Take Titanic, where the movie is a romance that happens to be set in a historical event.

Now imagine that instead of a director who really loves the ocean, it’s a director who really loves blowing shit up. That’s Pearl Harbor, and you would be correct for avoiding it with violence if necessary.

Well, yeah, that’s what it should be.

Cities are often too big of an institution for this kind of mutual aid to work. It needs to be a social unit where you can know most of the people.

If you squint a lot, HOAs could be a mechanism for bringing neighborhoods together. It allows them to self-govern over the shared resources for the neighborhood. Want to get a company to run fiber to everyone’s home, or build a solar/wind farm for fewer dollars per MW than rooftop solar could ever do? An HOA is a legal mechanism to setup the financing and agreements to make that work in an affordable way for the residents.

Most HOAs are not setup for anything like that. They’re for requiring what fencing contractor you have to use and banning natural lawns.

I basically don’t think you should be able to create a government by using a contract.

It’s basically what Anarco-capitalism wants to do. Incidentally, HOAs form the best real world argument against Anarco-capitalism.

It’s unsustainable to keep prices lower than costs. The Amazon example didn’t have low prices forever.

That would save colonies near suburban areas. That would not save colonies surrounded by hundreds of acres of farm. There is far, far more farmland in the US than suburban yards.

You need to convince farmers of that, not people who own suburban lawns. Though people with suburban lawns should convert over, their affect is going to be small compared to hundreds of acres of farm run by a few people.

Let me be clear: natural lawns are a good thing, and my wife and I are converting over piece by piece. However, I think people jumped to that conclusion here because they’re already preconditioned to it. Natural lawns are never going to undo the damage caused by overuse of agricultural pesticides.

How does that fix a virus spread by parasitic mites?

My question is if we could attach an induction loop to a standard T8 bulb. If a bulb has burned out its electrical contacts, perhaps it could still be reused as it is.

I’d guess that even if it were possible, it needs a lot of special electronics. Not worth the effort compared to getting an LED bulb.

“Insiders hope” might be better phrasing than “insiders admit”. Tariffs at this level weren’t being recommended by anyone besides Trump, because they’re stupid as hell. The right-libertarian wing of the party doesn’t want any kind of tariffs what so ever. The protectionist wing wants some tariffs, but not strong, across the board tariffs like this.

Nobody wants this except Trump. Almost literally nobody. His supporters back it because that’s how cults work. Nobody thinks this is a good idea of their own accord.

Fucking NAT. Never should have been allowed to escape from the lab.

Car thermostats for the radiator. You don’t want the coolant flowing when the engine first starts, because it will run like shit. So you have a cylinder filled with wax that expands with heat. That controls a valve to set the flow of coolant. Low tech, works fine, no particular reason to change it.

That is being a Nazi. Finding an “other” to blame all your problems on is central to the idea. If they let up on this for a moment, they’d have to solve actual problems, and they don’t know how to do that.

That sounds like how the zombie apocalypse starts.

Sauces, too. You want a fat as a base in many of them, and mayo is a pretty good way to get it.

Maybe don’t eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.

It’s not that bad. This is an actual technique in use, and it drastically decreases how much storage you need.

The biggest problem has been convincing capitalism to do it. They’ve been building solar like nuts because that’s the cheapest per MW of anything on simple Excel spreadsheets. More mathematical nuance would show that if everyone does this, it’s just going to cause overproduction and wasted potential on very sunny days. You need all three, and toss in some hydro and geothermal, as well.

Wind kinda has to go big for efficiency. It’s hard to beat the laws of physics on this. Not really feasible for individuals to do in a meaningful way unless you have a whole farm.

Solar panels are workable-ish. Residential rooftop is OK, but the real cost benefit is from filling big, flat fields with racks. Homes have to be a boutique setup every time, and labor cost adds up.

If you want to be (semi-) independent of traditional power utilities, the way to go is co-ops. You and all your neighbors go in on buying a field and putting solar/wind/storage on it