There are two forms of inexpensive green energy: Hydroelectric, and geothermal.
In Canada, the price of electricity is inversely correlated with the amount of hydroelectric deployed, with Quebec having most hydroelectric and the lowest electricity rates, and Alberta having the least and some of the highest. Iceland famously has geothermal such that everyone gets free hot water they can use for domestic water or for heating their homes. Last year, norway had a period of negative electricity rates because there was so much electricity being produced a such a low cost they needed to get rid of it.
Contrast with the actual effects of magic tech like solar or wind. If it's the cheapest form of energy, why do electricity costs skyrocket when they're implemented? In Ontario, they had some of the lowest electricity prices in the country until the government started out on a new plan to install windmills and solar panels. Shortly after that, electricity prices tripled. Australia used to have some of the cheapest electricity in the developed world (admitted due to coal power plants) until they started trying to migrate to solar and wind, which led to prices nearly 10x what they used to be.
The politicans are just lying when they say that wind and solar are the least expensive form of power, particularly since for much of the year and much of each day something like solar has a price per unit power approaching infinity. How much installed solar capacity would you need in order to heat your home at night in winter? Maybe you could get a pittance of energy from the stars, but practically speaking you'd need to build a virtually unlimited number to heat one home. Same as a windmill when the wind isn't blowing.
There are spots where solar can be helpful. For example, I imagine in equatorial regions where you're trying to cool more than heat or light, you may get the most energy at the same time you need it. There's also an argument for solar or wind in off-grid living where you might be able to work around the limitations because there's one user or small group of users. A farm for example could have a wind generator and use it for various tasks when the wind blows, and of course windmills in some countries were the way grain was turned into flour, but on the days the wind isn't blowing, those units aren't producing.
In Canada, the price of electricity is inversely correlated with the amount of hydroelectric deployed, with Quebec having most hydroelectric and the lowest electricity rates, and Alberta having the least and some of the highest. Iceland famously has geothermal such that everyone gets free hot water they can use for domestic water or for heating their homes. Last year, norway had a period of negative electricity rates because there was so much electricity being produced a such a low cost they needed to get rid of it.
Contrast with the actual effects of magic tech like solar or wind. If it's the cheapest form of energy, why do electricity costs skyrocket when they're implemented? In Ontario, they had some of the lowest electricity prices in the country until the government started out on a new plan to install windmills and solar panels. Shortly after that, electricity prices tripled. Australia used to have some of the cheapest electricity in the developed world (admitted due to coal power plants) until they started trying to migrate to solar and wind, which led to prices nearly 10x what they used to be.
The politicans are just lying when they say that wind and solar are the least expensive form of power, particularly since for much of the year and much of each day something like solar has a price per unit power approaching infinity. How much installed solar capacity would you need in order to heat your home at night in winter? Maybe you could get a pittance of energy from the stars, but practically speaking you'd need to build a virtually unlimited number to heat one home. Same as a windmill when the wind isn't blowing.
There are spots where solar can be helpful. For example, I imagine in equatorial regions where you're trying to cool more than heat or light, you may get the most energy at the same time you need it. There's also an argument for solar or wind in off-grid living where you might be able to work around the limitations because there's one user or small group of users. A farm for example could have a wind generator and use it for various tasks when the wind blows, and of course windmills in some countries were the way grain was turned into flour, but on the days the wind isn't blowing, those units aren't producing.
China likes regressor cultivator stories, Japan likes isekai fantasy stories, Korea has a lot of regressor reverse isekai stories.
The regressor cultivator stories always feel like a story about having children. You already know all the secrets of life and it's a matter of trying to use them to help a second run go better.
The isekai fantasy stories feel like a story about a new phase of your existing life. You're starting new but maybe the wisdom of your past will help this new beginning.
The Korean regressor reverse isekai stories feel like a story about frustration at the world, a fantasy about a different present where you had a leg up and didn't have to fight so hard just to make it day by day.
In that way it also represents the past(and the far future), the future, and the present and their attitudes towards these ideas. The Chinese stories tend to be kind of angry. The Japanese stories tend to be optimistic, and the Korean stories tend to be grounded and realistic but slightly bitter. I'm aware that I'm painting with a very broad brush, but that's all this is, a general assessment.
The regressor cultivator stories always feel like a story about having children. You already know all the secrets of life and it's a matter of trying to use them to help a second run go better.
The isekai fantasy stories feel like a story about a new phase of your existing life. You're starting new but maybe the wisdom of your past will help this new beginning.
