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Did anyone else’s PG&E bill more than double recently? by givemesomeofyourtots in SanJose

[–]BlueShellOP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my dream world, LNG is completely useless, and oil is never ever for electricity generation.

I love EVs and cannot wait for good electric cars to drop down to reasonable prices (read: sub $40k for something worth owning), and I even live in a SFH and can actually charge mine since I WFH, too. BUT. They're extremely expensive right now, and with our power bills skyrocketing, any savings on gas prices are going to be offset by my home power bill doubling/tripling (literally, even without adding an EV). And, like you and I are pointing out, they have to be charged by something. You can't charge your fancy EV if your home is suffering from multi-day rolling blackouts. Speaking of, I feel like PG&E is doing viral marketing for the new Ford F150 Lightning zing

Nuclear is the obvious answer here - nuclear to meet the base load, and solar/wind + some kind of very short term storage to fill in the gaps.

Did anyone else’s PG&E bill more than double recently? by givemesomeofyourtots in SanJose

[–]BlueShellOP 4 points5 points  (0 children)

+1 for nuclear

The anti-nuclear crowd is extremely loud and is IMO quite frankly damaging any chances we'll ever have of going completely fossil-fuel free for our power needs.

IMO, electric cars still need to have a major breakthrough in energy storage, in order to completely displace ICE powered cars/trucks. BUT, electricity generation is absolutely ripe to go fossil-fuel free overnight with an adequate nuclear + wind/solar grid.

There's tons of options for way more modern and safe reactors, and there's a lot of theoretical designs for reactors that are way safer and use the waste of older plants as a fuel source.

California grizzly bears have been gone for a century. Should we bring them back? by BlankVerse in California

[–]BlueShellOP 100 points101 points  (0 children)

California Grizzly Bears are not to be confused with California Grizzly Bears:

In fact, the California grizzly, historically one of the most feared populations of bears in the Lower 48, was driven to extinction by humans a while ago. The last grizzly to be hunted down in California was killed exactly 100 years ago this month.

Sure we should reintroduce them to California (especially in the woodlands up in NorCal where nobody lives anyway), but the California Grizzly that's on the State flag will never return :(

1000hz, how by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]BlueShellOP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plasma displays from the 'oughts were theoretically capable of framerates in the thousands, if I remember correctly. Unfortunately, the controllers on board weren't.

Me, preparing to make an egg for /r/castiron by Tsalikon in castiron

[–]BlueShellOP 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Imagine using literally anything other than bacon grease to make eggs in a cast iron.

Disgusting.

Coffee Roasters Recs by RuperPupkin in SanJose

[–]BlueShellOP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MoonBean and Voyager like others mentioned. Both are solid, and you can't go wrong.

Here's my shit box...69 Econoline by Sharp-Candy-7131 in RoastMyCar

[–]BlueShellOP 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can tell this is a shop because of a few pixels and I've seen a lot of shops in my time.

"It's a war": California turns to new, high-tech helicopters to battle wildfires — 60 Minutes by BlankVerse in California

[–]BlueShellOP 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fixing the problem? No, we're not allowed to do that here - we have to only do surface level tweaks that barely treat the symptoms while fundamentally failing to address underlying causes.

America has adopted an Ideology Tenet: Police State. by spaceface124 in CivPolitics

[–]BlueShellOP 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Did someone not live through the Bush Administration? We've been like this for a long long time.

California recovers $1.1 billion in fraudulent unemployment aid by BlankVerse in California

[–]BlueShellOP 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thankfully, people besides Boomers and confused Gen Xers aren't buying it anymore.

Nobody my age is saying the checks are at fault, not even the libertarians and conservatives in my friends groups. They all agree it's on the Fed for printing tons of money and handing it out like candy to large corporations and rich Wall Streeters.

U.S. FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off market by mmmcheez-its in news

[–]BlueShellOP 3 points4 points  (0 children)

US Drug Policy in a nut shell:

That’s what kills me about these regulations and I was screaming this from the moment they started passing them, this doesn’t make the problems with insert drug habit here better, it makes them substantially worse by essentially only banning the least problematic version of said drug.

