I mean… I’m not American…

If this was about guns, they would ban hardware stores. It’s just about controlling everything so they can parcel it back out to friends.

Hey, that ain’t your 256MB of RAM.

Context: history memes are often posted without context and so people don’t get a chance to immediately learn the history behind the meme.

The problem, as I often say, is that just because something demos well and it’s easier to buy something doesn’t mean it’s going to be good in production. If you have a solar farm but you need to build a coal plant large enough to power the island anyway because you don’t have dispatchable power, then you end up with Australia, California, or Ontario, where “the cheapest power” causes electricity costs to rise. Meanwhile, In places like Norway, Quebec, and iceland, those renewables actually drove down electricity costs because the marginal cost of energy is very low and you don’t need to double up your infrastructure even if it’s expensive and difficult to build up-front.

One of my favorite history truisims is that history isn’t written by the winners; history is written by the people who write and maintain the history books. The distinction is subtle, but matters.

For a gaming PC in 2026 that’s not actually bad. Pretty sure I paid more than base for an Xbox one series x a few years back we got for a friend’s graduation gift when they were particularly rare.

Imo one of the examples of renewables that someone needs to push (and I don’t care who, whichever team does it takes the win) is geothermal in hawaii. They import massive amounts of coal to generate 90% of their electricity and thus have some of the most expensive electricity in the US.

Easy win, it would make everyone on the islands life way better, and of course it isn’t even on the radar because it wouldn’t cost that much and it’d be really effective immediately.

Memento Mori. Most people in history community will know, but it means “remember your death”, and it was allegedly something Roman emperors or generals made sure to have someone whisper into his ear during the celebrations of him.

A lot of things that look absurd in history are just a mortal man who had done great things being mortal. In the end we’re all going to die, it’s the great equalizer.

In the end, then, the question stops being about trying to achieve literally mortality by being great, and instead making sure that the life that you lead is great and that the thing that you leave behind is great. Because as we’ve seen, great kings can die from a bad swim, mighty emperors can fall to a single bullet, men who conquered the known world died to some bad booze, and feats alone don’t stop those things.

Ya got me.

I registered a domain 23 years ago, maintained the site in various ways, set up a threadiverse instance with the least used federated link aggregator back around 2021, Expressed opinions that got me defederated by tons of instances and pissed off most of the remainder, and stayed following this community for years, all so that I could use a bot to respond to a post.

I don’t even know why I needed a bot at that point, since apparently I’m friggin Xanatos the chess master.

Feels like a category error to say that Trump is necessarily against renewable energy rather than just against specific types of renewable energy.

A lot of greenies are against hydroelectric because even though it provides base load power for decades or even centuries, the building of reservoir and the damning of a river typically has major environmental impacts that they feel override the benefits.

If there’s concern about offshore wind because of the potential – the actualized potential by the way in a limited number of cases – then that would explain why there would be the pushback against offshore wind.

The problem with water is that unlike land which tends to be fairly localized, just a little bit of pollution can affect an absurd amount of water. That’s why they tell people not to dump their motor oil in the ground, because one drop of motor oil can pollute thousands of gallons of water.

I tend to be less interested in solar because empirically speaking it seems to drive up electricity costs for actual consumers regardless of the cost of a specific kilowatt hour of electricity at peak production, and less interested in wind because sometimes it is bright or cold and the wind doesn’t blow, the Germans already have a word for this because it is relatively common.

That being said, there’s no reason to be against good technology that actually does what it’s supposed to do, and that can mean hydroelectric, it can mean well regulated nuclear, it can mean geothermal, but just because something is marketed as green doesn’t mean that it is actually good for the environment. Everything at an industrial scale is a out trade-offs. Different people will look at things through different lenses and find different trade-offs more example and other trade-offs less acceptable.

“Yors world he’s the man! Yors world he’s the man!”

Let them eat cake, n’est pas?

Source: I made it up!

Can confirm, used fire in 2011.

“Your proposal is acceptable.”

Think of all the multi-million dollar single family homes they’d have!

git isn’t part of your powershell path.

I was actually thinking of exactly that today. People try to rehabilitate it by saying it’s better than stuff that’s even worse, but that doesn’t make it good.

George was trying to write a bunch of things he’s not good at writing, even if he was earnest about it.

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