It's too early for April Fools....

How many Everests is a standard Halley comet?

Just trying to figure out if I should be impressed or not.

I prefer Clinton's uprising on Jan 6th.

I work with a lot of people who use big CNC machines that run Windows.

It's no fun if you set it going on a two day job cutting a $2000 piece of aluminum and the machine decides to reboot at 2am because an unused component of Windows .Net got an update or Microsoft just had to install a new "feature".

nb. This even happens in LTSB versions of Windows that aren't supposed to do that.

(PS: Any adenoidal replies along the lines of "wouldn't happen if they use Linux!" will be mocked - the CNC machine makers make CNC machines with Windows software and the end users don't get much choice)

If today's USA has an "educated populace", there is no hope for any of us. Halfwitted ideologies, counterfactual beliefs, postmodern nihilism, violent hostility to other groups, and above all sheer downright ignorance seem to be prevailing.

True, a small minority of truly educated people go on seeking - and finding - truth. But that has always been the case.

And if OP thinks the government wants an educated populace, there's even less...

Some form of storage is a given these days. It can double the profit of the farm.

OTOH this is Texas, so... maybe they sell the midday excess to Bitcoin miners instead of doing something useful with it

And completely failed to show the image under discussion.

If this sets a precedent you'll be lucky to get 1% soon.

"The DSA imposes a set of strict requirements designed to keep internet users safe online, including making it easier to report counterfeit or unsafe goods or flag harmful or illegal content like hate speech..."

The whole thrust is to censor speech that is not appreciated by the rich and powerful. Need I remind everyone that freedom of speech is indivisible, and that without freedom of speech there can be no freedom at all?

The concept of "hate speech" is utterly absurd. "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me". Every individual person is wholly responsible for his or her conduct. Illegal or harmful acts cannot be excused or mitigated by the plea that they are inspired by "hate speech".

Yep, the problem is they'll want you to pay before you get to see the content.

And the content will be crap.

All those garbage, link-farmed, SEOed pages that flood google right now? You'll be paying for the privilege of swearing at them.

(if you're stupid enough to sign up for this)

I have great pleasure in awarding you this week's Slashdot Gold Star for the comment that best combines blasphemy, contempt for the intellectually challenged, and 100% lack of content.

Precisely. What's more, any realistic evaluation also needs to take into account the true costs of each system, which means adding in the costs of subsidies. I notice that the article quotes someone talking about "clean" (electric) versus "dirty" energy. By no stretch of the imagination can renewables be termed "clean" and fossil fuels "dirty". CO2 is essential for all life, and the slightly greater atmospheric CO2 levels recently have produced a boom in growth of all plants - notably crops and forests.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/20...
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
https://fee.org/articles/rejoi...

The Polish poster cites 40 houses in his own village - presumably people whom he knows well.

That effortlessly trumps your vague, unattributed "too many successful installations and happy customers in too many locations".

We live in southern England, which is very moderate - rarely below freezing, and then not for long. When we visited friends who were very proud of their new heat pump (and electric car) we felt quite chilly - and this was in spring. They are fairly well off, so can probably afford to boost their heatin when they get round to noticing that it's not quite up to par.