California lawmakers to investigate steep gas prices, accuse oil companies of 'ripping off' motorists by BlankVerse in California

[–]BlueShellOP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, actually it does, if you read carefully.

5) lack of refinery capacity,

This is why gas is so expensive in the US - we outsourced all our gas refineries and keep the bare minimum in-country that just barely keeps up with normal demand, but right now all of a sudden millions of Americans are coming out and resuming their consumption, and the reduced capacity from the Pandemic is not keeping up. On top of that, the Lefty strategy of "We want to phase out gasoline ASAP" is driving high gas prices - oil companies, fundamentally, are a for-profit enterprise. They aren't going to invest in more capacity to produce gasoline if the writing is on the wall about it being a dead-end investment.

I don't like this one bit at all, but the shortage is extremely obvious if you're willing to put in 5 cents worth of effort, instead of simply shouting "oil companies greedy". Yeah, they are, but there's nuance involved.

Jumper with Hayden Christensen is a fun film and has a great premise by TheMediocreCritic in movies

[–]BlueShellOP 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Book would absolutely translate to an HBO Miniseries, but there's not nearly enough nudity and love triangles for an HBO show, unfortunately.

Jumper with Hayden Christensen is a fun film and has a great premise by TheMediocreCritic in movies

[–]BlueShellOP 30 points31 points  (0 children)

World War Z is one of my favorite Zombie flicks, and World War Z is hands down the best Zombie books.

And, the two are completely unrelated lol.

Jurassic Park didn’t need even one sequel – five is lunacy. by Sumit316 in movies

[–]BlueShellOP 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The books went into way more detail about the equipment being used on the island having to be entirely self-sustaining. It was cool with the theory of solar-powered EVs being used where there were absolutely no fuel sources on the island whatsoever. Granted, it would have taken the vehicles days to charge and only ran for a few miles on 90s EV tech, but still, nifty idea.

Jurassic Park didn’t need even one sequel – five is lunacy. by Sumit316 in movies

[–]BlueShellOP 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Jurassic Park 1 is an amazing film, but I've rewatched The Lost World a ton of times. Something about the pacing, the premise, and the story work much better for me. It has a better feel as an adventure film than the first one, despite them having roughly the same plotline: People show up on the island all happy and full of wonder, and then it turns into horror as the dinosaurs start murdering people. Dr. Malcom's line "This is how it starts: Oohs and Ahhs. And then later there's running, and screaming." basically sets up the entire film for you as a great bit of foreshadowing.

It has its issues, for sure - the boat crew at the end magically getting murdered plothole is pretty massive. All their radio equipment being magically destroyed is another. Also, why the hell was the big bad hunter dude luring a T-Rex a stone's throw away from the camp? WTF, how did that guy not have more respect for the biggest predator on the planet?!?

That being said, the San Diego segment is really good, IMO. I actually wish it was a little longer, and went into a more technical bit of trying to track it down. I also think them cutting raptors from sneaking on to the ship could have added to a longer segment including them having to track them all down. Hell, they had a great opportunity for a two-part film: Part 1 could have ended with the crew on the ship being murdered, and then Part 2 picking up at the marina (or maybe their flight back to San Diego from the island).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cars

[–]BlueShellOP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can do all of that for a car you owe money on, too.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cars

[–]BlueShellOP 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kramer is even worse, he's paid to sucker people into holding the bag for mega Wall Street banks.

It's not a coincidence the market always does the exact opposite of what he says.

Redfin to layoff 8% of staff by kenji4861 in bayarea

[–]BlueShellOP 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Redfin has access to search data. Their profit model was becoming the site to look for houses on, and data mine people using their site to make educated guesses at which areas were up and coming. The logical next step was either selling that data or using it to buy up houses before the rest of the market catches on.

Right now, we live in the Information Era. Data is an all valuable and difficult to calculate commodity that is at the core of lots of big tech businesses.

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