My strangest shower thought came from my strangest shower.

I worked for a small company years ago that paid for a "spa day" for its employees after completing a year long death march project. I had a mediocre massage, but afterwards I went to change I their shower room and decided to give the shower a go.

My god. It had a 3ft square rain shower head and no less than 12 separate side jets on the walls, all adjustable. Every inch of my body was hit simultaneously with hot, pressured water. It was like wearing a suit of hot water armor, head to toe. No matter how I moved, water. It was basically a standing bath. They must have had a city water main hooked up to that shower stall, as the pressure was just ridiculous.

I stood in there for nearly 30 minutes. It was wonderful, and also made me realize that this is how the ultra rich lived. This kind of luxury as an after thought, an expectation. For that moment of time, on someone else's dime, I was in that world. That realization was almost as surreal as the physical experience itself.

Another thing is that people like to be on a winning team. People will avoid voting for someone they expect to lose. It's not going to affect the bulk of people, but anything that reduces low turnout voters actually voting is a win for the other side.

These are grid scale projects. Each one is designed to power 100s of thousands of homes.

Based on the data I can find, 35MW datacenters are what AI will require by 2030. The project I linked above could power 20+ of them at once by itself.

There are immense capacity utility scale batteries available now from dozens of vendors. They would be roughly 100x easier to build than a nuclear power plant, even with a solar farm attached.

The most recent nuclear power plant built in the US was the 2 new units at the Vogtle plant in Georgia. They took 11 years and 34 billion dollars to build to output a roughly 2.4 gw of steady power.

A 1gw solar + battery plant was built in Nevada that cost 1.9 billion. They secured financing in 2022, and finished building it in 2024.

So we can get a solar array built to do the above with battery storage for 4 billion, in 2-4 years. For the same cost as that added 2.4GW nuclear, we could build 18GW of solar with 12.6gwh of storage.

So nuclear will do 2.4GW of peak, with 2.4gwh of "storage" available 24/7.

I have no doubt that the above 18GWh of solar could be traded in for more battery, to a more sane ratio that could compete with that "storage" while also providing 4-5x of total power. Based on what I can find, the batteries were about 1/2 the cost, so if we knock the solar generation to 9GW, we can increase battery to 25.2GWh. Now you still have huge power generation, a huge power storage that you can use all at once or over a long period, and it matches the "storage" that that nuclear plant offers for 12hrs, I.e the time when the sun is down.

It's honestly baffling why these companies are trying to spin up nuclear plants instead of pushing ahead with more grid renewables.

Yeah, that's my point. Their fictional analogy doesn't track.

If the thread is 52 comments and that's posted 26 times, that is a dead thread. There is an inherent problem with that.

Posting should be an attempt to create discussion. If the poster tries to end discussion in the comments, that's just making noise. Eventually, a community of just noise will die.

Ohh, so any registered voter, that supports any candidate and policies can get this lotto ticket, exactly like your hypothetical coffee shop that just looks for "I voted" stickers?

Youre saying this lottery is fully non partisan and is open to all voters equally?

Isreal can't refuse access to the press in Lebanon like they do in Palestine, so the lies are easier to pierce.

Like most of these, the article tries to point out the horrors that the IDF are committing, but still lets the individuals wash their hands of it.

They talk to remorseful soldiers about the trauma they "witnessed," never about the trauma from what they "did."

It lets them be passengers to their own villany, unwitting stooges to the mass murder of civilians. There is probably some truth in that, in that all war machines are designed to destroy everyone, including its own soldiers, but they still pulled the trigger and rammed the fleeing women and children with their tanks.

The talk of trauma like it just happened to them instead of being caused by them is a problem, and frankly too kind.

Meme of wizard walking hand in hand with "fireball" while looking over his shoulder at "wish" passing by the other way.

Give me 10 Lina Khans and I'll give you the world.

That's really common for people even when listening in their native tongue.

My current job is just now kicking on RTO for no good reason, so I've found the best upgrade path of all:

Leaving.

More info here.

Even more, with some of the racists names.

Then they basically fired her from what was a lucrative job "for her safety."

No punishment occurred for the shithead that assaulted her or the shitheads that minimized the attack.

Dude had both mountain view and waterfront property in Los Angeles.

Man should have just kicked out a wall panel and got himself a nice glass of lemonade.

Okay, so they got the game "somewhat working" live? Well, that's something I guess.

I guess that explains why the commentor above posted a pre-recorded video instead of the actual live video that undermines his argument that the game is nearly done.

Whatever works for you.

Personally, I have none of the above issues with Unlock origin. Its deeply tunable, so after adding a few lists past the default, it stops all the above.

Yup. It's an old and indeed legitimate tweet.

The Seattle bike blog post goes into it, but basically the "no" voters are being disingenuous by calling the renewed levy both a "huge waste of money" and saying "it doesn't do enough."

Their primary complaint is that "the food is terrible, and the portions are too small."

It can't be both, so I don't read it as earnest disagreement. If they want a bigger levy to do more, they can vote for this one, and push for another one next election season. Killing this one, and then pretending that after a small levy fails that somehow a much larger, "perfect" levy will be put up to vote later and pass? Not likely, and obviously so.

Nah, that's just people pretending to care about safe bridges/roads/sidewalks/bike paths, but who actually just care about their pocket books. They want to use "perfect" to prevent "good," in a very cynical way, and I don't find that compelling.