

hoot mobile works on lotide, but the only version that's out there is a bit outdated. I did some extra work on it, gotta upload the compiled version somewhere.

I know for my tiny instance, I've even changed it so I don't hang on to remote posts forever -- If a post hasn't gotten any likes or comments after a few months, it's purged to keep my instance fast and light.

5 million dang posts, almost none of which are never seen or interacted with by a human being! That's really something!

Generation enough to maybe keep the house from total death in winter for a week or so, but it won't be pretty.

A few months of non-perishable food.

Some spare parts on the shelf

Some offline backups

But reality is, if the apocalypse really happens, it'll look like the bronze age collapse on steroids, and we'd be lucky if only 90% of people died without our supply chains, especially once winter hits.

Yeah, but it's one of those shows where the further you get from the original, the more you wish you'd just watched the first season and left it there.

All these dollars spent on taxes, and the government has still borrowed an extra trillion dollars since 2008.

a lot of dell workstation class laptops have an "always plugged in" option in the bios for situations where the battery won't be exercised much.