DavidGarcia

Did Viktor Schauberger post this?

maybe it says Tigger because she is a cat and he is her cat idol

reminds me of this bit:

"not only will america go to your country and kill all your people but they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad."

not the n-word shirt

is it insensitive to the undead if I tell a joke calling him a boner?

ah fuck me, the germans found out

probably buying batteries from china, since there is no one even close to competitve with them, like BYD's Blade battery. And then competing on everything else, for example by cutting down on all the superfluous crap they put in to massively overinflate car prices over the last 20 years.

Seriously there's so little good relatable or at least aspirational romance & relationships in anime in general. I mean going beyond infatuation and cheesy soap opera garbage.

And when it exists it turns up in the most unexpected shows.

The best relationship I can think of is Golden Kamuy.

the tax cuts don't help, but the real issue is constantly stealing wealth and income from the bottom 90% through debt and inflation, then handing that money over to the rich indirectly through artifically cheap loans and slow but constant wage cuts.

rich people and corporarions benefit way more from inflation and debt than the average person.

it's way easier for the rich to raise prices to compensate than it is for the working class to get higher wages.

meanwhile cheap debt floods every market and overinflates all prices. so the working class gets doubly screwed by.

The tax cuts make everything worse, but I don't think they are the root cause.

so many of the world's problems could be fixed if we outlawed learning about "business" and "management"

yeah sounds like animism

2 axis solar trackers are much more efficient, but fixed installation beats them in cost/W in many cases.

Any solar installation gets dirty, the question is do you save labor/equipment cost by having them cleaned by a single solar cleaning train, vs. tons of workers or automated brushes cleaning a large open field installation. Do you need to do cleaning passes after every train? Daily? Monthly? Yearly? Is there an intersection of efficiency loss and cleaning investment that is profitable?

If you could install and maintain them in a fully automated way with just a few specialized trains, I can see why it might be an attractive idea. Question is how automated can you make it really? Do you need to fasten the panels down? How do you tie them into the grid?

If the savings on installation, maintenance and cleaning offsets the loss in revenue from the suboptimal placement and dirt, it might work.

I could see this working out if deployed on large scales, where the up front investment of developing all the specialized process and equipment, like trains, becomes a small part of the cost.

Any such proof of concept installation of an unproven technology will be more expensive than if you really deploy it at scale.

If rail didn't exist today and we had to develop the first train and track and all the necessary infrastructure around it, the first 10km would be ludicrously expensive and would never pay itself off compared to the existing road network or shipping routes.

It's a finetuning and risk taking problem. Does the idea make sense in a vaccum? And does the idea work in competition with existing solutions? Is anyone willing to invest enough money to make it competitve?

I hate it when extremely complex multi-variate problems always get judged based on one or two possibly negligable variables because of ignorance or intellectual laziness. Sometimes you can successfuly jugde things this way, yes, but rarely are things that simple.