Can I vote for obsfuscators not holding a language hostage?

Where I am the charging infrastructure is terrible and electricity prices are bad. I was considering a hybrid but I guess if it’s no better I’ll just grab a regular ICE

Dan you sound like a rad dude ad I’d love to have a beer with you

Any thoughts on a set of APsystems DSL3-L inverters? That’s what I’m quoted for. I’m in Canada so no idea what the inverter market is here

This is amazing, because I do have HA running and I do want to pull data. I’ll look into what their plan is to see if I can make any last minute adjustments.

Assuming data is sent in the clear over any medium which I can get a receiver for I think I’d be ok, I am planning on getting a software defined radio on my HA in the near future

Yes, I’m looking at the paperwork and I’m realizing that you’re right, 80% at 25 is the warranty guarantee, so I’m guessing they’re confident it’ll typically be much better than 80 at 25

I’m getting some new panels installed this year, and I think they’re suggesting they’ll be at 80% after 25 years.

It looks like there is disagreement between the title and content of the article. Title says 75.9, content says 79.5

Either way, does this suggest that new panels might do better than expected over a 30 year timespan?

If the goal is to visualize growth trends, I don’t think raw user counts are the correct value to track on the Y-axis at all. That’s where my head was at when I said it doesn’t make sense. Abusing the Y-axis to try and coax data out in this case is just a symptom of having the wrong measure.

Daily new users. Percent user growth.

Yeah when I showed the cop the graph of my speed before getting in my car to be 67000mph (speed of the earth around the sun) to 67080mphwhen I was driving it he couldn’t see the difference so I didn’t get the ticket.

Or sometimes choosing a common-sense reference makes sense.

Which isn’t to say THIS one does, it doesn’t, but the absolutism of “it’s nerf or nothing” is a tad extreme.

Yes, because if you read their previous comment you’ll see their primary concern is the CO2 released by curing concrete that is the equivalent of running a coal plant for DOZENS of seconds.

I think the ask is to just pick a lane.

Nobody had a gun to his head demanding him to espouse his commitment to an unregulated free market. He made these broad statements of his own volition.

Now, when he’s championing the exact opposite… What?

For people who believed, rightly or wrongly that he had any value-baded stances, they have to accept that they don’t exist.

That’s what these doofuses are upset about: that the xth richest person in the world is only out for themselves. There is no deeper truth.

I want a Nice Cage move where he steals the constitution but everyone is super pedantic any time someone refers to the stolen artifact as the constitution.

I don’t know if it’d be a better bit if HE always calls it the constitution and everyone else (including some backwoods “Deliverance” type character) is just like “… ackshully… I may not be too good on book learnin’ but that’m thar document ain’t no constitution cuz’ it don’t reference no democratically ratified amendments”, driving Nic to freak the fuck out…

Or if everyone else calls it the constitution and Nic is the one constantly telling people it isn’t actually, eventually freaking out.

This is the level of nuance I heard from the TEA Party discussing their paychecks.

Yeah, how dare he omit the amendment which permits electors from the district of Columbia!

I think the previous authour is suggesting that if this offering omits not 2, but sequentially from 11-27 inclusive (aka, everything ratified after 1791) that this isn’t “cherry picking”. A line was drawn, reasonable or not, and that’s the line.

On the other hand, reporting and headlining 2 specific amendments, implies that they were specifically hand-picked (dare I say it, “cherry-picked”) to maximize outrage. Because let’s face it, nobody gives a fuck about how many electoral votes DC gets.

It might even read, to some readers, that maybe these were the ONLY two amendments removed. Even though that’s not true.

Now, see, this is the BRILLIANCE in it. Trump can ARGUE that it was an arbitrary line. And people like me might say “it wasn’t cherry picked per amendment, because it’s consistently applied by ratification date”, and argue that for him.

But let’s get real. It’s no coincidence the line was drawn where it was. It’s telling that “prohibiting disallowing the vote based on sex” (19th amendment) or race (15th) and maybe most ominously “limiting presidential terms to 2” (22nd) are all after the 10th. It’s also kinda telling of where the media sees its barrier for rage inducing material (sorry POC, Trump toasting your rights to vote doesn’t make the cut. We don’t gauge this as something people will get upset about)

They had to get the 2nd amendment in there. The 10th is about states rights. Republicans are generally onboard w/ the first 10. The rest are pretty “woke”.

So, it turns into an argument around semantics. Perfect. Plausible deniability.

Edit: revised after pointed out that the cutoff was the 10th, not the 11th as my original post stated.

Compliance fines come out of a different budget so who cares

Are you saying that the reason the Dems aren’t trouncing the Republicans at every turn is because they won’t flat out lie to their voters?

And, if so, do you feel that the Dems have been honest about Gaza, and the way they have characterized the campus protests?

I’m not saying “both parties are equally bad”, I’m just saying that many of the justifications that Dems give for why the “mentality inferior Republicans” regularly beat them are really more of soothing stories than well-considered fact.

My whole thesis is that they’re not stupid. They’re dangerous. There IS method behind the madness, and this fairy tale we tell ourselves that they’re stupid is harmful to Democratic chances, because if they’re “just stupid” then you don’t see the plan and methodology… And if you can’t see the plan and methodology then you can’t develop an effective response to it.

So, I’m telling you what it is, and asking you to just think critically about things for even 1 second after you hear them and instead of throwing up your hands and wailing, ask basic questions like “why? Who is the audience? What response do they expect, and from who? How does that further their cause?” This particular example is easy-mode.

Roe v. Wade is a supreme Court ruling, not a law. And what happened was the supreme court changed. This isn’t comparable at all.

Again, this isn’t real, at all. For like 100 reasons.

Get mad at the real ones, there are certainly enough REAL ones to get mad at that deserve yours (and everyone’s) attention. This is noise. A smoke screen. It’s bait.

You believe this legislation is being put forward with the intention for it to be codified into law?

For the reasons you listed, among many even more fundamental ones, the would never pass, and if it did, it’s unenforceable.

It’s not to fire up the conservative base. It’s to fire you up.

It’s just bait to shape their strawman “screeching liberal” archetype. They want pictures of blue haired college LGBTQ folks frothing at the mouth, chanting “death to Republicans”

That’s all the Republicans do. It’s all they’ve done for 40 years. They’re never FOR anything they’re just AGAINST the ENEMY. Sometimes they get one dropped into their laps like on 9/11. Sometimes they gotta make their own. Communists. Immigrants.

At this point, they’re even happy to create their own out of queer college liberals. They were NEVER EVER going to vote R anyway. They know they can stir a REE out of them with legislation like this and then use the response as fodder for “America used to be strong and now it’s full of soyboy cucks.”

The arrogance of the Democrats is that they think Republican politicians are just stupid. Some are, but like if they’re so dumb, why haven’t the Dems been able to get more than 8 years? If your opponent is borderline mentally impaired, but you’re neck in neck in what is absolutely a competition of wits, what HARD reality are you failing to accept?

You want to know how to defuse the strategy? Don’t take the bait. It’d be one thing if it was in any way real. It isn’t. Don’t take the clickbait. Don’t feed the trolls. Don’t let someone take a picture of anyone with blue hair having a meltdown.

It was working for a while for the guy. He was paralyzed from the neck down and he was able to use it to play some lame game like LoL or something.