I'm cool with dual language immediately. That would be a huge boon. I'd probably had a significantly better chance at doing well with Spanish as opposed to very bad as it stands now.

That's going to happen anyway. Non-white births will surpassed white births. It's only a matter of time until we really are a nation of minorities. That's really not what divides us. Wealth is and that's not going to change.

You may call this a dog whistle, but I don't think it has anything to do with skin color and a whole lot more to do with cultural attitudes regarding education. If your family values education, it will be prioritized. If it does not, then it won't be.

I grew up pretty darn poor, even on welfare for a couple years, but my mother made sure to find time to make sure I was on top of my studies. She also instilled the value of reading to me, which is probably the most useful thing. Much of education is reading and regurgitating, so strong reading skills help here a lot.

Not every culture places the same priority on education as other cultures do. Some of it is economics, but not always. Obviously, the more money available the better the outcomes, on the averages.

When not everyone speaks the same language, it adds challenges. ESL takes up resources we could be using on ALL the students instead of just a small subset of students.

Otherwise, yes I agree with you.

We could also EASILY fix school funding by pooling all the school funding to the state level and then each child gets exact the same amount of money, regardless of where they live in that state.

I'd of course add a voucher program and some regulations along with it. Each student would get a voucher and every school must accept the voucher and may not charge anymore for attendance. Public schools would compete for the students along side private schools. I think this would result in more choice, more competition and overall better outcomes for everyone.

Your system over-produces 6000 KwHs a year? That seems unlikely. That's 500 KwH a month plus whatever you use. How large is your system? I'm just rather curious is all.

California has a laundry list of requirements to allow you to go off grid. For a long-time, it was outright banned but now it's just next to impossible, depending on the county you live in.

Needless to say, the utilities don't want you to leave the grid and they've done their best to prevent that from happening. They also get to decide if you are allowed to have a solar+storage system. If they decide you don't, then you don't.

https://www.primalsurvivor.net...

My favorite part on the page:

California is one of the best states for solar power. As of 2020, all new homes up to three stories high must have a solar photovoltaic system installed. The system must meet all of the estimated annual energy consumption of the home. The solar mandate also applies to accessory dwelling units (ADUs), so you’ll need solar panels on your “granny flat,” too.

Even though California is very friendly towards off-grid solar, it is still the strictest state in America regarding code requirements. Your system will need to meet all of these requirements:

        California Building Code, Title 24, Part 2
        California Residential Code, Title 24, Part 2.5(One- and Two-family dwellings)
        California Electrical Code, Title 24, Part 3
        California Mechanical Code, Title 24, Part 4
        California Plumbing Code, Title 24, Part 5
        California Energy Code, Title 24, Part 6 California Fire Code, Title 24, Part 9

So yeah, we're SUPER friendly but that list right there must be complied with. So technically legal but extremely difficult to do and some counties are really torturous on this.

As someone that lives in California, you are 100% correct iAm. California doesn't care one iota about how expensive it is to live here. The liberals most certainly modded you down but what you said is absolutely true.

I doubt California consumers would see any reduction at all. The utilities would eat the savings as profit and yes, you would see your prices double at least. The only entity to benefit from this would be the utility and generation companies. It would most certainly be painful for non-California residents and California residents probably wouldn't notice a difference at all.

I think what would actually happen is California prices would stay the same (or go up, because they never actually go down here) and any state connected would also go up. I'm sure the rest of the country wants to cripple itself like California does with it's energy prices.

My 2019 Honda Insight gets about 50mpg and I want to say given the price of electricity and the average miles per Kilowatt (which is 3.5:1) it's actually more affordable to drive my car up until gas costs around $7. So it has a ways to go before it's cheaper to drive an EV then an ICEV (strictly talking about fuel, not anything else).

I intend to keep driving my car for as long as possible. So far, 75k over 6 years of ownership. Hopefully I can get another 6 years and 75k out of it.

California LIKES having the most expensive electricity and the most expensive gasoline. We like disproportionately hurting the most vulnerable why saying we're helping them. That's California.

So you mean for the C-levels of this company for this punishment, right? Because you aren't going to get to the hackers, who are just as likely in China, Korea or Russia.

Coldplay for sure. And, he could of used just a little fucking discretion. Now the entire world knows and it's better then soap operas.

All of history is perspective. I sort of doubt the Native Americans of the United States feel it was a "fair trade" to decimate their tribes, steal their land and put them on reservations in exchange for the Great USA of today.

I think Trump runs his mouth a lot and tosses a lot of shit to see what will stick. He has no real convictions. He's not taking land. Watch and see.

Don't take this post as a defense of Trump. I just don't see the guy as having any real plan unless it's enriching himself. He's not taking over any foreign countries.