Depends on what he's doing; not everyone that does steroids is going to train to look like Ronny Coleman.

Most antifa groups are anarchist collectives. So I'm not sure where you're seeing this, unless it's solely from people that are terminally online.

Nuke the world.

That's not murder; it's a war crime.

Huh?

I loved Fallout 4, and I still play it. I've got it installed on this computer, but I don't have Skyrim installed. I'm not as attached to the London mod for it, TBH.

Can't say a lot about what Bethesda is going to do with the next Elder Scrolls games, but I'd love to see a return to the more complicated skill trees and level advancement that they used in Morrowind and Daggerfall. I also really loved the limitless number of randomly generate dungeons in Daggerfall, and how it took years (in real-time) to walk across the continent, but that's probably not what most people want now.

My license was suspended in rural Michigan because I had a broken muffler. I fixed the muffler, but the fix wasn't recorded correctly, and so I rec'd an administrative suspension of my license. ...Which I didn't even discover until I was pulled over a year later, and arrested. But there's not any public transit in rural Michigan, and the distances too far to realistically ride a bicycle, which meant that I couldn't stop driving to get to and from work. I kept paying my fines, but every time i had enough saved to pay the reinstatement fees, I'd get pulled over again (yay for having a shitbox car and living paycheck to paycheck, right?). Eventually I ended up in a place where I could bike to work, and ended up riding five miles a day to work in west Michigan for about a year, including through blizzards.

Don't assume that licenses get suspended for reasons that have anything to do with the safety of the driver.

Two points. First, yes, you need batteries, that kind of a given. Second, increasing the systems generation size means that you can charge batteries while also consuming power. Third, increased generation system size means that you'll still be generating sufficient power during the rare times that southern Arizona is overcast.

You would generally want to be as energy efficient as possible though, because being off-grid does make you vulnerable to insufficient generation capacity at any given time.

Tangentially, I was looking at the cost of converting an existing house in Arizona to be entirely off-grid solar. The average single-family detached house in the US south uses 16,000kWh annually (the south uses more energy overall than any other region of the country). If I bump that figure up to 20,000kWh--which should allow for a purely electric home with zero gas for heating or cooking--and then plan a system that can produce 200% of my projected power needs, then I need a solar array that's about 30x30 (assuming roughly 20% efficient microcrystalline cells). (The actual array size varies based on where you are installing, since different areas have different annual amounts of sun; being able to produce more power than you project means that you're still producing power on more overcast days.) The solar panels to do that are about $18,000 right now, and have a projected lifespan of 25-40 years, with a .5% loss of efficiency annually. If my current power bill is $100/mo (it's actually more), and I'm currently using about 10,000kWh annually (which I am, but I also heat with a wood stove and have a gas stove for cooking), then over 25 years my electric bill is $30,000, which far exceeds the costs of the solar array alone, for less power.

Food for thought, y'all.

OTOH, living in Arizona has other problems, like, being hours from fucking anywhere, and water.

Gary Johnson seemed like a decent person. I disagree with his tax policies by a lot, but his emphasis on personal/individual liberties resonates with me. I'd like to see Dems take up and run with the idea of individual liberty. Which they do, for some things. But not for others. (Meanwhile, Republicans are mostly for individual liberties as long as those liberties are socially conservative, oh, and they also think corporations should have liberties.)

In many CCs, the degree-track classes you take are going to be the same ones that you take at a 4-year school, because the schools are going to fall under the accreditation board. The big difference is that CCs tend to have more certificate programs, and two-year degree programs

The CC art classes were far harder than many of the art classes that I took in art school. Art school cares more about concept than just execution (outside of the commercial arts classes, where you need to be very technically proficient). I've seen plenty of e.g. painters with very mediocre technique that got rave reviews from professors in art school because they had a very compelling concept and approach, even though the execution was flawed. CC though? It was all about foundational techniques. If your technique sucked, you got a shitty grade, because there's no 'concept' when you're reproducing a still life that the teacher set up in the middle of the room. (I would post one of the self-portraits I did in a freshman CC class to give an example of what I mean by technique, but I'm way too identifiable to do that, even though it's been 20 years.)

My CC calc classes? Just as hard as four year. CC physics? Yup.

Eh. It depends on the libertarian. I'm mostly anarchistic in regards to individuals--not at all in regards to institutions and corporations--so I can appreciate some libertarians. But most current libertarians aren't really interested in personal liberty for all, just freedom from consequences and obligation for themselves. For instance, you aren't going to see very many current libertarians that support trans rights, since many people that currently claim to be libertarian are actually extremely socially conservative, rather than allowing everyone the freedom to make choices for themselves.

At any rate, what Dems claim to believe aligns far more closely with my own beliefs than what Republicans claim to believe--and what Libertarians actually do--so I tend to vote Democratic, even though the party as a whole is opposed to some of my core beliefs.

That's not entirely accurate. Yes, it was more than the GDP of the entire planet at the time, but that's not the value of the entire planet. Unless they meant the amount of physical currency that existed, in which case the amount was considerably less than the 62T that the article cites, since most money is never physical.

It's still patently ridiculous though.

Senior managers were also awful then; part of their job is making sure that the lower level managers don't suck, and they weren't.