So you are contending that we shouldn't be listening to experts in their field of study, to comment on their field of study?

Let me guess, you'd rather hear from fucking idiots with no credentials or measure of official understanding on social media, because other stuff they say aligns with the rest of the pressure waves bouncing around inside your personal echo chamber?

Go fuck yourself with that bullshit. That's how big problems become insurmountable problems.

And what's your non-expert theory you'd like to posit, so that everyone can see just how wise and learned in climatology you are?

Or, how about you pay a lawyer for a half hour of their time to put a single-page letter on their letterhead about how unenforceable the covenant against residential solar is - including relevant legal citations - and present it to your HOA board along with your intention to install solar. If they want to fight a losing legal battle at the cost to the HOA, that's on them.

Most tough-guy HOA board members that have made sticking their nose into their neighbors' shit their hobby will wilt when shown work product from an actually-licensed lawyer saying they are wrong and why.

Sounds like the HOAs in your area are run by controlling cunts that need to find a different hobby.

When I installed solar, I got questions from the HOA about how well it works, and various curiosities about process and design because they aren't controlling cunts.

And yet, if California wanted to build battery storage to hold the surplus instead of exporting, we'll hear nothing but bitching and moaning from the normal idiots around here about how batteries are expensive and going to burst into flame if looked at sideways, regardless of easily observed reality.

Some people just want to bitch and moan.

So in your world, something only exists if it's already fully industrialized? Do you routinely let 'perfect' be the enemy of 'better'? And if you're asking questions at a dealership about EVs, you're getting biased information from someone that wants to sell you anything they can. If you're asking questions showing a dubious disposition towards EVs, the best manipulative sales technique the dealership can use is to reinforce that skepticism and sell you something that still burns fossil fuels, and costs you in maintenance (likely to be done at the dealership, giving them another revenue stream from you).

You might try people that have done actual studies in a controlled, objective and encompassing manner.

And, static installations can have fire suppression systems that are appropriate for the lithium batteries installed throughout.

For some reason the dipshit AC grand-poster never considered that. Oh, I know the reason - they're an idiot who is only here for substandard low-quality FUD trolling that doesn't even stand up to the idea that when you're installing stuff in a building of arbitrary size, the considerations and specifications just may be completely different than when you are optimizing for highest energy density in the lowest mass possible, which can still fit into a vehicle lane, while maintaining acceptable controls against runaway.

So you're stupidity about battery waste went nowhere, so now you're going to talk about lithium fires in EVs, as if that has anything to do with lithium batteries installed in a facility that is specifically designed to contain lithium batteries, and have fire suppression systems that are effective in dealing with lithium fires installed?

Just stop posting this stupid shit - you clearly don't know anything about it.

Maybe you've heard of recycling?

The point of the critique is that otherwise reasonable processes can quickly become unreasonable when bad actors become involved in the process.

Bad actors are famously good at finding where processes do not scale, and then overwhelming those processes in order to grind things to a halt.

See:
  - the filibuster (60-vote threshold for cloture motions)
  - a speaker refusing to allow votes on legislation that would pass with overwhelming margins (currently, Ukraine aid and border bill)
  - vote-a-rama which usually serves no purpose except to trigger recorded "gotcha" votes that are completely unrelated to the reconciliation bill and drive eventual final vote to a stupid hour of the morning just to troll colleagues - see literally any of Tommy Tuberville's amendments
  - motion to vacate: renders half of the Congress into a mode where the only thing they can vote on is a Speaker, and if the past is prologue, this mode will last for days / weeks. No other legislation can advance without a rule change, which would require a vote that probably wouldn't pass due to the obstructionists wanting to obstruct. I'm honestly surprised that the gear-grinding caucus hasn't tossed Johnson out on his ass and then just vote 'no' to every speaker nominee and rule change just to stop literally everything. Not sure if it also stops committee hearings, which is why they may not have done this - can't have sham [impeachment|weaponization|hunter biden] hearings to step on garden rakes in and we can't have that!
  - lawsuits, and getting judicial stays pending ridiculously long legal processes
  - appeals of lawsuits, and getting judicial stays pending ridiculously long legal processes

This is not an exhaustive list. And people wonder why government can't get anything done.

Ethernet has been an option on some laser printers for decades.

It's not too late for you. Someone grab the yoke and pull up - you don't need to descend into the depths of governmental dysfunction that we have through rank partisanship.

Please keep your government functional - those of us below the 49th parallel may need a "safety" democracy to look to.

It's like they're more interested in scoring political points than actually dealing with the substance of the bill.

Welcome to politics. The coffee room is --this-way-->

When you have facts on your side, you argue the facts.
When you have people on your side, you argue the polls.
When you have neither, you bang your fist on the table and make as much noise as possible while throwing yourself on the gears of government to grind them to a halt, hoping to wait it out until you actually do have facts and / or people on your side.

American democracy in action, only this time with a Canadian flavor to it. Which means it will be a little more polite, probably a lot funnier, and served with gravy.

What I read from the summary: Canada has imported the "vote-a-rama" from the "reconciliation" bill process from the United States Senate.

Enjoy shooting down your nonsense amendments that only exist to waste time, filibuster, and produce "gotcha" votes that partisan hacks can use in their partisan communication to partisan tribal voters about how CORRUPT AND EVIL the incumbent is for voting against some totally irrelevant-to-the-legislation pet issue amendment that never had a chance to get serious consideration because it's an unserious proposal that wouldn't survive debate.

You're welcome, Canada!

Android tablets have been a shit show since the first one came out. It's very clear that app developers do not think about tablets when they create their UIs - things don't scale to expanded screen real estate the way that they should, and many just assume things that are true about phones, but not necessarily true about tablets (like always having an internet connection, for example).

If you find a device that works for what you need it to do, great. However, using an android tablet as a general-purpose device is just painful and poorly executed even now, because Google hasn't tried to make it better, rather just shoveling out stuff to say they have that stuff.

So what you're saying is that a newer version of base software ceased being compatible with long-abandoned and unmaintained software that runs on it.

That has nothing to do with hardware at all. I don't know why you think what you said changes anything the person you replied to said.