David Bonowitz

Thanks. A bit too much jargon for me ;-) Neither offer mentions "grid forming"? (If there's no net metering, is the "grid" here just the grid within the house panels+battery?)

But I'm reading that as "Go ahead w/o a battery. Ongoing innovation will make it relatively easy to add one later."

Fair?

patience, grasshopper

Trump Demands Harvard Pay $1 Billion Just hours before the latest demand, The New York Times reported he had backed off calling for a cash settlement.

Yes. $0 is the right answer.

But is this NYT piece already out of date? I might be missing something, but see the link suggesting T actually UPped his demand -- a common T tactic (it's the art of the deal, see):

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Thanks for this. A simple Q:
Using one of the larger providers, if I do NOT get a battery now, will it be easy to add one in a few years w/o having to make expensive changes to what goes in today?

My elderly mom in Ohio is looking at pitches from GoodLeap and SunPower, but they don't answer this.

It's a common Trump tactic: Up the demand to a ridiculous level, then back it down to something that's still more than he had any right to. So if Harvard goes for $500M, they'll say they did NOT cave to $1B, but they still got played. He does this a lot.

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I don't understand why more U.S. cities don't have Statues of Lib --

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Completely agree. Everything's eventually a developer's fantasy, but it's at the same level as an 8-year old boy obsessed with trucks or dinosaurs.

True, but the thing is, he's not a good developer either. He cuts corners, takes kickbacks, stiffs his workers, etc.

Worse, how he handles other issues reveals that his construction work wasn't really about that either. It's just demolition & rebranding: buildings, economy, law, everything.

Some men see historic laws, regulations, and norms, and respect them. I see those same things, and ask why not unilaterally break them.

It's the Kennedy Center, after all.

Structural engineer here. "Using the steel" and "using the structure" means he's essentially tearing it down, just without a wrecking ball.

Like stripping a house to the studs.

Yes, because even if only red state governors act, that starts a process that might filter up to the point where he only needs 5 votes to affect the whole country. I mean, we all thought 14AS3 was a real thing until it wasn't, and that got NINE votes.

State Rep. Click posts fake photo of ICE agents in Springfield As tension mounts with temporary visas expiring, many Haitians now face deportation

Hey @amyactonoh.bsky.social , @davidpepperoh.bsky.social , @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social , I hope you're explicitly dismissing Click, calling our his fellow R liars, and reminding all voters that Vivek & Rs think they, the voters, are dumb enough to buy this.

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In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
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Good bunny
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I'm sure that's part of it, but I think it's much worse: his whole message is premised on the need (?) for major renovations -- the same thing he said about the WH East Wing.

He's proposing "Complete Rebuilding" of an "Entertainment Complex." He wants to tear it down & replace it w/ Trump Center.

Wait -- gotta read past the headline. He's not just stopping performances. This is another "ballroom."
"Complete Rebuilding" means he's going to tear it down and build a new monstrosity.
Projects in existing buildings call for planning and patience -- two things he can neither do nor abide.

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Same -- even more so -- in T1: Appoint Garland, ride Obama's economy (which he did), be a normal president for Hurricane Maria, follow your own experts with the pandemic coming. Easy peasy.

It was a bigger lift for T2, as he had to avenge the 2020 loss and maneuver around Jan 6 liability.

You haters aren't going to like this, but it turns out Lee Greenwood and Kid Rock are booked until 2028.

Mewling AND puking? In this economy?

Cartoon by @guido-kuehn.bsky.social

yes, they (we) owe him and thousands of others a lot more than a hat.

o.mi.cron

tag yourself
structural engineers dig F=ma

Positioning the pieces:
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Stanton had a career night: 21 pts on 6/8 from 3. On the bad side, Davis might have reinjured his ankle. Also annoying: announcers now mispronouncing Malik Abdullahi's first AND last names, twice calling him "Malcolm."

4-3 (8-14) #Princeton 80 - Columbia 68
A comeback win keeps the Tigers in 4th place, but it wasn't pretty. Not a great sign that we started the comeback by abandoning our offense and letting players make their own shots. That won't work against bigger Yale or Harvard. But ...

Honestly seems like the kind of thing you should draft in anger, then put into a drawer.
Hard to imagine the lefty indignation if a T-appointee would quote the bible at us and sign off with a tear-jerker photo.

6-1 (18-2) Cornell 61 - #19 #Princeton 72
No new ferocity exactly, but a return to the no drama, strong finish (24-15 Q4) that won 15 straight before last night. Emily Pape is a superb shooter, but so is Belker (20 pts 5/9 3pt).

And what's this? Penn has upset Columbia! Good Ivy players everywhere.

My thoughts exactly, and it's uncomfortable. Connections and privilege, unfairly distributed? Small town social bonds we can be grateful for and would do well to facilitate in cities?

This kind of government support should not be a matter of who you know.