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A digital library card has been a total game-changer for me. My book is constantly in my pocket and I can get a new one whenever I want. Fantastic!
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Lol. Imagine needing to form a coalition to be in the minority.
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Like JKR is clearly capable of writing that way, she's just not really interested in doing so on certain topics, or at best has some big and obvious blind spots.
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Particularly when there are sections of the books, like the pre-determined show trials seen in the Pensieve, that the characters and the omniscient narrator do understand as Bad Things In Society.
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And again, it's already there, in the parking lot, distributed all around, with lots of extra if it was specced for sodium and lately changed to LED.
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Now, I'm not *certain* that every EV on the market can take 277V, some may be limited to 240V. But center-tapping that single 277V phase would yield two 138V circuits, which is sufficient for workplace charging where you're normally there 7-10 hours.
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One interesting possibility is in parking lot lighting- it's often 277V, which is awesome for L2 charging, and it was originally sized for sodium or other high-power lighting. Now with LED replacements, there's actually a bunch of spare capacity already in the lot.
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That's true to a point. Yes, there's a certain amount of capacity present in existing transformers that could totally be utilized. But in an all-EV future, we're still going to need more than the latent capacity in industrial and commercial settings where people work.
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Workplace charging is really underrated and totally key in inner and older cities where home charging are hard. It's got the potential to solve a lot of the West's duck curve problem, too, by providing a useful sink instead of a coming overnight problem.
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And all of the black-van kidnappings, courtesy of DOJ personnel without badges.
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Are there days where there's no spike? I mean obviously the size of the spike is variable, from ~700W to almost 2.5kW.
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Well, that's good that it's not the water heater but doesn't get any closer to what it is. The other possible big juice-sucker is a vacuum cleaner, but you say no one is typically home at the time?
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Right, I think the changing scale of the axes is making several (not all) of these spikes look large enough to be concerning, and they're not.
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I mean you've got a gas stove, do you have a gas water heater? If so, it's definitely not that, right?
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The first, yeah, the only things that could be pulling that much are EV charger, oven/stove, AC, clothes dryer, maybe water heater. It's almost got to be something heating or cooling.
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For what it's worth, only your first screenshot is concerning. (The Y axes are scaled very differently) The second one is only 700-800 watts; that could easily be the fridge or something that happened to kick on at noon.
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That spike's enormous; unless the PC is like a server rack, I'd be really shocked. Does someone start a batch of cookies every noon? Weed grow lights? You say it's not AC, heat, or EV charging, and I think it's too big to be the fridge, so I'm stumped.
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Post pictures once it's working again!
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And a lot of the louder sort of Sanders supporter got really, really offended because they didn't realize that and couldn't explain why their hero was not the natural leader without Clinton present.
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Huh. Never heard that one before. I guess I gotta keep on not hanging out with weird old white racists.
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He didn't have that benefit in '20 because a) that feeling was much less strong toward Joe Biden and b) plenty of anti-Clinton Democrats (like myself) chose Warren or Buttigeig as anti-establishment alternatives.
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I think in '16 Bernie was benefiting really heavily from the anti-Clinton sentiment within the Democratic party; many of his voters were not pro-Sanders so much as anti-Clinton and anti-dynasty.
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I'm offended by the terrible meter, honestly.
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I would LOVE to see Section 31's notes on the subject.
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I wonder how long I could do that job extremely badly without getting fired. Nothing illegal or fraudulent. Just, you know, very, very bad at what I'm doing.
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The visual effects get their deserved due, but the Foley work is also a masterpiece on its own! Just absolutely spectacular work.
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Right. You've really got to understand that Biden's campaign exists basically to get him reelected and Trump's campaign exists primarily to raise money for his legal defense and only secondarily to, you know, get him elected.
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Every president botches the first debate back. Obama did too. Shitty but normal. Happy this one was June and not September.
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Can you make a complaint to the city? Places I've lived, the city did not care unless neighbors complained.
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"I endorse Hilary Clinton for president. She is the second-worst thing that could happen to America." O'Rourke, 2016.
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I mean there are several exceptions, but PV solar is the big grid-scale one. Everything else basically a turbine.
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I think photovoltaic solar is the big exception. It goes directly from radiative energy from the sun to electricity with no intervening step in heating water.
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Wind? Very thin steam.
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In all seriousness, Minnesota Dems have impressed me the last few years and I'm willing to listen.
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I dunno, I could stand to be goober-pilled this time.
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Is that US? Asia? Global?
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Fans, lights, and internet take almost no power compared to heating/cooling, cooking, and refrigeration. The possible problem I foresee is that rainy or cloudy weather after a storm might sap your ability to recover power when you need it most.
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That last should read enough *summer* sun to run my house.
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It's really going to depend on the hours, intensity, and angle of the sun at that time. Out in the sunny West, I could guarantee enough sun to run not only my house (including AC) but my long electric commute, basically indefinitely. In the winter, not even close, except on the sunniest of days.
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I remember him being considerably less deranged around 2012. It seems like he's gotten worse at a much slower pace than the mainstream of the right in general. Is that about right?
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And your ROI is on the order of two years in many climates.
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And it's *so* cheap to do in the first place, when you're building, but that would mean 1% less profit for the developer, even though it'd save hundreds of thousands for the resident over the life of the house.
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Building codes should absolutely be requiring *considerably* more insulation for new builds. I get that's not a silver bullet, considering the age and turnover rate of housing stock, but I don't care- we can *radically* decrease energy use through fucking insulation.
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And that guy has a mostly-decorative-now-but-still-working wood stove or fireplace.
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Calvin's parents are actually astonishingly patient and diligent, considering what a chaos gremlin he is.
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Disheartening that it snaps back so quickly, honestly.
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The phrase is "Holy time share, Batman".
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Besides, *everybody* will give cute baby clothes. We actually spent mental energy trying to make sure our first wore everything once, and nothing was skipped.
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Just zero examples. Am I missing any? That seems like literally the only one.
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