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My understanding is that he never actually paid out any of that money he promised to voters.

Go birds.

Sadly, the "concept of a plan" line was from last year. :/

I have to admit, if Trump changed opinions about him via destroying the economy, I have yet to see it. All the dipshits in my world are crowing about how they had been preparing for this for decades.

It's never too late to enter carpentry. I know quite a few programmers who do carpentry as their main hobby. Something about the math and the amount of careful planning is highly transferrable, I guess.

Me, Local Fact Checker (who is also very tired and lazy): "seems fine"

Honestly, I know a lot of companies that would be absolutely fucked if Backblaze went under in a dramatic fashion.

I get it, I'm just poking fun a bit.

Damn, real shit, Canada.

You got that right friend. 🤝

Going through that experience is what made me eventually buy a solar generator when I had the money in the right spot. I've felt really unsafe until I managed to get one figured out. Jumped on a Black Friday deal *during the pandemic and got a DJI Power 1000 and two solar panel sets for $500.

I've given it a fair shake at this point, and just with the light in my enclosed back yard, I am collecting almost 400W/h, which is more than enough to run the fridge for a few days by cycling the power so it runs for only a few hours total per day.

I really really recommend folks explore solar these days. Battery storage technology has really, really improved since the early 2000s. Solar panels aren't meaningfully any more efficient, but the real advantage these days is that panels are dirt nasty cheap if you are willing to wait on freight times. You can even buy a $30 panel rated at 6W and connect it to a USB power bank and run your vapes, Flipper Zero, etc on solar!

I agree with you wholeheartedly, but it's odd that you'd point to events from the 1960s when we have blackouts every summer in Texas now, lol.