Clearly not. The point is that grid scale deployment is not easy. It's an important discussion to do it right. The criticism is genuinely stupid and just spotlights people who clearly don't understand how any of this stuff works or what the article is even talking about. You can't just slap solar panels everywhere and call it a day.
Grid scale redundancies are important. Managing load is important. Energy storage is important. Scaling up renewables and scaling down conventional generation is important. Ensuring those who cannot afford their own BTM generation can access affordable electricity is important. That's entirely what this conversation is about.
That's not at all what MIT is talking about here. This goes into detail around the challenges tied in rolling out grid scale solar in a way that aligns with supply and demand curves, and how to make sure we're able to capture overproduction so that we can use it when not enough is being produced. It's a complex shift to work out in our over 100+ year grid production structure, and has been an ongoing discussion across the energy sector. But you know...memes and shit.
Federal government should pass legislation to make minimum wage variable by local cost of living. This should be an audit done alongside the census and adjusted accordingly. It fluctuates far too much nationally to just set a single wage and apply it to everyone equally. The cost of living in San Francisco is not the same as the cost of living in Denver, Chicago, or Boston.
It should be relative to cost of living locally. I don't even know if breaking it up by state or region is enough. One half of my state you can live happily making $50,000 and the other half you need $150,000 to have the same quality of life. In some places it should be even higher than $15hr. Where I live the minimum wage for a full time employee should range between $20 and like $40+.
Highly recommend folks check out the podcast Behind the Bastard's episodes "How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win" for more information on this topic.
It's unfortunately how you win these days. Campaigns in the past tried to take the high road when Trump went low. That doesn't work. So this is what we get.
It's absolutely an old picture of him photoshopped in with her. This is what he looked like in the 1990s but wearing a MAGA hat.
But he seemed like such a fine young gentleman. I am shocked.
The ACA is good when you actually reach out to a patient care "assister" for support. You can get rates WAY lower than advertised if you work with someone who can help navigate it. I think the program is actually tremendous, but it's been made intentionally cumbersome and difficult to use by the folks trying to kill it. I've used it twice while out of work back in 2016 and again over the pandemic and had completely free plans that covered my "tier 3" prescriptions and specialist (rheumatology) appointments.
He does not look good. He hasn't for a while, but this is orders of magnitudes worse. I think this guy is going to die soon. You can see it in his face. I'm not even playing here. I sincerely think his most recent pictures are demonstrating the same telltale signs I saw in a few of my own family members who passed recently of heart attacks. If you know what it looks like it isn't hard to see. When your heart is barely holding on it shows up in a lot of ways. His face looks simultaneously bloated and constricted at the same time. It's being masked by copious amounts of makeup, but it's there. As much as I dislike him I think the moment it happens will still be awful for anyone around him. I give him 5-6mo tops.
English is fucking weird. Take for example: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
This is a perfectly fine sentence,. I am not sure I am fine with it.
Music to my ears. Thank you for lifting my spirits. We just all gotta vote.
Interesting, I've heard the opposite in terms of betting odds v. traditional polling. Good to know it changed though as Trump was like +5 as recently as like 2 days ago. Thanks for posting.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
Feels a wee bit early for the "I told you so" stuff. She's currently losing in the betting odds.
Edit: it's good to be wrong
I get the frustration people feel, but I'm kind of getting tired of the reductive takes people just casually throw out in social media. I guess that's my fault for expecting anything different. Maybe I should go outside for a while.