The Korean regressor reverse isekai stories feel like a story about frustration at the world, a fantasy about a different present where you had a leg up and didn't have to fight so hard just to make it day by day.
In that way it also represents the past(and the far future), the future, and the present and their attitudes towards these ideas. The Chinese stories tend to be kind of angry. The Japanese stories tend to be optimistic, and the Korean stories tend to be grounded and realistic but slightly bitter. I'm aware that I'm painting with a very broad brush, but that's all this is, a general assessment.
Turning point 3 next week. I imagine God will come snap off his arms and legs or something.
Mushoku Tensei was fire today.
Hikikomori stories hit me right in the gut. For those not following the anime, his little sister came to stay with him and go to school but locked herself in her dorm room and it reminded the main character about his life before he got isekai'd as a NEET hikikomori.
I had a NEET phase myself for about 8 months after high school, but the time I felt most like a hikikomori is in college, ironically. Alone and broke in a strange city and spending all my time working or studying, I felt like the biggest loser spending all my time so isolated surrounded by a million people in the city. Especially being a weeb, you see these cute stories about anime waifus, and going to sleep alone in my strange bed in a strange apartment in a strange apartment building in a strange city hit hard.
For some people it's different, but I was built to have a family. I'm thankful for them every day, whether I'm at home or on the road -- Even away from home I know I'll be home soon.
Hikikomori stories hit me right in the gut. For those not following the anime, his little sister came to stay with him and go to school but locked herself in her dorm room and it reminded the main character about his life before he got isekai'd as a NEET hikikomori.
I had a NEET phase myself for about 8 months after high school, but the time I felt most like a hikikomori is in college, ironically. Alone and broke in a strange city and spending all my time working or studying, I felt like the biggest loser spending all my time so isolated surrounded by a million people in the city. Especially being a weeb, you see these cute stories about anime waifus, and going to sleep alone in my strange bed in a strange apartment in a strange apartment building in a strange city hit hard.
For some people it's different, but I was built to have a family. I'm thankful for them every day, whether I'm at home or on the road -- Even away from home I know I'll be home soon.
Kinda ironic considering I'm pretty sure NYC was one of the first cities in the world with widespread electrical infrastructure.
"Oh! We have a hugely popular game that is earning respect for not fucking anything up!"
"Great! Let's fuck it up!"
"Great! Let's fuck it up!"
How can we change the world if we know there's these problems? The answer might be that the question is wrong.
Brownian motion is a random movement of tiny particles in liquid or gas caused by liquid or gas molecules. It is caused by atoms hitting the particle. Brownian movement shows something small can change something bigger than it, but what if that thing is much larger, such as something in the macro world?
Well, an atom may push a speck of pollen, but it can't push a boulder. It may be possible to watch a speck move, but a bolder needs something substantial to move it.
In the same way, you can change things bigger than yourself, but eventually it's just too big. An atom cannot move a bolder, but a raging river can, but the individual atoms have no say in where the river goes. Even with great men changing history, the river chooses the path, and even the mightiest atoms are merely caught up in it.
People want to save the world but they can't even save themselves.
All that being said, doing stuff worth doing is hard, and you need to grit your teeth and keep a stiff upper lip and just push through staying true to your own virtues. Do that and you might not save the world, but perhaps you can save a slice of what you care about. Some the river can keep going but perhaps some atoms end up in puddles or evaporate and find themselves on a whole new path. It can even keep the other atoms in its molecule. If the river is going somewhere you don't want to, that might be the only option.
Brownian motion is a random movement of tiny particles in liquid or gas caused by liquid or gas molecules. It is caused by atoms hitting the particle. Brownian movement shows something small can change something bigger than it, but what if that thing is much larger, such as something in the macro world?
Well, an atom may push a speck of pollen, but it can't push a boulder. It may be possible to watch a speck move, but a bolder needs something substantial to move it.
In the same way, you can change things bigger than yourself, but eventually it's just too big. An atom cannot move a bolder, but a raging river can, but the individual atoms have no say in where the river goes. Even with great men changing history, the river chooses the path, and even the mightiest atoms are merely caught up in it.
People want to save the world but they can't even save themselves.
All that being said, doing stuff worth doing is hard, and you need to grit your teeth and keep a stiff upper lip and just push through staying true to your own virtues. Do that and you might not save the world, but perhaps you can save a slice of what you care about. Some the river can keep going but perhaps some atoms end up in puddles or evaporate and find themselves on a whole new path. It can even keep the other atoms in its molecule. If the river is going somewhere you don't want to, that might be the only option.
