Ah thank you for the correction.

Sorry Chaplain Lent, I made you look bad in front of Lemmy.

They’ve got economist-brain and view everything as a money thing, which is fucked up and a problem.

But negative net demand (the thing “negative cost” is signaling) is a pain in the ass, because you either need to shut off the panels from the grid, find some very high-capacity and high-throughput storage, or blow out your power grid.

Like some hydroelectric dams in Germany get run backwards, pumping water back up behind the wall. I think there are pilot projects to pump air into old mines to build up a pressure buffer. Grid-scale batteries just aren’t there yet.

Solar is good for things where the power demand is cumulative and relatively insensitive to variation over time (like, say, salt pond evaporation, but you don’t actually need panels for that). It’s also good for insolation-sensitive demand (like air conditioning).

Turns out distributed rooftop solar makes more sense given our current grid than big solar farms out in the desert (California built one, it was not a good use of money).

It’s not great, but we need to bite the bullet and use fission+reprocessing in a big way for the near future.

Jesus has a massive punishment kink pretty much across the board; for a character who is pitched as bringing universal love, he’s really really into describing exactly how he’s going to throw most people into an endless pit of burning shit.

There’s good stuff too, including excellent sales advice (parable of the fig tree, the mustard seeds).

I was trying to shout out that your username is Madison, it came out a lot bitchier than I wanted it to, sorry.

But I do think it’s a valid argument. The assumption from the Federalist Papers that the different branches would not cede power to one another because of their desire to hold it themselves has proven to be untrue. Factional loyalty to GWB, then to Trump, has driven Congress to ever-greater depths of obesiance.

There’s no argument, imo, that SCOTUS is not at least as loyal to an external faction (ironically, to people calling themselves Federalists) as Congress, and actually even more corrupted by money.

Therefore, I think a morals/behavioral based argument that SCOTUS will want to preserve their power in the face of a tyrant from their faction isn’t convincing.

Jesus-from-Matthew (you know, the one written closest to the alleged events) is definitely my least-disliked NT main character.

Too bad Jesus-from-John (and fucking Paul) are who actually gets worshipped.

The bit where Matthew-Jesus says that preachers are like whitewashed tombs, shining on the outside and crawling with the most disgusting filth on the inside… 🧑🏼‍🍳🤌🏼

I appreciate you cosplaying as a coauthor of the Federalist Papers, but I think the “institutional jealousy” theory of the balance of power has been comprehensively shredded by the behavior of Congress since about November 2000.

The Navy really really does suck at procurement.

And the Supreme Court will kiss the feet of the people dragging them away.

Why else would they give him explicit advance immunity for assassinating his political rivals?

Oh I went to episcopal school and got tested on my knowledge of the Bible.

Yes the entire maga movement is a massive violation of the First Commandment, right down to venerating golden idols.

But Christianity is what Christians do.

When Quakers became abolitionists in defiance of the clear instructions of the Bible that slavery is a good thing, should be preserved, and that slaves should be grateful, they are being Christians.

When (some) Presbyterians allow women to lead church services, in defiance of the clear instructions of the Bible, they are being Christians.

And when the overwhelming majority of American Christians wholeheartedly support maga, they are also being Christian.

Yup this is what my father has chosen as well.

He’s not trying to act in the interest of the United States.

He works for Putin.

Pretty recently, honestly. Last Thursday the girl I’ve fallen in love with asked me to be her girlfriend.

Eh, he still fucking hated trans people. They kept their core values.

At least she’s honest about throwing in with fascism.

The rest of the Democratic party is pissing on our leg and telling us it’s raining.

… they’re dating

I told one of my friends that I’m being looked at differently in crowds now, and he just said “no you’re imagining it”.

Many people just do not believe what trans people tell them. At all.

At Texas A&M you won’t get ten seconds inside a building without someone politely but very forcefully telling you that you are being disrespectful wearing a hat inside.

I use the paid version and it’s a huge upgrade. You can administer your own domain, set up a catchall email, arbitrary numbers of emails you can send from, etc.

It’s definitely not as snappy as Gmail though.

Ban that fucking app.

Vanguardist?

Cringe