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Things really started breaking down between government and big business and everyone started thinking short term at least as far back as the 1970s IMO.

It also doesn't necessarily matter if the data centers actually raise electricity rates.

Regardless of whether or not they do, you can block their construction and try to horse-trade it for relief on energy prices.

So in other words burn the credibility and reputation of whatever you're using for that purpose so you can pull a quick "fuck you got mine" to the tune of several cents per kwh off your bill.

That sort of policy making is not sustainable and is exactly the sort of selfish shortsighted thinking that birthed the current political climate.

Edit: At leas you're honest about it. The usual peddlers of such stuff are in denial about what they're doing so they can't be made to understand the tradeoffs.

not sold back to grid)

They'd probably love to sell spare capacity back to the grid but the way interconnection is handled they'd likely be on the hook for a bunch of other upgrades to facilitate that hence why they're not.

You can't "just" add generation to the capacity to the grid without $5-15mil (could be way more but that'll usually torpedo a project) of cost.

(and to tar and feather utility executives)

Has anyone thought about perhaps tar and feathering the politicans and bureaucrats that wrote all the rules that make greenfield development with a transmission line tap a non-starter?

The developers would looooove to not deal with brownfields, not have pissed off neighbors, not deal in complex urban sites, etc, but greenfield above a tiny size is effectively outlawed piecemeal in many states.

Is extending the grid to their shiny new DC so expensive

Yes.

Source: learned more than I want to about solar farm development.

My bet is that they'll find a few jurisdictions where the voting rolls or other paperwork were altered in a way that runs afoul of some reconstruction era laws. The root cause will likely ultimately be metric gaming. They'll find a few more people from Chicago, New Jersey and the other "usual" places who did "real fraud", likely at the local and party primary level and immaterial to federal elections. This is technically election fraud, not voter fraud, but that won't matter. They'll flamboyantly prosecute everyone they can, maybe for a dozen total, and declare it a success before moving on to the next shiny distraction

policy heavily favor home owners

Policy doesn't "favor" favor homeowners. It screws everything else because it can.

You wanna add a deck to your home. You pay the people the government says you need to pay a grand or two and you're GTG (by which I mean, good to spend further money actually doing the project). Landlord wants to add decks to his triple decker so that he can make the place nicer (more $) while also hitting the egress requirements bird with the same stone and it's an instant 4-5 figure bunch of bullshit where half a dozen worthless interests who add nearly no value in the base case exercise their enshrined in law right to sink their teeth into what should be a petty project.

And it's not just some slum lords triple decker, it's a 10-unit condo, it's those new luxury apartments and on and on and on and on. Everything about owning property, improving property, etc, etc, is ungodly expensive and exclusionary because there's a mile long list of jerks with their hand undeservingly in the pot.

Don't get me started on the financialization that underpins all this, it's just as tileted too.

Policy "favors" homeowners by somewhat exempting them from the worst of this because the buck stops with them. When they get screwed there's nobody else to pass it on to, so they push back.

Allowing people access fairly illiquid and predictable housing allows and incentivizes them to prioritize things on longer timelines which is good for society.

If you heated with wood you could just burn it (and a whole lot of other things). Obviously not ideal above a certain population density...

What you end up with to get there is lots of propane and butane, which is used as a fuel gas, but most of that ends up going up the flare stack because there's so much of it. We won't stop doing this while we still use plastics and fertiliser.

The amount of gas flared globally adds up to little over 1% of global energy production. I know that doesn't sound like much but we're talking like terawatts. It truly is a mind boggling amount of energy that gets wasted because we simply can't get it to users cheap enough.

There is a clear difference between a local system that has access to your data, and a foreign one. You have no way to vote the foreign entity out of power, and have no say over what they are doing with your data

On the flip side foreign entities mostly won't ruin your life over petty deviance or find a way to predate upon you like local ones will because the foreign institution cannot project violence into your jurisdiction cheaply and without opposition the way the local one can. If I could choose who got access to the exclusion of the other it would be the foreign power every single time.

I know this wasn't what you were getting at but it's worth looking at the other side of the coin too seeing as voting barely grants us any power over how local entities use our data.

Those are unreliable and vary at the whim of the government and their need to fill a hole in the budget.

Sure, but that doesn't matter to the guy buying the trailer. They got a tax break, credit, whatever, and through the magic of financialization they sold that tax break for $.92 on the dollar. So they don't really care what happens. And the $.08 hedges the middle man's risk. Etc. etc.

Not all trucking is the super trucker pissing in a jug OTR stuff you see on youtube (those are the guys with the most down time to make youtube content though). There's god knows how many LTL and reefer fleets doing local delivery and mostly home at night that could benefit from something like this.

