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Oh, they're helping with agriculture, they're responsible for a bumper sunflower yield this year.

HOW DID HE EVEN GET CIGARETTES!!!

They are starving and eating paper but somehow they kept tobacco plants and all the mechanisms for drying and curing them, which would have taken enough resources to keep hundreds of people alive!?!?!

Navarch Li Nalas, obviously.

Defeated Gul Zarale in desperate single combat, and led his cell and the entire resistance to victory and freedom.

Also the most humble bajoran you will ever meet.

I cannot believe he survived the whole series, seems like someone who should have died near the end of s3 just to add to the atmosphere of desperation.

Also... I think he brought some mother fuckers back from the dead. And he helped reverse the snap.

That sounds like he's probably got a solid defense against any complaints made to the state board.

Preppers think the pencil nose accountants will all die screaming in regret while all the high school jv cheerleaders come begging them for help, in full uniform, and everyone finally recognizes how they were right all along.

I have tons of food, a generator and other backup power and a gun, and if shit really hits the fan I know I'm not living 5 minutes longer than everyone less prepared, the resources actually make me a target.

But then again, I have Pge, so it's not doomsday prepping, it's just 'Wednesday, or whenever they next screw up resulting in 100s of deaths, weeks without power, and massive rate hikes resulting in huge bonuses to their upper management'.

BTW, there was money both in 2010 and 2021-2022 that was literally supposed to replace all those linkages with something less ancient, even for small things like yours.

My understanding is the money ran out halfway or so, maybe less, and even a lot of the big stuff didn't get done, they kept fighting on how to do it and the details, everybody wanred standardized on their system, and in the end very little actually happened.

That is hilarious, but also I can 100% picture it in my head, and it's not that far off from what the big machines did until recently, and pretty sure some still do.

Yeah, but the utility's management... Holy shit.

They could trivially save billions a year just by adding intelligent load coordination and shifting for evs, you sign up and you save a few pennies a kwh, and in exchange they can steer load away from shortages and towards surplus. It's 1990s technology.

But management at places like Pge are just jobs programs for Newsom to sell to sew up the 2028 primary, which hilariously backfired for him (though im sure he cut a decent deal).

Most Ev loads are almost instantly dispatchable, it's an absolute no brainer, even if we aren't trying v2g, at least control when they charge.

It was a 'catholics are evil and all follow the commands of the pope so we can't let them in, they'll sell us all out to the European powers' thing.

Also Irish are all drunks and Italians are all criminals, unlike the wonderful people who populated this country who were the European upper crust of course, and not religious nut jobs and people fleeing debt or other crimes.

Don't get me started on antisemitism: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-united-states-and-the-refugee-crisis-1938-41

Roosevelt warned that even Jewish refugees could become a threat, aiding Nazi Germany in exchange for the lives of loved ones held hostage in Europe. The FBI warned Americans to be on guard. Neither the president nor the FBI were able to provide any specific examples of Jewish refugees committing acts of espionage or sabotage.

For peace, he knew how monstrously cruel and evil the south was and that they would never tolerate black people as anything but chattel.

Removing them made sense.

I wish he wasn't so kind and gentle, giving every slave owner to their slaves and walking away would have solved most of Americas problems to this day

I mean, how many people supported slavery and later, Jim Crow.

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Iirc replicators require exotic matter arrays, so no, they need to be constructed, at least anything more complex than a household replicator.

We didn't have digital controls when they were designed, so you couldn't use GPS or atomic clocks to synchronize frequencies, you just needed to have a single source of coordination. Those coils were manually controlled till not long ago.

Now we should be able to use some kind of small gas turbine with a igbt rig for synchronization, much like they do with wind turbines.

People often don't appreciate how far we've come over the past 2 decades, and how utterly manual and brute force we were until very, very recently.

Sloppy journalism from The Guardian here.

Aww, bless :)

If you keep proactive with rolling blackouts you have a chance, but if you are slacking even a bit all the spinning plates fall at once.

Power plants also need energy to start up (black start), and if there’s no grid energy to power those ancillary systems, or if the power plant doesn’t have on-site auxiliary generators to provide black start capability, they’re down until they can get power again from elsewhere.

This is huge, we have massive drills to make sure we can do this, and idle black start plants for just this purpose alongside almost an entire secondary grid for bootstrapping.

Electricity is expensive and hard as hell.

That's how power works, you miss your requirements by even a little and you can get cascading failures if you haven't engineered things well and your guys aren't sharp.

Power engineering is not something casual, it's brutal and if you aren't on your toes then your toes will leave black sooty marks where they were.

We spend insane amounts of money keeping things going, Cuba probably cut corners and couldn't do upgrades due to sanctions/embargoes.

You nailed it, but the engineers are very much at a "reign in hell vs serve in heaven" point right now because the CCP is promising everything.

But also, most of those engineers aren't the good ones, they often don't value the freedoms we have here, they just want a safe and comfortable lifestyle for themselves and their kids, which seems reasonable right now.

I think there's a ... "hive safety reflex" if that makes sense? They feel safer in China than in the west right now, especially as the world is de-globalizing, and they fear being left in a potentially hostile land, which is one of the narratives the CCP is using to counter fears of its own tyranny.

You mean blizzard activision... :(