Ontario Canada's electricity prices doubled after implementing a lot of solar and wind.
That isn't to say that renewables are inherently bad. Manitoba, British Columbia, and Quebec have some of the cheapest electricity out there because they use hydroelectric.
That isn't to say that renewables are inherently bad. Manitoba, British Columbia, and Quebec have some of the cheapest electricity out there because they use hydroelectric.
If the economy was doing as well as they are trying to gaslight you into thinking, then they wouldn't need to be talking about price controls.
I don't think in a perception creates reality sort of way. If you close your eyes and don't know what's in front of you it doesn't stop it from existing, it just means you are ignorant. The same if you metaphorically close your third eye and are willfully blind to the world inside of you.
If you think you understand the world completely, then you don't understand enough about the world.. it's time to open some books, learn more about the world, and eventually you hit that point where you've crossed the dunning-kruger threshold and you realize how small you are and how small your knowledge of the universe really is.
"And a rate 4 times that seen in the economy after the government revisions after the press stops paying attention"
It's like a branding thing, but it's really weird seeing Zelensky wearing the same t-shirt and pants in every damn photo.
@alex Is there now, or are there plans to eventually have, a migration path from rebased as a back-end to ditto?
I really pissed off a "covid is the worst thing to happen to the human race ever" guy by pointing out the difference between covid, the spanish flu, tuberculosis, and smallpox. In my own country, the number of deaths was way higher under the others, and that's not even correcting for per capita -- there was 1/8th the population and double the deaths over comparable periods of time during those pandemics.
Tuberculosis in particular is a disease with undeniable long-term effects, and unlike something like covid (or even its vaccine -- which might have pissed him off even more since that part of the analysis totally breaks the "you're on the other side" narrative), it was overwhelming. Of the people who got tb, half of them had measurable damage to their lungs that would have to be managed for the rest of their lives. Neither COVID nor COVID vaccines have that level of immediate damage to that overwhelming percentage of the people who get it.
The same guy found a study showing that the covid virus found a way to suppress the immune system and so was continually making the claim that covid gives you AIDS, but if the implication of anyone who got covid gets AIDS (which implies a condition commensurate with getting HIV/AIDS) much of the world (because in spite of vaccines many many people got COVID) would have died of rare viruses and bacteria. Instead, several years after the fact things are really back to normal other than the societal scars left behind by the political tools used during the pandemic. It's similar to all the studies that kill cancer cells in a petri dish and people claim there's all these cures for cancer, but it's easy to kill cancer cells on their own, it's much harder to kill cancer cells and not destroy the rest of the human body.
Tuberculosis in particular is a disease with undeniable long-term effects, and unlike something like covid (or even its vaccine -- which might have pissed him off even more since that part of the analysis totally breaks the "you're on the other side" narrative), it was overwhelming. Of the people who got tb, half of them had measurable damage to their lungs that would have to be managed for the rest of their lives. Neither COVID nor COVID vaccines have that level of immediate damage to that overwhelming percentage of the people who get it.
The same guy found a study showing that the covid virus found a way to suppress the immune system and so was continually making the claim that covid gives you AIDS, but if the implication of anyone who got covid gets AIDS (which implies a condition commensurate with getting HIV/AIDS) much of the world (because in spite of vaccines many many people got COVID) would have died of rare viruses and bacteria. Instead, several years after the fact things are really back to normal other than the societal scars left behind by the political tools used during the pandemic. It's similar to all the studies that kill cancer cells in a petri dish and people claim there's all these cures for cancer, but it's easy to kill cancer cells on their own, it's much harder to kill cancer cells and not destroy the rest of the human body.
A couple weeks ago, I was investigating the idea of what fascism actually is, because it's often uses a carry-all to talk about every single thing that people don't like about government. It makes a lot of sense to just call fascism date socialism where everything is brought under the banner of the state. This is in contrast to German national socialism, which is racial socialism where everyone is brought under the banner of a certain race and anyone who isn't part of that race is obviously pushed out, or class socialism where everyone is brought under the banner of one class.
It seems to me that by this definition the world is under the grip of state socialism, or fascism. Churches which don't bow to the ideology of the state end up essentially being written out of existence, big business is being bent to the will of the state and we get to see out in the open now what happens with people like Elon Musk who don't follow orders. At the moment, the Democrats are certainly fully fascist, they intend to bring everything under the banner of the state. But let's not pretend that there isn't a significant faction of the Republicans who want the exact same thing. Just look at Liz Cheney who just endorsed Kamala Harris because of course she did.
