@coffeeandhoney Really, the mask was never about saving the wearer. If you walk through a cloud of moist infected vapor, you have about the same chance of catching the virus, masked or not. But a mask is quite effective at reducing transmission by limiting the dispersal of infected exhalation from an infected individual. This means we wear a mask to protect others, and indirectly, ourselves (by reducing community viral load.)

@Coctaanatis Lithium Iron isn't a thing. Typo. There are new higher density battery technologies (Aluminium-Sulfur, for example) on the mid-term horizon, but for now it Li--ion.

As I understand it, the new rules being considered are intended to incentivize an uptake in storage along with solar. That is what I have, but it's expensive, and many folks who would have made the plunge into solar will not do so under these new regs.

#climatechange
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This should not even be a discussion! Comments from CA Cosonauts in the know welcome!
https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2022-12-08/one-week-until-california-decides-the-fate-of-rooftop-solar-boiling-point

@jeffm23 It looks like she is trying to read his notes...

@WeThePeople Eric growing up with blue collar experience.

@DrCabralRivera I recommend "Human inference: Strategies and shortcomings of social judgment" By Nisbett and Ross.

@AuntCrabby I am glad for Griner, but that Russia gets away with the snatch-and-grab in order to free legitimate bad actors is disgusting.

@dmcrane Don't forget about those boxes of documents moved from NaraLago to Bedminster on Trump's private jet just before the LIV tournament.

@RobinBrayFineArt Yep. She is totally unqualified. The next few years there will be tough.

@LnzyHou @MichaelBaker This seems inappropriate and unnecessarily confrontational, IMO.

@Heucuva8 I finished Storm Front. Fool Moon is next.

@kaehlys While Portland is the main population center, Brunswick/Topsham and Camden/Rockland are decent sized. Augusta and Bangor are other options. Some of the smaller peninsula towns are really nice and not super pricey: Boothbay Harbor, Bristol/Damariscotta/Newcastle, etc..

@kaehlys I just did this recently. I had kids, so school district was a consideration. You can definitely find affordable if you are looking outside top school districts. Internet is going to be good in most communities in Southern and mid-coast Maine, but I would look for a fiber provider, rather than cable.

@MLBjustme It doesn't. What it does do is strip all mate data from an image when it is uploaded. Avoid this by either taking picks in landscape mode with the base of the phone on the right, or edit an image for example, a minor crop) in any image editor and export the result.

@Kelly_and_puppers Agreed. The call is coming from inside the house.

@tsluikart So says Elon. Elon is a liar.

@Maude In my area, home heating oil and gas prices at the pump had a spike about a month before the election, and dropped significantly within a week of the election. The fossil fuel industry definitely puts their thumbs on the scale!

@poemblaze Nice! I would have included the great lakes system. Pickerel are like, "WTF?!?"

I just finished building some built-in shelving for a buddy to store his record collection. Features include black iron pipe and walnut cleat shelf supports cord management pass-throughs from the top of the shelves to the available knee-high socket.