It’s fascinating to see the reactions of people, but I’m just stating what I think.

I’m neurodivergent and was bullied for most of the time I went to school. If I was not being bullied, I either found it too interesting, or very boring. Plus, being unpopular, I was always picked last in gym class, so at some point I started not going to those classes, and eventually dropped out of school entirely. I really felt like it was a prison where parents dump their kids while they are busy earning slave wages. And from what I hear from my nephew and friends working in schools, I’m just glad I don’t have a child that also has to deal with this.

The whole concept of schools with classes of ~30ish kids with an overworked teacher trying to follow a standardized program that will not work for all kids, is… depressing.

Because you have the wrong information.

Climate change is provoking climate instabilities. Yes, the sea will rise, and it will affect some estuaries, but not enough to go far inland. However, the instabilities also mean less rain in some places, and flooding in others. It makes the climate less stable.

So, climate change will make some places become dry and unable to grow food. Maybe not year round, but if a crop is planted in the spring, and the summers now have a few scorching heat waves every year, it will make them fail.

Who is maliciously complying? The teacher? The kid?

Ah schools. Life’s first taste of arbitrary rules. Some schools here are confiscating stealing kids’ phones for a week.

I’m glad I don’t have children to send to those part time prisons.

An American kitten.

Aktshually, there’s a few municipalities with their own power companies. I knew about Hydro Sherbrooke but TIL there’s also Hydro Magog, Hydro Coaticook and Hydro Joliette.

The numbers are for Québec only.

In 2021, Quebec generated almost all of its electricity from renewables including hydro (94%), wind (5%), biomass (0.6%) and solar (<0.1%), showing just how much of a renewable powerhouse the province is. Today, its utility operator, Hydro-Quebec, is the largest in Canada, playing an integral role in power exports to U.S. states like New York, New England, and Maine.

Quebec’s continued leadership in providing renewable electricity to North American customers is something we can all be proud of.

Guess again.

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/environment/weather/climatechange/climate-plan/clean-electricity/overview-quebec/_jcr_content/par/mwsadaptiveimage/image.img.jpg/1736367657671.jpg

And the whole point is about the pollution created by wood burning, not if cities are more polluted in the first place!

What warms your house in the winter?

Electricity, like the vast majority of people here. About 94% of which is hydroelectricity. Other ways to heat buildings are slowly getting banned anyway.

Where is dirtier snow? In your fathers homestead or in the city?

What? The snow is dirty where there are particles in the air that ends up on the ground. It’s not a contest of city vs countryside. If you live in a place that snows and walk around a house that is heated by wood burning, you will see black particles and specks in the snow surrounding the house. It’s the same at my cabin. When I get there the snow outside is impeccable… until I light the wood stove inside, and then it slowly turns grey all around the cabin. It doesn’t matter if the snow in a city is even dirtier.

Where is more generaly more particless in the air? In the countryside or in the city.

Funny thing, in winter during smog episodes, the air quality can be worse in the countryside because of people burning wood. Anyway, it’s banned in bigger cities because of how horrible this is in dense population centers. So, ironically, the air is more polluted when I go to my parents’ place in the countryside where they are burning wood to heat their house, than around my apartment in the downtown of a major city. Again, sometimes the air quality is worse in the countryside or in suburbs during winter, in large parts because of wood burning.

Thanks for the tips. I’m kind of stuck with the choices I’ve made in the past and I don’t want to upgrade or change before it’s really needed, in order to prevent waste. One is just a cabin where I go maybe a dozen times a year. The other is a sugar shack used in the day for only a few weeks during the spring so it just has a 3000W 24V inverter. It’s enough for the lights and the water pump once in a while. We really don’t need that much power for now but I’ll certainly switch to 48v when we’ll need to upgrade.

As for the ideal temperature, I’ve pretty much given up. The average temps in January are around -10°C and it sometimes goes in the -20°C. I thought about multiple ways to insulate and heat the batteries but in the end, I don’t want to leave this unattended in the middle of a forest. So far my solution in winter for the cabin is to carry a portable power station that was sitting in a heated place.

I’m trying and doing experiments. I have a cabin off grid on their land and it’s mostly solar, but I do need to burn wood during winter even if I don’t really like it. He has a sugar shack on another corner of the land and he’s also using solar, except the stoves and boiler. I bought him an inverter and he prefers this to the noisy generator.

However he pretty much hates everything else with batteries. My mother has an electric golf cart and he whines every time the lead acid batteries need maintenance or need to be changed (because of lack of maintenance). I could swap them for lifepo4 batteries, but they’re still going to lose capacity over time and we’re getting to the same point of “but I don’t have to put a $1000 worth of batteries in my tractor every few years”! Same “issue” with an electric ATV for the kids. He hates it because it needs to be charged and the lifepo4 battery had to be changed once. But apparently the cost of gas and diesel doesn’t register.

But yeah. So far at the latitude we’re at, solar power input and consumption varies a lot depending on the seasons. The solar setup is fine for the sugar shack because it’s used during the day in the spring, when there’s no leaves. But in the cabin, it’s been more complicated. I’m not there year-round and it works well in summer, but in winter the lifepo4 batteries need to be heated for hours if not days before I can charge them via solar, and get acceptable performance. It’s a work in progress.

Forget the chainsaw. Just burning the wood like we did in the past creates smog over a whole region. Wood burning is banned in my city and I can literally smell it when I go to the next city where it’s allowed.

Where I live winters are brutal and most people switched to electric heating over time. If everyone would go back to wood burning, we’d have really bad air quality and smog in winter, even in the countryside and over small villages.

My father claims the simple life on a homestead is way closer to nature and pollutes less than living in a city.

He cuts his wood with a chainsaw that’s using a mixture of gas and oil. This gas and oil certainly doesn’t come from the trees. Its imported. But it’s apparently the traditional way.

Then in winter he burns the wood to heat the house and it creates a circle of soot in the white snow all around it. But it’s all natural. On certain days, when you go outside around his house, you can taste the wood burning in the air. All natural!

If we all go back to owning our plot of land and exploit it like settlers, surely this is going to be good for the environment.

Well, someone is going to have paid overtime.

I think you may indeed miss something. It’s not the “people on Lemmy”. A few YouTubers on the left have noticed and made videos about TYT’s downfall. They now have ex employees like Hasan Piker and Francesca Fiorentini openly talking about how people are treated at TYT.

There’s also the whole thing about Ana getting “agitated” about some non-issues like “birth giving person” or some bullshit like that, and saying that she is done with the Democrats.

Another point that comes up often about them is how much they are willing to be friends with people of the right. They go on right wing shows to criticize the left. They also attack other YouTubers on the left like The Majority Report.

Beyond their sometimes seemingly balanced speeches, they are rapidly shifting on the right. They are becoming grifters.

I don’t want to link to a bunch of AI articles and/or long YouTube videos but this contains a bit of juice: https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/the-young-turks-daniel-penny-and

Seeing TYT “left-leaning” saddens me. If they were left-leaning, they are not anymore.

Just to give an example of public lists that are working, I have an IRC server and it’s getting bombarded with spam bots. It’s horrible around the superbowl for some reason, but it just continues year round.

So I added a few public anti spamming lists like dronebl to the config, and the vast majority of the bots are automatically G-Lined/banned.

I was more thinking along the lines of boot lickers. People paid to force their own into submission.

When there is major protests and the government or the capitalists don’t want to give more crumbs, they send the police, who will gleefully kettle, arrest, hit, and maim people.

My friend’s parents were injured in a protest a few years ago because of the police. You have the right to protest until they ORDER you to disperse and go back home. If the movement becomes too big to ignore, it has to be crushed with the monopoly of violence instead of “caving in” and help the poorest.

EDIT: Those capitalists?

ACAB

So, he’s suing because Mojang didn’t let him add guns to the game.

I for one don’t give much of a fuck. There’s already a shit ton of games with guns. Guns are us! When it comes to games, guns guns guns! In fact, is there not ports of Minecraft, or similar games, with guns?

He may be right on a technicality. And I don’t care that much for Mojang. But to be frank, I also don’t care if they tried to stop people from adding guns.

Sadly, it’s been a good part of IBM’s business model for years. They call it Capacity on Demand.

Inactive processor cores and inactive memory units are resources that are included with your server, but are not available for use until you activate them.

I learned this when I moved into a corporate IT environment with Power servers. I couldn’t believe that some companies would pay a quarter of a million for a server that is intentionally stunted/limited unless you pay even more.

But cars are computers now. “Everything’s computer!”. So they will follow that subscription model.