Trump Targets "Solar for All," Biden's $7 Billion Boondoggle for Rich Democrat Cronies

Fresh off its decision to claw back $20 billion in "greenhouse gas reduction" money the Biden Environmental Protection Agency parked at Citibank, the Trump administration is setting its sights on another massive chunk of planned green spending receiving less attention.

The $7 billion Solar for All program -- part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund -- is meant to "enable over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities to benefit from distributed solar energy," according to the EPA's website.
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While Solar for All (and much else) remains in limbo, supporters continue to defend it as essential to fight climate change. But critics are denouncing it as a green boondoggle aimed at lining progressives' pockets. Sixty Solar for All grants have been earmarked for various state and tribal agencies, as well as other green energy nonprofits that rely on public funding for much of their work.
A RealClearInvestigations review of Solar for All's records reveals a tight circle of publicly funded environmental outfits and government agencies, with the lion's share of the now-frozen funds slated to go to Democrat-run states. So far, $30.8 million of Solar For All grants have been distributed, according to the EPA.
"These grant programs are the most blatant instances of self-dealing I've ever witnessed," said Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, one of 50 free market-oriented groups that called on Congress to repeal the IRA's climate spending.
"The Biden administration and Democrats in Congress loaded the IRA with billions of dollars of walking around money to fund organizations -- some of which didn't even materialize until after the bill was passed -- to promote and advance the green agenda at the expense of American taxpayers and families," Pyle said.
Almost $450 million of Solar for All was supposed to go to various Native American groups. A group called Three Affiliated Tribes was set to receive $135.2 million, while another $304.4 million was to be divided between four other Native American entities, records show.
The biggest award to a green nonprofit, $311.4 million, was won by Grid Alternatives, an Oakland-based nonprofit that said it would use the money to help 37,000 households gain access to solar energy. Prior to the Solar for All freeze, Grid Alternatives had received $756,791 from its grant, records show.
"This groundbreaking program, funded by the EPA and led by Grid Alternatives, is designed to bring the benefits of clean energy to income-qualified and environmental justice communities across America," it announced on its website.
Tax-exempt since 2014, Grid Alternatives' work notably includes government contracts with the state of California and the District of Columbia. The company's website states its four guiding principles are "equity, anti-racism, economic justice (and) environmental justice." One of its founders, Tim Sears, was named a "White House Champion of Change for Solar Deployment" during the Obama administration in 2014.
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The second largest batch of awards involved nearly $1 billion divided among four recipients. Those four grants -- all for the same amount, $249.3 million -- were awarded to entities in Democratic strongholds. Three went to the California Energy Commission, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and Harris County, Texas' deep blue 18th Congressional District in Houston, according to the Treasury Department's usaspending.gov.
The fourth award of $249.3 million went to Inclusive Prosperity Capital in Hartford, Connecticut. That nonprofit provides financing for "traditionally underserved markets" and lists as one of its partners Inclusiv Inc. in New York City, which itself was given a separate award of $1.9 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund money deposited in Citibank.
Inclusive Prosperity Capital, which did not respond to a request for comment, has been tax-exempt since 2014, and in 2022, its salaries and compensation exceeded its revenue, according to its tax return. All told, a half dozen people at Inclusive Prosperity make more than $200,000 annually, and another five make more than $100,000, tax records show.

Endless, fathomless corruption.

Posted by: Ace at 01:19 PM

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1 1st ish

Posted by: tankdemon at March 28, 2025 01:19 PM (5H49c)

2 st

Posted by: RUReadingthis at March 28, 2025 01:20 PM (aQ25I)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at March 28, 2025 01:21 PM (GYt5+)

4 Called the others.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 28, 2025 01:21 PM (5H49c)

5 th

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 28, 2025 01:21 PM (PiwSw)

6 It's remarkable that so much taxpayer money is being directed to an energy source that the left assures me more than pays for itself.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 28, 2025 01:22 PM (xCA6C)

7 The shambling corpse of Biden err Solyndra stumbles on.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 28, 2025 01:22 PM (7gwL+)

8 How much US government spending is straight up corruption? My guess is "at least a third."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 28, 2025 01:22 PM (BI5O2)

9 Good article but I really wish the age of infographs hadn't ended.

Posted by: pookysgirl, visual learner at March 28, 2025 01:23 PM (qR4G6)

10 Solyndra 2.0 . Rinse , repeat, repeat , repeat, repeat

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 28, 2025 01:24 PM (SZaJX)

11 How much US government spending is straight up corruption? My guess is "at least a third."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 28, 2025 01:22 PM (BI5O2)

I used to argue that if we had no government we would be incalculably richer. I stopped arguing this because I got tired of being called names.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 28, 2025 01:24 PM (D7oie)

12 That $20 billion at Citibank, imagine interest accruing on that

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 28, 2025 01:24 PM (7gwL+)

13 How much US government spending is straight up corruption? My guess is "at least a third."

It depends on how you define corruption. If it's out and out bribery like this, then no. If it includes things like SSDI, then yes. However, the latter is policy.

We need to be serious in understanding that actual programmatic cuts will be required to balance the budget. Some of them fall under the "nice to have" category, but aren't corruption as such. Either way, we can't afford them.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 28, 2025 01:24 PM (xCA6C)

14 The biggest award to a green nonprofit, $311.4 million, was won by Grid Alternatives, an Oakland-based nonprofit that said it would use the money to help 37,000 households gain access to solar energy.
______

Hey, we set up a toll-free number for people to call, we're helping!

Posted by: Grid Alternatives, Oakland, totally on the Up and Up at March 28, 2025 01:25 PM (Dv3i1)

15 Warm and sunny here.

Might go catch some rays and down a coupla brewskis.

Posted by: Solar and Beer for all sez Miklos at March 28, 2025 01:25 PM (RgW1J)

16 Isn't it weird that the solution to every made up problem the Left comes up with is lining their own pockets and communism (lining their own pockets). What a stroke of luck!

Posted by: Democrats at March 28, 2025 01:26 PM (ZmJyQ)

17 well heck-a-durn! I moved out of Texas D-18 to get away from Al 'Oli Can' Green. I bet I wouldn't qualify for any of that $2.5 m lucre anyway...not enough hue in the pigment prolly.

Posted by: DanMan at March 28, 2025 01:26 PM (8uzBS)

18 Errrrrrrr yeah - Democrats

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 01:26 PM (ZmJyQ)

19 Oil Can

Posted by: DanMan at March 28, 2025 01:26 PM (8uzBS)

20 The underlying theme of the Fargo TV series season to season, is that organized crime became corporatized, and controls/is the American govt. So, at this point, spot on.

Posted by: Not Joe Bob Briggs at March 28, 2025 01:27 PM (xF2CU)

21 The Zegler of the House is back!

Jasmine Crockett Calls for Violence Against Ted Cruz, Ignores AG Bondi’s Warnings

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 28, 2025 01:27 PM (L/fGl)

22
Almost $450 million of Solar for All was supposed to go to various Native American groups. A group called Three Affiliated Tribes was set to receive $135.2 million, while another $304.4 million was to be divided between four other Native American entities, records show.

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Rlly? AOC says the native peoples have ancient knowledge that we'll need for "healing the land" after all the floods, fires, and famines from climate change have destroyed us. Why do they need subsidies on how to get the most out of fucking sunlight?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:27 PM (LV4Hs)

23 Throwing around these reports of 6 figure incomes for all these non-profit organizations to the point that I'm thinking everyone who lives in a lefty suburb and drives an audi or volvo suv is a grifter of some sort. Whether it's employment by government or academia or ngo seems to matter not. Smug satisfaction with their superiority just radiates from their faces.

Maybe I'm wrong and some of them earn it.
I doubt it. Any Wisconsonian (sic) who knows anything about Fox Point or Whitefolks bay, or Shorewood would probably agree with me.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 28, 2025 01:27 PM (FCbAQ)

24 Corruption status:

[ ] Unfathomed
[X] Fathomed

Posted by: Croaker at March 28, 2025 01:27 PM (+BcZI)

25 That $20 billion at Citibank, imagine interest accruing on that
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 28, 2025 01:24 PM (7gwL+)

Around $50 million a year?

I could afford some new shoes.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 28, 2025 01:27 PM (D7oie)

26 How much US government spending is straight up corruption? My guess is "at least a third."
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I'll see that, and raise you another third.

Posted by: Simplemind at March 28, 2025 01:28 PM (xF2CU)

27 Oil Can
Posted by: DanMan

How long have you been standing under that tree rusting.

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

28
"Inclusive Prosperity Capital"

Could you be any more blatant that what you are is Grift, Inc.?

"Our business plan is to build a gigantic money wallow and then spend all day rolling in it. Only the most brilliant and foresighted persons will be part of this enterprise."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 28, 2025 01:28 PM (NchQ5)

29 Rlly? AOC says the native peoples have ancient knowledge that we'll need for "healing the land" after all the floods, fires, and famines from climate change have destroyed us. Why do they need subsidies on how to get the most out of f***ing sunlight?

What do they call sunlight? Maize?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 28, 2025 01:28 PM (xCA6C)

30 Here comes the Sun!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 28, 2025 01:29 PM (63Dwl)

31 Funny how these solar power grifters can't stand the light of day being shined on their corruption.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 28, 2025 01:29 PM (wtvvX)

32 Varney has been doing good work covering The New Trump Era.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 28, 2025 01:30 PM (Cus5s)

33
I used to argue that if we had no government we would be incalculably richer. I stopped arguing this because I got tired of being called names.
Posted by: Kindltot

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Not that we don't already know, but Bret Baier's Special Report with Elon and a bunch of DOGErs quantifies some of it. It makes you want to vomit. It also makes you wonder why we're even standing. Then, if you want to get really shook up, check out Gordon Chang on the state of China's space offensive.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:30 PM (LV4Hs)

34 Yeah, we'll see about that.

Posted by: Random district judge at March 28, 2025 01:30 PM (y9ksN)

35

35 trillion down the fucking hole, with nothing to show for it.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at March 28, 2025 01:31 PM (et1vG)

36 Anyone remember the fancy, Jetsons-style solar installation in the California desert that Gov. Ahnold opened with great fanfare?

Actually gorgeous-looking, with the solar panels in a circular array around a collector that looked a bit like London's "Gherkin" building.

Fast-forward to now: the panels were sandblasted (amazing, I know) and fractured, and apparently when the original boondoggle money ran out, the company just walked away from it. It's now a ruin. But all the ticks got their money feed, so it's all okay.

This also happens to the hideous, landscape-disfiguring, useless windmills. Gov. grants fund them for a set number of years. The blades have to be locked down when the wind gets too high, and in any given windfarm, if you look when you drive by, you'll see that only a few will be turning on a breezy day. Just another bloodsucking gov. tick project.

Posted by: Beverly at March 28, 2025 01:31 PM (Epeb0)

37 But solar rules!!!

unusual_whales @unusual_whales 3h
The first data center complex for OpenAI’s $100 billion Stargate infrastructure venture will have space for as many as 400,000 of Nvidia's, $NVDA, powerful AI chips — an amount that, if filled, would make it one of the largest known clusters of artificial intelligence computing power, per Bloomberg.

Limbaugh @limballer 3h
Replying to @unusual_whales
Not to mention that facility will require 1 GW of power - the entire capacity of 1 Power Plant
Mar 28, 2025 · 2:22 PM UTC

Joshua @jashuogreen 2h
Replying to @limballer @unusual_whales
I think they’re building 12 GW of solar farms close to there. So all they need is a 100 mile or maybe less of transmission line and a substation.

Or buy a 500 acres and plant your own solar farm. Texas has a lot space that no one cares about.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:31 PM (/tzYP)

38 We need all the power generation we can get, but this is a stupid way to go about it. The federal government really shouldn't be involved in the manufacture and maintenance on individual homes.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 28, 2025 01:31 PM (5H49c)

39 29 Rlly? AOC says the native peoples have ancient knowledge that we'll need for "healing the land" after all the floods, fires, and famines from climate change have destroyed us. Why do they need subsidies on how to get the most out of f***ing sunlight?

What do they call sunlight? Maize?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 28, 2025

Sunlight. That was free. If you need more of my passed down genetically ancient knowledge, it will cost you. I accept PayPal and Venmo.

Posted by: Piper at March 28, 2025 01:31 PM (p4NUW)

40
Jasmine Crockett Calls for Violence Against Ted Cruz, Ignores AG Bondi’s Warnings
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

============

Waiting for the other shoe to drop... waiting... still waiting

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:32 PM (LV4Hs)

41 Varney has been doing good work covering The New Trump Era.
Posted by: illiniwek

He was funny in those commercials where he was addressing Vern.

