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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

And your point?

I guess I thought my point was clear in my first sentence. “This isn’t a propaganda win.”

Of course they needed a pretext and this turned out to fit the bill.

They don’t need a pretext either. They’ve already enacted draconian policies against monitory groups based upon race and against LGBTQ folks. They needed no rational pretext for those. They didn’t need one for any other horrible things they’re going to do in the future. They would do those things anyway.

They know how to play the propaganda game.

This isn’t a propaganda win. Its simply a pretext for what they wanted and had the power to do anyway. Propaganda win would be if there was universal popular support for Kirk, and there wasn’t before and simply isn’t now. Most people didn’t even know who Kirk was before this.

If you know not only what a torque wrench is, but how to use it properly you will likely have no trouble changing brake pads.

The feeling I get is that auto work goes much much deeper though, and I am interested in resources that offer that knowledge.

Full engine rebuilds, or even troubleshooting intermittent CANbus issues, sure. But basic maintenance like brake pads or changing out a failed alternator just require basic hand tools and some minor knowledge you can get from youtube.

Replacing brake pads (not shoes for drum brakes) is a fairly straight forward activity and possibly one of the best (besides perhaps changing engine oil) to perform yourself. Youtube is a great place to start. You can likely even find a full video of pad replacement for your exact model of car.

What is your current knowledge with using basic hand tools such as screwdrivers, hammers, and wrenches (for hex head fasteners)? Do you know how to replace a flat tire? There’s lots of overlap with that procedure and changing brake pads.

If you don’t vote for her, you’re endorsing her statement against women holding office. Checkmate liberals! /s

Other sponsor state Rep. Beth Lear gave us a comment, saying, “When states, including Ohio, began mandating untested and unproven mRNA shots as a condition of employment and education, I and many others around the state and nation awoke to the massive government overreach that was taking place.”

Ms. Lear, if you didn’t want the superior mRNA vaccine, you could have still gotten the NON-mRNA Johnson & Johnson old school viral vector vaccine and still met the vaccine mandate. Even today if you are still afraid of mRNA, you can get the modern Novavax NON-mRNA protein subunit vaccine. Now stop lying please.

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.

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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.

If they’re going to do that, they’ll do it anyway manufacturing their own pretext as the have already done with marching the military into cities that don’t like trump and his fascist policies.

It’s the mesh of Nazi militias you have, which can decide to go openly ‘hunting’ progressives.

You’re proving my point. The Nazi militias already started this months ago before yesterday’s kirk death: Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman killed, State Sen. John Hoffman wounded in ‘targeted political violence’

The “fencing response” was a surprise. Doesn’t that indicate severe neural damage? Spinal cord hit perhaps?

It’s all fun and games until Republicans use this as an excuse to further enforce their fascist agendas.

Republicans are marching National Guard soldiers into the largest cities in America on exaggerated “crime fighting” excuses. They have established an unaccountable militia with ICE hiding their identities and violating the civil rights of American citizens on exaggerated or fabricated drug/violence reasons. They’ve needed no legitimate excuses to do these things, yet they are actively doing them. This changes nothing on that front.

I have a couple Radio Shack meters: one analog that I think is older that the one you show here, and a couple early digital models which I still use now and then when there’s a chance the meter will take damage.

Also, you’re going to bring up Radio Shack but not mention the Cuecat?

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.

When you use PayPal, you are supporting Nazis.

Plenty of reasons exist to not use Paypal, but Musk sold his interest in it 23 years ago.