You know what’s funnier? I mean, it’s not funny, but it also kind of is. At the same time, the Trump administration is pushing coal burning power plants. Aside from the high levels of pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions that coal plants produce, no one in the US is building new coal fired power plants. Twenty years ago, coal generated over 50% of the electric power in the US. Now it’s less than 20%.

Even if they were, it takes years and a huge investment, including getting rail access to the plant, to even bring one online. Electric utilities spread their capital outlays over decades rather than years. So I would expect that convincing the industry to switch back to coal, with the understanding that they’ll have to maintain new coal fired plants for the next 40 years, is going to be a nonstarter.

All tarrifing solar panels will do is push power utilities toward natural gas and exacerbate the (actually legitimate) issue of insufficient base load generation capacity that they’ve been whining about for years. Oh, and also kill residential solar projects.

Long way of saying this action will continue to weaken our already strained energy infrastructure. You could try to incentivise domestically produced solar panels. But this is not how you would do that.

Personally, I would be ok with J.B. Pritzker. Don’t love that he’s a billionaire. On the other hand, he’s the best governor Illinois has had in ages and seems to be trying to do right by his constituents.

“Y U mad? I’m totally on your side!” – Guy who is definitely not on your side

After a quick glance at the demo, I think the UI design is better than Paperless-ngx (at least on mobile). But, it only has tags. Not correspondents and document types. It also lacks the automatic matching feature, advanced search filters, custom fields, and customizable document views that Paperless has.

I’m glad someone got that.

Land of the free!

And the President of the United States is a steaming pile of shit.

“Why is that Bible like four feet tall?”

“Oh, that’s our family Bible. Big letter edition.”

Moronica for Morons!

If I were in your shoes, I would not think my relationship is “great” because there seems to be a very basic lack of honesty and honesty is the foundation of a good relationship.

If this was a situation you and your wife discussed and came to an agreement on, that would be one thing. There are all kinds of couples that have unique “arrangements” and yet they have successful marriages because they communicate openly and honestly.

Being dishonest, especially about something as big as an affair, only leads to more dishonesty. Lies to cover up lies. Before you know it, you don’t even recognize the person you’ve become. I know this from personal experience.

And in about 15 years, Harry’s family will be forced to move to California when the soil they’re working is dried up and carried off in big black clouds by the wind.

“Gorilla Ladder step stools. Now at your local Home Depot!”

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The Art of the Deal is fiction according to the author.

Does the new ISP require use of their router or just offer it as an option?

AT&T used to require using their router, which was a pile of hot garbage. I have a Mikrotik Router and managed to mostly cut the AT&T router out but I had to configure my router to use the AT&T router for authentication, at which point the Mikrotik would take over. It was complicated to configure but it worked.

I was listening to Terry Gross interview some broadband experts about broadband legislation the other day and they mentioned that the White House added a Starlink connection to “boost the WiFi signal.” The White House. Probably the single most well connected building on the planet, added a shitty Starlink connection. It was not lost on Terry or the panelists that the whole charade was nothing more than the President of the United States abusing his position to effectively advertise one of his cronies’ products.

And don’t forget to say “Thank you”.

I, too, am extraordinarily humble.

2008 General Election. Voted for McCain. I would change that if I could go back but I didn’t know any better at the time. And yet today, I would gladly take John McCain over our current President.