I doubt that would be terribly relevant. The lions share of the surplus energy should be predictable based on recent grid data + 24 hour weather forecasts.
Based on nothing but wikipedia the primary methods for desalination are distillation (boiling) and membrane; neither of which sound like ramp up time would matter.
Fuck bitcoin. It should be allocated to desalinisation so less water is pulled from the rivers of the driest continent on Earth. The ecology around waterways is already in the shitter, and global warming is going to 10x that clusterfuck.
Seriously… If he’s spending ~3k a year on gas and even half of that is cooking, an induction stove would pay for itself within a few years.
Same for the water heater. The fossil fuel industry didn’t spend decades promoting gas because it was the most efficient option.
Hate to tell ya, but corporations have been running the US government for most of its existence.
The scariest part about Trump is that the plutocracy no longer need to even hide the vacuous corruption. So many people are so mentally ill they’ll literally defend satan to your face, while feeding you an alternate version of reality, citing some dead shit crackpot with 1k YouTube views as “evidence”, while calling you crazy. Having dealt with these people, their OS is simply corrupted. They don’t know what logic or reality is anymore, and most of them never will… If they can ignore all evidence thus far, they’re more likely to murder you than they are to self reflect.
Nah. All companies should be required to provide updates for a minimum — say 5 years — and whenever they choose to EOL, they must open source everything related to the products feature-set. If you can’t do that, then you don’t deserve to compete, or waste humanities finite resources with your dead-end greedy planet-killing civilisation-ending narcissism.
Planned obsolescence needs to be exterminated with extreme prejudice.
We live in a post truth world now. The only thing that matters is feefees.
Conservatism didn’t spend the last 50 years crippling education for fun. It was because a stupid worker is easier to con.
Concepts like “fair”, “balanced”, and “democracy” can not exist under Capitalism, because money is speech and power, and the small elite who control thousands/millions more capital than average control everything thousands/millions times more than average.
“Fair and equal” for a military industrial complex that has waged war its entire existence is about as “fair and equal” as a master and their slave.
This is why capitalism requires aggressive regulation. Corporations will always choose walled gardens and proprietary protocols. There can never be any guarantee that any org — whether FOSS or for-profit — won’t enshittify a product in even moderate timescales; there are a hundred reasons why.
Therefore, they should never be given that option. If you build a product, you either build everything to be interoperable with an open source, lossless spec, or you don’t get to waste humanities finite resources with your narcissism. If you can’t compete on a level playing field — without holding users ransom and creating artificial barriers to their attrition — then you don’t deserve to compete at all. If you stop supporting/updating hardware, you open source all code required for the anyone else to take over, for the entire feature-set of that product. If you fail to meet the very basic requirement of “don’t be a fuckwit”, your company gets seized and your source code/protocols/patents become public property (FOSS).
This will never happen though, because we live in capitalist plutocracies masquerading as democracy… Sure, you can vote for whoever you want, but 90% of the names on any ballot are a curated, pre-vetted, pre-financed, list of corporate whores.
Luckily you can buy several USB-A to USB-C adapters for ~$1 each, instead of demanding manufacturers persist an outdated spec — that’s been superseded for a decade — and creating significantly more e-waste and headaches for everyone in the long run.
It sounds like you need to move on and forget the people who don’t care about you. Anyone that does care will maintain contact, and if that’s nobody then at least you get to start anew.
About 4 times in my life, I’ve made major changes and cut multiple people out of my life after deciding they were no longer good people &/or friends, and each aftermath was better than the years of trying to maintain “the good ol times”. One of those times left me completely alone… I mean literally zero friends for like a year. 5 years later I had a better group of friends than I’d ever had previously. That experience let me know I’d be fine on my own. I’m also fortunate to be an introvert and never really suffered depression or similar. The key to success is not dwelling on the loss and moving on with your life. YMMV.
Luckily I’ve never had to cut family off, but I’ve spent more time with the people I’ve cut off than a lot of family, so I wouldn’t think twice if I thought family were a negative influence in my life.
And even in the case where there is actual separation, and competition, it will only be temporary!
For the entire planet, prior to the last few hundred years. Religion agreed, because pedos are attracted to power and religious leaders were the most powerful.
All of Islams problems can be explained entirely by demographics, modern history, and wealth distribution — which directly impacts quality of education.
Iran was a relatively liberal democracy before western plutocracies chose to arm radicals and overthrow the government.
Afghanistan was relatively stable until the soviets invaded and overthrew the government, and the west taught them how to do terrorism/insurgency.
But sure, let’s just ignore history and act like Christianity wasn’t a radical terrorist org prior to science and universal education.
Mental illness is the problem, of which all religions are at the top of the list.
It’s cute you think fascists care about borders, and that the US doesn’t have a history of persecuting foreign political opposition.
What are you, 12?
They never were. Letting the fox run the hen house will always fail. Once you realize all of the UN and analogous environmental orgs/events (IPCC, COP, etc) are politically/corporate managed, and do not align with the scientific consensus, you realize they only exist to greenwash and legitimize for-profit interests, and inaction.
Trump will designate Reporters Without Borders a terrorist org, and terrorize their reporters using the state.
The entire internet backbone is fiber optic cables, so most data is already transferred using “beams” of light.
This is what computers do on either end of the fiber optic cables to transmit the data; except billions of times faster, using multiple “colors” (wavelengths) and similar tricks with light to stream as many 1’s & 0’s as fast as possible.