Not exactly. Electricity must be consumed at the same time it's generated, and the stability of the grid hinges on supply and demand being balanced. Load shifting requires storage, which there isn't enough of, so using electricity now usually does not help much to avoid using electricity later unless you have some form of storage (e.g batteries, thermal storage tanks)

That's happening is you have inflexible electricity sources - your so-called "base load generators" - that cannot be throttled down, and renewable power that is very "use it or lose it" since they cannot be dispatched on demand, resulting in a surplus of generation. Wholesale electricity prices go down because supply exceeds demand, and continues into negative wholesale prices because you cannot tolerate a surplus of generation without destabilizing the grid.

So yes it's about "using power when it's there" but it has nothing to do with "not using it when an expensive plant would have to be turned on." It has to do with the fact that you can't turn some plants off and they need to encourage extra usage during times of glut to avoid crashing the whole system. Operators have no problem with people using "expensive" electricity 'cause they're gonna pass those costs on to you anyway.
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>"Either you made an unfortunate typo or you support melting children down into soap and petrochemicals :-)"

LOL! Yes, I meant "rearing", not "rendering"!

Science or Nature (two well known all-purpose science journals) with any regularity know these things:

1. There is still a LOT we don’t know about the genome and the mechanisms that affect genetics.

2. This we know for sure. Whenever the environment of a species changes, the genome evolves rapidly as well

3. Humans are a subspecies of great ape

4. Human environment has changed at a stupendously fast rate over the past thousand years.

We are evolving. Fast. It’s so cute to listen to people who think we’ve somehow separated ourselves from our animal nature or the effects of evolution.

Most American cars are "expensive" due to regulation requirements, in no small part - and auto manufacturers knowing they can pony onto those required things with added cost.

Like backup cameras, now legally required with all the CANBUS integrations for eg. obstacles. The camera adds thousands to the car price, and if it's damaged, that's thousands in repair. The same goes for expensive DOT-compliant headlamps ($3k-4k for the Ford and Land Rover ones that I've seen) which have to be reprogrammed (another $400 or so service charge). You can get a (technically superior in almost every way) EU Land Rover headlamp setup for half the price - imported, no less.

Those are just two examples, and there are likely many more, but the fact that you can't buy a "basic" car without all the bells and whistles (4 wheels, a motor, modern brakes, a transmission, and minimal wiring) is definitely a part of the problem. Say what you will about EVs, Tesla has done an amazing job integrating things without blowing their pricing up, providing good value for the first owner. (Not so great on resale, but that's another matter.)

No, they are buying the spectrum.

Or the lowest bidder. I would rather have one of those bitchen Chinese EVs than his shitty Mustang E for the money anyway. Protectionism is wrong. 1 Million auto-workers should not be prioritized over 330 million American consumers who are having their options limited. If there is a regulatory requirement like smog or safety systems missing, fine. But regulations MUST apply to all equally.

>"Right now there are two routers on the market - the ISP provided gateway and now Netgear. Basically everything else is off the market."

Incorrect. Ubiquiti Unifi is doing just fine. There are probably others, as well.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/cat...

Australia, the UK and New Zealand have tried to do this to Josh Moon of Kiwifarms. What he's doing is legally protected in America though.

Also it's funny this judge hands this down to Anna's Archive, but the judge in the Meta/LLM case did fuck all nothing for their bullshit. He could have, at the very least, ordered Meta to pay the full cover price for one physical book for ever book they crammed through their Random Word Generation training model, and it would have been pennies in cost to Meta, but he couldn't even be fucked to do something symbolic like that.

Fuck how backwards all of this is.

I know you're trying to make a joke, but there are a lot of rules that are literally different in different federal districts. For example, are all federal attorneys required to respect plea agreements and deals made by other districts? Nope. Some do and some do not, and that's the reason Maxwell got prosecuted even though she was exempt in the Jeffery Epstein agreement.

https://www.maglaw.com/media/p...

At some point SCOTUS might finally offer a top down ruling about this, but for now it's really weird.

Archive dot org will always remain online because it's very likely already been compromised. After their "hack," a lot of stuff disappeared, some even in the public domain:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

Last I heard, 3D printer and filament manufacturer AnyCubic was including some of these restrictions for printers like their Kobra 3 Max?
They were enabling it via their cloud printing functionality though. so setting the printer to LAN mode circumvented it for now. It may even be a feature they coded but left disabled while they wait to see how legislation pans out? But I recall some people in Facebook 3D printing groups being really angry about it when it was first discovered.

IMO, it amounts to more "feel good" legislation where some politicians want credit for making the nation safer. But in reality, it'll be ineffective because it can only work based on matching CRC hash values of known prints they want to restrict/ban. If people have such a print file in their possession and modify the dimensions a bit, it won't match any longer. And eventually, if they try to restrict too many items (say with AI trying to determine what is or is not a gun part?), they're going to start creating false positives that stop people from printing things they need to print.

Do you not do the classic date night: dinner and a movie?

Sure...

But these days its getting harder and harder to get out on a date without the wife finding out...

But I have no idea why people pay that much money and sit through the advertising just to watch a derivative summer comedy.

....to veg out and enjoy someone else's air conditioning during the extreme heat of the summer....?

These are the same people that insist "assault rifles" must be banned, despite being unable to define them beyond "they're scary".

Well, er...let's see...they're black!! And uh....when you pull the trigger, they go "PEW"....and uh....well uh...

Right?

Being in the firearms business without an FFL will make you a human doing illegal things. Even if you do it with a file and hand-crank drill.

Not federally.

It has always been legal in the US to make your own firearms for PERSONAL use.

You can make all the firearms you want, but, you cannot sell them, nor give them away....no serial number required, etc.

This has been the long standing right all US citizens have enjoyed since the country began.

It's only recently where companies made this a bit easier to do that some states started freaking out.