US US Politics General 2: Hope Edition - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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These things in large scale to take over coal/hydro/especially nuclear aren't feasible and will never happen, no matter how much people push for it. Especially with the push towards electric vehicles.
I dunno, the lingering slivers of "optimist" in me still has hope we'll eventually discover a way to improve PV cell efficiency enough to make them worthwhile at small-to-medium scale. I agree that large scale probably isn't ever going to work, simply because of the massive space that'll still be required. Electrical distribution is lossy already, and I suspect the larger a solar field is, the more inefficient the energy transfer from the panels into the grid becomes, since it has to go from panel-to-panel, then to a chain of transformers, more lines, more transformers, then out to the grid on HV lines where the usual slow loss happens. Plus the maintenance -- somebody has to keep all the panels washed, repaired when wiring goes bad or circuits fail, and replaced when glass gets smashed by the elements, and the usual substation maintenance too.

Still, if we can get PVs to over 60-65% efficiency I think they'll become very attractive for use on industrial and commercial buildings. Lots of mostly-wasted rooftop space just waiting to slurp up some juice.
 
Also×2 nigga, those dudes aren't seeing a jury or a trial because
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2. Trump (the highest power in the land at this point) already denounced what the bitch did and said the officers actions were justified. Even if they did see legal consequences (they won't), the orange emperors got a nice golden pardon for them.
Unfortunately this is not the case. If it were, Derek Chauvin could have been pardoned by now, but the actual man with that power is Tim Walz.
 
I used to drive for Lyft as a side hustle in the pre Covid world, and one fare was a sixtyish year old drunk gay dude who spent the entire ride soliciting me

This lead to some frank discussion and I wish I came away with some special insight, but the most I got out of it was he really hated his ex wife, and a lot of his being gay came from some deep existential “fuck you” he felt he needed to express to the world.

I’m sure it doesn’t HAVE to be that way, like some gays were molested as kids and spent their lives being warped by intrusive thoughts, but I’m just saying, as a straight man I’ve never felt aroused by the idea of getting and spreading std’s. The thought of them is the kind of sad and horrifying that you banish with mockery and contempt

I'm always confused when men tell these stories and don't extrapolate to what it's like for us

this is just a regular day for a woman in the service industry
 
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