…and chill.

I am, but all I can think is that the little bastards need some fucking culture!

I had to ditch my girlfriend because she became an arch elitist. Debian ftw.

Yeah, there’s stuff to like, but… but…

I just disable most of the Pop stuff and use vanilla gnome.

240 in the neighborhood - i.e., that’s enough to distribute from the pole to a few houses. Of course you have higher voltages to go longer distances. This is equally true for AC vs DC. Thus, the idea that it takes a looot of copper for DC is erroneous.

In fact, where conductor size is relevant is that you can use smaller conductors for DC, because of the skin effect.

Wiring: Split phase, that is also usable as 240 for large appliances. So, the latter.

I’m saying that if you believe there is no all-loving, all-knowing, etc god/force/nature to the world, then just live whatever your best ideals are. Love, goodness, selfishness, hate, rage at a bullshit god - it doesn’t matter. Each will fail. But the experience of living that ideal, consciously, is valuable.

“It” is the ideal, or principle, or perspective you live by, and invest your time and energy into. But I don’t think you need to do something specific. I don’t think a person can intentionally let something go until they’ve lived enough of it, and that can’t really be rushed or stopped.

So, if that is the case, then if you actually value something - love, or good, or selfishness - be that, and be it to the whole of your ability. It will fail you, and you’ll have to move on. Be it until you can let go without having to shove it away. It will be an option for you - something you’re familiar with, that you can draw upon, genuinely, when it fits.

Do this enough, and the love grows, and you see why love is. Not only that, you’ll start to see the massive impact that the mentality you project has on the actual events you run into in life - and once you see it, you gain more insight into it, and how to work with life, love, etc, including when to stand against it.

Rage on.

Yep. Love doesn’t care for good or evil, just what it takes to care for those whom it loves.

God can only be all knowing, all loving, and all powerful if the power is distributed between three aspects that have imperfect communication. Or, if there’s atemporal consent, or the present situation for any given individual is the desired one, or that the overall situation (including lack of knowledge) is the one the person would choose, were they to have access to more information. Or any combination of the above.

So yes, while there may be aspects of truth in the all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful mythos, it isn’t internally consistent unless you assume the overall, correct picture isn’t the way people typically see the world. And the way people view god sometimes - to be able to live without the consequences of living - is less accurate even than a fairy tale.

A hypothetical god can be anything that supports your arguments. Since your hypothetical god has the ability to end all evil, but doesn’t, your hypothetical god could potentially be hateful.

That’s not my hypothetical god, though.

All knowledge, including the knowledge of my hypothetical god, comes from experience.

Everything that can be, is, at one time and place or many. But only that which can be. And only to the degree that we live it. The thing is, there’s a lot we’re willing to live, though - and that’s kindof the saddest Que Sera Sera. Sovereignty is foundational.

But, what isn’t possible is uncreating that which already is. To destroy others, you violate sovereignty. To destroy evil, one must destroy the very consciousness of evil, because evil is fundamentally based in experience - and through destroying the very consciousness of evil, one would become susceptible to doing it unconsciously.

If, as a god, you destroy evil, you also must destroy everything that led up to it, which includes the capacity for choice. Once you remove the capacity for choice, you are simply subject to the forces of life – and evolution. Evolution works rather well, and generates the capacity for choice. Oops. There’s that naive capacity for evil again.

So, we can’t destroy what is - but we can build something better. And we do. And that is the thing that has been there the whole time, since the beginning, providing the structure along the way - for good or evil.

Yeah. Basically, the biggest reasons for AC have to do with voltage stepping up and down, and for instant grid load knowledge. Well, and of course, existing infrastructure.

Both have solutions, but aren’t as cheap as they are for AC. But, aside from that, DC has a lot of benefits, particularly in end usage efficiency and transmission over distance.

Back in the day, the capability to easily bump up or down the voltage of electricity just wasn’t there for DC, so AC was the distance winner (high voltage is needed for distance, low voltage typically needed for usage).

I mean, you need a lot of voltage to make voltage drop irrelevant. Like, 120 or 240 volts. If distribution is voltage is the same dc/ac, we could use the same wiring (but different breakers, and everything else).

So the wiring argument doesn’t really hold up - the question is more about efficient converters to reduce voltage once it’s at the house.

I.e., for typical American distribution, it’s 240 in the neighborhood and drops to 120 in the house. If the dc does the same, the same amount of power can be drawn along existing wires.

Truly a shitpost.

God is the space to do whatever you damned well please. If you think that means you should fuck shit up, go right ahead and see how that goes for you.

God clearly is not just ‘good’. God is just that which connects all things, and doesn’t require them to be anything but what they are. God is love.

Agreed.

Solid take.

Now, if they’d be honest about inflation rates…

If it helps, it’s supposed to be a drop-in replacement.

Yep. And decommissioning time? The sodium is all recyclable without major effort, and the Prussian Blue analogs can be discarded.

Lower price and longer life.

50,000 complete cycles. That’s 136 years of complete empty to complete full. Most of these will outlast their mounting hardware.

The solution to racism is not to let them breed together? 😕