Unfortunately, here in the real world, people have to go to work. Hospitals, stores, schools, manufacturers, warehouses, truck drivers, and builders/maintaniers of all the infrastructure that your lifestyle depends on.. even your car salesman with necktie: these are all places that need workers and always will. The small proportion of workforce that are startup employees dont make the rules. You're crazy to think that everyone wants to work from home, I know I sure as hell dont.
The facts regarding crude futures dropping to negative a day in 2020 are actually more to do with the fact every bit of storage in the US was full. The companies closing contracts were hedged by this point anyways, as demand had all but dried up completely. Perpetual futures would go against the entire point of having contacts for specified length of time. That point is time itself, the other major variable in finance.
We had the same thing for a couple days recently as well. I actually went and topped off the generator in the morning as the cable company had let it run out of gas. I believe it is a regulation in being they provide phone service over their coax internet, and there are 911 requirements.
I built one of these in like 2015 when he first released the plans for the original. I recently put a Lepton 3.5 in it. What an amazingly useful device it has been.
Maybe I'm not in the vast majority of readers here, but I absolutely cannot stand YouTube videos where the creator goes out of their way to be extra corny and silly. Just make the damn video without trying to be funny. Interesting topic, but I couldn't make it more than a minute in the video without being annoyed. Id much prefer a dry scientific paper about bed bugs than sitting thru that.
Funny, Kitchenaid and Wolf/Subzero are US made and most products I have owned from either are far superior to Japanese/Korean. For instance, my Samsun refrigerator is three years old now and has a poorly engineered ice maker that has been repaired twice, the light for freezer is now working intermittently, and the digital inverter with its obnoxious 10 year warranty sticker on the front of fridge is now is noisier than when it was brought into the house. I continue to use a kitchenaid dishwasher and microwave, 16 and 10 years old respectively, which still look and run amazing.
Yet the first paragraph states that lack of winter preparedness was the cause and not renewable as initially claimed by some. I'm not sure what your point is here..
Maybe for you, but I have been considering just this. I would love to have dedicated 24v for lighting and charging of devices. My house already has various systems for lighting, such as xenox throughout kitchen under the cabinets and also the basement. Both are driven from separate transformers. Then I got the rest of the house with can lights utilizing br30 bulbs that are just a waste of 12 awg. The one place I was able to replace with dedicated LED fixture, I had to overpay for a decent product that wouldve been better off as a 24v basic LED light. When you consider most hvac systems operate at 24v, there is some real potential to create a decent standard serving multiple purposes.
And besides, idk if you have ever pulled 12ga wire, but it's a pita. Idk any electrician that would agree with you saying it would be a pain to cut back on heavy wire and pull half that with light 22 awg.
I doubt WFH is so popular solely because all workplaces are toxic. A toxic workplace is one like that at American Radium in first half of 20th century, or the building of transcontinental railroad, or Hoover Dam, or Mt Rushmore.