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 01:32 PM (77rzZ)

42 Because strip mining by child slaves in Africa for rare earth minerals used in solar panels is far better for the planet than coal mining by well paid adults in the US.

H8ers.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at March 28, 2025 01:32 PM (qKTd3)

43 The Biden administration and Democrats in Congress loaded the IRA with billions of dollars of walking around money to fund organizations -- some of which didn't even materialize until after the bill was passed
____________________________

I really think we need a national referendum vote that requires every member of congress to submit to an annual forensic financial audit as a condition of serving.

Posted by: Orson at March 28, 2025 01:32 PM (dIske)

44 Earlier thread started to question who the hell would hire a Harvard grad who needed academic remediation.

Here you go.

The job here isn't about competence. It's about pedigree and the ability to only count as well as needed to record the checks being received for this shit.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 01:32 PM (PzXaK)

45 Fighting racism the climate truth about "corruption" wtf?!

invading canada the greenland that's your when loved and than, I man?

Posted by: Sid at March 28, 2025 01:33 PM (cAV5e)

46 34 Yeah, we'll see about that.
Posted by: Random district judge at March 28, 2025 01:30 PM (y9ksN)

Yessss, totally random.

Posted by: Judge Boas Turd and friends at March 28, 2025 01:34 PM (lg881)

47
What's this Bullshit about "hot inflation?"

That's the new Fake News narrative, today: "hot inflation."

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 28, 2025 01:34 PM (dQzv6)

48 I'm not completely against solar energy.

In fact, I'd like to see it applied in very focused ways to a number of people.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 28, 2025 01:34 PM (wtvvX)

49 I really think we need a national referendum vote that requires every member of congress to submit to an annual forensic financial audit and anal probe with a hot curling ironas a condition of serving.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 28, 2025 01:34 PM (xCA6C)

50 One of my brothers has been in the solar business since the 80s, mostly water heaters and pool heaters in the Austin area. He has some photovoltaic equipment that he uses at his house, but he got it for free when customers upgraded, then installed it and maintains it himself. He says that solar power generation is a loser because of the expense and unreliability. Same with wind generation.

Posted by: huerfano at March 28, 2025 01:34 PM (n2swS)

51 Earlier thread started to question who the hell would hire a Harvard grad who needed academic remediation.

Here you go.

The job here isn't about competence. It's about pedigree and the ability to only count as well as needed to record the checks being received for this shit.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 01:32 PM (PzXaK)

Have we reduced many Ivy League graduates to the level of pedigreed cats?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 28, 2025 01:35 PM (VNX3d)

52
Fighting racism and climate change is "corruption" wtf?!

Invading Canada and Greenland would be an act of love, I assume?

Non Sequitur

Posted by: Nomad at March 28, 2025 01:35 PM (63Dwl)

53 Has Madame Mayhem's grandbaby shown up yet?

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 01:35 PM (77rzZ)

54 Have we reduced many Ivy League graduates to the level of pedigreed cats?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Pedigreed cats are more useful. And cuter. Mine might even be smarter!

Posted by: Piper at March 28, 2025 01:36 PM (p4NUW)

55 This also happens to the hideous, landscape-disfiguring, useless windmills. Gov. grants fund them for a set number of years. The blades have to be locked down when the wind gets too high, and in any given windfarm, if you look when you drive by, you'll see that only a few will be turning on a breezy day. Just another bloodsucking gov. tick project.

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In my early career I worked as a bank examiner and one of the banks in Tehachapi was in my portfolio. Part of a standard exam is an asset review, and I got to get inside peeks into a lot of windmill loans.

Officially they were sound assets because they were all guaranteed by the government. Unofficially they all sucked because not a single one of them generated any kind of a decent cash flow, certainly not enough to handle debt service.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 01:36 PM (PzXaK)

56 What's this Bullshit about "hot inflation?"

That's the new Fake News narrative, today: "hot inflation."

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 28, 2025 01:34 PM (dQzv6)

INFLATION, SO HOT RIGHT NOW!!!

Posted by: MUGATU at March 28, 2025 01:36 PM (wtvvX)

57 Has Madame Mayhem's grandbaby shown up yet?

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 01:35 PM (77rzZ)

What's his nic?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 01:36 PM (L5An7)

58
As for the 6-figure salaries to DEI grifters in Oakland and elsewhere, I actually take a little satisfaction in the notion that they're spending that money on cars, furniture, Las Vegas vacations, watches, clothes, restaurants, etc. They're plowing money back into the economy. Of course it had to come from your labor and mine and get cut 30 times by layers of bureaucrats like street heroin, but at least some hard-working restaurateur or boutique owner benefits at the end.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:36 PM (LV4Hs)

59 Note they never specify - Solar for all *what*?

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 01:37 PM (ZmJyQ)

60 Austin area. He has some photovoltaic equipment that he uses at his house, but he got it for free when customers upgraded, then installed it and maintains it himself. He says that solar power generation is a loser because of the expense and unreliability.
==
Now do Cleveland from November to May...

Posted by: Not bitter at all at March 28, 2025 01:37 PM (xF2CU)

61 This is how Barack made the oceans recede.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 28, 2025 01:37 PM (Hpgos)

62 The biggest award to a green nonprofit, $311.4 million, was won by Grid Alternatives, an Oakland-based nonprofit that said it would use the money to help 37,000 households gain access to solar energy.

$8416.21 a home counting no overhead.
1. You can't do solar for under $8500.
2. No tax exempt organization will do something and eat the overhead.
3. IF anything were to be done, you would be lucky to see $5k a home with $3.4k eaten as expenses.

Afternoon all. Been a fucked up week.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 28, 2025 01:37 PM (PD1tO)

63 Posted by: Sid at March 28, 2025 01:33 PM (cAV5e)

wtf is that gibberish even supposed to mean?
Is one of the COBs editing?
Or is it a mental glitch?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 28, 2025 01:38 PM (FCbAQ)

64 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 01:36 PM (L5An7)

Hey, CBD, good to see you're still here. I have a technical question about the blog. Mind if I shoot you an e-mail?

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)

65 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 01:36 PM (L5An7)

I don't get it.

Posted by: Grandbaby Mayhem at March 28, 2025 01:38 PM (ZmJyQ)

66 I used to think that the Left was funded by Left-wing billionaires.

Now I find out that the Left was being funded by the Federal government.

After all, why should billionaires spend their money when the government will do it for them?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 28, 2025 01:38 PM (xTIDn)

67 >>One of my brothers has been in the solar business since the 80s, mostly water heaters and pool heaters

The one use that is not a complete waste of effort and invesment.

You aren't going to buy a new car with the savings...but, it will actually work in that enviornment.

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2025 01:38 PM (AVXxY)

68 52
Fighting racism and climate change is "corruption" wtf?!

Invading Canada and Greenland would be an act of love, I assume?

Non Sequitur
Posted by: Nomad at March 28, 2025 01:35 PM (63Dwl)

To Sid:
You are the fellator.

Posted by: Also Nomad at March 28, 2025 01:39 PM (lg881)

69 The lefties that used to complain about corruption in the DoD went into green energy businesses to make $$$$ off the corruption in the rest of the government.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:39 PM (t0Rmr)

70 We dumb engineers out here have known as well as anyone with common sense that the cost/benefit = infinity for decades.

Clean.It.All.Out.

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 28, 2025 01:39 PM (nT4HF)

71 "That $20 billion at Citibank, imagine interest accruing on that ---
Around $50 million a year?"

at 5% (1/20th) it would be one Billion dollars. Money market is just over 4% currently.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 28, 2025 01:40 PM (Cus5s)

72 I'm not completely against solar energy.

In fact, I'd like to see it applied in very focused ways to a number of people.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

ISWYDT Mr. Air Fryer

Posted by: rickb223 at March 28, 2025 01:40 PM (PD1tO)

73
Invading Canada and Greenland would be an act of love, I assume?

Then: We need to invade Russia to protect our sacred democracisms.

Now: Trump's gonna invade Greenland...REEEEEEEEE

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:40 PM (t0Rmr)

74 Yeah man, dude sold me a72 “ screen and it turneded out to be some kinda solar screen. Ain’t even got a plug to stick in the wall.

Posted by: Eromero at March 28, 2025 01:40 PM (p4vtc)

75 Mind if I shoot you an e-mail?

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)

Go for it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 01:40 PM (L5An7)

76 I think I would prefer and Indian Casino to a solar farm.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 28, 2025 01:41 PM (Hpgos)

77 45 Fighting racism the climate truth about "corruption" wtf?!

invading canada the greenland that's your when loved and than, I man?

Posted by: Sid at March 28, 2025 01:33 PM (cAV5e)

Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to Sid Hitler, The Narcoleptic Comic!!!

Posted by: MUGATU at March 28, 2025 01:41 PM (wtvvX)

78 Solar makes sense in dry sunny areas. But installing solar in the northern parts of the US is insane.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:41 PM (t0Rmr)

79 Now I find out that the Left was being funded by the Federal government.
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The Federal Government is the left.

Posted by: It's not much of a disguise either. at March 28, 2025 01:41 PM (xF2CU)

80 Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 28, 2025 01:38 PM (FCbAQ)

Only Sid's psychiatrist knows for sure!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 01:41 PM (L5An7)

81 Should talk to Sid in a language he understands...

"Internally persistent - in quality and environment to the complete income sourced on our demand that have viewed today's practices as likely."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 01:41 PM (PzXaK)

82 Sid knows of troop buildups near Niagara Falls.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

83
This is how Barack made the oceans recede.
Posted by: Pudinhead

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Too bad it was high tide when his chef went kayaking.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:42 PM (LV4Hs)

84 Background for those interested:

unusual_whales @unusual_whales 12m
Core inflation in February hit 2.8%, hotter than expected; income jumped 0.8%

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:42 PM (/tzYP)

85 Now I find out that the Left was being funded by the Federal government.

Notice how the federal budget quadrupled in 20 years and all the services it provides went to shit?

Well, that's because instead of paying for roads or protection for terrorists we taxpayers payed for globohomo, trannies, to invade the country with the third worlders, and to make gentry leftists rich.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:42 PM (t0Rmr)

86 offsockgo

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 28, 2025 01:42 PM (wtvvX)

87 Good news, everyone! Rosie O'Donnell has forgiven us!

“I forgive them, and I know they didn’t ask for my forgiveness. And I hope that doesn’t sound condescending, but I forgive them for making the mistake of believing the Americanized propaganda where we sold a conman as a businessman,” she said.

Also, she's a poet!

Once a misogynist…always a creep
he went after me for years and hasn’t stopped yet
those who love him
think I’m the anti christ
those who hate him
Are my people

-
Well,she's no Muldoon.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 28, 2025 01:42 PM (L/fGl)

88 households gain access to solar energy.

...

Was the sun not shining on these houses already?

Posted by: TexasDan at March 28, 2025 01:43 PM (z/ifB)

89 A Grid Alternatives board member:

Juliana Pino is the Policy Director at the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) and an experienced advocate, organizer, strategist, and negotiator on environmental justice, climate justice, and economic justice in local, state, and federal policy. Her work focuses on: advancing justice and community self-determination in regulatory and policy arenas; creating just transition with meaningful collaborative and participatory management of shared environmental resources; and centering frontline community leaders as generators of transformative policy ideas and governance models. Juliana has been recognized by Midwest Energy News for work as lead negotiator on low-income programs in the Future Energy Jobs Act and by Illinois’ Legislative Green Caucus for leadership on the landmark Climate and Equitable Jobs Act.

this goes on, endlessly, and ends:

Juliana is a Colombiana Afroindígena Wayúu and Barí former asylum seeker and proud queer person powered by her wonderful spouse, toddler, and broader community. She is invested in anti-racism and anti-oppression struggles and is a big fan of animals.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 28, 2025 01:43 PM (xTIDn)

90 Here comes the Sun!
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doo doo doo doooo

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:43 PM (/tzYP)

91 >>Solar makes sense in dry sunny areas. But installing solar in the northern parts of the US is insane.

Neighbor up here installed Solar over his garage last summer.

He had 3+ feet of snow on top of the panels the entire winter. Then his garage roof collapsed from the weight when a big storm came through.

I laughed.

