Have you moved on to accepting what will happen? I'm coming to terms with it. I had a long conversation about the thermodynamics of the situation with an oceologist and it set me straight on what will happen.. all I recall was her emphasizing I just mix dyed blue ice water and dyed red warm water in an aquarium and voila, witness the turbulence. Scale that to oceans, and concede that thermal mass governs the global weather patterns high and low.
The power plant operators do not agree, currently. the energy storage margin is thin and li-ion lifetime too short already... if you refer to grid scale. Look at the APS battery 'event' and the hazard to emergency response personnel batteries pose as a grid asset. Some form of home hybrid using recycled batteries may work, but the safety expertise and market payback don't work except at the DIY scale... Maybe it's a biz opportunity.
I just got a clearly fake robocall, from "amazon" about auto renewing prime but my renewal doesn't come up til December. There is a campaign here and I doubt it is amazon. And I'm not renewing prime, all companies turn evil at this size.
Does anyone else think that Amazon news handle is doing damage to their brand? Silence seems like a better strategy. they must view this union vote as the beginning of the end.
You have motivated me to try it again... Switching the sim today. The hands free calling while driving is another feature to solve for. I'm going wired headset.. 2000 is back! =)
I tried a flip phone for a week but got tired of explaining to people why I didn't receive the picture they texted me, and I was carrying my no-SIM smartphone around for the audiobooks anyway. It does feel like taking the proverbial digital leash off, and rather than text replying I was calling everyone back for convenience. I sure have strayed socially. I shall find this middle ground and report back.
Generally what we read in Durant was ... Not a lot on balance. Their 3 branches of government and the position and treatment of women in spartan society was notable at the time.
Prepandemic WFH was amazing. During the pandemic, it is bad and ruined the experience at this point, I doubt I will do it after, but I hope it is just my current impression because the benefits and freedom were so fun.
The difference is hard to pinpoint but it had a lot to do with the assumptions on the other end of the phone.
In Fareed Zakaria's book The Post American World Order, he makes a great point that India (services) and China (goods) have been deflationary for certain goods/services in expensive economies. If you think of CPI as an average of deflationary and (local, expensive) inflationary products, the trend we are seeing in the US of large local assets (with local cost basis) versus a cellphone (Chinese cost basis), the stagnant measure of CPI versus the increases we see in local costs of living is better explained. All these metrics are faulted and manipulated.
The underlying desire of capitalist institutions making a markup on every possible local market ("rents") in is inflationary to local costs and when the external markets costs go up, that's when total inflation will go 'shazam'.
that's similar to what was said about covid and tobacco smokers from mid-2020. I wonder if a correlation exists to this CBD population and a tendency toward confirmation bias.
Just the shoes eh? Mass communication/information and the ease at which we access it, and how it influences my belief systems is a huge shift for me. I've never been to an ultra, but I love listening to ultra athletes and they set a bar beyond what I would otherwise have thought possible in my amateur/pleasure exercise.
]I would also add that a journalist is accountable to their reputation and journalistic standards while an algorithm has no reputation to uphold and therefore can run wild under the surface with no accountability.
What if Skynet was a social media algorithm... could be a good basis for the Terminator origin story.
indirectly thru elected representatives, legislation, I think so but I'm no political historian. Problem we've got now that you touch on is the judiciary gave this to corps through a 50 year push. Can we get citizens united overturned...
Not ever... when we vote corporations out of controlling the government, or "we the corporations". Red/Blue is for strawmanning, both parties are $green.
This is the argument that gets me applied to bitcoin. It's first mover advantage. And the "gold2.0" market value is this perceived incorrectly if there is no other moat. That's why today we are announcing ... Bitquan!
There's always a drop cord and non-battery options for almost every tool, which I prefer to the inevitable battery degradation (so that makes my leafblower coal and hydro powered). I have an electric leafblower and 2 dropcords. When trucks are electric, problem solved, this can run off the accessory power.