breakyerself

The graduate is a strange movie for me. I watched it in my late teens and easily identified with Hoffman's character and saw it through his eyes. Seeing it later as a married middle aged man I kind of despised him and his choices.

YouTube itself needs a competitor. There's too much ads.

I loved Mark Twain when I was a kid. Read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn multiple times. I didn't even consider reading it to my kid when she was younger. Wasn't a good way to handle all the N words.

Rooftop solar and grid scale solar farms are two completely different things. Rooftop solar requires a custom install for every home. Solar farms can leverage economies of scale to drive costs lower and lower.

The cheaper solar gets the more of a gold rush there has been to develop projects/technologies that take advantage.

They're ruining fucking everything. Their impact on the environment is massively outsized. Their influence over politics has allowed them to rewrite tax codes so they pay lower taxes than people who actually work for a living while government contracts and subsidies increase their profits all the time. Their ownership of old and new media manufactures consent for all of this and more.

But yeah I'm entitled because I'm sick of living in a world designed for an elite few. I didn't say give me their money did I?

Thank God. The Amazon gets to borrow a little more time.

Ok do you want to share any interesting ideas the method produced?

Because it's selfish and entitled?

This is some of the most embarrassing shit ever. Man with more money than God is too selfish to pay some taxes. Needs giant corporation to give him even more money to keep him from throwing a fit and moving away from where his job is that made him unimaginably rich. The entitlement of these billionaires is boundless. Take all their fucking money. They don't deserve it.

The BYD Seagull costs $10,150. If there wasn't tarrifs on China EVs would be significantly cheaper. The cost of batteries has been decreasing exponentially just like the cost of solar. Electric tractor trailers are already on the road. Your pessimism about electric heavy machinery is misplaced.

From my perspective it's like you're looking at the market for telephones in 2004 and remarking that most phones are landlines and most portable phones are flip phones and therefore you don't see a future for smartphones.

Solar and wind are cheaper than any other form of electricity in history. (Often even when paired with a storage facility) The fact that it doesn't always shine or blow when needed is driving massive investment into storage technology. The world is changing rapidly. You're not paying attention.

None of this requires fossil fuels and small rural villages in poor countries are never going to get electricity if they have to wait for large power plants and long distance transmission lines to be built. It makes far more sense for a village to have a solar farm, a battery bank and a small local grid.

I didn't know that. Maybe someone could invent a device to convert PV electrons into coal electrons.

That would be dumb of them to add one of the most expensive forms of energy

Unfortunately the party that claims government can't solve problems can point to the failures they create when they get power to prove their thesis.