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2025 01:43 PM (AVXxY)

92
Juliana Pino is the Policy Director at the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO

Outside of not being spherical she looks exactly like you'd expect

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:44 PM (t0Rmr)

93 Only Sid's psychiatrist knows for sure!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 01:41 PM (L5An7)

I think I have a clue now.
It sucks thinking maybe you're having a stroke and aren't seeing things correctly. I had to read a few other comments to make sure it wasn't me.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 28, 2025 01:44 PM (FCbAQ)

94
the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

Posted by: The ARC of History!

================

Reminds me of the Unabomber.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:44 PM (LV4Hs)

95 “I forgive them, and I know they didn’t ask for my forgiveness. And I hope that doesn’t sound condescending, but I forgive them for making the mistake of believing the Americanized propaganda where we sold a conman as a businessman,” she said.

The fact that you said "and I hope that doesn't sound condescending" tells me you know it does, and you just don't care. I also wish to forgive you for those 30,000 sleeves of Oreos you shoved into your gaping maw over the last 10 years.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 28, 2025 01:45 PM (xCA6C)

96 What happened to solar-power paint??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:45 PM (/tzYP)

97 Is TrumpHitler and his Greenlandic armies in the room with us now?

Posted by: Sid's psychiatrist in his last session at March 28, 2025 01:45 PM (t0Rmr)

98 91 >>Solar makes sense in dry sunny areas. But installing solar in the northern parts of the US is insane.

Neighbor up here installed Solar over his garage last summer.

He had 3+ feet of snow on top of the panels the entire winter. Then his garage roof collapsed from the weight when a big storm came through.

I laughed.

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2025 01:43 PM (AVXxY)

The only thing that would make that funnier would be if the garage collapsed on his electric car.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 28, 2025 01:45 PM (wtvvX)

99 $450 million of Solar for All was supposed to go to various Native American groups
.....

Need panels on my teepee! Ugh

Posted by: wth at March 28, 2025 01:45 PM (v0R5T)

100 95 “I forgive them, and I know they didn’t ask for my forgiveness. And I hope that doesn’t sound condescending, but I forgive them for making the mistake of believing the Americanized propaganda where we sold a conman as a businessman,” she said.

The fact that you said "and I hope that doesn't sound condescending" tells me you know it does, and you just don't care. I also wish to forgive you for those 30,000 sleeves of Oreos you shoved into your gaping maw over the last 10 years.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 28, 2025 01:45 PM (xCA6C)

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"I'm sorry you fell for propaganda" is a real, heartfelt apology.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:45 PM (GBKbO)

101 What happened to solar-power paint??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:45 PM (/tzYP)

...

And the roads paved with solar panels.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 28, 2025 01:46 PM (z/ifB)

102
Juliana Pino is the Policy Director at the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO

Outside of not being spherical she looks exactly like you'd expect
Posted by: 18-1

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What does "former asylum seeker" mean? She got legal status, right?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:46 PM (LV4Hs)

103 What happened to solar-power paint??

You can actually make gains by painting things the right color - white if you want them to be cooler, darker if you want them to be warmer.

I have a dark blue car and in the northern winters it is nice to see how fast it heats up but if I lived in the south I wouldn't be so happy I expect

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:46 PM (t0Rmr)

104 96 What happened to solar-power paint??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:45 PM (/tzYP)

Lost it's appeel

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 28, 2025 01:46 PM (wtvvX)

105 Precious Democracy....

@MarioNawfal
GERMAN GOV’T WARNS POLICE: JOIN AfD, LOSE YOUR JOB

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has threatened federal police officers with dismissal if they join or support the AfD, despite the party representing over 20% of voters.

One officer called it a "massive attack on freedom of choice" and a "blatant violation of basic rights" for civil servants.

Critics argue this isn’t about neutrality, as the head of federal police, Dieter Romann, is a CDU member.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 28, 2025 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)

106 What happened to solar-power paint??
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At First I read that as solar powered taint...

Posted by: Josh Brolin at March 28, 2025 01:47 PM (xF2CU)

107 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 01:47 PM (+sD5M)

108 Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 28, 2025 01:43 PM (xTIDn)

WOW! Moar gibberish, the kind you can' only learn with a "studies" education. Outside of grifting, probably unemployable in any capacity other than speed bump.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 28, 2025 01:47 PM (FCbAQ)

109 Solar makes sense in dry sunny areas. But installing solar in the northern parts of the US is insane.

Neighbor up here installed Solar over his garage last summer.

He had 3+ feet of snow on top of the panels the entire winter. Then his garage roof collapsed from the weight when a big storm came through.

I laughed.

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2025 01:43 PM (AVXxY)

The only thing that would make that funnier would be if the garage collapsed on his electric car.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

And then the resulting lithium fire from the batteries getting wet.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 28, 2025 01:47 PM (PD1tO)

110 I am not in the business of reaching across the aisle to convince other people that their political opinions are wrong, but saying, "I'm so sorry that you fell for propaganda," doesn't seem all that persuasive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

111 Didn't get to the last thread, but the university that got busted and given the "Death Penalty" by the NCAA was SMU in the early 80's.

They paid Eric Dickerson and Craig James, among others, to play there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (+sD5M)

112 All told, a half dozen people at Inclusive Prosperity make more than $200,000 annually

***************

They need that money to pay the medical bills for treating the dislocated shoulders caused by patting themselves on the back so vigorously for working at a "non-profit"!

Posted by: muldoon at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (/iMjX)

113 Or buy a 500 acres and plant your own solar farm. Texas has a lot space that no one cares about.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:31 PM (/tzYP)

I care, but no one asked me. They'll never get their hands on the little bit of Texas that I own.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (k9OZB)

114 Rosie O'Donnell is one ugly and unpleasant lesbian.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (PzXaK)

115 105 Critics argue this isn’t about neutrality, as the head of federal police, Dieter Romann, is a CDU member.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 28, 2025 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)

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If governments want to make it illegal for any government employee to vote, contribute to political parties, or express political opinions at all...

I support that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

116 Solar makes sense in dry sunny areas. But installing solar in the northern parts of the US is insane.

Neighbor up here installed Solar over his garage last summer.

He had 3+ feet of snow on top of the panels the entire winter. Then his garage roof collapsed from the weight when a big storm came through.

I laughed.

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2025 01:43 PM (AVXxY)

The only thing that would make that funnier would be if the garage collapsed on his electric car.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

Under which was sheltering an endangered newt.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (xCA6C)

117 Yeah, good luck with that.

BBC Offering Employees Counselling to Help with Trump Derangement Syndrome

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (L/fGl)

118 The only thing that would make that funnier would be if the garage collapsed on his electric car.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

And then the resulting lithium fire from the batteries getting wet.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 28, 2025 01:47 PM (PD1tO)

At least the house would be warm... for a while!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (VNX3d)

119 106 What happened to solar-power paint??
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At First I read that as solar powered taint...

Posted by: Josh Brolin at March 28, 2025 01:47 PM (xF2CU)

It's now an anal bleaching thread??

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 28, 2025 01:49 PM (wtvvX)

120 "I'm so sorry that you fell for propaganda," doesn't seem all that persuasive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman

...

The gentlest of backhanded insults.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 28, 2025 01:49 PM (z/ifB)

121 116 The only thing that would make that funnier would be if the garage collapsed on his electric car.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

Under which was sheltering an endangered newt.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (xCA6C)

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And the EPA found out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

122
Re solar, some of my San Diego friends got it for their house. It "paid off" in ten years (maybe 15?) thanks to subsidies, incentives, etc. If there were no government freebies, I don't know how it would compare to regular gas and electric.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:49 PM (LV4Hs)

123 You can't fix stupid.

A Skadden associate resigned in protest because the firm wasn't doing enough to stop Trump. After getting 600 other lawyers to sign a protest letter.

"Meet Rachel Cohen, the Harvard-trained lawyer who quit her Big Law job amid legal fights with the Trump administration"

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 28, 2025 01:49 PM (nBBOe)

124 120 "I'm so sorry that you fell for propaganda," doesn't seem all that persuasive.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman

...

The gentlest of backhanded insults.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 28, 2025 01:49 PM (z/ifB)

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I get the impression that Rosie thinks it's a genuine effort, though.

She's that dumb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

125 The biggest award to a green nonprofit, $311.4 million, was won by Grid Alternatives, an Oakland-based nonprofit that said it would use the money to help 37,000 households gain access to solar energy.
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Pfft. Pocket change.

Posted by: Tracey Abrams. at March 28, 2025 01:49 PM (XeU6L)

126 Sun tanning your taint was a tiktok trend at some point.

It has never been easier to get dumb young people to get naked in human history...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:50 PM (t0Rmr)

127 >Pfft. Pocket change.
Posted by: Tracey Abrams
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Yo, Tank.... you return that money yet?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2025 01:50 PM (Q4IgG)

128 OK, CBD, just sent it.

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 01:50 PM (77rzZ)

129 106 What happened to solar-power paint??
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At First I read that as solar powered taint...

Posted by: Josh Brolin at March 28, 2025 01:47 PM (xF2CU)

It's now an anal bleaching thread??
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Is that a request ?? Because I do have some tips I could share...

Posted by: Josh Brolin at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (xF2CU)

130 Oh no, I've been conned by a conman who is delivering on what he campaigned on. Woe is me.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (Dv3i1)

131 Know respect about canadian. Is joey run, the show oh her, believes when invasion about imminent. Know respect about terrified and being raided the locked what a detention are

Posted by: Sid at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (8NH0Z)

132
"I forgive them for making the mistake of believing the Americanized propaganda"

The irony. Hunter Biden laptop, COVID, Biden dementia... none of that is propaganda?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (LV4Hs)

133 Could Joe Biden be called before a Congressional committee to defend this shit? Because that could be entertaining.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (paSBy)

134 Neighbor up here installed Solar over his garage last summer.

He had 3+ feet of snow on top of the panels the entire winter. Then his garage roof collapsed from the weight when a big storm came through.

I laughed.

Posted by: garrett

The only thing that would make that funnier would be if the garage collapsed on his electric car.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

And then the resulting lithium fire from the batteries getting wet.
Posted by: rickb223
.......

Then the melted snow floods his basement

Posted by: wth at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (v0R5T)

135 Under which was sheltering an endangered newt.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (xCA6C)

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And the EPA found out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at

And came with an excavator and dug a channel so the contaminated snowmelt and fire fighting chemicals could drain into the nearest body of water.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (z/ifB)

136 131 My wife is Canadian. Her entire family, and everyone they know, believes an invasion is imminent. My wife is terrified of being raided and locked in a detention center.
Posted by: Sid at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (8NH0Z)

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Because your wife is fucking retarded.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

137 I have a grid alternative for you: nuclear batteries for every household.

If they're good enough for Voyager 1 & 2 they're probably good enough for the average American household.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (tT6L1)

138 311 million, 37,000 households? $8500 per house?

Absolutely impossible. Can't be done. Average install cost is $31,000... even with the 30% tax rebate... they still think they can install solar for less than half of the going rate?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (QAkQ3)

139 "Solar makes sense in dry sunny areas. But installing solar in the northern parts of the US is insane."

I spent about $18k including some lithium batteries. I figure it makes me a little over $1000 a year. Could do better if I hooked to the grid, but decided on more independence. (but cost me at least $2k just for that ability). So that's about 6% ... for 25-30 years (hopefully).

Prices are even lower now ... could have done same size system for about $8500 (no grid support). So that would be a 12% return. Mostly I did it cuz I could, and have the space, and had some level of concern about "rolling blackouts" if leftist goons got more control.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (Cus5s)

140 @50

>> Same with wind generation.

The paradox of reliance of intermittent energy sources is that as they scale up, so too must your dependable sources of energy.

There can never be any savings or cost benefit to any of this.

Well, there is a cost benefit, it’s just not joe six pack reaping the benefits.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (alIxO)

141 Posted by: Sid at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (8NH0Z)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 28, 2025 01:52 PM (+sD5M)

142 At First I read that as solar powered taint...
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Who run BidenTown?!

Aunty Entity: We call it Underworld. That's where Bartertown gets its energy.
Max: What, oil? Natural gas?
Aunty Entity: Pigs.
Max: You mean pigs like those?
Aunty Entity: That's right.
Max: Bullshit!
Aunty Entity: No. Pig shit.
Max: What?
The Collector: Pig shit. The lights, the motors, the vehicles, all run by a high-powered gas called methane. And methane cometh from pig shit.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:52 PM (/tzYP)

143 Because your wife is fucking retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)
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Objection, assumes Sid has testosterone!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 28, 2025 01:52 PM (tT6L1)

144 122
Re solar, some of my San Diego friends got it for their house. It "paid off" in ten years (maybe 15?) thanks to subsidies, incentives, etc. If there were no government freebies, I don't know how it would compare to regular gas and electric.
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The first wave of solar was for heating water by pumping water through a box on your roof full of tubing. It could actually heat water but there were issues about keeping the water from ruining your roof.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 28, 2025 01:52 PM (Hpgos)

145 My wife is Canadian. Her entire family, and everyone they know, believes an invasion is imminent. My wife is terrified of being raided and locked in a detention center.
Posted by: Sid

F'n penguins!

