I mean…I’m pushing middle age and can’t name one Taylor Swift song. If four songs were played, and 3 of them were Swift’s, I’d still probably not be able to pick it out.

Nothing against her or the genre of music, just has never seemed like it would be my cup of tea.

I’d have got 100%, but I misread the date on the first one.

Right? For someone who doesn’t know about things and has never heard of people, he sure does never shut up about them.

But exceptionally, I’ve heard that a PV can directly power a compressor with no middleware.

I don’ t think I’ve ever heard or read that about compressors. I also know that brownouts aren’t good for them since they have to work harder by pulling more current to compensate for the reduced voltage. That causes them to run hotter. It’s also not taking into account any controller electronics that may be in the mix which are also sensitive. Granted, this is all based on knowledge from refrigerators, but the components are basically the same.

However, I have read people running the electric heating elements in hot water heaters directly from PV, either directly or as a dump load. If I recall, the thing to watch out for with that is the thermostat; they’re not made for DC and can fail to work properly. Not sure what the fix is for that (possibly replace it with one rated for a larger AC current, but I don’t recall).

The electric elements are just “dumb” resistance loads and generally don’t care what kind of power goes into them. Compressors are quite a bit more complex, so I’d be wary about feeding them anything but the “type” of power they expect.

Genuine question: what’s the success rate of catching and prosecuting people who make these kinds of threats?

I’m guessing it’s either nearly 100% or depressingly low but nowhere in between.

That’s…not wrong. And I see where you’re coming from.

But they’d end up spending 24/7 coverage just debunking that shit because it’s coming out like a fire hose every time he’s on camera or taking a shit (because what he craps out on social media also gets news coverage).

I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to the day the news isn’t dominated by this orange turd (except maybe coverage of his sentencing or something) Mid 2021 was kind of a preview of that, but once our 3 year election cycle kicked back in, there he was again all day, every day.

Maybe they could do a weekly Trump bullshit fact check wrap up instead or something?

Regardless, I agree with them not airing the live feed/coverage, but I can agree with you that the overall behavior should be highlighted in some way.

That’s not total in the US, just how many this partnership is deploying.

Not saying we don’t need to step the game up, but there are other investments doing this similtaneously as well, including federal money for additional EV charger deployments.

I won’t necessarily say it’s that.

There are two main crowds when it comes to Trump coverage:

1. Why give airtime to those lies and nonsense?
2. Why aren’t you covering his lies and nonsense?

Literally no way to make both of those groups happy, lol.

When it’s just him spouting off lies, conspiracies, and hate, I say give him as little coverage as possible. The people voting for him don’t care or want that, and the “undecideds” at this point are either just attention-seekers or too ignorant for any additional coverage to get through their thick skulls.

The only people who don’t know what Trump’s about by now would have to have been cryogenically frozen or in a coma since 2014, and I don’t think that’s a large enough voting demographic to really worry about.

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