At what point will approved American models affirm that the 2020 election was stolen?

To be more clear, in winter if tipped to the appropriate angle *for winter* snow doesn't accumulate because the panel is too steep. But that is tipped too far for summer, so you would need to tip it back to a summer angle. If you choose a middle of the road angle (90 - latitude) that works all year round, then snow will definitely accumulate where they are planning to build and would need to be cleaned off. So either way there is manual work (or at least a mechanical complexity) to either tilt the panels twice a year, or to clean the snow off.

We move our panels manually twice a year. Labor is a sunk on the farm (employees are paid no matter what they do) cost so we don't even consider it. Just another job on the farm.

We used to be investing in solar and wind in a big way and backing away from coal-fired electricity. But now that MAGA is taking over Alberta, they are ensuring that nothing stands in the way of that sweet sweet oil and gas money.

I wish. This is Alberta, MAGA country (I'm not joking), the Texas of Canada, full of trump supporters who really do want to give Alberta lock, stock and barrel to Trump---they have a delusion that they will be treated as an equal partner when this happens. US citizenship and everything (provided they are white). Nevermind affording healthcare. They couch all this in terms of an "Independent Alberta."

Meanwhile, the premier fancies herself a bold and visionary leader just like Trump and deeply admires everything he's done. She wants to ensure money (including public money) keeps flowing to her friends in the oil industry. She's already put a stop to most large-scale renewable projects in Alberta saying they blight our beautiful landscapes. Oil and gas do remain extremely important, but renewables is an area Alberta was really leading the way in until recent years. Half the farmers in my area have microgen solar in the corners of pivot circles and marginal areas of their farms and making good money too.

For ideal winter power generation, solar needs to be tipped at those latitudes and from the experience I have with a 450 kw microgen site, snow does not accumulate on panels at that angle, so they should be pretty good. As you say it's a no-brainer and in fact battery storage should be required as well.

I happen to know that a very large multinational company was in the planning stages to build modular data centers across the US with built-in solar and batteries, but the Trump administration put a stop to it and urged them to burn lots of gas instead. It's just nuts. Solar and battery might not be able to make the data center net zero, but it goes a long way to reducing its footprint and in particular its drain on the local power grid, not to mention the economy and livelihood of the locals who have to pay more and more for electricity thanks to the demand of the big data centers..

Can't blame the Chinese. Or really Amazon. They are only selling what Americans are demanding.

You can use the Google Chrome extensions store from Edge and install any add-on directly. Edge is really just Chrome.

Insane Clown Posse, is that you?

Mod +1 informative. To bad I don't have mod points. Hopefully someone reasonable will do it for me.

Once they realized you'd pay the hire price, if the fees are gone, the businesses are just going to go 'yummy more money for me'.

This is dumb shit. Many stores around me explicitly charge you the difference if you pay by credit card to cover the service fee.

I have never had my debit card compromised. Ever. The fact that it's a direct line is what makes it not usable to buy things online, etc (generally). But it's very nice to use in person - I like that when I spend money, I'm actually spending it and not creating debt. (Don't get me wrong, I always pay off my credit card bills every month, which are not trivial sums .. but I'm only using them because they're the only things you can use online.)

Credit cards, on the other hand - we all pay for the insurance. It's not really the banks problem, its a problem that you have protection for because you pay for it.

"Just give me 1% in cash"

That's still money that comes from somewhere. Like .. from you.

"An opt-out setting that quietly ships settings data off-device is exactly the sort of thing that adds to administrators' workloads rather than lightening them."

Fine, but there's *tons* of them. This is a drip in an ocean. The opposite, settings you need to turn on are also fucking huge depending on the corperate environment it's used in. I mean, fiddling over one setting on a product with a user base as huge and diverse as Windows is nitpicking imo.

Places that have to deal with this are setup to be proactive about the larger problem set.

yeah, damnit, we can't charge you X so we can give X - some amount back to you and call it a reward

fucking reward schemes suck

We used to call this simply, "Machine Learning." Pattern recognition using neural nets, etc. Always was more than a database lookup. Now it's called AI.