asciilifeform: !q uptime
dulapbot: asciilifeform: time since my last reconnect : 440d 10h 24m
mats: http://archive.today/2022.08.30-171815/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-30/is-a-us-civil-war-coming-43-of-americans-say-at-least-somewhat-likely-by-2032
mats: http://archive.today/2022.08.30-162520/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-30/trapped-renewable-energy-sends-us-power-prices-below-zero finally, an application for bitcoin
asciilifeform: '44% of americans say martian invasion is likely' prolly similarly lol
mats: lol
mats: http://archive.today/2022.08.30-081823/https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/The-U.S.-is-ready-for-the-next-era-of-globalization
asciilifeform: lolomatic, apparently selling slightly less fuel to the wehrmacht massed at yer border is nao called 'weaponizing energy'
asciilifeform: 'Increased investment in renewables, battery storage, mini nuclear reactors, hydrogen fuels and energy infrastructure, as made possible by the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law before, will enhance the position of the U.S. in the new world economy. ' << straight dnc agitprop, lolx2
asciilifeform: mats: a++, return to form, asciilifeform almost missed the unironic linx to pravda
mats: how do you know its unironic
mats: when did i hurt you, alf
asciilifeform: lolrelax mats
asciilifeform: wasn't obv 'ironic' but nfi (normally folx laff at a laffable when posting mixed in w/ actual noose, but again nfi)
mats: lol
mats: some nice upper middle income prize giveaways in the bill
mats: like even more enhanced tax credits for suboptimal resi solar installs instead of utility economy of scale installs
mats: will surely reduce inflation
asciilifeform: mats: lol just when i cancelled mine
asciilifeform: ( lulzily, in this locale reqs permit from utility co, which refused the '100% of roof' requested because 'not have usage records which justify' (noshit, house was empty for ~yr) )
asciilifeform: 'can use records from old addr?' 'lolno'
mats: the resi solar tax credits could've gone into more credits for commercial installations, but nooo...
mats: there's other less objectionable stuff in there, like credits for electric heat pumps
mats: maybe i'll finally get one
asciilifeform: mats: if yer in a climate with actual winter -- is typically -ev
asciilifeform: mats: notion of roof solar was to skip the transmission loss (and obv to make decay of infrastucture less catastrophically obvious)
asciilifeform: particularly given as w/ usa cardboard 'houses', good % of grid-popping load is in summer and concretely on conditioner
vex: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2022-08-29#1011919 try a set of keens
dulapbot: (pest) 2022-08-29 signpost[asciilifeform]: I recently noticed how much having my toes jammed together sucks, currently hunting for a good wide toe-box shoe.
mats: i guess i need to get on pest
mats: uncool being stuck on irc with the regular nutjobs and walkin nutjobs
vex: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/30/solomon-islands-suspends-all-naval-visits-us-embassy that escalated quickly
mats: writing was on the wall
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-06-14 01:07:31 mats: in old news, https://archive.ph/V8RSc "China's Atlantic pearl compounds U.S. fears after Solomons setback"
vex: not that long ago a proprtion of the populace was rioting for the opposite
dulapbot: Logged on 2021-11-26 20:20:20 vex: meanwhile, In da solomons https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-27/solomon-islands-riots-honiara/100654100