My dad said something similar a few weeks ago. He lamented how free he used to be and what we've lost.
At the time I was still more trusting if the establishment media, so I'm sure they were the ones I would have been getting my info from back in 2020, but it's been a long time now and I don't recall the specific theys. I do recall seeing a thunderfoot video about it (not saying he's establishment but rather than his video was in line with what the establishment was warning about)
Early on when we didn't know that much, they didn't really have a mechanism they just said that it was going to kill this massive percentage of everyone who got it, which turned out to be totally wrong.
I just wrote about something regarding this on another fediverse site, there were a lot of major actions taken, and at this moment I'm tending towards thinking it was the lockdowns rather than the vax that really caused the most harm.
For example, the stagflation I warned about in early 2020 ended up coming exactly as I said and everyone can see that -- it actually is a "bring out yer dead" scenario with tent cities popping up around the world in cities that typically never had them. We also saw many apocalypse scenarios with respect to childhood development and education turn out to be true. We also are seeing the "bring out yer dead" scenario regarding drug addiction and mental health.
For example, the stagflation I warned about in early 2020 ended up coming exactly as I said and everyone can see that -- it actually is a "bring out yer dead" scenario with tent cities popping up around the world in cities that typically never had them. We also saw many apocalypse scenarios with respect to childhood development and education turn out to be true. We also are seeing the "bring out yer dead" scenario regarding drug addiction and mental health.
Have you ever heard of Gentoo? It's really neat, it compiles every program you use from scratch!
One of the most important things I had to learn in school was that I needed to chill the fuck out.
I went around with a chip on my shoulder like a lot of nerds back before technology was considered cooler, and in part because I moved around a lot during the important formative years I didn't have a lot of friends (if it happens a few times that you make friends then you move and have to make all new friends it really sucks). I lashed out a lot for a long time at anyone who made me feel bad.
Eventually I learned to chill out and let things slide and just be myself and besides dropping both my blood pressure and the number of schoolyard free for all brawls I got into, it let me actually connect with people somewhat, solving the original problem anyway.
At least for me, teaching me that I was actually in the right and the problem is I wasn't lashing out hard enough really would have been counter-productive.
I went around with a chip on my shoulder like a lot of nerds back before technology was considered cooler, and in part because I moved around a lot during the important formative years I didn't have a lot of friends (if it happens a few times that you make friends then you move and have to make all new friends it really sucks). I lashed out a lot for a long time at anyone who made me feel bad.
Eventually I learned to chill out and let things slide and just be myself and besides dropping both my blood pressure and the number of schoolyard free for all brawls I got into, it let me actually connect with people somewhat, solving the original problem anyway.
At least for me, teaching me that I was actually in the right and the problem is I wasn't lashing out hard enough really would have been counter-productive.
So what if the real reason Jews wear the Yarmulke (the little Jew Beanie) is that everyone from that region of the world at the time just has male pattern baldness right on the top of their heads and wearing a little hat covers it up to make it seem like they have more hair than they really do?
I think it's important to be reasonable in this respect.... It's already been 3-4 years since many people got their first shot, and just like we didn't actually have carts of dead people in the streets from covid, we don't have carts of dead people in the streets from the covid vaccine.
Now don't get me wrong -- what I'm not saying here is that there's no effects from the untested experimental vaccines and that there never will be. What I'm saying is that we need to live in the here and now and look at what's actually happening rather than predictions from people who don't have the real world data to make extrapolations.
Early on I watched a video about COVID that suggested that billions would die, and while the videos were very convincing at the time, we now know they were entirely wrong. Even in countries that largely didn't have any of the interventions of the west such as in Africa, things were mostly fine. More deaths than usual, but not a black plague "bring out yer dead!" piles of bodies thing.
Now don't get me wrong -- what I'm not saying here is that there's no effects from the untested experimental vaccines and that there never will be. What I'm saying is that we need to live in the here and now and look at what's actually happening rather than predictions from people who don't have the real world data to make extrapolations.
Early on I watched a video about COVID that suggested that billions would die, and while the videos were very convincing at the time, we now know they were entirely wrong. Even in countries that largely didn't have any of the interventions of the west such as in Africa, things were mostly fine. More deaths than usual, but not a black plague "bring out yer dead!" piles of bodies thing.