If nothing else, solar and battery might have an opening for people to go off grid. I have one friend who powers his entire house, shop, and radios of his solar setup. He notes the big difference is his expenses come in chunks, replace a battery here, upgrade an inverter there. But overall, he's saving money. If the AI energy sucking places cause electricity prices to soar, it makes solar/battery the economical and better uptime option.

Finally, If AI needs gigawatts per super center, it just isn't sustainable unless the super center has its own solar/battery install. And reopening shuttered nuclear plants might seem an option, but reviving an end of life station, staffed by people and organizations that have profit over safety orientation, the situation might get interesting.

Is there some place I wrote anything like that? I wrote about one specific demographic. People who live in mountainous areas with fluctuating weather, especially in winter. Especially when crossing the mountaintops. Not certain of your point.

That's kinda the entire point I was making before you decided that for some unknown reason that I was trying to note otherwise. There are many different demographics out there.

Were you thinking I was advocating really big vehicles? With the exception of the Grand Cherokee and the Grand Wagoneer, the line isn't large. Some like the Renegade, are quite small. My present ride is a Jeep Compass Trail Hawk. It is fairly compact. It's a demographic within a demographic. Higher ground clearance, different transmission, heavy suspension, heavy duty brakes. Sacrifices around a mile per gallon gas compared to my wife's Cherokee. It is made for people who might find themselves in challenging places, but is also a comfortable ride. Suits me fine. Definitely not for everyone. Not even the regular FWD drivers. Definitely for me.

I don't even like large vehicles, FWIW. If I lived in a city and my driving was entirely in urban/suburban areas, I'd be happy with a city car. But not my demographic. Lotsa demographics out there.

My memories of college include feeling lucky if I had enough quarters to do laundry!

My memories of college include seeking lucky if I GOT LUCKY (ie got laid).

Oh to be a young lad chasing tail in the days when it was easy to just be boys and girls and no one had fear of false allegations, willfully fucking and no one yelling rape....or being put on blast on non-existent social media or having a fucking camera everywhere......those were the days.

Where the fuck are these modern day college kids getting the extra money to gamble with in the first place?!?!

Hell, I worked during the summers for money towards my college, along with parental help....and I had to do the old typical 'starving student' type thing.....save nickels and dimes for cheap beer/booze occasionally....pool funds for an occasional pizza...etc.

I didn't have money to wager.....

Is this what kids are using school loans for and racking up $100k's of debt over?

Sheesh.....and they they want a fucking bailout by the taxpayers....good luck on that.

Joe Biden is a far better person than Donald Trump. Mentally, emotionally, patriotically competently

LOL....you keep on smokin' whatever you're smokin'......seems to be good stuff.

I'm against the illegal kind....boot them all out, I very much DID vote for this.

As for asylum seekers and other types of immigration, I think we need to shut the door for awhile...period.

Until we can rectify the problems we have already in the country, let's quit letting anyone else in for awhile.....with only VERY rare exceptions.

Biden sure but through and through he was a decent person and it's quite sad we can't say that about the leader of our nation anymore.

You've gotta be shitting me...Biden was about as slimy, scummy and corrupt as they come.

His track record shows that from the early days of extreme pagerism, to corrupt connections via his family to foreign countries, often less than friendly to the US.

Hunters dalliances with foreign money and "no show" jobs was not an accident....done fully with Joes blessing while he still had a brain.

Joe Biden's corruption, and creepiness (did you is all the kid sniffing?) was long documented over his I whole political career.

He's as scummy as they come.....

Almost like they have a boner for masked law enforcement kidnapping people into rental vans.

If you're here in the US illegally....then I"m ALL FOR IT.

Frankly, I don't see a problem with this....I fail to understand why any American citizen would....

It's like accepting the Excelrrors.

Especially when there are relational databases like FileMaker Pro that will accurately save an actual database, and is so flexible, you can output files you can put into Excel, so the Microsoft crowd can be happy, and your data is safe. You can even make it display something that looks like Excel.

The Excel indoctrination and people trying to make it do stuff it wasn't designed to do has me asking people who make an excel presentation to me if they have their data saved in a real database somewhere.

FileMaker Pro seems to be one of those things that fly under the radar. When I requested it on my new work laptop, My IT guy was struck how cool it was and how simple it is to display your data any way you like, so I gave him a tour of how I use it.

One time one of our junior accountants came down, asking for some assistance with a presentation. She created her entire presentation in Excel. It was problematic. One that would have been perfect in PowerPoint, and she kinda panicked when I she saw my face. "I'm presenting tomorrow morning to the directorate!"

She was a nice kid, and I liked her, so rather than send her away, which most would have done, we did a tap-dance with her excel file to get screen caps when we could, and regular PowerPoint slides when they wouldn't work. So many hours later, we had a decent looking presentation and she aced it the next morning. She was seriously grateful. "Couldn't have done it without you - you saved me!"

Another time an engineer tried to make an instruction manual in PowerPoint. Blew through the budget. There was nothing we could do to help him. My time was flexible compared to most, but I have to put a charge number down on the time screen.

Personally, I believe that if you are happy with Microsoft products, and if it is impossible to use anything other than Microsoft, and are the business savvy smart people you are.

How many other aspects of your business that you would fail do you use? Monocultures and single points of failure aer something I always work hard to avoid. Explain how that is smarter than my silly idea of identifying and eliminating SPF's.

I understand that I am the odd man out, and that many believe that monoculture is a goal, not a liability.

about environmental causes loose their shit when you tell them to cut back or eliminate eating meat.

Geez I guess they people would want to line all those on the "carnivore diet" against the proverbial wall and shoot them, eh?

By the way....do these documents give one carbon credits if you go on a diet???

If so, what can you buy with these credits?

They did - although I have seen some Neo-Nasty stuff that used Fraktur. People make the association of that font with the Nasties.

I used to get their UN "reports" and other propaganda. I got tired of their "Eat bugs for protein" lectures.

Always the same thing.Some version of Stop eating meat, go vegan. Save the world.

The problem isn't that eating meat is killing the planet. Humans just do what humans do, just like tigers and lions do what they do, and cows gonna cow.

The problem is too damn many people trying to have a first world lifestyle while reproducing at a third world rate. And the present path doesn't elevate the third world, but turns the first world into third world.

I believe that humanity should strive to have a first world lifestyle for everyone. Not possible at present population levels. These things usually devolve into people claiming that Malthus was wrong, and will always for wrong. It is only possible for Malthus to always be wrong is the earth has infinite carrying capacity, and infinite resources.

Nature will likely take care of the population/resources issue if humanity does not.

The readability thing. I've used Helvetica just about forever, and find it much more readable than TNR. Different people, different eyes, I suppose.

As I said in another post, have they not considered Fraktur? Seems their style.