Text Zohran. He listen.

Biden was the most progressive president since at least 1981.

Many people felt he wasn’t progressive enough. The current primary elections are swinging far more progressive than their equivalents in 2018. It should be expected that the next democratically elected president will be more progressive than Biden. Whether they will be progressive enough and effective enough to create long lasting power like when FDRs New Deal dominated politics from 1933-1969. If you do enough damage to the economy, a generation will learn.

Similarly, it took two world wars to learn how to prevent a 3rd, in the relative short term anyways.

Memories remember differences. Trumps second presidency is much worse than his first. It will be more memorable. People are becoming more engaged.

Its entirely possible this is the end of the US as we know it, but its also entirely possible that this era will usher in a New Deal-esque progressivism that a generation remembers for life.

If the US survives Trump, I believe the country will be changing for the better longer term.

Lack of voter engagement makes progressive populism policy hard to pass. If there’s a sense of “we’re the most free country in the world, things may not be perfect, but things are better than they would be elsewhere” then the engagement required for change won’t happen.

If things are worse than a year ago, then people might start realizing the government isn’t working and be forced to be more engaged which allows more populism progressive policy to rise to the top.

Climate change is similar, it’s been talked about for so long that until it gets to be nearly unhabitable many people won’t get on board with its existence. But when they do they’ll be fully on board.

Whether the rubber band will bounce back before its too late, idk, could snap. But if we survive.the worst change, the good change will come.

In the US, typically the earlier you see Christmas on sale is an indicator of how poorly sellers predict the economy will be doing between now and Christmas.

I don’t really give a flying fuck about the answer, but does fucker count you fucking motherfucker, because if it doesn’t I’m fucked, but if it does then I think I can craft a fucking sentence filled with fucks that’ll last longer than me when I’m fucking my smoking hot wife.

DAMION: Security via obsolescence

😂😂😂 hot sands in the US. As if we have a use for thermal energy, that’d imply that we had centralized cooling on more than just universities. This is America.

But seriously, hot sands are hella cool and I’m jelly of yinz.

I mean, sure, I could have had a more specific search. I just assumed that DDG was privacy focused and more or less gave the same search results to everyone.

My states midterms happened months ago, and weren’t particularly newsworthy then. Let alone now.

Given the newsworthiness of Michigan, especially, and 4 other states last night, I would have expected to see results skew towards the trending news story as opposed to old, largely irrelevant, results that skew towards knowing who is performing the search.

It’s backwards of my expectations with the product. And based on my understanding of how search engines operate, youvare more likely to catch search engine bias with broad sweeping searches, than you would with hyper specific searches. As an example, this search was able to identify that DDG biases location over relevance/newsworthiness. Which is why I asked about it in the community I did.

I wasn’t complaining about the effectiveness of the search, rather the privacy concerns.

This makes sense, thanks! How precisely does an IP address give me away? State level, metropolitan area, city, street?

Energy storage =/= batteries

I’m American, I dont know shit about geography, but I think Germany is central to northern Europe.

Germany’s peak solar time is the summer, and their peak wind time is winter. Fascinating. Do you think the people in charge of the grid know this? Maybe this could be leveraged to reduce the energy storage needs for solar power during the winter???

As someone who closely follows the energy storage market, you should know that lithium-ion battery production capacity is expected to reach 7TWh/year by 2030, from 2022’s 2TWh/year. Why? Demand, from all the fucking electric vehicles because we’re going to run out of fossil fuels soon. Not technological advances.

Similarly, iron air batteries were tested by Westinghouse in the 70s, and are currently being brought to market. As far as I can tell, there has been little improvements to the technology to make it commercially viable, other than demand. You know, from all the fucking data centers going in.

Hell, let’s go back to Germany. They have double the wind capacity as they do solar? Why? Demand. Because Germany focused on wind as being the premier renewable energy, not solar. It wasn’t until recently that they created programs to increase demand of solar.

The grid is an infrastructure project. As such, we don’t need to rely on batteries. We can use infrastructure projects, such as reservoirs, for energy storage. And in the US, we’ve been using this method since 1930. I know what youre thinking, “In northern Europe we can’t do that!” But alas, Switzerland did it in 1909. And pumped storage hydropower achieves 70-80% efficiency, which is pretty fucking good. And let’s be real, if your grid isn’t diversified enough where that’s a problem, then that’s a problem with your grid and your incompetent policy makers, not the tech. Or there’s an issue with electric demand, which is a failure of your politicians not keeping the Pedophile Class in line.

The reason energy storage for the grid is a problem now is because we didn’t invest in production 30 years ago. Not because the research was behind. It’s because politicians and the pedophile class failed us.

You are failing the future with the bullshit that you are spouting. Just a parrot of the pedophile class.

Research, knowledge, and tech is not restricting energy storage.

Politicians and the pedophile elite are.

I’m a firm believer in nuclear, but I think that’s a garbage argument against renewable since we have batteries, and other means of energy storage like reservoirs. And now China is lifting a building and dropping it for power. The US is introducing batteries that last 24 hours for data center use.

Honestly, the energy storage sector is interesting to watch right now. There are seemingly endlessly researched designs for energy storage that have never made it to market. But now all of a sudden when data centers are realizing there’s not enough power on the grid, now they’re hitting market. To an extent, I get supply and demand. But the energy storage infrastructure hitting the market now isn’t from recent ground breaking innovations. This shit could have been implemented years ago.

If I hated gay people and ran a food bank, I would want to accept as much money from gay rights organizations as possible that way they have less money spending towards gay rights. It’s common sense.

But I guess common sense is incompatible with Christianity.

Why they exploding hoes over there?

New to Lemmy. Is this common from this instance?

I’m no fan of the dem elite, but I’m still a believer that if we’re OK with incremental change and we’re active at all levels of government that we can motivate others to re-engage and take back what’s ours. That doesn’t mean that we wait till we can vote again and try better next time, it means we start creating the society we want to exist. Building up local politicians, and supporting the hell out of places that support us, hell, even supporting the hell out of places that aren’t supporting us right now but have the structure to support us.

I actually saw some praise on Flock today on Facebook. Youre probably right

I’ve reached out to a few of my favorite local queens.

Yea, its a drag term. A pussy on fire is either the drive to be a queen or just locked in.

Thank you for this thoughtful response. You sound a lot like a guy at the bar that I talked to last night, wish I asked more questions. I may have been having a little too much fun.

I think youre absolutely right about imposter syndrome. I’ve been a hermit for a couple years. There was an anxiety of fitting in and being accepted. Even though I felt loved.

Thanks for standing up for the right thing.

I’m in the trades adjacently, I don’t think our union is doing a good job of holding people accountable for what they say.

Hooverism was coalition building between unexpected groups of people - I need to do a better job to help facilitate that and make the union better so that we can get out of this mess. I keep my head down out of self preservation but that’s only short term.

Line up fem boys!

Thanks! I know I don’t have to cross dress, but I want to try drag. I just respect the fuck out of it.

Shit article. Doesn’t even explain what data collectives and cooperatives look like.

But sure theyll save the world.