Geez, the rampant mental illness on display is enormous.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 28, 2025 01:52 PM (PD1tO)

146 It's instructive to note that the Left's definition of conman is "Someone who is doing exactly what he said he would do."

Unlike those paragons of honesty and virtue at, say, universities who say they'll do something then tell people they never planned on doing that at all.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 01:52 PM (PzXaK)

147 "I'm so sorry that you fell for propaganda," doesn't seem all that persuasive.

That can work if people have already decided that their past opinions were wrong - it gives you an out, "I didn't make the wrong opinion I was tricked by fancy propaganda!"

But...most people are supporting what Trump was doing so that's not going to work.

And the left has no idea how to argue facts and logic so...I suspect we'll get a lot more of "Everyone on the right is a NAZI" again

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:52 PM (t0Rmr)

148
BBC Offering Employees Counselling to Help with Trump Derangement Syndrome
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (L/fGl)

Oooooh! thighn me up!

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at March 28, 2025 01:53 PM (FCbAQ)

149 Cock. Bet you can't eat just one.

Posted by: Sid at March 28, 2025 01:53 PM (paSBy)

150 145 F'n penguins!

Geez, the rampant mental illness on display is enormous.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 28, 2025 01:52 PM (PD1tO)

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They should probably just kill themselves and save themselves the terror campaign on the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

151 137 I have a grid alternative for you: nuclear batteries for every household.

If they're good enough for Voyager 1 & 2 they're probably good enough for the average American household.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (tT6L1)

/loads up Fallout 4...

/shows his inventory with all his fusion cores...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 28, 2025 01:53 PM (QAkQ3)

152 My wife is terrified of being raided and locked in a detention center.
Posted by: Sid a
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So you married your intellectual and emotional equal. Mazal tof

Posted by: Josh Brolin at March 28, 2025 01:53 PM (xF2CU)

153
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 28, 2025 01:49 PM (nBBOe)

================

She got fired as far as I know. Junior associate sent an e-mail blast to the entire company about addressing Trump's War on Lawyers and they cut her access to the systems, put her on leave, went on MSNBC... that was where we ended it. Is it official that she resigned?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:53 PM (LV4Hs)

154 Sid's wife is afraid of being raided in Canada and locked into a detention center?

What, is she a truck driver?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 01:54 PM (PzXaK)

155 My wife is Canadian. Her entire family, and everyone they know, believes an invasion is imminent. My wife is terrified of being raided and locked in a detention center. /i]

The power of government propaganda is right here for easy viewing.

The current Canuck government can't govern the country so give the people an external threat that is always imminent but will never actually do anything against them (well beside implementing tariffs)

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:54 PM (t0Rmr)

156 147 That can work if people have already decided that their past opinions were wrong - it gives you an out, "I didn't make the wrong opinion I was tricked by fancy propaganda!"

But...most people are supporting what Trump was doing so that's not going to work.

And the left has no idea how to argue facts and logic so...I suspect we'll get a lot more of "Everyone on the right is a NAZI" again
Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:52 PM (t0Rmr)

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So, she's skipping to the stage where everyone who voted for Trump wishes it was undone.

That makes it make more sense.

Still, I don't think I can offer Rosie that level of grace. She's far to malicious for that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

157 Is Sid suggesting that illegal aliens are going to invade Canada and start rampaging as they did in the US under the Biden Administration?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 01:54 PM (+sD5M)

158 137 I have a grid alternative for you: nuclear batteries for every household.

If they're good enough for Voyager 1 & 2 they're probably good enough for the average American household.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (tT6L1)

They can power your Radium-faced watch!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 28, 2025 01:54 PM (wtvvX)

159 155 The power of government propaganda is right here for easy viewing.

The current Canuck government can't govern the country so give the people an external threat that is always imminent but will never actually do anything against them (well beside implementing tariffs)
Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:54 PM (t0Rmr)

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Oh, no. Please stop.

Don't enter into a death spiral where you destroy yourself as a nation out of fear of big bad Trump.

Please...don't...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

160
Once a misogynist…always a creep
he went after me for years and hasn’t stopped yet
those who love him
think I’m the anti christ
those who hate him
Are my people

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Well,she's no Muldoon.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 28, 2025 01:42 PM

There once was an unfunny fatty
A dumb leftist and really quite bratty
Trump's repeated attacking
Fin'lly sent the b*tch packing
Now we all know who's her Daddy!

Posted by: Temu Muldoon at March 28, 2025 01:55 PM (lg881)

161 oh, and I did all the installation myself. And I could save maybe another $800/year if I get the transfer switch installed, to run most of my house off the solar for about 9 months of the year. For now I have to shut down half the panels for about half the year ... (9000W of panels, 6800W inverter)

Posted by: illiniwek at March 28, 2025 01:55 PM (Cus5s)

162 Other than fill out paperwork requesting more money, what, exactly, do these entities *DO*?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (7fElN)

163 Then the melted snow floods his basement
Posted by: wth
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We're here to help!

Posted by: FEMA at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (XeU6L)

164 Woof, that earthquake in Myanmar was no joke

x.com/derekahunter/status/1905678875138380112

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (mlg/3)

165 How much US government spending is straight up corruption? My guess is "at least a third."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 28, 2025 01:22 PM (BI5O2)

Low.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (n7h9X)

166 164 Woof, that earthquake in Myanmar was no joke

x.com/derekahunter/status/1905678875138380112
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (mlg/3)

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How was it in Burma?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

167
My wife is Canadian. Her entire family, and everyone they know, believes an invasion is imminent. My wife is terrified of being raided and locked in a detention center.
Posted by: Sid

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lol whichever moron you are.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (LV4Hs)

168 149 Cock. Bet you can't eat just one.

Posted by: Sid at March 28, 2025 01:53 PM (paSBy)

Sid knows from personal experience.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (wtvvX)

169 I suspect the Canuck government's choice to demonize Trump might come back to bite them. Yes, it is helping them now but in 6 months when nothing is happened the voters might notice...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (t0Rmr)

170 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

Don't cut and paste troll droppings!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (L5An7)

171 170 Don't cut and paste troll droppings!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (L5An7)

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Mea culpa.

But I couldn't resist.

Won't do it again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (GBKbO)

172 Not making this up.

Friends of ours have a daughter who, for several years, has been pretending to be a dude.

They are terrified their kid is on the verge of being arrested.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (u5fr9)

173 Solar makes sense in dry sunny areas.
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That have to be washed with fresh water to keep them clean.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (/tzYP)

174 66 164 Woof, that earthquake in Myanmar was no joke

x.com/derekahunter/status/1905678875138380112
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (mlg/3)

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How was it in Burma?

Close shave

Posted by: Ugarte at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (HcoTw)

175 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (LV4Hs)

Don't cut and paste troll droppings!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (L5An7)

176 Ellen Degenerate moved to the UK with her twatwaffle partner......yet they're still shilling some skincare crap in the US because leaving doesn't mean you have to stop taking sweet, sweet US Dollars.......

Hypocrites. ALL of them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (+sD5M)

177 "My wife is Canadian. Her entire family, and everyone they know, believes an invasion is imminent. My wife is terrified of being raided and locked in a detention center."

You can see a statement made by many a "documentarian" in North Korea when touring the subway system there. At a stop next to the South Korean border are 3 massive closed gates. Every official guide for these documentarians will swear that the South Korean army (backed by U.S. soldiers) are simply waiting for a breach in those doors to swarm in and end the glorious "republic" they've built.

Weirdly similar statements...

Posted by: Croaker at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (+BcZI)

178 That have to be washed with fresh water to keep them clean.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (/tzYP)

Better do that at night when the surface isn't hot enough to molt lava.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 01:58 PM (+sD5M)

179 Rosie O'Donnell is one ugly and unpleasant lesbian.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (PzXaK)
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I remember when she "came out."

No heterosexual man was heartbroken.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 28, 2025 01:58 PM (6K6Eu)

180 163 Then the melted snow floods his basement
Posted by: wth
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We're here to help!

Posted by: FEMA at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (XeU6L)

It's an isolated wetland now.

Posted by: US EPA at March 28, 2025 01:58 PM (wtvvX)

181 Woof, that earthquake in Myanmar was no joke

x.com/derekahunter/status/1905678875138380112
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Yeah. High rise building under construction in Thailand collapsed due to the earthquake.

Killed three outright with another 90 missing.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 28, 2025 01:58 PM (PD1tO)

182 Don't cut and paste troll droppings!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (L5An7)

He's an asshole, so.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 01:59 PM (+sD5M)

183 I care, but no one asked me. They'll never get their hands on the little bit of Texas that I own.
Posted by: hobbitopoly
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I think the guy meant make your own and sell the power generated to a power utility to sell to the huge AI 'factory' but your point is still valid.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:59 PM (/tzYP)

184 That $20 billion at Citibank, imagine interest accruing on that
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 28, 2025 01:24 PM (7gwL+)

At one point the state of Illinois was putting all its money in non interest bearing accounts. I'm sure nothing else happened between the government guy and the banker for that decision.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 01:59 PM (n7h9X)

185 Juliana is a Colombiana Afroindígena Wayúu and Barí former asylum seeker and proud queer person powered by her wonderful spouse, toddler, and broader community. She is invested in anti-racism and anti-oppression struggles and is a big fan of animals.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 28, 2025 01:43 PM (xTIDn)

That's a long-winded way to say "stunned c*nt".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 28, 2025 01:59 PM (8zz6B)

186 Weirdly similar statements...
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TBF there's similarity between north Korea and Canada.

Posted by: Josh Brolin at March 28, 2025 01:59 PM (xF2CU)

187 Sid is the verbal equivalent of a sad little clown car. It's not that he's saying something relevant, it's that his thoughts are so overstuffed with ignorance they're popping out in a desperate attempt to entertain someone, anyone, even if it's just themselves.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 01:59 PM (PzXaK)

188 Posted by: Temu Muldoon at March 28, 2025 01:55 PM (lg881)

Huh. Sometimes you get more than what you pay for at Temu.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at March 28, 2025 01:59 PM (FCbAQ)

189 And yet, there are some who will debate the principles of sending $5K checks back to the taxpayers that actually funded this shit.

Fuck it. This is a game two can play. I want minez!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 28, 2025 01:59 PM (KbCG3)

190
Oh, no. Please stop.

Don't enter into a death spiral where you destroy yourself as a nation out of fear of big bad Trump.

Please...don't...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman

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But seriously, don't. Weakness throughout North America and the western hemisphere for that matter and the western world for that matter doesn't help the US. It helps our enemies.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:00 PM (LV4Hs)

191 173 Solar makes sense in dry sunny areas.
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That have to be washed with fresh water to keep them clean.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (/tzYP)

Yup, which is something they don't tell you when you install...

I have software to monitor my solar install (battery included)... and here in Central Valley Calif, due to the amount of dust in the air, it is usually about a 25% change in electricity production after I wash the panels down.... I decide whether I need to wash them, by how much crap is on the truck on park outside...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 28, 2025 02:00 PM (QAkQ3)

192 bah!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 28, 2025 02:00 PM (FCbAQ)

193 Solar power has some uses, but small scale. It's not reliable.
It's sure not worth millions of dollars thrown away on it. If their is merit in expanding it's use let the private sector do it. Let them invest their money. Leave our tax money out of it. We have enough problems with our debt.

Posted by: Case at March 28, 2025 02:00 PM (OrSPY)

194 So Sid has the proverbial "girlfriend in Canada," eh?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 28, 2025 02:01 PM (6K6Eu)

195 I honestly think there's a problem with Sid's LLM.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 02:01 PM (PzXaK)

196 bah!
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 28, 2025 02:00 PM (FCbAQ)
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Humbug!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 28, 2025 02:01 PM (6K6Eu)

197 ACE!

If you are here, there’s a NEW OWLKITTY snippet.