It seems to me that by this definition the world is under the grip of state socialism, or fascism. Churches which don't bow to the ideology of the state end up essentially being written out of existence, big business is being bent to the will of the state and we get to see out in the open now what happens with people like Elon Musk who don't follow orders. At the moment, the Democrats are certainly fully fascist, they intend to bring everything under the banner of the state. But let's not pretend that there isn't a significant faction of the Republicans who want the exact same thing. Just look at Liz Cheney who just endorsed Kamala Harris because of course she did.
Wouldn't it be embarrassing if she lost despite a massive fundraising advantage?
Honestly, even though she's the weakest presidential candidate in my lifetime, it's possible she wins since the entire establishment is holding enough water for her to irrigate the Sahara.
Honestly, even though she's the weakest presidential candidate in my lifetime, it's possible she wins since the entire establishment is holding enough water for her to irrigate the Sahara.
I'm kind of torn...
When I was younger, all in on democracy. Should be obvious given that for a good chunk of my life democracies were basically where it's at.
Over time though, you see the cracks start to form. Democracy doesn't necessarily mean that an informed populace is selecting the best people for the job. It can also mean that the people who end up in charge of the country are those who are the most manipulative and conniving. You don't win elections by having the best policies, you win elections by being the best manipulator. Even people who are reasonably intelligent can be overwhelmingly manipulated, if the people doing the manipulation have such overwhelming resources that they can dominate discussions.
At this point, it's pretty easy to convince me that at the very least universal suffrage isn't good. It's like... You can vote for who's in charge once you prove you can manage your own life.
When I was younger, all in on democracy. Should be obvious given that for a good chunk of my life democracies were basically where it's at.
Over time though, you see the cracks start to form. Democracy doesn't necessarily mean that an informed populace is selecting the best people for the job. It can also mean that the people who end up in charge of the country are those who are the most manipulative and conniving. You don't win elections by having the best policies, you win elections by being the best manipulator. Even people who are reasonably intelligent can be overwhelmingly manipulated, if the people doing the manipulation have such overwhelming resources that they can dominate discussions.
At this point, it's pretty easy to convince me that at the very least universal suffrage isn't good. It's like... You can vote for who's in charge once you prove you can manage your own life.
You know, fair enough. Same as the articles in 2024 talking about them darn millennials when some of them are in their 40s. Given how much I know the media lies about a lot of things, I ought to know better than to adopt their shorthand.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-2-ray-traced/downloads/doom-2-ray-traced-102
And then update the renderer with:
https://github.com/vs-shirokii/RTGL/releases
It is insane seeing doom 2 in full RTX glory.
After many years of attempts to move the doom sprites into 3d that were cringeworthy, they came up with a brilliantly simple idea of converting the sprites to voxels so the 2d sprites inhabit a 3d space. It looks the same from all the cardinal directions, but it inhabits 3d space and will look different from all 360 degrees.
Voxels are usually a minimally impactful graphics mod, but with ray casting, it means that now players, power-ups, enemies, and props have a presence in 3d space which is important for ray tracing.
this is really important because the original RT mod for doom from a little while back relied on the 2d sprites and so there were some pretty major visual glitches since it had to do 3d lighting based on the 2d projection and it didn't quite look right. Now, the lighting is done based on an object in 3d space, and so it looks "right".
And then update the renderer with:
https://github.com/vs-shirokii/RTGL/releases
It is insane seeing doom 2 in full RTX glory.
After many years of attempts to move the doom sprites into 3d that were cringeworthy, they came up with a brilliantly simple idea of converting the sprites to voxels so the 2d sprites inhabit a 3d space. It looks the same from all the cardinal directions, but it inhabits 3d space and will look different from all 360 degrees.
Voxels are usually a minimally impactful graphics mod, but with ray casting, it means that now players, power-ups, enemies, and props have a presence in 3d space which is important for ray tracing.
this is really important because the original RT mod for doom from a little while back relied on the 2d sprites and so there were some pretty major visual glitches since it had to do 3d lighting based on the 2d projection and it didn't quite look right. Now, the lighting is done based on an object in 3d space, and so it looks "right".
"it turns out people need cars they can actually use because they don't all have cushy government work from home 'jobs'"
Honestly, I may be a millennial, but I don't regularly buy avocado for anything at all so I just used it as an example, but you are correct that the key is finding those daily recurring expenses like daily coffee on the road or meals out instead of brown bagging it.
Got fbxl search back up and running as well as my remote administration path. Don't upgrade distros an hour before you leave for a week, it's bad for your heart.