That said I don't the cost is low enough for them yet.

But no, we don't seize rights and access to privately owned land for houses, offices, commercial buildings or factories unless there is

Ever since Kelo v New London we do.

overwhelming public benefit.

This is just an appeal to authority that is predicated on the broad willful ignorance that the mean reader here will have toward how this particular sausage is made.

Read the proceedings. Half the time it's bullshit like "gravel pit or office park development wants an easement through undeveloped/agricultural/industrial parcels XYZ to build a road because that means they can exit closer to the highway which saves a bunch of money. They'd pay the land owner because at the end of the day it's money either way, they just think they can convince the state to stomp the land owner cheaper than they can pay off the land owner.

They become volatile. The SPR is a short term buffer.

The abuse at the hands of rogue cops pales in comparison to abuse of the people when these systems "work as intended"

These people really have nothing better to do?

Making examples out of some number of unlucky peasants over otherwise trivial deviance that harms nearly nobody is one of the key jobs of men at arms.

Now, they may spend more time on "real crime" or collecting taxes by other names, but make no mistake this sort of stuff is stuff they (as an agency) must do if they are to properly serve the interests of their master.

The key was always having an active moderator who cared and had unbelievable amounts of time to moderate.

Sometimes the mods are the junk posting users.

A bunch of the car subs were modded for a long time by some tow truck driver who'd mod them while sitting around waiting for dispatch. Exactly the kind of guy you want refereeing a dispute between some guy who's lived it and a bunch of lube techs who are quoting textbook best practices.

Advice and information subreddits have gone to shit because of AI usage

but instead someone to relay the question to ChatGPT and post the result as if it is their own hard earned knowledge and insight.

people aren’t just refusing to say “I don’t know” they’re actively seeking out opportunities to pretend they know things.

What? This is a joke right? Advice and information subreddits have been shallow blind leading blind crap like that and have been for at least a decade. The vote mechanism plus local culture rewards shallow "teennager just googled it" type responses (that AI is basically replacing here) that even people who don't know anything can agree on and punishes nuance and serious understanding.

Eventually the people who know their shit make a joke subreddit (which is inherently exclusive because you can't joke about something without knowing about it) and then at some point later people figure out that's where all the smart people are, start asking questions there instead and then it goes to shit in the same way.

AI is absolutely a lateral move here.

Unless you have a stay at home spouse or teenage child who wants a video editing hobby it's usually just a huge time sink.

You vastly under-estimate how expensive social services programs are. The people of Texas can pay less have piles of money for 1984 equipped police cars and highschool football stadiums and other boondoggles by simply not having those programs.

Is it the right thing to do? ehhh....

That said Texas isn't that low tax overall compared to a lot of other states. They have pretty oppressive property taxes.

They don't care about catching criminals. They can use real police work for that. They care about being able to profile everyone going back some arbitrary amount of time so that when someone who isn't homeless with nothing the state can steal gets out of line they can come up with a short list of who done it.

Under the 4th amendment which has been incorperated against the states in the 1960s.

You'd think the real CIA would get pissy about these upstarts and stomp em.

The venn diagram overlap between people who say "but minivans" and who hand wring hard enough to start a fire when someone has the gall to actually put 2000lb of stuff in a minivan or put a butt in every seat is too close to a circle for my liking.

Source: Minivan owner

Exactly. People are optimizing for the most capability on one car payment. And for a lot of them that looks like a pickup but it also drives what people buy in the SUV market as well. This has bee known for decades. Like it's literally defining principal behind the 4-dr jeep and the proliferation of 3rd rows in midsize SUVs. The fact that you're still getting downvoted for saying it speaks volumes.

It's the case the world over across every sector of the economy.

Frito Lay or isn't gonna stop a line because some bearing is dying. Someone is gonna show up on Friday night and get to work.

They just use custom rims.

That's exactly where most of the wear comes from.

I once had a conversations with a painter at a university. They do the women's bathrooms every year whereas they do the men's as needed. Women have nails and rigs and purses with metal hardware and big fancy buttons and clasps and stuff on their jackets.

I wouldn't be surprised if subway wear on the back wall is gonna be dominated by people carrying things. People carrying things tend to filter there because you can put them down beside you more securely and a lot of those people already have backpacks so it's nice to lean against the wall.

Right, but nobody's sure just how wasteful. And at these scales small factors make or break things. That's why it's hard to predict who's bullshitting. A fairly small unforeseen factor here and there adds up to wild financial success or failure over the course of an entire project.