These problems are often caused by psychological problems, such as bad experiences in their past, for example being bullied in school for being fat.

You might want to talk with your partner about that.

yeah exactly

do you think that they are alive somewhere else, and will continue to be for a long time?

yeah but MAGAts do, at least about the idea they have about the country or rather how they think it was in the past.

it’s maybe some kind of stockhold syndrome? the 1950s were shit but people remember them well.

so they think that they want to go back to that.

and the loss of that is causing an emotional toll on the people.

It would be a good idea to start paying actual reasonable wages for field work again.

Then probably there wouldn’t be a shortage of workers there.

anything that invades your focus without your desire for it to happen.

i guess some call that “harassment”

and i guess it’s that much of a problem in today’s time because people are simply exposed to too many signals. that makes signals too much and unfavorable, which we call harassment.

so, in a certain way, the fact that we perceive things as “harassment” is due to the internet, since that’s where the majority of signals come from these days.

i always read it a bit different

all life is suffering means literally that. suffering is just another term for the process of being alive. suffering is the experience of all our emotions and everything that we can do in the world. this is suffering, contrasting it to the coldness and stoicism of death.

every organism is born hungry and needs to fight that constant hunger or die

huh, and i thought hunger was caused by greed which is itself tied to the modern society

I guess they have a fear of a whistleblower from within the FED.

Imagine that an annoyed employee at the fed starts speaking out to the public that the released epstein files are actually fake and releases the actual files instead. that might make for a bigger shitstorm than simply not releasing anything in the first place.

the glass lens probably is cheaper than a big solar panel

but the cost of setting up a glass lens in 5-10 meters altitude (because that’s what’s needed to bundle any sunlight) is probably more expensive than setting up a big solar panel at hip height.

and considering that labor cost is a significant part (i guess 10% - 50%) of overall solar park cost, i guess it’s probably not worth it.

Yeah, community solar parks are really the best because they remove a whole lot of these soft costs.

These soft costs include:

• bureaucracy (you need 1 permit instead of 100 permits),
• nobody needs to climb on a roof,
• shipping many panels at once to the installation site is much more efficient than only shipping 5-8 modules at a time

additionally, any kind of fixed-cost complexity is spread over a bigger field.

i.e., you should add circuit breakers to make sure the solar panels don’t feed into the grid when the energy prices are already negative. adding that breaker has a fixed and constant price. adding one breaker to a large park is more efficient than adding 100 breakers into just as many households.

i guess a lot of research projects are just there to give the researchers something to do and money, and i’m sure the idea of using lenses has been floated before.

the thing is that it’s not really as good an ideas as it originally seems. After all, you need heavy solid lenses that you have to install above all solar panels, and the cost of that is not negligible. On top of that, there’s other problems that others have already mentioned.

I’m not sure what to think about the Fraunhofer institute in general. They have made some nice discoveries/inventions in the past, such as audio compression algorithms and such. That is why i hyped them for a bit.

But they really disappointed me with their writings on solar panels in the past few years.

They said that the efficiency of solar panels today is too low to deploy them widely in practice, which is simply not true. They tried pushing Perovskite solar cells for no reason.

I’m not sure what to think about this article’s idea. On one hand, adding lenses to solar parks makes them significantly more complicated and therefore expensive to build. Also, if the parks have complicated physical forms, they’re more susceptible to wind, and that could damage them.

On the other hand, yes, adding lenses means you need fewer actual solar panels for the same amount of energy harvested.

I’ll therefore put it in the category of inconclusive inventions, together with the idea of adding a motor to the solar panels so they can track the sun. That would also make the solar panels more efficient, but also more complicated and more prone to mechanical failure.

see it as a gift :)

damn you’re so damn similar to me.

i think that probably you’re right that too many assholes dictate social perception, and that is actually what causes you to lose all your friends and such. we live in very exceptional times where public narrative is dictated by grifters and “normies”, i.e. people who are programmed to work instead of chillax, and that is the historical exception, not the rule (just look at how the medieval times had an average 20 hour work week), and i think that’s what causes people to be so angry all the time :D

as a heads up, as i said, these circumstances are the exception not the rule, so they’re not gonna last forever, somehow :D

this, plus also the fact that normal people wouldn’t even use social media if it wasn’t full of attention-grabs and addictive techniques.

the social battery just regrows like plants in a garden. no matter how many times you cut them back, they’re gonna regrow next year. just like the river carries water continuously, just like sunshine and rain :)

have faith in nature, if not in yourself. :D

people spend time on social media before it enshittifies completely. in 10 years it’s all gonna be dead internet theory and bots, controlled by oligarchs for the purpose of advertisement.

the problem will solve itself eventually.

it’s a statistical phenomenon. for 99% of the people, the problem is a lack of awareness, so they think it’s that way for everyone.

they’re very rare though. i barely know anyone besides myself.