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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Honestly, eating vegan, or even vegetarian, is too much of a hassle for most people most of the time, and that’s by design. So is eating anything that isn’t 80% corn syrup and processed sugar. Our society prioritizes cheap and/or artificial over everything else. Until that changes at a systemic level people aren’t going to change their eating habits.

    This is true for much more than just food as well. Most won’t stop using plastic until the alternatives are cheaper and more accessible. Same with renewable energy, public transportation, pesticides, polyester clothing, etc. Most people are fundamentally lazy and will not go out of their way to do something beneficial for others unless they have a financial incentive to do so. Awareness of a problem only elicits a response in a small minority of the population.






  • I know it’s partly because conservative voters pretend to care about the economy, and for whatever reason their primary metrics for judging its health seem to be the price of gas and eggs, but I really wish we could stop framing the destruction we are causing throughout the world solely in terms of how much it now costs us to fill up our cars. It makes me almost hope we see an actual invasion on US soil just so we’ll realize that war costs much more than a few extra bucks at the gas pump. That’s not a healthy or sustainable attitude for an entire society to have, to say the least.








  • It’s not just that but that is part of it. If you’ve ever done electrical load calculations you will find that they can be pretty complex even with a single power source. When you start trying to do capacitance, inductance, or impedance calculations with hundreds of power sources it gets out of hand pretty quickly. That makes what used to be fairly routine design decisions much more difficult to work through.

    That’s not to mention the additional danger to workers who need to repair damaged transmission lines. If the electric company shuts off a certain section then it should be safe to touch a line in that area right? Not if there’s active solar panels in the area.