I've been thinking about adding solar panels to my house. I would love if I could get a federal subsidy to do it. However, just like with my student loan forgiveness, I'm NOT giving Biden my vote in exchange.

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They didn't. They went up variable amounts, often higher, depending on what they were. And those prices went up YEARS before this legislation was passed, so the link you're implying is imaginary.

Unless SCOTUS officially rules "Unconstitutional", essentially. That's the check and balance we have.

You seem to have a problem understand the word "over". It isn't a lump sum at the end of the decade, it is accumulated over the 10-year period -- like like the spend.

Congress and their powers to tax and spend in general. That doesn't vary by specific technologies like solar vs oil, etc.

Not free, paid for by large corporations. The Inflation Reduction Act raises $300 billion over a decade by requiring large corporations to pay a 15 percent minimum tax on their profits and by enacting a 1 percent excise tax on stock buybacks and redemptions.

People who waste their life away with worries and panic are not part of the solution. Buy solar panels, switch to higher efficiency machines, get a bicycle, use the train. See if your power company has a plan based on renewables. Plant trees, vines, bushes, buy flower pots or even a cactus. Do something OTHER than sitting on your ass with your armchair activism and annoying the silent but hard-working people who invest their whole lives into becoming greener.

Also, a humid environment relies on large amounts of plants. If you have more extreme weather with long periods of drought followed by heavy rain, even if the rain was so heavy that the total longterm rain had increased, you'd have much less forest cover, and less humidity. You'd likely have a semi-arid region instead.

But this is your theory, vs my theory. We can't accurately predict what would become arid vs what would become a lush jungle again. There are some knowns, like we know where all the sinks and former lake beds are in the world, and we know that if there was enough rain those would fill up again. 1. Dead Sea, Jordan/Israel - 414 meters below sea level ... 2. Lake Assal, Djibouti - 155 meters below sea level ... 3. Turpan Pendi, China - 154 meters below sea level ... 4. Qattara Depression, Egypt - 133 meters below sea level ... 5. Vpadina Kaundy, Kazakhstan - 132 meters below sea level ... What we do know is a lot of these sinks (Dead sea especially) became more hostile to life as they dried up and salinity increased. All life, plants, aquatic and on land. If these basins were to refill and salinity diluted enough, there's a good chance that we could see life appearing in and around their shores again, which in turn could lead to a broader stabilization of flora/fauna as fauna tends to spread seed.

I've had a theory about global warming. Basically if most of the earths water is locked up in the poles, this would cause arid regions to form. Releasing the water in the poles would have the opposite effect, causing more rainfall than normal since a greater surface area of the earth would be covered in water, likely swamp like forests. If we look back at the start of the Carboniferous period, the earth was fairly warm, taken from this Berkeley publication.

The beginning of the Carboniferous generally had a more uniform, tropical, and humid climate than exists today. Seasons if any were indistinct. These observations are based on comparisons between fossil and modern-day plant morphology. The Carboniferous plants resemble those that live in tropical and mildly temperate areas today. Many of them lack growth rings, which suggests a uniform climate. This uniformity in climate may have been the result of the large expanse of ocean that covered the entire surface of the globe, except for a localized section where Pangea, the massive supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Triassic, was coming together.

What we do know of these arid regions today is they were once covered with water. The main difference though is as humans, we're the only species smart enough to do things like build storm walls, reservoirs, and flood control measures. It would be interesting if global warming took us to the start of the Carboniferous, where the majority of the planet was warm, humid, and frequently rainy.

Criminals? That might have something to do with the fact the SEC isn't a law enforcement agency and has no arrest powers, they're a regulatory agency. Anything the SEC discovers that looks criminal is passed to the FBI.

Burner phones? Why bother? Read the article again. This is a ban from "work" phones, which are the ones issued to a limited number of personnel who don't like using something like Good on their personal phone. At best, work partition on their managed personal phone.

They can't touch employee's personal phones beyond an agreed-upon managed work partition. Everyone has a personal phone.

I'm not talking about pirating content, to the contrary, work like a regular theatre would and give the studios their cut.

Hmm. This is like the old military joke, "Everyone wanting to volunteer for this mission, take a step forward...", and everyone but one poor schmuck takes a step backward.

This sort of seems to cancel most of the good intentions of NN. Or at least it leaves a loophole wide enough to drive at truck through.

The only difference is more blinkenlights, smaller, and faster.

I'd agree with that too, but unfortunately people who aren't happy with the change will use the label. Change is hard, but dealing with breaking software is even harder.