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    4. Off-The-Street on

      Another DT.

      Repeating the same action while expecting different outcomes is insanity.

    5. No-Art-7995 on

      Since someone on the DT told me to start watching anime as some dating advice, I’ve started to watch some family guy. Apparently its one of the more popular American anime’s. I’ve found a list of top episodes I’ve been making my way through, in addition to randomly selecting a few random episodes from each season. It’s somewhat humorous, but the character of Brian really stands out to me, he’s constantly portrayed as having a both a semi unpopular and semi radical progressive viewpoinbut. interestingly, over the course of the seasons Brian goes from being a succ to being a neoliberal. This really goes to show how the common perception of neoliberalism has changed over the years —* from the dominant political ideology to an incumbent.

      * emdash is entirely human generated

    6. contre-torpilleur on

      Supposedly “free thinking” liberals when they’re told by a MACHINE to use a new thread: 

    8. Individual-Camera698 on

      The DT is a series. You only get to participate in the new one, if you’ve read every single DT from start to finish

    10. 11thDimensionalRandy on

      When my partner is sleepy she starts communicating through cute little murmurs like JRPG characters in non-main story cutscenes that aren’t voice acted.

    20. Willybender on

      # What if America Went Completely Dark?

      *FERC conducted a power flow analysis, which modeled the cascading effects of knocking out the most critical substations in each interconnection, ones where multiple high-voltage lines came together.* ***“We came up with some very astounding numbers,” Wellinghoff said. “If you knock out nine total substations among those three grids, you can black out the entire United States.”***

      *Now, just weeks after Wellinghoff learned about this analysis, the attack at Metcalf showed him how easy it was to take out these nodes: With 20 minutes and enough rifles, a crew could potentially turn the lights out nationwide. He went back to Washington and briefed the White House, Congress and the Department of Energy on what he had learned. “I basically wrote a memo about what happened and gave it to everybody I could to explain to them that we needed to do something immediately, linking what we had done in our analysis with what had been physically done at Metcalf.” A blackout caused by lost transformers, he warned, could last 18 months or longer.*

      *No arrests were made after the Metcalf shooting, and the crime is still unsolved. It took PG&E 27 days to bring the substation back online, using a group of “troublemen” — experts in grid repairs — to replace the cooling systems on the broken transformers. That’s the timeline for one substation, with the power still on. In the midst of the chaos of a nationwide blackout, with many more than 17 units disabled, recovery would take far longer than a month.*

      *It was hard to replace transformers quickly back then; it’s nearly impossible now.* ***Since 2021, the average wait time for a large power transformer — the kind you’d find at a major substation, capable of handling tens or hundreds of thousands of volts — has climbed from less than a year to 128 weeks, with some lead times growing as long as five years.*** *“The transformer shortage is bad,” Ajey Pandey, an energy analyst and a former municipal resource planner, told ChinaTalk, a tech-focused media outlet. “It’s like hair-on-fire, biting-my-nails, losing-sleep levels of bad.”*

      *One more thing: Huge numbers of the transformers already installed on the grid need to be replaced.* ***According to one manufacturer, some 75 percent of distribution transformers — the smaller units on street corners and atop telephone poles — are past the end of their expected service life, which maxes out at around 50 years. Twelve years ago, the average age of the country’s large power transformers, which often have a shorter lifetime, was estimated to be 38 to 40 years.***

      [https://archive.ph/DvHtS#selection-3942.0-3942.1](https://archive.ph/DvHtS#selection-3942.0-3942.1) – NYT

    21. MonsieurA on

      >Well, my mom raised us with the idea that American exceptionalism was the correct way of looking at things, that the United States is the boss of the world, that, like, you know, slavery was — back then, that was normal, people weren’t bad because they had slaves.

      Immediately going for the slavery example? Interesting choice, Natalie Harp’s brother.

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