For any sort of digital audio radio system to work, the incoming S/N ratio must be greater than about 18 dB. Any lower than that, and no amount of error correction can fix the corrupted bits.

People who are now in deep fringe areas will lose radio entirely until either much stronger or much closer transmitters are put into operation.

Nazis and communists have a common desire to control the general population in a roughly similar fashion. They are so far removed from a free society that their differences are inconsequential.

The US Democrats are and always have been closer to communism that the Republicans. It is not by chance that Bernie Sanders caucuses with the Democrats.

The repeated attempts to overturn Obamacare have the same status as repeatedly trying to stop a serial rapist, except that stopping Obamacare is far more important. Complaining about not giving up after one failure, is profoundly immoral.

Northrop was developing "flying wing" aircraft in the 1930s, and the YB-35 flew on June 25, 1946. Germany also worked on similar aircraft in that period, but to imply that later US development of "flying wing" planes stemmed from Nazi research is contrary to fact. Yes, the control of such craft is more difficult, but no, it does not really need high speed computers - control systems just don't need to be fast and complicated just because it's a flying wing.

Some modern high speed aircraft use computer control because the aerodynamic configuration that gives the highest performance is inherently badly unstable.

Over the years, there has been debate about the morality of using the results of vicious Nazi human experiments, mostly in the realm of psychology, I guess that's another of Hitler's toys.

Your level of intelligence is indicated by your use of a sexual insult early in your rant.

I've known people who identified themselves as stupid.

Here's a technique to add to your social tools: at the first hint of an inappropriate level of bullying, leave the group. There are plenty of people who don't respond to intellectual challenges with physical violence; choose your friends from among those.

Be gentle. Offer improved techniques as suggestions, or even just as possible alternatives. An approach from pretended ignorance can be useful, such as "I've never been able to repair a wall smoothly. Does heating the patch make it better? Does the package say how much to heat it?"

Young Earthers are a case of willful blindness, and you're right not to waste your time arguing with them.

I'd argue that fame is not a component of achievement, nor a result of intelligence. Fame is shallow, and in the final analysis it's just a measure of popularity among average people.

The world is material; it's made up of physical things. Controlling physical things is not far from the essence of achievement, and wealth is frequently a cause of and the result of controlling physical things. That wealth, if honestly obtained, is a sign of achievement, and great wealth is a great achievement. The other things you mention are very limited in scope, wealth is not.

There's a definite western capitalistic/materialistic bias in the study's assumption.

As opposed to a bias toward things that don't exist (immaterial) or that have no measurable value (anti-capitalistic).

The citation is wholly inadequate. For one thing, divorce rate and intelligence are related (probably not linearly), and should not be considered independent variables. For another, the test in question was an Armed Forces qualification test, which would attract an atypical test population, not generalizable to humanity at large.

Feigned stupidity, like on TV, is fun to watch. Real stupidity is painful to watch, and the deeper the stupidity, the deeper the pain. There is no joy to be had in the observation of people destroying their lives, especially when you know that damage will eventually impinge on you.

People who (uninvited) talk about their accomplishments are boors.

Under clouds a PV solar plant easily still produces 50% of its maximum yield.

Cloud cover varies greatly. There's nothing unusual about solar flux dropping 85% or more on a overcast day.

Perhaps the word "overload" was poorly chosen. If a solar neighborhood feeds back into power grid more power than the local distribution wires and transformers are capable of carrying, either they burn out or a breaker/fuse opens: either way it's a problem.

The big diff is that the power companies are subsidised heavily...

By whom? Where's the budget item in the state/local/federal budget? Or is there a "Power Industries Charities, Inc." that I don't know about?

Stop repeating paranoid memes.

I receive a single bill with several itemized charges: meter charge, transmission charge, stranded cost recovery charge, system benefits charge (WTF!), KWH distribution charge, energy charge, and electricity consumption tax. 7 items, 1 bill.

Repairs are part of the cost of doing business, not a separate line item on the bill. Of course, the consumer pays them eventually