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  • Naah. There is only one real Dakota and the other is the imposter that needs to change the name.

  • Why would you be impressed? The US is a horribly outdated mess of institutions from which many are still built on the logic of the 18th century slaving owning white men being "the people" of the constitution.

    Elections are still on Tuesdays because the plantation owners and their posses are supposed to be in church on Sunday and travel to the polling station on Monday. Most proper Democracies hold elections on Sundays, so people dont have to take time off work and depend on their superior to not bully them for exercising their Democratic rights.

    FFS slavery is still legal in the US, as long as the slave has been convicted on some bullshit mandatory minimum sentences for Cops having planted a baggy of drugs on them.

    The US is falling apart. It is inherently unstable and Trump is now accelerating the process, but it has been ongoing for much longer. Also Trump being elected not once but twice shows that he is on of the symptoms of the US falling apart, not the root cause of it.

  • I fail to see your point. That sounds like you have a 61 majority for the Republicans. The "Liberals" are aiding the Republicans getting power, as the article points out.

    Also the Democrats are a pink washed far right party, by standards outsidr the US.

  • I am sorry, but your ideas about how these things work are ignoring a lot of issues.

    First of all you have significant losses in the distribution grid. This is minimized the higher your voltage is, which is why longer range grids run on 110 kV and more. Then you have an intermediate level, typically 20 kV. Finally you get your local distribution with 220/230V. Also "current flowing the other way" does not exist in AC, because the "direction" changes 50x per second.

    Then you only have a limited transportation capacity, so moving a lot of electricity from a central plant of course costs a lot of investment and maintenance. The idea that "Transporting it is for all intents and purposes free" is completely out of touch with the reality of the electrical grid.

    But it gets worse. The more producers and consumers you have, the more you will need to balance fluctuations in production and consumption. This is why traditional grids were built around having a high baseload, with incentivizing high demand industries to connect, stabilizing demand. For renewables this is completely different, because renewabls will fluctuate. So the more energy you run through the centralized grid, the more short and medium term storages you will need to provide and the more investment and running costs you will have.

    You mention this with there being too much production on the local grid and then in another place also needing to react to this. This is not a problem exclusive to local grids. It is a problem for any level of the grid with integrating renewables. Note how the article also mentions the limit of 800W without requiring a permit.

    Finally in the long term we need to make the demand more flexible to production. So if the sun shines and the wind blows, household appliances should run, the fridge should cool a bit stronger, and the water heater heats up for the evening shower... Having a responsive demand with millions of agents can easily lead to overshooting, so that the demand spikes up far beyond supply, because every consumer reacts at the same time and it doesn't temper out.

    This problem is much smaller, if every household can directly see their own production and consumption and already limit how much excess goes into, or is demanded.

    So microgeneration is part of the solution and not a problem like you make it out to be.

  • Hard to justify costs? The article quotes 6 years of amortization. I know numbers around 8-10 years in Germany.

    Show me any consumer investment, that gives such a good ROI.

  • Balcony solar is not unsafe though. At least it is not more unsafe than say putting a plant pot on your balcony, or operating power appliances like fridges, stoves, washing machines...

  • Why are you cooking for yourself at home? It would be more efficient, if you organize a shared kitchen in the house and each evening a different party cooks for everyone in the house.

  • Upon being awarded the prize of A$10,000 (equivalent to $36,011 in 2022), Young said that he did not know there was a prize and that he felt bad accepting it, as each of the other five runners who finished had worked as hard as he did—so he gave A$3,000 to 41-year-old Joe Record and A$4,000 to the other runners, keeping only A$3,000 for himself.[2] Despite attempting the event again in later years, Young was unable to repeat this performance or claim victory again.[8]

  • Almost as if there is a natural balance if you just leave things be.

    Also beavers are pretty cool engineers. They might not just build one dam, but entire systems of dams to achieve the right habitat.

  • Everybody who didn't vote uncommitted in the primaries to protest against having Biden pushed down onto people by the DNC. Everybody who defended voting for Biden and lying about his mental state, when there has been plenty of videos where Biden clearly was not at the mental capacities needed to be president another 4 years.Everybody who immediately jumped on the Harris bandwagon, instead of demanding proper primaries, so the DNC and candidate can actually get in touch with the problems of normal people, instead of the interests of their billionaire donors.Everybody who didn't demand the Democrats to stop the support for the genocide in Gaza immediately and tried to justify genocide with "well this is the less of two genocides, so it's okay."Everybody that celebrated billionaire celebrities like Taylor Swift coming out in favor of Harris, like these billionaires aren't part of the same oligarchy that is fucking over normal people. Everybody that didn't tell the fucking war criminal muss murder scumbags that are the Cheneys to fuck right off and get the people thrown out of Harris campaign, that had this ingenious idea.

    If you made a Venn-Diagram there would be a lot of overlap in the middle, but all of these aspects contributed to the Democrats consistently alienating voters.

  • The moon landing was fake. Unlike all the blonde hairs of the fox hosts. These are all totally naturally blonde and wavy.

  • Turns out regulations are good for businesses.

  • Do you have something to read up on there? That sounds interesting.

  • As i wrote, if there is no investigation, then that is a strong sign that an investigation is needed. But if we just act on the basis of assuming everything Trump says to be true, well you know where that leads.

  • Is there specific evidence for that? "Trump makes odd remarks" could mean he is hinting at something specific and it is true indeed, or could mean he is just lying, or could mean he is just rambling and doesn't comprehend fully himself what he is saying.

    It should lead to an investigation, to see if there has been manipulations. Now if Trump blocks an investigation, which is likely, then there should be resistance.

  • The congress and the Courts don't matter. They don't have the actual physical power to enforce anything. The ones who enforce are the police and the army. That is the difference between constitutional states of laws and authoritarian regimes. Which system do the people with guns protect. And the people with guns receive their orders from the President and lower hierarchies of the executive branch.

    So either the people with guns obey their superiors and abolish the division of power, or they disobey their direct orders and remove the authoritarian upstarts from power. If they choose to enact an authoritarian regime instead of removing the authoritarians from power, the only way out is resistance. Resistance against the people giving the orders and resistance against the people enforcing the orders.

  • Does Colorado have Stand your ground laws? Because now would be a could time to kick people out at gunpoint who try to get into your home without a warrant.

  • You know how old scales worked by putting weights you know on one side, until things got balanced with the weight of the item you want to measure?

    You do the same, but with acid and base, where you know the "weight" of one side of it.

  • You ought to get the balance right for things to change the way you like.

    Titration is a great example of using the inverse. You get the colour by creating the balance. Then you can calculate the unknown side from the balance with the known side.

    Now you can use the knowledge that your your base/acid is of a certain concentration to get the reaction you want to do right.

    As for the specifics, once you get to organic chemistry in Uni it doesnt connect to make sense either, unless you really dive into the deep end of it.