Oh yeah my house is a disaster that works too.

That’s not better though. You can worship god all you want and he’s not gonna do anything bad because he’s not real. The same can’t be said for Claude. This could have Consequences.

I mean maybe but I would think depression would be more natural. Mania is like increased energy and positive emotions. I feel a bit high.

Can you get me some meds? I think I’m experiencing a manic episode.

Yeah a 3 is hardly even perceptible. Some people claim to feel them but personally I never notice any that small. I would hardly say it rattled anything.

For the love of god can we please just ban facial recognition? Why is no one even talking about this?

Thanks. I guess we’ll have to wait for more data to come out to see if the end is a blip or a real change.

With the growing demand of data centers it kinda feels like it will continue to increase.

What’s the last year in this data set?

Ehhh they’re only 90% corrupt. On most issues it’s hard to tell because the line is so far from normal liberal politics but it is there. They want the right-wing oligarchy but not a full on dictatorship. They have been pretty consistent and not letting him go full Mussolini even though they’ll allow most kinds of fuckery.

Except Thomas and Alito. Those two are full on fascists.

Broken clock…

It’s almost like the 4th amendment exists for a reason or something…

You forgot the Prairieland protesters.

The intercept does good work. Surprised no one has mentioned them yet.

I think it’s quite a bit more complicated than this. The concept of disposing of something always existed, but for most of human history that meant just leaving waste where it fell or at most tossing it at the edge of the village.

It’s only once larger settlements appeared that a need to concentrate waste in one location to avoid despoiling the entire area became necessary. This was greatly compounded with the invention of manufactured materials that don’t biodegrade like glass and plastic. There was no other solution to this than to concentrate and bury waste so it didn’t end up everywhere.

News articles: Millennials are ruining circumcision!

This one goes into pretty good detail about the challenges in CA in particular:

https://energy.mit.edu/news/decarbonizing-the-u-s-power-grid/

But at 50 grams of CO2 per kWh, the ban on nuclear makes a significant difference. “Without nuclear, there’s about a 45% increase in total system size, which is really quite substantial,” says Farnsworth. “It’s a vastly different system, and it’s more expensive.” Indeed, the cost of electricity would increase by 7%.

Going one step further, the researchers performed an analysis to determine the most decarbonized system possible in California. Without nuclear, the state could reach 40 grams of CO2 per kWh. “But when you allow for nuclear, you can get all the way down to 16 grams of CO2 per kWh,” says Farnsworth. “We found that California needs nuclear more than any other region due to its poor wind resources.”

TL;DR you can do it with batteries it just costs more, and getting consumers to accept higher electricity prices in order to protect the environment is already going to be a tough sell politically. Of course, so is nuclear, so I do support continued efforts into some more novel sources of baseline power such as floating offshore wind and advanced geothermal. However, these are not ready to be implemented at scale today and the federal government is currently making offshore wind nearly impossible to construct. So I don’t know. There aren’t any easy answers, unfortunately, but we have to hope either the political or technological landscape changes somehow to make deep decarbonization possible.

California is not a tropical climate. Solar resources in the winter can actually be quite poor in most areas due to low sun angle and high cloud cover. Of course the summer is the opposite but we do need power year-round.

Most analyses show the cheapest way to fully decarbonize will include some baseline sources like nuclear. I’m skeptical with CA’s bureaucracy challenges and its political unpopularity it will pencil out to be nuclear but we’ll see. I think all options should be on the table in a climate emergency.

Keeping the existing plant is a no-brainer though.

Visiting a place usually involves paying taxes to its government though. So however you may feel about their actions, you are financially supporting them. That is an ethical consideration that should be weighed, I think.

Not actively spending money? Straight to jail.

I’m not sure why someone would want to do this and even if they did I’m not sure why it would be a major issue.