You might want to look carefully at the NLRA. Retaliation for labor related organization is protect, but retaliation for other activities not related to labor is often not protected.

We can do more than one thing at a time. A government is composed of multiple people after all.

In terms of government pending, there's priorities but also diminishing returns. For example, you could try cutting everything except your top 3 items. But those top 3 items aren't necessarily going to get done faster or better proportional to massive amount spent. NASA's budget is about a third of a percent of the US federal budget. It's small potatoes, and yields a fair bit in return for science and education. We could 10X it and it would still be a smaller slice than it was in the 1960. (some where around 4%). And I'm not sure we're get 10X more science or education out of it. At 4% you do get quite a bit of political clout, but the US is not currently looking for more. (we've been burning it with or Presidential choices in the last 20th and early 21st century)

You likely have every right to operate your private business that way. Assuming you own it or the board approved the policy. It's a tough way to go if you're trying to hire though. Getting too specific really narrows the talent pool you can choose from.

They can also express those concerns in an overt way that communicates to their coworkers what this is about and how they feel about it, even if it disturbs the office. Because we live in a free country and not everyone has to be a nice door mat. But also there is no protection from retaliation, so they lost their job and they aren't going to get a court to undo that.

I'd rather do this kind of work in assembler. Especially shuffling code around a memory with "holes" in it. A general purpose compiler is of limited use for most control applications. A ladder logic compiler/interpreter might be worth it for this old space probe. But a good linker, that's worth its weight in gold when your memory map is swiss cheese.

Yes. If I get a smart meter and switched to time-of-use plan then I can buy power over night for cheaper than I pay now. But power during the day is much more expensive.

For the most part, I'm already doing what you suggest. I've mostly stopped sending power to the grid and I'm running off my batteries through most of the night. The one factor is if I could charge from the grid at night then I'd save a little more money. It's not a lot of money, a dollar and some change a day.

The important thing is that it's not entirely my choice which plan I'm on. PG&E has to approve everything. They know I have a battery now. And from what I understand of their policies they'll be switching me to time of use (TOU) as a mandatory policy. But I don't actually know because nobody there tells me much, it takes weeks to get them to do anything.

Found the modded minecraft player.

The way they speak you can't understand a word they are saying, either.

Well, in all fairness...it wasn't always this way.

Before we started getting overrun by illegal immigrants over the boarder there you could count on most people being able to speak English to you.

Like the Fascist Orange man

I'm guessing you're talking about Trump?

A fascist??

You're calling a guy who cut citizens' taxes and allowed/helped them keep their 2A rights (guns) a fascists?

Wow...he's gotta be the worst one in the world at it...or perhaps he got the wrong dictionary definition of fascist.

At least by historical standards.

I still pay about $2500 a month

Wow....

Ok, I was about to ask how f'ing big is your house...but saw further down that it's about 3K square feet. Large, but not a mansion really.

Ok, a pool..etc.

But even with all that....$2500 a month for power???

Damn it must be expensive out there.

I live in New Orleans....where basically the AC clicks on in April and doesn't shut off till about the first week or so in November, and no I'm not exaggerating.

I do leveled billing, I don't turn off computers, or anything really to conserve power....I live in about 2000 sq ft I believe....and my bills monthly are in the $180 range...sometimes into the low $200's....

Again, I do not do anything to try to conserve energy....so, I'm guessing you either have an outrageous power draw somewhere, or it's just too damned expensive where you live for electricity...?

And you're saying that $2500/mo is even after you have solar running a lot of things?

wow...

A week or two of really hot weather during the summer is not a problem and you wouldn't install an AC just for that.

I would.

I'd at least have a few window units around for when I needed them....much like they do in older US homes built before central AC was a thing.

Until you are running your AC totally on renewables, you are part of the CO2 problem

Still.....better than sweating....

:)

There's always a business opportunity if you just look for it.

I've heard of car inspections, I'd just never heard the term "first roadworthy" before.

You claimed "EV sales over the past year or so have slumped". Now you have backtracked to "7.4% this year so far" which is trivial.

Er....BOTH things can be true you know.

We are still pretty new into this year (less than 3 months)....so, 7.4% down is true so far.

The statement is also true it is down for the past year or so.

Maybe you didn't watch the videos that were from 2023 largely.....where it shows that the EV demand in the US was largely saturated, and EVs were piling up on dealers lots taking MUCH longer to sell than their ICE cousins which were selling at normal volumes and speeds.