There's really no reason not to colocate in arid regions. Ag gets the benefits from the snippet, but an equally important panel placing is waterways. Canals, lakes ... reducing evaporation means more water, which less is than required of for ag, meaning more crops for the same amount of water or -- as is currently the problem -- keeping output steady with less water use.
Short of having to occasionally balance my batteries off mains, living off solar is amazing. I do nothing, pay nothing and just have power. The city-owned utility is addicted to raising rates without improving reliability. Each time a storm rolls through, I pity the fools posting on Reddit about a power outage.
The midpoint is "give the corporations whatever they want." One side adds internal genocide just for fun, while both are fine with that happening everywhere else.
It's clear that neoliberalism is dead. The questions are what replaces it and whether it would actually be an improvement.
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So you're telling me I should start a business.
This is my first time running into his work. I intend to dig deeper now that I've seen how no-bullshit insightful he is.
I try my best. Thanks for the kind words.
To paraphrase ... someone ... You can't unfuck in a single graf what took three prior volumes and an additional 20 chapters in Vol. 4 to lay out. There's a lot of soul searching that needs to be done before we start moving in the right direction.
I frequently use "therewith," so I'm a terrible person to gauge such things.
I tend not to think about just how long ago 2006 was, but I lived with my fiancee in a small apartment complex where we pretty much all knew each other ... nine units all facing a courtyard. In the summer, I'd roll the large Weber grill out to the grass, light the coals, and anyone who wanted to throw some meat on was welcome to do so.
This was pretty much every night; in exchange for my charcoal contribution, I'd often be offered tri-tip leftovers or a bespoke burger. We were a very diverse group, and I can't imagine that we'd all agree politically on any given point.
Nonetheless, we'd congregate around the grill, having brought out our camp chairs, and we'd sit there for hours, just shooting the shit, telling stories, playing cards or board games, and laughing our asses off while drinking beer. Bonding over food and drink as humans have for millennia. Smartphones weren't a thing yet, nor was Facebook.
It was just neighbors hanging out, a chance for social interaction without being overwhelmed. We formed a bowling team with one of the other (redneck as fuck) couples, and politics were just never discussed, because whether you like the president doesn't affect your odds of a strike.
The suffusion of politics into everything, along with the rise of manipulative social media, has killed these simple moments of humanity. I just want to go join a commune at this point.
This falls into the category of "other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
News would be Local Jewish Community Totally Fine With Holocaust Denial.
That aside, please stop posting full articles on Beehaw. It opens the site to copyright liability. Excerpts are fine, falling under fair use, but the point of a functional news-aggregation site is to drive views on publishers' sites so that they continue producing the content being shared.
I mean, Jesus fuck, does anyone believe we've not crossed the Rubicon?