Twilight!
https://tinyurl.com/yfz4bdvj

Posted by: nurse ratched. at March 28, 2025 02:01 PM (my2EF)

198 I think most of Canada's testosterone died with Lightfoot.

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 02:02 PM (77rzZ)

199 Tax-exempt since 2014, Grid Alternatives' work notably includes government contracts with the state of California and the District of Columbia. The company's website states its four guiding principles are "equity, anti-racism, economic justice (and) environmental justice."
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So, Communism.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 28, 2025 02:02 PM (RIvkX)

200 Sid is a parody account, bros. You're being trolled.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 28, 2025 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

201
Don't cut and paste troll droppings!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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It looks to me like a parody.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:02 PM (LV4Hs)

202 170 Don't cut and paste troll droppings!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 01:56 PM (L5An7)

Awwww, okaaay (kicks dirt)

Posted by: US EPA at March 28, 2025 02:02 PM (wtvvX)

203 Billions for everyone but taxpaying Americans.

But they weren't an occupying enemy looting the treasury.

Except that's exactly how an illegal, occupying power would behave.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 28, 2025 02:02 PM (1ZMgJ)

204 Sid is a troll.

Average Joe sucks cock by choice.

All trolls are Average Joe.

Ergo.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:02 PM (+sD5M)

205 In the immortal words of Rock Master Scott:

The roof! The roof! The roof is on fire!

We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn!

Burn, Motherfucker, Burn.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 28, 2025 02:02 PM (jc0TO)

206 Solar power has some uses, but small scale. It's not reliable.
It's sure not worth millions of dollars thrown away on it. If their is merit in expanding it's use let the private sector do it. Let them invest their money. Leave our tax money out of it. We have enough problems with our debt.
Posted by: Case at March 28, 2025 02:00 PM (OrSPY)

It seems to be useful where you don't have to worry about cloud cover - like in outer space. Not sure whether you have to worry about space dust on the collectors, though.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 28, 2025 02:03 PM (VNX3d)

207 I guess they're planning on parenthood.

Report: Planned Parenthood gave kids coloring books with pictures of genitals at the Kentucky Science Center

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 28, 2025 02:03 PM (L/fGl)

208 They are terrified their kid is on the verge of being arrested.
_____

Maybe they thought the US government had the power to round up those who didn't get a vaccine and put them in camps. So they think Trump has that power now. Nevermind that no one is demanding arresting trannies. It would be nice if we tapered off on given them cross sex hormones to see if that would dimish the amount of violence coming from the tranny community.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 28, 2025 02:03 PM (Dv3i1)

209 bah!
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 28, 2025 02:00 PM (FCbAQ)
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Humbug!

Posted by: Captain Obvious

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Luxury! In my day we had to express frustrated outrage by grunting and pawing at the ground with our bare hands.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 28, 2025 02:03 PM (u5fr9)

210 Solar is only as good as the billionaire that blocks out the sun because he's bored and stupid.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:04 PM (ZmJyQ)

211 Trump is saving the whales 🐳 and the birds 🦅

Posted by: redridinghood at March 28, 2025 02:04 PM (NpAcC)

212 Solar makes sense in dry sunny areas.

Or where electricity is insanely expensive.

*cough*Hawaii*cough*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 28, 2025 02:04 PM (jc0TO)

213 Don't cut and paste troll droppings!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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It looks to me like a parody.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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The point of which is to copy paste and mock cbd....

Posted by: Josh Brolin at March 28, 2025 02:04 PM (xF2CU)

214 Solar makes sense in dry sunny areas.
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That have to be washed with fresh water to keep them clean.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (/tzYP)

Back in the 80s there was a flurry of solar setups in Ohio. that basically heated water and saved it to help with water heaters and the furnace. The heat exchange pipes on the roof were the biggest change. But since the water retains heat a while it seemed more practical. Every attic gets warm in the summer.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:05 PM (n7h9X)

215 Luxury! In my day we had to express frustrated outrage by grunting and pawing at the ground with our bare hands.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 28, 2025 02:03 PM (u5fr9)
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You had hands?

Luxury!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 28, 2025 02:05 PM (tT6L1)

216 The only thing solar seems to do is pop up non-profits that disappear as soon as the check clears.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 28, 2025 02:05 PM (KbCG3)

217 It looks like Trump is about to target the Houthis and/or Iran in a big way if that story on HotAir about the B-2 buildup on Diego Garcia means anything.

Either that or Trump is sending a message about future complications if Iran doesn't start playing ball.

We'll see if the mullahs want to FAFO, I guess.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 28, 2025 02:05 PM (6ydKt)

218 Solar power has some uses, but small scale. It's not reliable.
It's sure not worth millions of dollars thrown away on it. If their is merit in expanding it's use let the private sector do it. Let them invest their money. Leave our tax money out of it. We have enough problems with our debt.
Posted by: Case

True. Alt energy sources have discreet uses. It's shear folly to think they can provide baseline energy. Using a wind mill to pump water? Great. Using a wind mill to power homes? Stupid and fraudulent.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 28, 2025 02:05 PM (mlg/3)

219 Bah!
was just my comment for taking of a nasty sock.

But back in my day we had to express our outrage by throwing bones at the obelisk.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 28, 2025 02:06 PM (FCbAQ)

220 There was an article on the Net about a guy that made his bedroom all solar. It was just the one room. Anytime someone would start up with the need for solar farms, I'd send them that link and say "why don't you do this now?" I don't think anyone took me up on it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 28, 2025 02:06 PM (cvWHI)

221
Solar power has some uses, but small scale.

Posted by: Case

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Yes. There are water tanks atop one- and two-story residences in the Middle East and they work great for the building. I wouldn't want to look too closely at the linings and sediment, though.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:06 PM (LV4Hs)

222 Not making this up.

Friends of ours have a daughter who, for several years, has been pretending to be a dude.

They are terrified their kid is on the verge of being arrested.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (u5fr9)

Your friends are hysterical retards.

Posted by: you need better friends at March 28, 2025 02:06 PM (mYVyx)

223 I guess they're planning on parenthood.

Report: Planned Parenthood gave kids coloring books with pictures of genitals at the Kentucky Science Center
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 28, 2025 02:03 PM (L/fGl)

Looking at the distribution of PP centers tells you all you need to know about them. Tons in the inner city none in the tony suburbs.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:07 PM (n7h9X)

224 210 Solar is only as good as the billionaire that blocks out the sun because he's bored and stupid.
Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:04 PM (ZmJyQ)

When I installed my solar, I had to cut down 6 yuge 30+ year old trees... trees that had shaded my house for decades...

Still not sure of the net energy trade off during the really hot days of summer we get here (115 at times).

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 28, 2025 02:07 PM (QAkQ3)

225 Report: Planned Parenthood gave kids coloring books with pictures of genitals at the Kentucky Science Center
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

WTH is PP doing at a science center?

On the other hand, I'm sure the boys will all have fun painting the testicles blue. When they stop snickering long enough to actually color, that is.

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)

226 Canuckistan's newly installed leader is a fraud. Quelle suprise.

@amuse
OH CANADA! Mark Carney faces plagiarism charges for Oxford doctoral thesis. Carney's doctorate in economics from Oxford shows 10 instances of apparent plagiarism, according to academics who reviewed the material.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 28, 2025 02:08 PM (mlg/3)

227 Friends of ours have a daughter who, for several years, has been pretending to be a dude.

They are terrified their kid is on the verge of being arrested.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (u5fr9)

She, and all trannies, should be arrested and charged with the offense of personation.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 28, 2025 02:08 PM (8zz6B)

228 Friends of ours have a daughter who, for several years, has been pretending to be a dude.

They are terrified their kid is on the verge of being arrested.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (u5fr9)

Were the f*ck did this bullshit come from?

Trump is kicking them out of the military because they're mentally unstable. He's not arresting them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:08 PM (+sD5M)

229 Talk to your run of the mill leftist solar/ wind power advocate and point out the problems including natural unreliability and their response is usually "don't you want to stop climate change" or "you like primitive fossil fuels, you don't understand".
Attempt to be rational with them is impossible

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 28, 2025 02:08 PM (SZaJX)

230 You had hands?

Luxury!
Posted by: blake

Yeah, cry me a river.
-- Michelle Fields

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 02:09 PM (77rzZ)

231 OH CANADA! Mark Carney faces plagiarism charges for Oxford doctoral thesis.
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He and Biden can trade tips. Assuming Biden can remember anything.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 28, 2025 02:09 PM (6K6Eu)

232 OH CANADA! Mark Carney faces plagiarism charges for Oxford doctoral thesis. Carney's doctorate in economics from Oxford shows 10 instances of apparent plagiarism, according to academics who reviewed the material.
_____

[ ] Is a conman
[x] Is not a conman

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at March 28, 2025 02:09 PM (Dv3i1)

233 I now hate Canada.

Well done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:09 PM (+sD5M)

234 Troll droppings? A new ,renewable energy source!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 28, 2025 02:09 PM (SZaJX)

235 If you are someplace isolated, that gets a lot of sun, solar is a fine backup to have. It's a fine backup to have if your power goes out a lot and you have batteries to run the fridge and deep freezer for a couple days and can recharge on solar. Beyond that they need to improve the tech. The panels and batteries.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's knowledgeable taint at March 28, 2025 02:10 PM (xF2CU)

236 I now hate Canada.

Well done.
Posted by: Sponge

Only now?

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 02:10 PM (77rzZ)

237 I have one solar device. It's a small, handheld charger for small electronics. The solar panel is build into it.

It takes roughly 24 - 36 hours of direct sunlight to fully charge itself, but can then charge 3 - 4 devices. It charges via USB too.

I think it's significantly less than impressive. But should power go out for an extended time, and there's sunshine, it will be marginally useful.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 28, 2025 02:10 PM (Q4IgG)

238
They are terrified their kid is on the verge of being arrested.

Posted by: 2009Refugee

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I stopped watching 2WAY when a caller said their legally adopted daughter from Korea or somewhere, now an adult, is terrified she'll be deported.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:10 PM (LV4Hs)

239 I saw Troll Droppings open for Butthole Surfers at EdgeFest in '94.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:10 PM (+sD5M)

240 134 Neighbor up here installed Solar over his garage last summer.

He had 3+ feet of snow on top of the panels the entire winter. Then his garage roof collapsed from the weight when a big storm came through.
Posted by: garrett
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Rooftop installs if your house was not designed for it are probably a bad idea. Ground installs make a bit more sense and with the newer bidirectional panels, can even been installed as a vertical fence with swapping the direction of each panel (the bidirectionals aren't as efficient on the backside).

Doing it that way minimizes space required and prevents a lot of damage to the panels from hail and wind.

From tests, you get mebbe 80 percent of the rated efficiency but far easier install, maintenance, and minimal area required. Use something lowtech like white rocks around those panels for reflectivity, you even get closer to something like 85 percent (of the 23 or so efficiency rating). Installing that way also evens the power curve out by increasing power in the mornings and later in the evenings.

Been studying, watching, waiting to do something for several years including going after the lowest hanging fruit first (insulation/windows).

Posted by: whig at March 28, 2025 02:10 PM (ctrM5)

241 It looks like Trump is about to target the Houthis and/or Iran in a big way if that story on HotAir about the B-2 buildup on Diego Garcia means anything.

Either that or Trump is sending a message about future complications if Iran doesn't start playing ball.

We'll see if the mullahs want to FAFO, I guess.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 28, 2025 02:05 PM (6ydKt)

Throwing bombs around thousands of square miles of desert may look pretty but is ineffective. Cutting off resupply would be effective, but requires somebody to stay there and keep blocking the supply line. If there were anyone in the region worth a damn, it already would have been blocked.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:10 PM (n7h9X)

242 Posted by: Romeo13 at March 28, 2025 02:07 PM (QAkQ3)

If you get storms, the tree removal might have been worth it.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:11 PM (ZmJyQ)

243 Texas...of all places...froze powerless because no wind or solar and remaining fossil couldn't support the grid. Had it lasted another week there would have been a lot of death.

Posted by: torabora at March 28, 2025 02:11 PM (ENzBr)

244 Were the f*ck did this bullshit come from?

Same place it came from when he ran against Hillary. "He's going to round up all the gays! He's going to round up all the trannies! All the Muslims! All the immigrants! He's going to put them in camps!" It's not just hysterical idiotic retarded bullshit, it's recycled hysterical idiotic retarded bullshit.

Posted by: Even their hysterical retahded bullshit is old at March 28, 2025 02:11 PM (mYVyx)

245 Thanks very much for you help, CBD! You da man!

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

246 Solar is great for powering a house if you've got decent sun.
But even that you can't rely on totally.

Maybe if solar technology improves in the next decades it could be more efficient and reliable.

