Thank you, this means a lot to hear this 💛

It was really comforting and, as someone who didn't grow up here but has been here over a decade, a wonderful story about our community here. Thanks for writing it!

If you go back through my posts I have sought actual data about this and there is none.

Where good and bad is tied directly to income and consumption. When the climate crisis is actually not about whether we are good consumers with good carbon footprints at all but is about massive systems of power and control over our lives that has been captured by corporations and billionaires.

To be specific: it continues to categorize people into being "good consumers" (who have bought solar in ANY form) and "bad consumers" (who haven't even though it's available to them). (Not my observation, riffing on something Salma Elmallah has written about.)

I have avoided commenting on whether it's a good policy for Germany, but there definitely isn't enough evidence within their own system to transplant it here in ours so hastily.

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Before someone gets mad in the replies, I am not against home solar or battery systems writ large. But the obsessive view of tech-in-any-way solutions about solar and storage avoid the forest (society) for the trees (every man and his castle stuff). Balcony solar distills this to its essence.

A friend of mine is an expert like your spouse and was talking about how - all other things aside - "talking to" these LLMs is dangerous. As humans we can't disconnect feeling from communication, and feeling for a machine that we think we're conversing with will have unforeseen consequences.

More analysis needed to have a lot of specifics, but the range of conditions inside US homes - especially for the target consumers - renters, people living in apartments, poorer people, etc. warrants more study not haste imo. bsky.app/profile/sevi...

I'm not a home insurance expert but I imagine if the result is in the ballpark of "sure, buy it and install it but if it burns your house down or causes a large fire there's no insurance for you" the entire thing is DOA, both legislatively and politically.

lol it's literally a set of instructions, said out in the open

cool cool cool cool

"what's the difference between here and Germany" well quite a lot actually including the typical construction materials, the circuit layout, supply voltage...

Thanks! will check it out. Sounds like it could help clarify some things i’ve held on to for awhile.