I live in a 1000 square foot two bedroom condo. When it gets below 20° f, which does a lot during the winter, I have to use the auxiliary heat on my heat pump unit.
That's 7.5 kW.
So just to stay warm during the night, when solar stops working, I would need 3-5 Power Walls?
The main subs or sublemmies or whatever they're called on here have enough users that it's a perfect alternative to Reddit.
Little niche subreddits, like my favorite gaybros and askgaybros, just a few dozen users and I'm going back to Reddit for that.
Are they supporting it so that they can gimp it?
We support the right to repair! Starting now all keycaps will be replaceable. Anything on the motherboard is off limits though or the display or the battery or the ports or the camera.
I thought after 2008 that we had finally gotten over our large car addiction.
They're so addicted to SUVs now that Ford doesn't even make a car other than the Mustang. Their entire lineup is SUVs.
Housing is the thing most exploding in cost.
About half the population already owns a home so they're immune to this problem.
The other half is just moving to shittier and shittier conditions and living with roommates and family members.
Plus this is a very regional problem. Housing in shithole flyover places is still somewhat affordable.
If everything went up five times in price over the last 20 years then it might be a better argument for saying we're in a depression.
Here are the subs I used to go to...
When I go back to Reddit, on desktop, all of those are operating as they normally do, with no perceptible change on the amount of posts.
There's two problems...
There is no easy to use singular Reddit replacement. (The fediverse is not easy to use to normal people.)
Reddit is such a large social media site now that all the nerds getting angry and leaving doesn't matter. 10 years ago this change would have killed Reddit, but now that normal people like my mom are on Reddit they don't give a shit about using the official Reddit app, in fact they were probably already using it.
We can't incentivize people to change their behavior because no one is going to deliberately lower their quality of life.
What politician is going to win on a platform of...
Let's make air travel so expensive that normal people can no longer regularly fly!
Vote for me I'm going to double your electricity bill!
You know that big SUV you love that is entirely impractical but you just like it because of how big it is... If you vote for me I'll make gas $7 a gallon so that you can't afford to have a giant SUV anymore.
You know how you like to eat your Taco Bell nachos in your car with a plastic spork... If you vote for me I'll replace the plastic spork with a cornstarch spork that starts to melt when you use it.
The only thing that is going to save us is technology. Like air travel being fueled by biofuels, electricity costs kept somewhat normal by building new nuclear generation, giant SUVs being powered by batteries charged by nuclear/renewable energy, actually recycling the plastic spork.
Now that you're pretty wealthy has your family decided to become your best buddy now?
I'd be willing to bet that 80% of the people that have a very intense emotional reaction to the small town song live in the suburbs less than 20 to 30 minutes away from whatever city they work in.
Actual small towns like that have less than a couple thousand people suck ass. There's nothing to do there and no jobs and that's why people leave.
I have a picture with Joel McHale.
If Joel McHale turned out to run an international child sex trafficking ring would my picture with him indicate that I was part of the ring?
I HATE Elon, but this whole...
"See see see! There is a picture of them both at the NYC 9/11 Firefighters Fundraiser event in 2009!!! must also be a Satan worshipping child rapist/murderer."
Thing is fucking stupid.
Are you going to buy me a new heat pump?
Also why doesn't anyone make a hyper efficient central system? I've only seen those hyper efficient units as mini splits.
Are you going to replace my 2016 Sonata I spent $13k on buying in 2018 with a $55k EV with car to grid for me?
What happens if it's dark and cold for multiple days? I just can't drive because my car emptied out running my minisplits?