He gave the voters what they were asking for and they showed up to vote for it.

Remember when we told you if Harris or Biden didn’t do the above, they would lose the election? Pepperidge farms remembers.

This is how you pressure some one into making the dumbest decisions human kind will ever experience.

whoa whoa

if my mom sees yuu sweating she’ll take away my phone

get to heck ICE!

Its its coming from MIT, it deserves an extra pass of scrutiny.

2019 article about battery technology; meanwhile, we’re literally living in a revolution driven entirely by the battery technology (and pricing) that the article says shouldn’t have happened: quite simply, they got it wrong.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-battery-cell-price

The price decrease and performance increase in battery technology has made them disproportionately more valuable than we expected them to be.

Go find a 2025 article if you want to support your previous point.

The fact is batteries got better and cheaper, both, faster than we expected them to. Solar is already more than efficient to overwhelm our storage capabilities. Its a better investment to design and build with batteries, almost always. The additional complexity at this point is minimal.

If the technology is so great, why not just slap in some batteries and have it run 24/7? Batteries are so cheap there is no reason not to.

I get that you simply don’t understand whats being said. You’ll figure it out eventually.

I understand both, excellently.

What do you mean refried? What about MIT?

MIT is in the business of marketing MIT, and they are damn good at it. And I do think the people doing this work should be highlighted. However, it ends up being almost exclusively hype.

Its a trope specifically related to MIT.

Why battery free?

Batteries are cheap and great.

Oh its refried MIT garbage. Ok.

I mean you can revisit the chapter. Its mostly them fiddling about with assumptions to prevent pollution from going completely exponential, * then * it becomes resource limited.

I’m not even sure how well the assumptions of their modeling approach would hold up these days. Its an interesting example of expert systems analysis but its pretty dated.

Limits to growth called this. Chapter 4. Pollution ends up becoming the limiting factor far sooner than any other constraint in most of their model runs.

https://archive.org/details/TheLimitsToGrowth/page/n129/mode/2up

Its like season 5 of Dexter when they start just re-spinning the same more and more absurd plot lines.

Yeah I don’t even think I saw little Nicky. I was mostly thinking the early stuff. Its funny what holds up and what doesn’t…

Ah man. I need to give this a rewatch and see if it holds up.

Thinking back, I bet it will? The biggest issue with these older comedies is usually the racism/ sexism/ homophobia. I can’t really recall (too) much of that in the happy madision productions.

Do you not?

Are you not?