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Wife material right there.

Is she the one with the superpower to make things slightly warm? Like heating up a cup of tea?

As you get older, something else happens. The people that were present at that cringy moment of yours die off. You may find yourself the only living person witness to the event. It helps. Not as much as it should but it does help.

Hell yeah, Donald Duck is awesome. Will annoy a northern american with this next time I meet one.

As a North American, I’ll happily listen to your Donald Duck comics love, but you better bring some Asterix and Obelix at the same time.

“eye ball” cookies

It’s also important to check whether solar overcacity is worthwhile in the UsA. Her3 it is not( anymore).

I’ll say generally speaking in most places it isn’t, however, once you go solar, you may increase your electricity usage as you move away from carbon based energy. Before solar we had natural gas furnace heating and two gasoline cars. Now we have two EVs and a cold climate heat pump with zero natural gas and zero gasoline consumption. So I wanted the larger solar capacity to cover the increases in electricity we knew we’d have.

Its worked out pretty well. We have fairly large electricity bills ($400ish) in Jan and Feb, a small bill in March, and usually a tiny bill (under $10) in April. Then no bills for the rest of the year. Also keep in mind that is TOTAL energy costs, no gas or gasoline bought anymore.

And buy them according and after you’ve done everything possible to insulate your house, whether in the colder or warmer climates.

In the USA there are silly rules that you can only get 120% capacity of your last years worth grid consumption as solar installed. So if one were to follow your advice and do all the energy efficient improvement prior to solar, then you would be restricted to getting a much smaller array. I understand why they have the rule, but its easy to circumvent by just having artificially oversized consumption for a year in your house, and you can then get the larger array you want before then doing all the energy improvements post-array installation.

Using half-worn car battery packs seems optimal for home use.

I’m not putting cobalt based (NMC or NCA) batteries bolted to the inside my house. Thats nearly exclusively what car battery packs are. Thermal runaway is too great a risk to bolt that much energy to a wall in the house. I am comfortable with LFP in the house though.

could be because I told them I’ll buy once I can get net zero.

I’m not following your logic. You aren’t willing to accept any savings unless you can completely zero out your power bill? Judging from your consumption I’m assuming a good chunk of that is for cooling your home? If so that means you’re likely in a pretty great place to harvest solar power. You’d reach payback of your investment on your array much faster than most, and be saving money for probably 35 years or more with little to no additional investment.

Making some guesses for how much your electricity rates are, and how much you’re consuming (assuming much from cooling), you might be a full payback in less than 7 years if you took advantage of the tax credit. Then, every month after that you’d be gaining money back.

CAC cards

The Free Palestine Movement Seinfield’s referring to is the one with mostly Western students protesting on college campuses, not the Free Palestine Movement located in Lebanon that was involved with armed conflict with Syria too. We have proof of this:

Here’s a quote from this article:

“By saying ‘Free Palestine,’ you’re not admitting what you really think. So it’s actually — compared to the Ku Klux Klan, I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here, because they can come right out and say, ‘We don’t like Blacks, we don’t like Jews.’ Okay, that’s honest,'" the Chronicle reported Seinfeld said.

source

The KKK has killed literally thousands of people (mostly black, but some Jews, and whites) source

But apparently according to Jerry here, the KKK gets a pass because “that’s honest”.

Fuck off, Jerry.

Remind me again how many extrajudicial lynchings the Free Palestine movement has performed vs the KKK.

Mine was replacing a failed hard drive in array.

• Check array health, see one failed member
• popped out the hot swappable old drive , popped in the new one
• Check array health to make sure the array rebuild is underway
• See array now has TWO failed member, and realize I feel the drive in my hand still spinning down

shit.

Blasphemy!

Debian? Did you see the title of that book? “Linux from Scratch”. Clearly its a Gentoo guide book.

I’d like a Romeo & Juliet story where one house uses VI and the other Emacs.

In the 1950s for white men, America was pretty great. For just about everyone else no one would say it was “great”. So when they say “Make America Great Again” they mean “Make America Suck Again For Everyone But White Men”.

They’re not a fashion brand, but I’ve had good quality long lasting jeans from Eddie Bauer.

We’re old. We don’t set the trends or standards anymore. If we want to keep participating, we have to adapt to their style. They aren’t going to adopt our older standards.

This isn’t just a problem with women’s jeans which have arbitrary size numbers. Even men’s jeans which are size by the actual waist and inseam measurement can be wrong. In addition to vanity sizing, cheaper jeans are also made from larger material cuts out of the patterns at the same time to save manufacturing cost sometimes twice as many as shown here:

Those at the top or bottom of the stack may end up a bit smaller or a bit larger than the pattern, but they all get marked with the same size.

Whether it was this manufacturing problem or vanity sizing, this is why I stopped buying Old Navy jeans. I could pick out 3 jeans all labeled with the same size and one would fit okay, one would be too small, and one too large. I have never had this problem with Eddie Bauer jeans.

Edit: I found picture showing the larger stacks (which can introduce the mismatched sizing) I was referring to: