We are one step closer to a day when a child rides an electric school bus, has access to good internet for their homework, and drinks clean water no matter where they live. Thank you @POTUS and @VP.
I want to talk about a dystopian world we are entering - where every moment, event, and crisis just become commodities.
Life stops being something we live, but something we sell and trade. It will breed both corruption & emptiness.
1/ A 🧵on why our politics can't ignore this.
@mmiakapro I have been active and healthy my entire life. My first pregnancy was a breeze. Followed by two genetically normal babies dying — one in second trimester. You haven’t brought a baby home in an urn. I hope your luck — and it is luck — continues, and doesn’t run out like mine did.
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I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax platinum plus audit protection. I don’t want to install the Webex plugin to join the meeting. I don’t want to share my car’s braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place.
I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.
@clhubes@ShandersWrites In contrast, we have a wonderful kid who walks our dog and one time refused to let us pay him bc he was late (we still paid him). I think it’s probably just young people in general, and that so many don’t get high school jobs anymore bc of intense sports and extracurriculars
@clhubes@ShandersWrites Yes this has 💯 happened to me. Ive either been straight up ghosted or given sort of odd excuses. I also now have a wonderful gen z babysitter — but comms is still definitely all on me for sure. Zero initiative / follow up skills. It’s like they don’t want the money lol
New ad from the Harris campaign on reproductive freedom, ahead of the VP's speech in Texas on Friday. This is a very tough one to watch, but it's incredibly important to. Thank you so much to Ondrea and Ceasar for trusting us to share their story.
@Yrahcazjs Tax incentives for solar and wind, passed decades ago, are the *reason* clean energy is now cheaper than oil and gas. So yes, more tax incentives under the IRA is actually the best way to deploy more clean energy (ie solve climate change). This entire thread is a truly deranged.
If, theoretically, one wanted to advocate to lower the cost of rooftop solar in the U.S., there are a number of helpful things they could do. Here’s the start of a list. I look forward to seeing what others may add.
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@JesseJenkins On the PTC question, PTCs aren’t created until power is sold, so in this scenario it would likely be on discharge but you would need to track the charging to ensure you aren’t claiming PTCs for grid power.
@SciSpence@JesseJenkins Yep that’s right. The proposed section 48 regs provide a clarification that H2 energy storage mediums can include physical or material based mediums, but that the property must store H2 that is only used as energy and not for producing end products like fertilizer
@J_Lovering This is probably more expansive than you want, but this has energy consumption modelled at the city-level (includes nat. gas, etc.): https://t.co/zZW7X2f6C9
@J_Lovering I know you've probably investigated this already, but EIA publishes the volume of retail sales at the distribution utility level, which is a rough proxy for many cities who are served by a single distribution utility: https://t.co/gBtRgb1CJp