It's nuts what they're doing to themselves in the EU and UK over green power and Net Zero.

They're still cutting back on farmland use in a lot of countries.
Madness.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (6ydKt)

247 They are terrified their kid is on the verge of being arrested.

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Tell me without telling me that your kid has guns and is making threats...

Posted by: But Trump is the problem.... at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (xF2CU)

248 " here in Central Valley Calif, due to the amount of dust in the air, it is usually about a 25% change in electricity production after I wash the panels down."

mine stay pretty clean. I pull snow off them a couple times a year, which cleans them pretty well. Other than that it is just the hard rains that clean them. Haven't noticed any difference when they get a little dusty in between.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (Cus5s)

249 Not making this up.

Friends of ours have a daughter who, for several years, has been pretending to be a dude.

They are terrified their kid is on the verge of being arrested.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 28, 2025 01:57 PM (u5fr9)
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They are stupid. But it's good that stupid hysterical leftwing retards are scared. Let them feel just a tiny bit of what the J6ers felt.

I have zero sympathy -- actually, less than zero -- for all these leftwing cocksuckers and scumbags who cheered covid tyranny and J6 persecution. I would personally volunteer to throw them into woodchippers. Then I'd go home and sleep like a baby. My conscience would be clear. Fuck these cocksuckers. Every last one of them.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (iFTx/)

250 Texas...of all places...froze powerless because no wind or solar and remaining fossil couldn't support the grid. Had it lasted another week there would have been a lot of death.
Posted by: torabora at March 28, 2025 02:11 PM (ENzBr)

It didn't help that a majority of the coal fired plants were offline for maintenance and a once in a lifetime winter storm blew through town.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (+sD5M)

251 Report: Planned Parenthood gave kids coloring books with pictures of genitals at the Kentucky Science Center
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 28, 2025 02:03 PM (L/fGl)

Looking at the distribution of PP centers tells you all you need to know about them. Tons in the inner city none in the tony suburbs.
Posted by: Oldcat

Musk should buy PP and then put Tesla on the building to get the left to burn it down.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (PD1tO)

252 126 Sun tanning your taint was a tiktok trend at some point.

It has never been easier to get dumb young people to get naked in human history...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:50 PM (t0Rmr)

Prevents ass cancer. No lie.

I remember Josh brolin recounting how he did this one sunny day and gave his puckered brown eye a second degree sun burn. He was not happy. Don't know why you would tell a story like that. Oh yeah hollywierd.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (OA79/)

253 Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 02:11 PM (77rzZ)

My pleasure.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (L5An7)

254 To really take on the Houthis their ports need mined. Then Saudis can move on them.

Posted by: torabora at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (ENzBr)

255 I decide whether I need to wash them, by how much crap is on the truck on park outside...
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I might be misremembering but I recall it's done several times a day at the utilities' solar farms. [Probably an article at Steve Milloy's Junk Science site.]

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 02:13 PM (/tzYP)

256 The panels and batteries.
Posted by: Josh Brolin's knowledgeable taint
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In many sunny expensive per kwh areas, you just go with grid tie with microinverters and scale your system slightly less than demand.

Microinverters change the panel outputs to ac close to the source which minimizes problems using dc and easy to scale the systems.

Posted by: whig at March 28, 2025 02:13 PM (ctrM5)

257 249 They are stupid. But it's good that stupid hysterical leftwing retards are scared. Let them feel just a tiny bit of what the J6ers felt.

I have zero sympathy -- actually, less than zero -- for all these leftwing cocksuckers and scumbags who cheered covid tyranny and J6 persecution. I would personally volunteer to throw them into woodchippers. Then I'd go home and sleep like a baby. My conscience would be clear. Fuck these cocksuckers. Every last one of them.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (iFTx/)

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It represents a potential opportunity.

"Seriously...at what point do these arrests not happen that you start questioning your belief in what Republicans want to do with the power of the government?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

258 I stopped watching 2WAY when a caller said their legally adopted daughter from Korea or somewhere, now an adult, is terrified she'll be deported.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:10 PM (LV4Hs)

I'd guess there's a 50 percent chance this is a flat out lie for attention by the caller. But that generation of parents do try and project pathology to the kids especially.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:13 PM (n7h9X)

259
when he ran against Hillary. "He's going to round up all the gays! He's going to round up all the trannies! All the Muslims! All the immigrants! He's going to put them in camps!" It's not just hysterical idiotic retarded bullshit, it's recycled hysterical idiotic retarded bullshit.
Posted by: Even their hysterical retahded bullshit is old

===============

Didn't anyone notice that the re-education camps never opened? Trannies kept braying in schoolrooms, Muslims burned Uncle Sam mannequins etc? No camp escapees to tell the tale?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:13 PM (LV4Hs)

260 A lot more parents are claiming trans kids. Here is the response:

"So your kid is a Tranny? Which one of you molested him/her?"

"Does your dog have Monkey Pox, too?"

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at March 28, 2025 02:14 PM (wBaIH)

261 I saw Troll Droppings open for Butthole Surfers at EdgeFest in '94.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:10 PM (+sD5M)

If you can make methane from pig shit, you ought to be able to the same with troll droppings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 28, 2025 02:14 PM (8zz6B)

262 A leftist friend of mine has really drunk the Global Warming Kool-Aid, and is constantly haranguing me to get solar panels installed in my roof, so I can "reduce my carbon footprint."

I keep explaining to him that my house already HAD solar panels when I first moved in, but I HAD THEM REMOVED because the attachment brackets pierced the integrity of the roof's surface, and for years and years (prior to my moving in and afterward) caused leaks whenever it rained, no matter how well and how often they were re-sealed. The water damage from the leaks was extensive, and kept happening, and the cost of repairing it far exceeded any savings on my electric bill.

After removing the old panels, I had a whole new roof installed--a very good kind that is absolutely waterproof. But it is only waterproof if left entirely untouched and intact, not pierced by the feet/brackets of new solar panels.

He then says that the panels can be attached on the sides to wood on the side of the roof, not into the roof itself -- but in my house's case that isn't possible, and moreover if the panels aren't attached firmly, they could very easily get blown off and detach in strong winds.

In short: No.

Posted by: zombie at March 28, 2025 02:14 PM (pMi6S)

263
As a human, Sid is much, much worse than you all will ever know

Posted by: Bob from NSA at March 28, 2025 02:14 PM (EFZgU)

264 Looking at the distribution of PP centers tells you all you need to know about them. Tons in the inner city none in the tony suburbs.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:07 PM (n7h9X)

They want to encourage and cause as many "unwanted" pregnancies as possible so they can kill as many unborn babies as possible to make as much money as possible.

Posted by: Their marketing is brilliant, though evil at March 28, 2025 02:14 PM (mYVyx)

265 Sun tanning your taint was a tiktok trend at some point.

It has never been easier to get dumb young people to get naked in human history...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:50 PM (t0Rmr)

Prevents ass cancer. No lie.

I remember Josh brolin recounting how he did this one sunny day and gave his puckered brown eye a second degree sun burn. He was not happy. Don't know why you would tell a story like that. Oh yeah hollywierd.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (OA79/)
_______

It's still a thing. Stupid AWFLs sunning their exposed twats, like they're waiting for a crab to crawl right in and go for the gee.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 28, 2025 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

266 Seriously...at what point do these arrests not happen that you start questioning your belief in what Republicans want to do with the power of the government?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

Never. Fear is a renewable resource. They will always be given more by the treacherous media.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (ZmJyQ)

267 Trump is kicking them out of the military because they're mentally unstable. He's not arresting them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

They can't be in the service at all. If you are drug dependent (say asthmatic, or diabetic, or whatever) you can't be in the military.
These "trans" anything are dependent on their hormonal therapies.

Posted by: MkY at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (cPGH3)

268 "Seriously...at what point do these arrests not happen that you start questioning your belief in what Republicans want to do with the power of the government?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

They've been using it for 2 or 3 generations now, first with urban areas and now on all of the democrats. Only a few signs of cracking now.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (n7h9X)

269 "Throwing bombs around thousands of square miles of desert may look pretty but is ineffective."

Well obviously. But that's not remotely close to what's actually happening. Guided munitions, reasonably good to very solid target intel. 100%.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (1m82a)

270 266 Never. Fear is a renewable resource. They will always be given more by the treacherous media.
Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (ZmJyQ)

======

Most would never change no matter the evidence.

Politics is cultural, not policy-based in most people's minds.

But some will realize how dumb it all is and start questioning things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

271 It didn't help that a majority of the coal fired plants were offline for maintenance and a once in a lifetime winter storm blew through town.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM

If only there were some kind of way to predict the weather, a forecast, as it were.

Perhaps one day Science will help us here.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (jc0TO)

272 Solar power has some uses, but small scale. It's not reliable.
It's sure not worth millions of dollars thrown away on it. If their is merit in expanding it's use let the private sector do it. Let them invest their money. Leave our tax money out of it. We have enough problems with our debt.
Posted by: Case

If these grants are designed to bring individual household systems to LI families then I would predict an 80% failure rate within the first year. Solar systems designed to generate electricity require constant maintenance. They are not a flip the switch and forget it investment.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * slow dancing at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (OVoiF)

273 Didn't anyone notice that the re-education camps never opened? Trannies kept braying in schoolrooms, Muslims burned Uncle Sam mannequins etc? No camp escapees to tell the tale?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:13 PM (LV4Hs)

They are immune to reality and critical thinking.

Posted by: Brainwashed beyond recovery at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (mYVyx)

274 "enable over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities to benefit from distributed solar energy,"
__________________

Let's strip away the bullshit

"Low-income and disadvantaged communities" = blacks.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (YqDXo)

275 Fear is a renewable resource.
Posted by: ...

That's a great observation. I'm so stealing that.

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (77rzZ)

276 "Maybe if solar technology improves in the next decades it could be more efficient and reliable."

I paid 0.58/watt for my panels ... which was Real Cheap a couple years ago. Now they can be had for 0.24/watt. Not sure if there is a glut because people used gov money to buy a bunch, then never installed them? (that is rumor I heard about current ones that cheap).

They don't have to be more "efficient" if price is that low. Normal efficiency now in 18-23% or so, but in $/watt they have doubled in the last two years.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (Cus5s)

277
I'd guess there's a 50 percent chance this is a flat out lie for attention by the caller. But that generation of parents do try and project pathology to the kids especially.
Posted by: Oldcat

===============

See, that's it. It could be a propaganda lie, but that kid (adult now) was also probably educated on propaganda lies and could very well believe something as stupid as deportation for adoptees from foreign countries.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (LV4Hs)

278 hey can't be in the service at all. If you are drug dependent (say asthmatic, or diabetic, or whatever) you can't be in the military.
These "trans" anything are dependent on their hormonal therapies.
Posted by: MkY at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (cPGH3)

The open wounds on the transes are also an issue. The other sort can't carry a pack and weapon.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (n7h9X)

279 Didn't anyone notice that the re-education camps never opened? Trannies kept braying in schoolrooms, Muslims burned Uncle Sam mannequins etc? No camp escapees to tell the tale?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:13 PM (LV4Hs)
====
The fantasy is so much more amusing (and politically useful) than reality.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (RIvkX)

280 268 They've been using it for 2 or 3 generations now, first with urban areas and now on all of the democrats. Only a few signs of cracking now.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (n7h9X)

=======

"Who's been telling you that Trump was going to set up camps back in 2017? Have you ever wondered why Trump never did it and why the people telling you that he would have no owned up to the failure of their predictions?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

281 I remember Josh brolin recounting how he did this one sunny day and gave his puckered brown eye a second degree sun burn. He was not happy. Don't know why you would tell a story like that.
==
Hey buddy. I'm looking out for you, and others who might not have been aware....

Posted by: But Trump is the problem.... at March 28, 2025 02:17 PM (xF2CU)

282 218 Solar power has some uses, but small scale. It's not reliable.
____________________

This is true. I bought a solar powered lawn lamp. I removed the panel and wired it up to the pole on my bird feeder. The feeder itself sits on a rubber insert. So (drum roll)..... any jackass squirrel trying to climb the pole gets a shock while the birds eat undisturbed.

