SteveKirk
2mo ago
The brief period of "abolish the family, socialize sexual access for all!" after the Russian revolution is really understudied. Lenin cracked down on it alongside the counter-revolution of "he who does not work shall not eat", but just like in Spain there was a brief but real complete social takeover by that faction of the left I'd probably get modded for naming and linking to
That's counting batteries as "generation" rather than load shifting, btw. And it's like a 48GW real increase on a 1300GW system, or 3.7%. whereas all the "electrification" programs predict doubling demand by 2030 due to electric everything. So less than half the growth rate required.
And next year Biden's 100% tariffs on EVs, solar and batteries hit.
Well, calling them "biden's tariffs" is a bit of a joke when he probably never even drooled on the order, but you know what I mean.
Edit: oh Jesus Christ they literally used nameplate capacity for solar. So multiply all the solar figures by .12, meaning all the solar built in the US will produce ~4x as much as the single nuclear plant built in that same year, and probably less than we lost from the decommissioned coal plants
Edit: after doing the math an absolutely optimal setup in the SW US might be more like .2 than .12. Germany's "energy revolution" dragged down global solar capacity factor along with their economy lol
SteveKirk
2mo ago
I'm still using Firefox, although it's increasingly nonfunctional. Tmk it's still the only browser with good tab management systems.
Been meaning to give Vivaldi another try. Heard they fixed the bug where moving the mouse too fast in the menu crashed the browser...
Google and Yandex for search, the latter whenever my "censored results" sense goes off.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
I think it started with imitating famous Japanese social scientist Jared Taylor's upper class accent.
There was a great article in Social Matter(?) (possibly by David Grant?) charting the decline of American liberalism through Star Trek.
From Kirk lecturing aliens about democracy in front of the literal American flag, to TNG's mushy ethical navel gazing, to DS9's cynicism, to Voyager's "me and my tumblr mutuals against the galaxy" interpersonal drama.
TOS liberalism wasn't coherent, but it was muscular and sure of itself. After that everything was built on a foundation that was already being "deconstructed"
I wonder what the author would make of the new shift to Gaslight, Genocide, Girlboss.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Just like how systemic racism can be perpetrated by a black cop, it turns out systemic Judaism can be perpetrated by goyim. It has to be true, because you can't falsify it!
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Telephoto lenses are a propagandist's best friend. https://petapixel.com/2020/05/02/controversial-photo-of-crowds-on-ca-beach-was-shot-with-a-telephoto-lens/
They're in a very low orbit, and get much less visible once there's not a giant row of them.
I sometimes lay down staring at the sky, and even with the light pollution being much worse now it's amazing the things you start seeing. Dim stars, thousands of meteors, satellites.
I would actually be interested in whether the Hollywood decline coincided with a loss of Jewish control, like it did with the universities.
In both cases it always seemed like they kept a tight leash on the pet elements that could harm profits/donations: Hakeem Jeffries got the "woah there sambo" treatment in the 90s once he clarified that "soulless white ice people" included the jews.
Once the grievance-studies departments took over the admin staff, the Rudenstines and Bacows couldn't stop Harvard going Gay.
Perhaps Harvey Weinstein's casting couch was the one remaining meritocratic hiring process in Hollywood?
Was just outside for a morning walk and by complete coincidence saw a starlink train pass overhead. Two dozen stars in a row is an amazing sight.
After they fell behind the trees I ran in and searched for train locations just in case it was a UFO lol.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Do you think there's any value in weeding out the people who can't cut it? Or do you lose valuable people who'd actually make decent doctors?
SteveKirk
2mo ago
I finally finished a potato experiment I've been meaning to do for years. Planted some in a trench at various depths, then hilled them as usual.
The ones planted at 3' grew a few normal fist-sized yellows at the deepest layer, but then dozens of tiny golfball sized ones on the higher stem.
Always wondered if there were diminishing returns to hilling. Looks like the sweet spot for large potatoes might be 10-16"
SteveKirk
2mo ago
The crips and bloods never captured popular imagination? I'm not entirely sure black gangs are even much more dysfunctional than Italian or Mexican ones after correcting for general member criminality.
Somebody's been flying a fairly large quadcopter over my property and hovering over it, far enough away from the boundary that they're clearly breaking the BVR rules.
Does anyone know what my options are short of shooting it down? Is there an actually reliable scanning app for logging Remote IDs? Does the FAA jump at the chance to go after idiots? What sort of evidence would they need if they care about it?
Don't read this part if you're an FCC agent, but it seems like a nice directional antenna broadcasting noise on 2.4 & 5ghz would take care of a commercial drone nicely? Or at least make it go away if they have their return to home autopilot set up.
I think prison is more likely than murder because of the psychology of the perps. These were the kids who told teacher, not kids that started fights. They enjoy watching Authority punish their victims while taking a victory lap about how they made it happen. You can see this from all their published fantasies about Trump and Musk getting raped in prison.
Just having victims quietly murdered doesn't satisfy that sort of sadism. It needs to be public and identifiable as their handywork for them to enjoy it.
The "quietly disappear an inconvenience" crowd are much more professional and not driven by the same kind of narcissistic pathologies. And I suspect musk and thiel have taken steps to be indispensable assets to them: launching spy satellites and whatever spook-contracting Thiel is up to tends to help there.
No, the vast majority of people in Japan drive themselves, it's just that being able to do so marks them as upper middle class. Because they can only make the poor use public transit by restricting them from having cars
The Tokyo subway shuts down at 11:30 and doesn't reopen until morning. Nobody crowing about how Japan is a public transit success asks the night janitors if they care about walking home.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
We just had an entire subthread about how the Japanese restrict car ownership to the wealthy while the plebs use public transit
He's going after starlink now too. A trial run of what the Dems would do here I suspect: full court lawfare against one target at a time and any business that associates with them.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Is this the correct link? https://drrollergator.substack.com/p/stochastic-terrorism-a-game-of-rhetorical
When the boy scouts were a designated party enemy, yes, it was. We both lived through 00s late night television.
Now they aren't enemies because the party took them over, being a boy scout leader isn't creepy any more.
Anything that old would have died a long time ago. Detonator explosives have a shelf life, even if you're not using a fancy modern design whose tritium needs to be topped up periodically.
And until the late 60s (early 70s?) everyone assumed the war would start on the west German border and move west from there. Eastern European cities would get flattened by western theatre nukes hitting their depots and rail yards.
I could see some nuclear mines buried under west Berlin though.
Troi was totally the ship's political officer though. You can't unsee it after you notice. Outside the command hierarchy but involved in decision-making, authority to interrogate anyone on board for problematic thoughts the computer caught them writing in their journal?
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