What the unions say is that you need protection from your boss in case they go off half-cocked.

Also, people who aren't good at negotiating also deserve fair wages.

His point was stupid because I'm order to get to that point you need to spend years as a lower end worker. Don't try to make stupid into smart, you'll only hurt yourself.

Some people have reading comprehension skills. They are often magical and surprising to people without them

Here in the USA I have seen both types of behavior from unions. That is, I have seen people legitimately protected, and I have seen fuck-offs who literally could not do their job protected from being treated appropriately. I was literally contracted to do parts of his job, doing things I had never done before, read the docs, got them done. He was supposed to retire and I probably would have got his job, but he bought another motorcycle (had two already) and had to keep pretending to work in order to pay for it.

Unions can be good, but unions can also be shit

If you guys understood what made a story worth discussing maybe the comment counts would regularly be over 100 again

Learn to think fucko

Unfortunately a lot of them are NCM still. The BESS at Moss Landing which infamously went up in flames was. It used NCM batteries from LG made out of cells [poorly] designed for EVs.

PGE didn't have any clue how much most of their lines could carry until recently when they hung temperature sensors on them. You can bet there are still a lot of parts of the line which are unmonitored because PGE is a gigantic shitfest. I thought you knew stuff about power distribution, or you thought so anyway, why didn't you know this?

It's complicated. Santa Cruz county needs a BESS bad but they got a shit one made with recycled LG EV batteries and it caught fire and polluted a bunch of wetlands...

Everyone's mad at them because they are fucking monsters.

They are so tightly regulated in what they can charge today because they charged people abusively so many times.

PGE made their own bed and now they can die in it.

There's a famous quote, so famous I can't remember who said it ;) about how the coldest winter they ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

We have an Arctic current that's colder in summer, and a deep trench right off the coast.

Learn to read dick

A reporter following a person working for a surveillance company is not in fact unusual. You lie every time you speak.

Lol reliability. Both furnaces in this house needed not just new generators but also gas valves. One of them had been replaced before.

Randomness is the problem in LLMs that leads to inconsistency of hallucination. It's being substituted for the part of the processing we do that software can't do yet. Hardware can't do it either, only wetware. The part that (inductively? Instinctively?) knows whether the output makes sense just plain doesn't exist in LLMs.