Wherw would “Cable tied it to the doorhandle of a car parked like an asshole.” Sit?

Mechwarrior online.

Free, online “shooter”, good community, runs on linux, gameplay is dated and doesnt get tons of dev support anymore but its still how I kill an evening once or twice a week.

Made by a convicted prolific child sex offender.

“In our defence he was way better at brown people things than a lot of brown people”

Honestly its not the worst way on earth to do calorie control. My breakfast and lunch are super calorie controlled and I actually get to enjoy my evenings and I dont get fat.

Took me 2 years of dieting, tracking and effort for me to get a handle on what works for me.

I really want to meet super tallented actors like Geoffrey Rush and tell them they were amazing in the most artistically devoid thing they have done.

My absolute favorite scene is the Trace buster buster buster.

Melvin

And I know the tone you read that in.

This has always been my counterpoint for the Nintendo haters when they complain about price. (Although they are a shit company in several other ways) Because when my daughter wants a new switch game if its a top tier Nintendo title its going to be a finished game with zero bugs and zero concern about problematic content for me.

The YT channel is “Renaissance Periodisation” for anyone interested in Bodybuilding/Steroids/Fitness/Dick Jokes.

Dr Mike is one of my favorite people, I genuinely think he would probably be a fun guy to hang out with.

The best use case I can think of for “A.I” is an absolute PRIVACY NIGHTMARE (so set that aside for a moment) but I think its the absolute best example.

Traffic and traffic lights. If every set of lights had cameras to track licence plates, cross reference home addresses and travel times for regular trips for literally every vehicle on the road. Variable speed limit signs on major roads and an unbiased “A.I” whose one goal is to make everyones regular trips take as short an amount of time as possible by controlling everything.

If you can make 1,000,000 cars make their trips 5% more efficiently thats like 50,000 cars worth of emisions. Not to mention real world time savings for people.

Good. Tell him to use any money left over on hookers and blow.

Its not “wasted” financially. I dont know the rates but if 1 unit costs 50c from the grid during the day they will only pay me 10c to feed into the grid, at peak times (evenings) they want $1 from the grid and I cant contribute. If I preheat/cool my house with 5 units of energy I would have only gotten $.50 for and halve my evening usage on maintaining it from say 10 to 5 im up by $4.50

The numbers are bullshit, but you get the idea.

Also down the track a little my wife and I are looking at making one of our cars a phev so we wanted to be able to charge it at home off solar.

Fight fire with fire.

Create dumb laws? Sue schools in red states and deep red voters with animal mascots.

I thought of these things.

Imagine the fun lawsuits you could launch over mascots and drama performances just to be a dick.

Yeah theres a LOT of variables at play here. I saw a headline today that “Uk braces for 30C heatwave.” As an Aussie I thought “Thats cute” we regularly see summer days into the mid 40’s so you can imagine what our peak daytime drain looks like.

You guys also tend towards way smaller houses than us, significantly higher population density, generally cloudier weather, energy costs will be wildly different… so many variables.

You have to remember that without a battery, your solar generally only helps out 8 hours a day and those are usually the 8 hours when you arent home, and arent the times energy companies charge peak rates…

When my wife and I built our house and sorted our (fucking massive) solar system our consultant said "Smart appliances are your best friend. Load the washer and dryer, set them to turn on at 10am before you leave the house. Set the airconditioning to come on at about 3 in the afternoon so that you not only get home to the AC/Heat but your using energy that would otherwise go back to the grid and then once the sun goes down you’re only maintaining temp which is way less energy intensive. Home batteries are still just not cost effective enough yet for us to justify one.

Dont get me wrong, even a small solar system on every house will make a difference. Just maybe not as much as people would like to think. The one benefit of having it be mandatory (and you’re right on this one) is that every new house will se set up for it, wired in right and easily upgradable from whatever they make the minimum standard.

It doesnt add a lot of cost, but it also doesnt help as much as you think.

In Australia its mandatory to have an (I think) 2Kw/h system installed. Which is about enough assuming its running at full tilt to power the air conditioner in the peak of summer on a small house. A mate of mine who knows a lot about solar said “2kw is about enough that your home is essentially energy neutral when you’re not in it. So the fridge, water heater, appliances on standby…”

Of course when you start talking a national scale it does add up.

Yep, thats it.

Lots of conservation areas and a national park. A “529 day search” was the weekly briefing for the National Parks staff including “Hey, nobodys found that dog yet. Keep an eye out.”

They know the cost involved in training people… training people who now have the skills to fuck shit up somewhat more than the average citizen.

“Never forget in the story of Jesus, the hero was killed by the state” - Killer Mike.