Posted by: Orson at March 28, 2025 02:17 PM (dIske)

283 Britain is banning all new oil drilling permits. Just Stop Oil is closing up , no more soup in paintings.
The suicide noose tightens

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 28, 2025 02:17 PM (SZaJX)

284 ee, that's it. It could be a propaganda lie, but that kid (adult now) was also probably educated on propaganda lies and could very well believe something as stupid as deportation for adoptees from foreign countries.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (LV4Hs)

The evolutionary trend of bucking your parents to establish yourself would help if anyone left home now.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:18 PM (n7h9X)

285 The fantasy is so much more amusing (and politically useful) than reality.
===
Funny how that works....

Posted by: Q at March 28, 2025 02:18 PM (xF2CU)

286 It didn't help that a majority of the coal fired plants were offline for maintenance and a once in a lifetime winter storm blew through town.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM

If only there were some kind of way to predict the weather, a forecast, as it were.

Perhaps one day Science will help us here.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (jc0TO)
_______________

There are forecasts: for what the weather will be in 100 years. They should have looked up the forecasts from 100 years ago to find out what the weather would be now.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 28, 2025 02:18 PM (YqDXo)

287 He then says that the panels can be attached on the sides to wood on the side of the roof, not into the roof itself -- but in my house's case that isn't possible, and moreover if the panels aren't attached firmly, they could very easily get blown off and detach in strong winds.

In short: No.
Posted by: zombie
=========
Take a look at some of the yt videos of vertical installs aka like fencing with bi directionals panels (they make power from both sides). Looks like a hitech modern fence and easier install aka cheaper.

Posted by: whig at March 28, 2025 02:18 PM (ctrM5)

288 Their cutesy name is vomit inducing too.

They should call themselves by the name of their actual benefactors.

Unplanned Babyhood

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:18 PM (ZmJyQ)

289 In fact that's it from now on.

They are Unplanned Babyhood.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:19 PM (ZmJyQ)

290 I remember Josh brolin recounting how he did this one sunny day and gave his puckered brown eye a second degree sun burn. He was not happy. Don't know why you would tell a story like that.
-
My 15 year old says:

bruh, you're so ugly, your mom had to take a triple take when she realized she gave birth to a walking meme. and as for your brain cells? they probably left a body count at the door because they couldn't handle the vacancy inside your skull. you're the type of person that makes a cap look like a five-star feature on honesty. your life is so mid that even your dog is like "ok boomer" every time you try to get it to play fetch with your sadness. your goated dreams of being a main character are crushed under the weight of your npc personality. your face got so many icks that it's got its own insect zoo. your only hope for a glow-up is if someone photoshopped your soul into a potato. your rizz is so nonexistent, even the crickets are like "nah, we're good" when you walk into a room. you're not just a basic bitch, you're the instruction manual on how to be bland. and your "bussy"? it's more like a sad, unused tunnel of despair.

He has definite opinions.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 02:19 PM (PzXaK)

291 Throwing bombs around thousands of square miles of desert may look pretty but is ineffective. Cutting off resupply would be effective, but requires somebody to stay there and keep blocking the supply line. If there were anyone in the region worth a damn, it already would have been blocked.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:10 PM (n7h9X)

Well if they're using a B-2 you gotta think they're doing night runs on cities or bases.

Those are usually aimed at a specific thing or person.

Like that guy that ran the Houthis cruise missile department.
They took him and his whole family out bombing his house last week.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 28, 2025 02:19 PM (6ydKt)

292 Britain is banning all new oil drilling permits. Just Stop Oil is closing up , no more soup in paintings.
The suicide noose tightens
Posted by: Smell the Glove

A 6th Century civilization doesn't need electricity, clean water, proper sewers, etc.

Posted by: MkY at March 28, 2025 02:20 PM (cPGH3)

293 If only there were some kind of way to predict the weather, a forecast, as it were.

Perhaps one day Science will help us here.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (jc0TO)

It takes days to bring them back up. The forecast didn't give enough advanced warning on what was coming and how far south it would go.

Also, the gas fired plants went offline because the pipes were too cold.

It was a once in a lifetime event that no one predicted.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:20 PM (+sD5M)

294 It didn't help that a majority of the coal fired plants were offline for maintenance and a once in a lifetime winter storm blew through town.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM
__________________

Here's a thought: have the coal-fired plants go offline one or a few at a time, on a rotating schedule, and preferably in the spring or fall (when presumably demand for power is at a relative minimum).

I know. It's a gift.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 28, 2025 02:20 PM (YqDXo)

295
Speaking of Stacey Abrams, I watched her defend that $2bil grant on MSNBC. She said some organization she headed was outright buying household appliances for underprivileged, marginalized, etc. Not a single receipt of course, nor was one requested.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:20 PM (LV4Hs)

296 ?IRA?

Some of these crooks will make enough money to retire.

What acronym?

Posted by: DaveA at March 28, 2025 02:21 PM (FhXTo)

297 Well,she's no Muldoon.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

*********

She's Tragically Malicious

With a penchant for causing great harm
Miss Rosie always sets off alarms
But she'll no more us be troublin'
Since she scarpered off to Dublin
And for that we can thank our Lucky Charms

Posted by: muldoon at March 28, 2025 02:21 PM (/iMjX)

298 Who's been telling you that Trump was going to set up camps back in 2017? Have you ever wondered why Trump never did it and why the people telling you that he would have no owned up to the failure of their predictions?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

Half of them are lying and the other half are stupid. You can't expect them to follow any genuine thread of thought. Every day is brand new to both halves.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:21 PM (ZmJyQ)

299 If only there were some kind of way to predict the weather, a forecast, as it were.

Perhaps one day Science will help us here.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (jc0TO)

It takes days to bring them back up. The forecast didn't give enough advanced warning on what was coming and how far south it would go.

Also, the gas fired plants went offline because the pipes were too cold.

It was a once in a lifetime event that no one predicted.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:20 PM (+sD5M)
____________

We used to be able to do things competently. Alas, those days are long gone.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 28, 2025 02:21 PM (YqDXo)

300 Tax the other rich people.

Posted by: Democrats everywhere at March 28, 2025 02:21 PM (f1kZG)

301 I remember Josh brolin recounting how he did this one sunny day and gave his puckered brown eye a second degree sun burn. He was not happy. Don't know why you would tell a story like that.
==
Hey buddy. I'm looking out for you, and others who might not have been aware....
Posted by: But Trump is the problem.... at March 28, 2025 02:17 PM (xF2CU)

Went wading at the beach in SoCal and got a nasty burn on the backs of the knee. That hurt. I once got a mild burn golfing in Chicago on an overcast day in March.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:21 PM (n7h9X)

302 Britain is banning all new oil drilling permits. Just Stop Oil is closing up , no more soup in paintings.
The suicide noose tightens
Posted by: Smell the Glove

A 6th Century civilization doesn't need electricity, clean water, proper sewers, etc.
Posted by: MkY at March 28, 2025 02:20 PM (cPGH3)

Does NHS still have leeches for their health care going forward? I'm sure they'll have the knives to bleed bad humours from their patients.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 28, 2025 02:21 PM (VNX3d)

303 298 Half of them are lying and the other half are stupid. You can't expect them to follow any genuine thread of thought. Every day is brand new to both halves.
Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:21 PM (ZmJyQ)

=======

Walkaway is still a thing.

You never know what question will set off an avalanche.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

304 I paid 0.58/watt for my panels ... which was Real Cheap a couple years ago. Now they can be had for 0.24/watt. Not sure if there is a glut because people used gov money to buy a bunch, then never installed them? (that is rumor I heard about current ones that cheap).

They don't have to be more "efficient" if price is that low. Normal efficiency now in 18-23% or so, but in $/watt they have doubled in the last two years.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (Cus5s)

Friend of mine told me the other day there's a guy near here bought up a bankrupt solar company, and is selling 42" by 6 foot solar panels, putting out 36 volts, for $35 each.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 28, 2025 02:22 PM (8zz6B)

305 Rosie O'Donnell is one ugly and unpleasant lesbian.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 28, 2025 01:48 PM (PzXaK)
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I remember when she "came out."

No heterosexual man was heartbroken.

******

Nor intrigued, if that's your kinda thing.

Posted by: Gary R at March 28, 2025 02:22 PM (AN+ve)

306 I now hate Canada.

Well done.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:09 PM (+sD5M)

I hate the government of the state of Oregon worse, they are closer and can do me more harm

Posted by: Kindltot at March 28, 2025 02:22 PM (D7oie)

307 Speaking of Stacey Abrams, I watched her defend that $2bil grant on MSNBC. She said some organization she headed was outright buying household appliances for underprivileged, marginalized, etc. Not a single receipt of course, nor was one requested.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:20 PM (LV4Hs)
______________

I.e., the blacks.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 28, 2025 02:22 PM (YqDXo)

308 Magically delicious.

Posted by: Thanks Muldoon! at March 28, 2025 02:22 PM (2l9Gd)

309 126 Sun tanning your taint was a tiktok trend at some point.

It has never been easier to get dumb young people to get naked in human history...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 28, 2025 01:50 PM (t0Rmr)

Dilly dilly!

Posted by: Everyone on Martha's Vineyard at March 28, 2025 02:22 PM (OA79/)

310 I.e., the blacks.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 28, 2025 02:22 PM

Her voters.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 28, 2025 02:22 PM (jc0TO)

311 266 Seriously...at what point do these arrests not happen that you start questioning your belief in what Republicans want to do with the power of the government?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

====

I keep coming back to - you have to say certain things, just to maintain good standing in the tribe, and the things you have to say have to indicate you have no clue about those outside the tribe.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (u5fr9)

312 YOU get a washer, and YOU get a dryer, and I get a million bucks...

Posted by: MkY at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (cPGH3)

313 There are forecasts: for what the weather will be in 100 years. They should have looked up the forecasts from 100 years ago to find out what the weather would be now.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Most of those weather records suffer from too short data periods to really make the predictions that people ask those models to do. Hard to claim you have a 100 or even 500 yr flood map when you are basing that from roughly 80-90 years of records plus modeling from terrain map data.

About 12-15 years ago, we got a 500 yr rain event, and few years later, a 100 yr snow event. Typical of Black Swan event predictions based on flawed data (ht Taleb).

Posted by: whig at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (ctrM5)

314 As CIA station chief in Riyadh in 1996, Commie Muslim John Brennan issued visas to fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 highjackers.

https://tinyurl.com/yc7ktemx

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (paSBy)

315 307 Speaking of Stacey Abrams, I watched her defend that $2bil grant on MSNBC. She said some organization she headed was outright buying household appliances for underprivileged, marginalized, etc. Not a single receipt of course, nor was one requested.

I'm sure a close family member was the wholesaler and got a nice fee to install them.

Posted by: Everyone on Martha's Vineyard at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (OA79/)

316 311 I keep coming back to - you have to say certain things, just to maintain good standing in the tribe, and the things you have to say have to indicate you have no clue about those outside the tribe.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (u5fr9)

=====

And they got outright surreal about 10 years ago.

I mean...men become women by wanting to be women. And you keep saying that over and over again?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

317 Who's been telling you that Trump was going to set up camps back in 2017? Have you ever wondered why Trump never did it and why the people telling you that he would have no owned up to the failure of their predictions?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

Half of them are lying and the other half are stupid. You can't expect them to follow any genuine thread of thought. Every day is brand new to both halves.
Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:21 PM (ZmJyQ)

Yeah the main reason we don't have camps when the Dems win is we would have to build and man them ourselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (n7h9X)

318 Dilly dilly!
Posted by: Everyone on Martha's Vineyard

Dili, Dili!
-- East Timoreans

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 02:24 PM (77rzZ)

319 276 I paid 0.58/watt for my panels ... which was Real Cheap a couple years ago. Now they can be had for 0.24/watt. Not sure if there is a glut because people used gov money to buy a bunch, then never installed them? (that is rumor I heard about current ones that cheap).

They don't have to be more "efficient" if price is that low. Normal efficiency now in 18-23% or so, but in $/watt they have doubled in the last two years.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (Cus5s)

-- --

That's because they're all Chinese made.
China had been pumping up manufacturing of everything, especially solar panels and electric vehicles, to juice their economy the past few years.

While the West was going through inflation, China has been experiencing deflation.

They fear turning into Japan when they were in a deflationary spiral for 20 years starting in the 90s.

They couldn't get domestic demand up, so they've flooded the zone with every product imaginable and it's caused a glut.
Prices around the world are down for solar panels because of it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (6ydKt)

320 >>> 250 Texas...of all places...froze powerless because no wind or solar and remaining fossil couldn't support the grid. Had it lasted another week there would have been a lot of death.
Posted by: torabora at March 28, 2025 02:11 PM (ENzBr)

It didn't help that a majority of the coal fired plants were offline for maintenance and a once in a lifetime winter storm blew through town.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 28, 2025 02:12 PM (+sD5M)

You can't just flip a switch to turn them back on? /////

I thought several of our coal plants were permanently offline, as in *dismantled*, due to stupid commie BS from the JEF regime.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (Vqx30)

321 All sources of power are solar.

If your timeframe is large enough.

