Author’s diagram is about summer. Fall, winter, spring is about heating-degree days. If you’re heating your home with electricity, you’ll not get there with batteries.

So, working towards a solution, there are other ways to store excess energy than in batteries. One example is sand, which can be heated to very high temperatures. Insulate a sand container well and its storage can do a lot of home-heating.

Example: https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/a-scalding-hot-sand-battery-is-now-heating-a-small-finnish-town

We’ll need to put a lot of different methods into use. There are many practical ideas out there, and they’ll need to be tried.

In which case, when it comes to big-city federal tax dollars paying for pork-barrel infrastructure (dams, highways, etc.) and health facilities, and disaster-relief in their little communities, most of those dollars come from city workers. THEY’re not the ones paying for minorities to get a benefit … it’s the minorities!

Without Blue states, Red states would be stuck with the taxes their people are willing to pay.

Red states sure do love all those taxes being paid out by those awful cities, though … they don’t wanna damage -that- part!

That’s 18 minutes I don’t need to spend learning a minutes worth. (He starts out complaining about the lost time he’s invested…)

So it’s a race then, between AI’s killing us thru high-tech malice, and we killing ourselves thru the same old stupidity?

“And may the best man win!”

Wow, that 55 year-old movie “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project” is getting scarier to watch!

OK, thanks for that clarification. I was thrown off by ‘assessed as healthy…’

From the article: " All 232 men in the study were assessed as healthy when their biopsies were examined by pathologists. After less than two-and-a-half years, half of the men in the study had developed aggressive prostate cancer…"

HALF? I’d suggest staying away from that study … either they don’t know what they’re doing, or some AI made up that article…

SUCH a great movie

Wait 'til they come out (if ever), figure out the tech, make/buy a detector, pull your club out ur backpack …

Anybody can ‘launch’ a ‘startup’. Alway-on recording has been around since the 60s. ‘Smart’ glasses? Har. Guess they never heard of ‘glassholes’.

Wow. Throw 16M people off health care, then invest the ‘savings’ in corporations. HEy, Intel, how do you like your blood money?

Wow, where do I start with how insane this is?

Those aren’t ‘services’, those are personal privacy intrusions. For PROFIT. There is no way this could happen without the school’s cooperation. AFTER they got the parent’s permission, that’s not good enough. They ought not only to have that permission (not to mention spelling it out for each student), but also know exactly what data is gathered, every place it is sent to, what privacy protections are in place, and what is done with it once it’s “evaluated”, In detail, per student, 24/7.

“student communications monitoring” 24-7 and/or outside of school is SPYING. There is NO legal OR educational OR ethical mandate for this collecting.

If the kids don’t know about unknown adults prying into their personal lives, AND KEEPING RECORDS ABOUT IT, that’s not necessarily their fault. If the parents don’t know about it, that’s the school’s fault for not getting their knowing permission. AND guarantee their physical and mental safety. (Which is impossible, because as we hear about all the time, hospitals, banks, companies, etc. are constantly leaking personal information or getting hit by ransomware attacks.

If I was the parent of one of those students and wasn’t told about it, I’d sue that school into a coma.

Not just shameless. Heartless. Some of those ICE guys will, at some time, deeply regret what they agreed to do. And there’s no going back.

It was already starting to predict what Web 2.0 would become!

Usenet wuz bitchin’. I remember getting a couple of layers deep in the rock heirarchy (was it rock.history.50s-60s? ) and some great discussions, fact- and story- trading with peeps who went deep. Feedback was NOT instant, and so patience and quality were rewarded.

Then those brats with their binaries came along and bye-bye.

It was mostly there for windmills. One of the first big US windmills was built by Charles Brush … one of the early NYC electricity pioneers … over a century earlier. Dependency on oil (political) kept people from realizing how much free energy (fuel) the Sun sends us. WAY more than we can use.

He’s not in a position to know (much, including) how many investors have put their money on green. A few months to put up a low/no-waste solar or windmill farm (he hates how they look) and start profiting … 10 years (at least) to build a high-waste nuke (and decades of paying interest on those expensive long-term loans)

LeGuin is a treasure.

Of course -corporate- social media can’t be fixed … it already works exactly they way they want it to…

Sure they can. Almost every time I try one, I wind up with a lower opinion of what they’re good for (apart from auto-generating convincing bullshit)

Ah well. They got the ‘artificial’ part working.