This is also why 2022 will be the last year we mostly had the ability to sort believable information from hallucinated hot garbage on the internet. I’m predicting future AI will tease out that most people don’t trust posts to not be polluted with AI after 2022 that AI will start writing results claiming they were written prior to 2022.

I see you like gambling on upvotes or downvotes. From me, you get an upvote!

In other words, he really does believe his opinion matters that much.

It indicates he wants it to, but its cognitive dissonance at best. If people did care about his opinion, he wouldn’t have had to put his thumb on the scale tilting the traffic to artificially point to his posts. People are leaving Twitter anyway, which has to prove it even further people don’t want to hear from him.

Perhaps he thinks that people give a shit about his opinions. He burned his bridges with conservatives by accepting huge government contracts and shitting on trump. He burned his bridges with liberals with is DOGE fiasco and by allying himself with trump.

The few disaffected people that hung on after those can’t be happy with Elon throwing himself in Ketamine trance on a regular basis. Musks has zero credibility with anyone now except his hand picked board members of Tesla Inc.

Oh sweet summer child. Back in the 1999 and 2000 Network Solutions was the only registrar (for North American TLDs) and it cost $35/year (and if memory serves you had to buy it initially for 2 years, and after that you could renew it for 1 year at a time). $35 in the year 2000 is worth $65.66 today.

It’s also important to check whether solar overcacity is worthwhile in the UsA. Her3 it is not( anymore).

I’ll say generally speaking in most places it isn’t, however, once you go solar, you may increase your electricity usage as you move away from carbon based energy. Before solar we had natural gas furnace heating and two gasoline cars. Now we have two EVs and a cold climate heat pump with zero natural gas and zero gasoline consumption. So I wanted the larger solar capacity to cover the increases in electricity we knew we’d have.

Its worked out pretty well. We have fairly large electricity bills ($400ish) in Jan and Feb, a small bill in March, and usually a tiny bill (under $10) in April. Then no bills for the rest of the year. Also keep in mind that is TOTAL energy costs, no gas or gasoline bought anymore.

And buy them according and after you’ve done everything possible to insulate your house, whether in the colder or warmer climates.

In the USA there are silly rules that you can only get 120% capacity of your last years worth grid consumption as solar installed. So if one were to follow your advice and do all the energy efficient improvement prior to solar, then you would be restricted to getting a much smaller array. I understand why they have the rule, but its easy to circumvent by just having artificially oversized consumption for a year in your house, and you can then get the larger array you want before then doing all the energy improvements post-array installation.

Using half-worn car battery packs seems optimal for home use.

I’m not putting cobalt based (NMC or NCA) batteries bolted to the inside my house. Thats nearly exclusively what car battery packs are. Thermal runaway is too great a risk to bolt that much energy to a wall in the house. I am comfortable with LFP in the house though.

could be because I told them I’ll buy once I can get net zero.

I’m not following your logic. You aren’t willing to accept any savings unless you can completely zero out your power bill? Judging from your consumption I’m assuming a good chunk of that is for cooling your home? If so that means you’re likely in a pretty great place to harvest solar power. You’d reach payback of your investment on your array much faster than most, and be saving money for probably 35 years or more with little to no additional investment.

Making some guesses for how much your electricity rates are, and how much you’re consuming (assuming much from cooling), you might be a full payback in less than 7 years if you took advantage of the tax credit. Then, every month after that you’d be gaining money back.

CAC cards

And your point?

I guess I thought my point was clear in my first sentence. “This isn’t a propaganda win.”

Of course they needed a pretext and this turned out to fit the bill.

They don’t need a pretext either. They’ve already enacted draconian policies against monitory groups based upon race and against LGBTQ folks. They needed no rational pretext for those. They didn’t need one for any other horrible things they’re going to do in the future. They would do those things anyway.

They know how to play the propaganda game.

This isn’t a propaganda win. Its simply a pretext for what they wanted and had the power to do anyway. Propaganda win would be if there was universal popular support for Kirk, and there wasn’t before and simply isn’t now. Most people didn’t even know who Kirk was before this.

If you don’t vote for her, you’re endorsing her statement against women holding office. Checkmate liberals! /s

While the sexy answer is more desirable, the real answer is much more mundane. The thermostat on the bridge always ran cold during Pike’s captaincy. Pike is just chilly at work. Once Scotty joins the crew, Engineering finally got around to fixing it, and Kirk could dress lighter.

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Why is there a picture of DS9 in a post about Babylon 5?

You’re on a great path and you know exactly what you need to do to succeed in your goal. I know you’ve got this!

I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with that. Many of those things you’re describing in your roommates are signs of entitlement or immaturity. Decades ago, I did a lot of the things you are citing. In time I grew up. Those people existed long before the term “adulting” existed. Perhaps the term does end up being some kind of shibboleth for your age group, but I use the term myself, am much older than you, and never use it as excuse to shirk my adult responsibilities to myself or to other.

If you aren’t yet ready to live on your own because of finances, would it be possible to seek out older roommates? Perhaps a married couple? There’s no guarantee you’ll find sane responsible people no matter what demographic you’re shopping in, but older and more established folks give you a better shot of having matured and have their shit together.

“adulting”

I hate that word, its so stupid. It implies self infantilization, when in reality its use is just indicative of one’s attitude towards work or getting anything done.

I don’t mind the word. Its more specific. People can still get things done, but they may be things that give them a dopamine hit like completing a personal project or finishing off the final boss in game. It doesn’t get things done that deal with adult responsibilities. Further many of us suffer from mild mental health challenges such as ADHD and various locations on the spectrum so there are very real challenges beyond just “one’s attitude towards work”.

Its okay to use the word “adulting” to recognize efforts that need to be undertaken to take care of your adult responsibilities. This doesn’t mean that someone can be allowed to simply delegate their own adult responsibilities on others using this word.

As soon as I save up and move I will be so happy to finally live alone for the first time in my life. Rent will be more expensive and I’ll save way less but at least there will be fewer human variables like that to deal with.

Having your own living space is wonderful! Its also a good test to know if you have all the life skills you need. I am hopeful you can get this soon.