Nuclear power comes from a sun.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (1ZMgJ)

322 And they got outright surreal about 10 years ago.

I mean...men become women by wanting to be women. And you keep saying that over and over again?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

Don't forget the normal women being told to manifest what they want by thinking it will happen and nothing else.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (n7h9X)

323
Here's a thought: have the coal-fired plants go offline one or a few at a time, on a rotating schedule, and preferably in the spring or fall (when presumably demand for power is at a relative minimum).

I know. It's a gift.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

==============

I visited a wizard on the top of a high mountain and was given a magical rune: B A C K U P S

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (LV4Hs)

324 Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (n7h9X

LOL

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (ZmJyQ)

325 314 As CIA station chief in Riyadh in 1996, Commie Muslim John Brennan issued visas to fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 highjackers.

https://tinyurl.com/yc7ktemx
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (paSBy)

What? Was this known prior to now?

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (MFuOv)

326 https://tinyurl.com/yc7ktemx
===
Well, justice is overdue.

Posted by: Paging justice to the white courtesy phone at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (xF2CU)

327 How can anyone hate Canada-land? Come on, really?

IT’S CANADA!

Posted by: nurse ratched. at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (Y/Ect)

328 Britain is banning all new oil drilling permits. Just Stop Oil is closing up
______________

Gavin Newsom heaves a sigh of relief.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 28, 2025 02:26 PM (YqDXo)

329 Sunlight. That was free. If you need more of my passed down genetically ancient knowledge, it will cost you. I accept PayPal and Venmo.
Posted by: Piper

Can you teach how to make headdresses from porcupine quills?

Posted by: Bulg at March 28, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

330 I have a friend I've known for a long time. At some point not sure when he became a dumb lib. I convinced him to vote for Trump this time and Trump himself made a pretty good case but otherwise he is fucking brainwashed. The more I talk to him the more he sounds like a standard leftard. And yet he's not. He just watches SNL and John Stewart.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:27 PM (ZmJyQ)

331 Speaking of Stacey Abrams, I watched her defend that $2bil grant on MSNBC. She said some organization she headed was outright buying household appliances for underprivileged, marginalized, etc. Not a single receipt of course, nor was one requested.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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AKA 'Buying Votes'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 28, 2025 02:27 PM (XeU6L)

332 I keep coming back to - you have to say certain things, just to maintain good standing in the tribe, and the things you have to say have to indicate you have no clue about those outside the tribe.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 28, 2025 02:23 PM (u5fr9)

They don't know the tribe is retarded the same way a fish doesn't know it's wet.

Posted by: Goldfish. Retarded goldfish. at March 28, 2025 02:27 PM (mYVyx)

333
Don't forget the normal women being told to manifest what they want by thinking it will happen and nothing else.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (n7h9X)

This is so stupid. I know girls that spend their spare time making vision boards and they think that'll make their dreams come true, they saw it on TikTok. I tell them to put the dream board away and tell me concrete steps they can take to achieve their dream and I'm the asshole.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 28, 2025 02:27 PM (MFuOv)

334 Don't forget the normal women being told to manifest what they want by thinking it will happen and nothing else.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (n7h9X)
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"Must visualize parallel parking ..."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 28, 2025 02:28 PM (YqDXo)

335 thought several of our coal plants were permanently offline, as in *dismantled*, due to stupid commie BS from the JEF regime.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (Vqx30)

That sort of thing can be undone, like the capped oil wells in the West here. Some might be marginally productive at the price of oil at some time, but it is just politics that keeps the US from exploiting that when the price is high, like now.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:28 PM (n7h9X)

336 They don't have to be more "efficient" if price is that low. Normal efficiency now in 18-23% or so, but in $/watt they have doubled in the last two years.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 28, 2025 02:16 PM (Cus5s)

Friend of mine told me the other day there's a guy near here bought up a bankrupt solar company, and is selling 42" by 6 foot solar panels, putting out 36 volts, for $35 each.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Quality varies substantially as well as warranties and you generally pay more for a brand that has been around for awhile.

A workmate of my wife's got screwed over by agreeing to a now defunct solar company contract where the install has damaged her roof structurally, doesn't work, and requires substantially more to fix than the original system cost.

Still on the hook for boo coo bux to the associated package lender of that install co.

Posted by: whig at March 28, 2025 02:28 PM (ctrM5)

337 I hate the government of the state of Oregon worse, they are closer and can do me more harm
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Better one tyrant 3,000 miles away than 3,000 tyrants one mile away.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 02:28 PM (/tzYP)

338 . He just watches SNL and John Stewart.
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Both suck IQ points right out of your skull

Posted by: It's true at March 28, 2025 02:29 PM (xF2CU)

339
"Seriously...at what point do these arrests not happen that you start questioning your belief in what Republicans want to do with the power of the government?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:13 PM (GBKbO)

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That's easy. Free-speech-loving students are being deported, and did I mention that the most vulnerable members of our society -- our LAWYERS -- are being targeted.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:29 PM (LV4Hs)

340 He just watches SNL and John Stewart.
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So you are saying he has no sense of humor.

Posted by: whig at March 28, 2025 02:29 PM (ctrM5)

341 339 That's easy. Free-speech-loving students are being deported, and did I mention that the most vulnerable members of our society -- our LAWYERS -- are being targeted.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:29 PM (LV4Hs)

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"Foreign students on VISAs getting deported is a very far cry from camps for trannies."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

342 " Installing that way also evens the power curve out by increasing power in the mornings and later in the evenings." Posted by: whig

Snow definitely improves production, I suppose a white surface would also, to some degree. Panels are cheap so could make sense to angle some panels to the East, and some to the West. Can oversize the array by something like 25% ... but better to know that number exactly.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 28, 2025 02:29 PM (Cus5s)

343 Speaking of Stacey Abrams, I watched her defend that $2bil grant on MSNBC. She said some organization she headed was outright buying household appliances for underprivileged, marginalized, etc. Not a single receipt of course, nor was one requested.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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AKA 'Buying Votes'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 28, 2025 02:27 PM (XeU6L)

They don't do that anymore, they just steal the money and print the ballots.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:30 PM (n7h9X)

344 YOU get a washer, and YOU get a dryer, and I get a million bucks...
Posted by: MkY

Progressive compassion.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 28, 2025 02:30 PM (L/fGl)

345 I tell them to put the dream board away and tell me concrete steps they can take to achieve their dream and I'm the asshole.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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You are speaking dialectic to women that only think in terms of rhetoric derived from social media and each other.

Posted by: whig at March 28, 2025 02:30 PM (ctrM5)

346 NOOD

AOC

sorry, not like that

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 28, 2025 02:30 PM (Vqx30)

347 "Foreign students on VISAs getting deported is a very far cry from camps for trannies."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

SLIPPERY SLOPE, I tell you!

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:31 PM (n7h9X)

348 Don't forget the normal women being told to manifest what they want by thinking it will happen and nothing else.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (n7h9X)

Easy to sell - it's not much different from prayer.

Posted by: No supernatural power's giving you anything. at March 28, 2025 02:31 PM (mYVyx)

349 It might be a phantom post...?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 28, 2025 02:31 PM (Vqx30)

350
He just watches SNL and John Stewart.
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Maybe challenge him to switch to Gutfeld for a week and see what happens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:32 PM (LV4Hs)

351 yes

the nood is now sticky

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 02:32 PM (/tzYP)

352 347 SLIPPERY SLOPE, I tell you!
Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:31 PM (n7h9X)

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The left told me the slippery slope is a fallacy for years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 28, 2025 02:32 PM (GBKbO)

353 Don't forget the normal women being told to manifest what they want by thinking it will happen and nothing else.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:25 PM (n7h9X)

This is so stupid. I know girls that spend their spare time making vision boards and they think that'll make their dreams come true, they saw it on TikTok. I tell them to put the dream board away and tell me concrete steps they can take to achieve their dream and I'm the asshole.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 28, 2025 02:27 PM (MFuOv)

Vision boards or whatever to help one figure out what their goal or dream is seems like an acceptable 1st step. But not understanding that step 2 is a list of steps that will move you towards the goal and then taking those steps is infantile.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 28, 2025 02:33 PM (CKOCg)

354 Snow definitely improves production, I suppose a white surface would also, to some degree. Panels are cheap so could make sense to angle some panels to the East, and some to the West. Can oversize the array by something like 25% ... but better to know that number exactly.
Posted by: illiniwek
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The new bi sided solar panels have a primary on one side and a secondary on another. In a vertical install I saw, they put half of the primary panels facing the East and half of them facing the West and the site was a northern one. Turned out, snow worked just fine to increase production when the lower part of the panel was shaded by angled sunlight.

In a more traditional array angled to the average optimal position for latitude, you still get some power from the back of the panel array with the bidirectionals from underneath and that increases if you make the ground under them reflective in some way.

Posted by: whig at March 28, 2025 02:34 PM (ctrM5)

355 Never. Fear is a renewable resource. They will always be given more by the treacherous media.

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:15 PM (ZmJyQ)
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And God knows stupidity is an abundant resource.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 28, 2025 02:34 PM (YqDXo)

356 I think the guy meant make your own and sell the power generated to a power utility to sell to the huge AI 'factory' but your point is still valid.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:59 PM (/tzYP)

Oh, I think you're right. Still, I'm not interested.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at March 28, 2025 02:34 PM (k9OZB)

357 I tell them to put the dream board away and tell me concrete steps they can take to achieve their dream and I'm the asshole.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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You are speaking dialectic to women that only think in terms of rhetoric derived from social media and each other.
Posted by: whig at March 28, 2025 02:30 PM (ctrM5)

My older sister and I were on a call and she was speaking about not having kids yet with her husband. I asked 'have you gone off birth control' and the answer was no. I think we've found the problem!!!

of course when she stopped doing that she was pregnant 20 minutes later.

She wasn't stupid but I think she was feeling the drama to the wrong audience.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 28, 2025 02:36 PM (n7h9X)

358 Maybe challenge him to switch to Gutfeld for a week and see what happens.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2025 02:32 PM (LV4Hs)

I wonder what he would think!!!

Posted by: ... at March 28, 2025 02:36 PM (ZmJyQ)

359 Still, I'm not interested.
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Definitely! And hopefully no eminent domain in anyone's future.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 02:42 PM (/tzYP)

360 "In a vertical install I saw, they put half of the primary panels facing the East and half of them facing the West and the site was a northern one." whig

interesting ... winter is when the least sun is available, so it would seem more efficient to have some face SW and some SE, at a steeper than "nominal" angle. Depends on location of course, and if you have acres, or just a rooftop, or small yard with neighbors.

I haven't tried to calculate the bi-sided panels ... but you have to include the full potential from both side when sizing the charge controllers and inverter ... and those items are the more expensive part. But lots of ideas to consider.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 28, 2025 02:52 PM (Cus5s)

361 I'm grateful to Ace for the post and to all of you for reading the piece. To Anna Puma's point above, the interest on the $20 billion taxpayer pot at Citibank goes to....the green energy non-profits, per EPA.
And I agree - some graphics are a good idea for stories like this.

Posted by: James Varney at March 28, 2025 04:06 PM (BFhXu)

362 Why should we cover up all that good land eyesore Solar Panels anyway their as bad as Wind Turbines

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 28, 2025 04:48 PM (wGqjj)

363 Posted by: James Varney at March 28, 2025 04:06 PM (BFhXu)

Come by more often.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 28, 2025 05:18 PM (jc0TO)

364 101 What happened to solar-power paint??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:45 PM (/tzYP)
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Flaked and too much graffiti.
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And the roads paved with solar panels.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 28, 2025 01:46 PM (z/ifB)
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Electric cars' weight collapsed the panels.

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What happened to solar-power paint??
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And the roads paved with solar panels.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 28, 2025 01:46 PM (z/ifB)
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Posted by: Ciampino - send pizza at March 28, 2025 08:36 PM (sPQoU)

365 364
Sorry for the mess:

What happened to solar-power paint??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at March 28, 2025 01:45 PM (/tzYP)
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Flaked and too much graffiti.
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And the roads paved with solar panels.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 28, 2025 01:46 PM (z/ifB)
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Electric cars' weight collapsed the panels.

Posted by: Ciampino - send pizza at March 28, 2025 08:38 PM (sPQoU)

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