I'm having flashbacks to that sequence in Real Genius (the 1980s movie with Val Kilmer) where over time, tape recorders have replaced not only all the students in a lecture hall (except for Mitch), but also the professor.
Oh come on.
We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.
(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).
Diminished maybe, but not all that much.
I think we can reasonably assume that if there's a huge blackout, it won't last forever. A lot of smart people will work hard on getting things up and running again. A few years ago in the USA it lasted for a bit longer, what was it, a week or two? Recently in Spain it lasted a few days. But all those power stations and power grid operators don't just shrug and go home. So getting through those days is probably all it takes for any reasonably realistic scenario.
And you can build things up piecewise. I've got my solar now. The next thing will be a battery. Once I have that, I can think about an electric car.
Patrick was not happy with the veto.
Abbott has called a special session for the purpose of writing a new bill. I suspect that Patrick will get a very slightly looser version of SB3 passed, which may itself get vetoed.
The number of times that my wife has had to submit a copy of her marriage certificate to confirm her original name even though we've been married for 11 years baffles me. It made some sense in the first year or two, but she still has to do it a couple of times a year for seemingly random things. I encouraged her to keep her original name when we were planning the wedding, but she insisted on the name change.
This is such cry-baby nonsense.
NONSENSE.
Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).
I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.
You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.
And most humans donâ(TM)t work at night either, making addressing that demand a bit easier.
I've recently started looking at my power consumption on a 15-minute graph, and it turns out that power usage isn't all that much less during the night. In fact, at times it is higher because all the lights are turned up. But even at night, there's the fridge and freezer, the house electronics, security cameras, etc.
Turns out the stuff I need for work - a notebook and an external screen - barely register.
Yes, and different inverters. I've got a very small solar array, and the micro-inverter on it doesn't even work if it can't find the main power grid to sync to.
A battery will get you over some power grid outage, but not totally off-grid.
You are totally wrong.
I've installed a really small solar array and on sunny days I produce more electricity than I use. I'm sure it'll be a lot less in winter. BUT - I have a wood-burning heater which needs only a bit of electrical power for its control system. I'm pretty sure I can produce enough of that even in winter. So in theory, with the addition of a battery to cover the night, I could survive even if the power grid went down for an extended time.
Solar as a provider of independence doesn't mean everything needs to run on solar. Sometimes, it's just an enabler for another system.
So, in a nutshell, AI runs the risk of creating unrealistic relationship expectations and simulate perfection? No way. That's a completely new thing in the world. Romance novels, movies, gold diggers or marriage swindlers or just, frankly, a whole lot of ordinary people into "presenting themselves" in order to "score" a good catch, rather than being authentic and looking for a good match - I'm sure all of these things are hypothetical, don't already do essentially the same thing just with a lot less processing power, and cause the same issues.
But hey, this one has "AI" in it, so hype!
He vetoed the bill.
Was to to have a way decouple from the petroleum supply chain and its volatility. An electric car coupled with rooftop solar and suitable battery storage is a good way to declare your energy independence.
This. I've started with solar. Now that in good weather I produce more than I consume, I'm thinking about adding storage next. Once you have solar power with storage, an EV or at least a plug-in hybrid becomes a logical next step.
because obviously developed world economies are going to transition fastest.
That's not necessarily a given.
Developing countries have the advantage of not having an established base. For example, mobile phones took Africa by storm and were available in many places where landlines were not. And with smartphones, for a while Africa was leading in mobile payment systems - exactly because it didn't have the established base the developed world has.
With solar power and batteries dropping in price, solar is an obvious choice for people in developing countries where the power grid is unreliable. Once you have solar power and storage anyways, an EV means independence from oil prices and not having to drive to a petrol station to refill.
EVs are coming down in price rapidly. They might soon be an actual alternative outside the developed world.
I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.
Reddit is equally a shithole.
Heck.
He doesn't care. It wouldn't be going to his supporters for the most part, and some of the more vocal ones will criticize him for it.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
