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by edbob 6y ago
I'm very familiar with this as I spent 10 years in prison. The term "Uncle Tom" is not used by black men in prison. They say "house n-word" (except not n-word of course). It's about the most offensive term poss
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by edbob 6y ago
I'm not a leftist at all, but I'd also love to be rolling out UBI.
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by edbob 6y ago
> I can understand why an umbrella term such as "colored people" could be problematic. However, if that is the case, I don't understand why "people of color" should be any more socially acceptable Scott Alexander
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by edbob 6y ago
Installed capacity is installed capacity. It does not "fluctuate" throughout the year. I'm going to be polite and just bow out. Your constant accusations of bad faith are not helpful.
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by edbob 6y ago
> I couldn't say if Occupy or BLM are Marxist, Socialist, or whatever. You can say, at least regarding the founders of BLM: https://therealnews.com/pcullors0722blacklives "BALL: ...he was concerned or is concer
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by edbob 6y ago
Correcting myself here. Wind output dropped to a low of 2% of capacity, not 0.
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by edbob 6y ago
> Are you cherry-picking yearly average figures and inappropriately applying them here to push a narrative? I am neither cherry-picking nor using yearly average figures. The one yearly figure of "over 25000 GW" is for ERCOT&#x2
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by edbob 6y ago
I think you have your terms mixed up. Capacity refers to the maximum output. "Normal capacity" isn't a thing. You could say "normal output" or "expected output".
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by edbob 6y ago
> I haven't stared at the ERCOT numbers, and am disinclined to do so -- the fact that much of the state was without power for several days, and early reports suggested the grid was some minutes away from catastrophic cascading failu
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by edbob 6y ago
You're reading a lot into my comments. You seem to think that I'm against using wind power, which is absolutely not true, as I've commented in the past. I'm against the current narrative's misinformation which cherr
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by edbob 6y ago
> Wind ran at about 50% of capacity and that was because it wasn't winterized. That's bullshit. I was watching the ERCOT feed [0] during the blackouts, and I never saw it exceed 30%. I posted about it here extensively during th
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by edbob 6y ago
All sources were notoriously un-winterized, but wind generation had the additional problem of not working when there wasn't enough wind, which is why it dropped to 0 at one point. Suggesting that wind would perform adequately if it w
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by edbob 6y ago
Every power source had some failures, but the only power sources that dropped all the way to 0 were solar and wind. Nuclear operated at 75% of capacity, while fossil generation seems to have been around 60%. Wind recovered slightly and &quo
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by edbob 6y ago
I wouldn't frame the blackouts as a "windmill problem" as they're primarily a "winterization problem", but having so much capacity invested in unreliable wind generation was a very significant contributor to th
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by edbob 6y ago
> There are tons of ways to support reform of police (or otherwise vindication of the fact that government/police overreach is a problem) that don’t involve “defunding” the police While this is technically true, in practice support
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by edbob 6y ago
Because it's tribal propaganda that adds nothing to the discussion. There are a myriad of plausible reasons not to want to defund the police, but Robotbeat is parroting the party line that there are no possible legitimate reasons and t
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by edbob 6y ago
> Implicit here is the claim that giant companies do hilariously dumb things a greater fraction of times than small companies, but I have seen absolutely zero evidence of that. I don't think that's necessarily what is implied.
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by edbob 6y ago
I don't know all the stats, but I know Waco, TX has a large homeless population since I helped out a bit there when I was younger. A quick search shows that Waco spends $39,000/yr per homeless individual[0], and the famous Church
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by edbob 6y ago
> I don’t think the issue is that kids don’t want to go to school at all. This is an incredible assumption. There are probably millions of people (Paul Graham, for one) who would agree with Scott Alexander's "description of ex
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by edbob 6y ago
It is usually the parents that are penalized, but that's still pretty devastating to the kids. As for what kind of fucked up system does that , I was surprised to learn that it's something that some progressives have been pushing
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by edbob 6y ago
That class was for guys with 3rd-5th grade level test scores. Most were forced to attend school and didn't really try to progress. I don't know the exact progression rates, but they were quite pitiful. You'd see a guy who las
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by edbob 6y ago
I worked as a tutor in prison, helping out in class. The teacher I worked with longest said that she felt safer working in prison than she did in public school, because there were guards right down the hall. Discipline is apparently a lot e
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by edbob 6y ago
That's a good point. If this school is as terrible as it sounds, the students probably wouldn't be learning much even if they were in school every day. We need serious reform on multiple axes; reforming one in isolation probably w
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by edbob 6y ago
Even the most intelligent person in the world will consistently make false deductions if she starts with false premises. Ideally there is a process of incorporating real-world results and revising one's beliefs, but that process seems
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by edbob 6y ago
Sure, but they are mostly seen as superficial differences that people don't much care about in practice. One might not want to go to Mass because they prefer the style of a modern evangelical service, but they couldn't care less i
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by edbob 6y ago
That varies by jurisdiction. But it doesn't matter much in this case, as pressing charges against hundreds of minority parents is just as unacceptable.
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by edbob 6y ago
We've had years of Obama administration policies specifically designed to prevent enforcement actions against minority students on the grounds of such enforcement being racist. The system is in perfect alignment with the incentives giv
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by edbob 6y ago
Fines and jail time are the "actual outcomes" of truancy charges, and are much more immediate than proficiency tests and graduation rates. You simply can't force people to go to school without also punishing some of the paren
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by edbob 6y ago
Religion affects political beliefs, but pornography is still a political matter. Marxists and feminists also commonly oppose pornography. Pornography is illegal in China, North Korea, and Vietnam, which are all atheistic communist states.
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by edbob 6y ago
What about the political fallout from pressing truancy charges against hundreds of minority students? Truancy, at least in my experience, involves fines and/or jail time.

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