Agreed. Simple, cheap, reliable, and faster than struggling with that piece of shit opener that barely works and you should have thrown away years ago.

If I were running a soup kitchen, I’d have a different preference, but reliable lever openers like the P38, P51, or even the opener on a leatherman serves my needs better than any of these POS twist-style openers.

The French revolution - and most of that history - contradict your hypotheses.

Science demands rigorous testing of all three of those hypotheses before making a conclusion.

Dude probably gets a standing ovation every time he enters a room.

“Abdicate”

just be sure to pick up on cues

Yeah. About that…

Can confirm. Like bubbly water being squeezed through a thin tube. As a kid, I thought it was air bubbles farting their way through a narrow blood vessel.

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Want happier employees?

“No.”

I’m not trying to solve any problems with Crypto. I’m trying to use their purchasing of electricity to solve a different problem: seasonal variation in solar production.

Due to long, clear, summer days, and short, cloudy winter days, if you have enough solar panels to meet your demand in winter, you have about 400% of what you need to meet demand in the summer, even after accounting for air conditioning loads.

That excess power on the grid crashes the price of power. Unless you can find someone else to buy it, or some way tonuse it. To have enough solar generation capacity to meet your needs year round, you need something that can suck up excess power in the summer. If you can’t monetize that excess, you’ll never be able to get enough solar online to meet demand year-round.

Storage can conceivably address daily fluctuations, but it won’t solve seasonal variation.

You having a bad day? What can I do to make your life better?

The issue is monetizing the excess power produced by adequately-sized solar facilities for 9 months out of the year. Getting enough people to point giant lasers into space would solve the overcapacity problem that comes with solar generation outside of the tropics. Crypto has a slightly higher ROI.

Desalination, fischer-tropsch synfuel production, hydrogen electrolysis, demand-shaping of conventional industries like steel production and aluminum smelting, widespread adoption of electrified parking garages are some other options. Even other maligned, power-hungry technologies like AI can address the overproduction problems of solar better than conventional grid-scale storage solutions.

Also destroying the planet for literally no reason

Not necessarily.

Solar has a problem where, if you install enough capacity to meet demand during short, overcast winter days, you have twice the capacity you need in spring or autumn, and 4 times as much capacity as you need during long, clear summer days.

That excess production tanks the value of the power produced. Itnis already regularly driving power prices negative, making it impossible to recoup the value of your installation. Since it’s cheaper for you to just buy electricity on the market than to install solar, you don’t install solar. Nobody does. Solar installation never expands enough to meet winter demand.

Unless we can monetize that cheap summer power. If we have some way of profitably consuming that excess power, we have every reason to maximize solar rollout.

Crypto can do that just as well as anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y42qgkBf6s4

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/of-course-grindr-gay-dating-app-crashes-in-milwaukee-during-republican-national-convention/ar-BB1qiAQH

Beat on red hot metal with a hammer, and fly hot air balloons.

So all that would change is that my basic needs would actually be met.

Practically none. The only formal education I had that covered the 1930s focused on the Great Depression, and blaming it primarily on the Dust Bowl The same school system completely skipped WWI, and the only WWII lesson was a week on the Diary of Anne Frank.

Everything I know about the rise of Hitler, I learned on my own.

Mailable perishable matter may be sent at the mailer’s own risk

The regulation you cited does not strictly prohibit the mailing of “perishable items”.

I get this pretty bad from time to time. Usually, I’m spelling a word over and over again. Sometimes, the chorus of a song.

When I consciously recognize I’m doing it, I can usually force myself to switch from one word to another, and after three or four times, I lose interest in it.

Worst is waking up in the middle of the night doing it. I try to avoid it by keeping video playing overnight.

ST:V taught me that they prefer to be called “Captain”, but “ma’am” is acceptable in a crunch.