Understanding statistics and calling out reporting bias is a bannable offence on [email protected]

I really appreciate you providing numbers on this, I was hesitant to set upper and lower bounds and get called out for making assumptions (which it isn’t!).

As anyone can see from your comment the ambiguity in the articles claims are extremely unhelpful.

All this only makes being banned for ‘arguing against facts’ even sadder.

From the linked study's abstract:

This paper uses data from the world's 5th-largest economy to show no blackouts occurred when wind-water-solar electricity supply exceeded 100 % of demand on California's main grid for a record 98 of 116 days from late winter to early summer, 2024, for an average (maximum) of 4.84 (10.1) hours/day. Compared with the same period in 2023, solar, wind, and battery outputs in 2024 increased 31 % 8 %, and 105 %, respectively, dropping fossil gas use by an estimated 40 %. Batteries, which shifted excess solar to night, supplied up to ∼12 % of nighttime demand.

(Admittedly, it was 3 clicks away. Here's a direct link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960148124023309 )

Getting off topic. Please stay on topic of whether the mod action was deserved rather than discussing the article itself

35% of power needs being covered over the time measured ((98/116)×(10/24)).

can be higher. Daytime hours have higher demand, and stat can mean that demand was covered for x hours, instead of production equal to 10/24th of demand.

So if we assume that the 18 days not covered had 0 hours of coverage

unlikely. But a reason the spring period is being highlighted is that there is no heating or cooling demand. There is more room for improvement for sure.

It precisely meant at least 10 hours

Not according to the paper the article was (loosely) based on.

The average was 4.84 h/day and the maximum was 10.1

You would know that if you had read the article and fact checked it against the source.

This paper uses data from the world's 5th-largest economy to show no blackouts occurred when wind-water-solar electricity supply exceeded 100 % of demand on California's main grid for a record 98 of 116 days from late winter to early summer, 2024, for an average (maximum) of 4.84 (10.1) hours/day.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960148124023309

Now that you have all the facts, if you would stay on topic and render judgement of PTB/YDI that would be great.

It really doesn’t help when the poster and the mod are one and the same. Too many people take dissenting opinions as a personal attack.

Jesus Christ. That shouldn't be allowed, honestly. If someone doesn't have the maturity to handle someone telling them they are wrong in the comments section, I think they should literally be required to go and fetch a separate person to get a distinct opinion on it and do the moderation for them and not be allowed to touch the buttons.

Non-whites have never been police, never talked to police, never voted for the Evil Party and shouldn’t be included at all in advice to not be evil, misguided or duped.

Note: 16% of black voters and 43% of latino voters in the U.S. voted for Trump.

If you need a /s at the end of that comment to get the sarcasm you are really really bad at reading context cues.

I think I am, yeah. Edited the original reply now to turn it into a sidenote :D

Hahah fair enough

(Comments from OP are in bold.)

If there's one thing I have very rarely seen trolls do, it's clarify a misunderstanding and then laugh it off once everyone is on the same page again. Honestly, I also thought your sarcasm was a little hard to detect, just because there are some crazy opinions on the internet. But in retrospect it's clearly sarcasm, and you're clearly approaching the conversation productively and making a salient point through the sarcasm. Actually, your exact point was one reason I made a whole separate post of my own about interacting with the police, instead of just reposting that fairly-good-with-some-caveats advice. The comment about white people left a bad taste in my mouth as well.

I am fascinated to find one of the dedicated troll accounts coming in to spend some time debating with multiple people with mostly reasoned conversation on this topic.

Go look at this person's history. I defy you to find some other instance of them calmly debating on any topic with this many messages or with this level of thought and responsiveness. Mostly, they are busy getting banned from [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], for tossing in little one-off missives like:

The areas of Ukraine that were liberated by Russia genuinely prefer to not be ruled by nazis. That US calls all elections/referendums it disagrees with corrupt is just brazen US corruption. Ukraine's nazi roots and current apartheid nazi laws and national holiday additions leave zero debate on the issue. Google can help you.

And:

98% of Crimeans voting to join Russia over being ruled by nazis, with western/CIA agency polling support for the result, is just part of the pure US empire propaganda to deny all election results it disagrees with. Trusting your media and politicians is the source of your misinformed hatred and abuse from the Empire.

So why is this part of your busy schedule, posting defenses of the slrpnk moderators on what seems like a pretty minor normal-fare-for-PTB issue?

Yes it was. Up to 10 hours on most days is nowhere even close to debunking the myth of unreliability, if anything it's proof of unreliability. We need to transition to renewables but this blind boosterism and denial of reality is the exact opposite of helpful.