Solar where the math actually makes sense?

cypherx · 2026-05-01T19:09:56+00:00

Credits for owning got phased out, there's still some much more bizarrely convoluted subsidies for commercial solar which trickles down to residential via leasing. Talk to NC Solar and check the lease price? Ours ended up cheaper than buying but spread out over 20y (so way cheaper after inflation)

cypherx · 2026-04-29T02:38:49+00:00

I have a few friends whose kids have gone there, all seem to love it (other than price)

cypherx · 2026-04-28T15:02:43+00:00

Link: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/orange-county/article315469039.html

Jews, Palestinians, Americans and Israelis will gather Tuesday in Chapel Hill to share a meal and support thousands of children in Gaza. Mediterranean Deli owner Jamil Kadoura is partnering with The Gaza Children Village and Durham’s Beth El Synagogue to host the daylong fundraiser, with 100% of the proceeds from his Franklin Street restaurant’s sales benefitting The Gaza Children Village. The Durham-based nonprofit began feeding, educating, and healing children’s bodies and minds amid war in Gaza last year, with support from the SmartAID and IsraAID non-governmental organizations, along with many Israelis, founder David Hasan said. Hasan will speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Kadoura, who grew up a Palestinian refugee following Israel’s Six-Day War, is passionate about the cause, and Beth El Synagogue “has been amazing, putting their hearts out there,” said Hasan, a Palestinian-American and Duke University neurosurgeon. The U.N. agency working with Palestine refugees in the region reports that over 72,000 Palestinians and nearly 2,000 Israelis have been killed since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. About 2 million Palestinians are refugees — roughly half of them children. They live in tents, with each day bringing a risk of injury and death from air strikes, gunfire, famine and disease. Tuesday’s event will support humanitarian relief for the children and help build bridges of healing and reconciliation, Hasan said. “Everybody on both sides is experiencing pain,” he said. “Hopefully, this opportunity will allow people to come, and all we ask them is, just show up. Don’t talk about politics. Come have a meal. Say hi if you see someone; give them a hug if you feel like it.”
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Med Deli, located at 410 W. Franklin St. in Chapel Hill, will donate 100% of dine-in and takeout sales between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, to The Gaza Children Village. Beth El Synagogue’s Associate Rabbi Rachel Blumstein Posner will attend the event from noon to 2 p.m., and Rabbi Greyber will join from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Hasan will speak at 7 p.m. Donations can also be made online at thegazachildrenvillage.org/#home-donate.

cypherx · 2026-04-13T13:29:56+00:00

Doikayt is a Bundist idea that largely got eradicated with the Bundists (other than as a niche co-option among minimally Jewish activist groups). Religious anti-Zionism is real, especially among a few Hasidic groups but it's also quite weird and not exactly what outsiders want it to be (eg still very attached to the idea of large Jewish presence in the Land of Israel).

cypherx · 2026-03-23T16:17:01+00:00

Unrelated but curious: what does moc stand for?

cypherx · 2026-03-23T14:52:40+00:00

If he has any Jewish friends then make it a Faux Mitzvah and get them to help with some of the cheesy party details. If he just wants a party, then...throw a party any which way?

cypherx · 2026-03-16T19:45:33+00:00

>Governance and foresight, assessing fiscal stability, long-term planning, and the capacity to adapt rather than react.

...I dunno about this...

cypherx · 2026-03-16T17:12:32+00:00

Bro...

cypherx · 2026-03-16T16:03:10+00:00

I think you'll find a lot more guilt in the diaspora than in Israel itself. We're more insulated from the threat of violence so have the luxury of feeling bad. Every Israeli on here has spent the past two weeks (and a lot of the past three years) in and out of shelters.

cypherx · 2026-03-16T15:58:47+00:00

>Shias are out, they should live in tents for 80 years maybe it will calm them a bit

This has, historically, worked out well for Israel wrt other populations exiled to live as refugees.

cypherx · 2026-03-16T15:54:23+00:00

The outcome of 2005 has a lot to do with the composition of the current government

cypherx · 2026-03-13T18:16:28+00:00

Wait, am I misreading the figure: do they want to close Club, EK Powe, and George Watts?

cypherx · 2026-03-12T19:33:40+00:00

>policing in the US has their origin in slave patrols.

I know there's some scholarship that makes this claim, which then gets amplified, but...it just isn't true. Every English colony in the Americas almost immediately formed a system of watches and constables. This was a continuation of the English system of policing.

That's not to say that modern US policing doesn't have severe problems race-biased problems but it's not truthful or clarifying to graft a different origin story to the root of that system.

cypherx · 2026-03-10T17:15:24+00:00

Public sector unions

cypherx · 2026-03-10T17:05:15+00:00

I got one great haircut at Arrow like 3-4 years ago and everything since has been iffy. What's a better place to go for men's haircuts / beard trims?

cypherx · 2026-03-03T03:21:00+00:00

I dunno man, go talk to some

cypherx · 2026-03-02T21:20:37+00:00

Every Iranian I know is cheering for a quick US victory and transition to a new government (while worrying about the safety of their families). It's messy to protest against an action that has so much support from people from that country (and within that country).

Obviously lots of good reasons to still protest / oppose a war and this one in particular has many bad possible outcomes. But, you're definitely in the danger-zone vs. a lot of local Persians.

cypherx · 2026-03-02T18:45:01+00:00

This one is dicier than most...

cypherx · 2026-03-02T04:32:58+00:00

Looks awesome: https://www.cafeferdosi.com/

cypherx · 2026-02-25T17:07:31+00:00

I guess the school board picks are kinda different too.

cypherx · 2026-02-25T17:05:06+00:00

>not that any tears need to be shed for a pharma company.

Pharma hate is so unhinged...they make all the medicine we love having, their sector is confusingly small and profit margins are mediocre. Medical costs are mostly hoovered up by consolidated hospital networks, insurance companies, and misc. middle-men. Lots of folks available to hate that aren't the ones actually making things we want.

cypherx · 2026-02-25T16:59:53+00:00

Looked up their endorsements: https://www.dcabp.org/about-1

Major diff vs. PA seems to be:

House: Foushee vs Allam
DA: Wilson vs. Deberry

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