GiuseppeAndTheYeti

Can people tell me why we keep using the stupid fucking "border czar" term? I want to know who the fuck these people are and what their actual titles are. It makes reading headlines such a fucking chore. I end up having to google the context of a headline like every 4th article.

For those curious, Tom Homan's actual title is White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations

People have trouble separating the art from the artist. I don't blame them. It's tough sometimes. I used to really love Kanye before he turned out to be a nazi. Watch the Throne and Graduation are fantastically produced albums with some excellent songs. Same with College Dropout.

I still listen to them when they come up in my playlists but the magic is pretty well gone. I think that he was and is mentally ill so with the right people around him he probably wouldn't have turned into such a piece of shit, but here we are.

Illinois redistricted recently and it was gerrymandered to fuck to make sure that her district was absolutely backwoods conservative as possible. It practically ensures Illinois will swing blue for the next decade. She's unfortunately my representative, but I'll live with that reality knowing that my existence as her constituent pisses her off and Illinois stays blue.

What really pisses me off is that their anti-cheat forces me to use dogeOS

I believe when the first one was destroyed, someone had outlined that only 3 of the 9 were operational.

Yeah, but that's my slice of untouched nature to visit in the summer....there's so little left 🥲

Larry Fink. Wikipedia says he's a lifelong supporter of the Democratic party, so I'm going to assume that means the Chuck Schumer democratic party and not like the Sanders/Ocasio-Cortez democratic party. Maybe some Hercules type fella could come along and start taking care of a few heads of that particular Hydra.

Well, there's obviously going to be a lot of angles to that question but initial cost and the fact that large scale battery farms aren't necessarily needed right now stick out to me.

The grid as it is designed right now is capable of producing power at demand simply by spinning up more generators. There's no cost benefit (really) to generating extra power and dealing with logistics of storage while the extra power is not needed. Not at statewide scale and while the infrastructure isn't built already.

Let's for a second assume that a power company at statewide scale wasn't able to just spin up more generators to meet demand and there IS incentive to provide storage. The company looking at the market today has 2 choices. Buy batteries that provide a versatile/portable solution with no real local consequence OR spend money developing and engineering molten salt or pumped water storage.

Electrochemical batteries:

• Pros: rapid installation, available market for part replacement, resellable, cheap to repair, energy dense, variable discharge, no significant R&D, negligible local environmental concerns
• Cons: less reliability, finite resource reliance (rare earths) can cause repair and replacement costs to increase, global environmental concerns, local weather systems can more easily damage infrastructure, limited cycles

Gravity and thermal batteries:

• Pros: renewable or abundant recourses depending on location, reliable and simple, efficiency increases with scale, difficult to damage irreparably, fewer global environment concerns
• Cons: large amount of R&D financial cost/time to account for local environmental concerns, construction and implementation could take multiple years in addition to R&D, unique systems don't allow for much resell ability, larger potential footprint, location constrained, semi-fixed discharge rate, fewer partner companies to provide unique part replacement options, potential impact to local families in the event of failure (Taum Sauk).

I want to make it clear that I don't really agree that nuclear is bad. In any shape or form fusion and fission are the two cleanest sources of energy that we have and are the sources of energy humankind will need to guarantee our survival as a species.

However, there are clean batteries. Battery is just a term for potential energy storage and things like gravity batteries and thermal batteries are feasible right now. Electrochemical batteries aren't the only type of battery that we have. Actually, they are less efficient and less reliable than the others at scale.

Really? Dumper sticker was right there...

Chernobyl was disastrous because design flaws were not relayed to the plant engineers. It took years of roadblocked research to find out what had happened. Even the man that had helped to design the RBMK reactor did not consider a meltdown was possible because the xenon that ended up poisoning the reactor would burn off under normal circumstances.

The meltdown could have been prevented if not for the soviet government inexplicably withholding critical information about the reactor from it's own engineers.

I'm annoyed about this whole story, the guy claims to never have sailed before and is crossing the Pacific ocean in like a 25 foot boat. The ocean isn't forgiving. A single storm would be more than capable of capsizing his vessel in the open ocean. What he's doing is reckless, dangerous, and inconsiderate of his close friends and family.