[-] clover@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Please go buy a subscription to your local news paper if it still exists, even if you almost never read it.

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 12 points 5 months ago

Expanding not baking a cake for a gay wedding to all of health care is a fascist dystopia. Hypothetical: The one doctor in rural town refuses treatment to any minority...

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 months ago

Why ban, why not just have an accountability partner?

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 14 points 8 months ago

The founding fathers would have been disgusted but not surprised by this behavior.

Abandon the the two party system and first past the post, vote local, get involved.

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 10 points 10 months ago

Where dat MAGA freeze peach?

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What about some kind of curtain? Make it with something strong like iron?

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 10 points 11 months ago

AI Summary (TLDR This): The context discusses the severe decline in California's rooftop solar market after regulators slashed compensation for solar power exported to the grid. Data shows residential solar installations dropped 77-85% and utility connections fell 66-83% since the policy change in April 2022. Solar companies are laying off thousands of workers, with an estimated 17,000 clean energy jobs expected to be lost by the end of 2023. This is undermining California's climate goals as distributed solar has been a major source of clean energy growth. Critics argue the policy unfairly shifts costs onto non-solar customers while advocates say it disproportionately impacts lower-income communities. A lawsuit is seeking to reverse the decision but its prospects are unclear.

The key policy change was California's Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) decision in December 2021 to change the state's net metering policy that had been in place for over two decades.

Previously under net metering, customers installing solar systems were paid the full retail rate for any excess solar power they sent back to the grid. But under the new "net billing tariff" implemented in April 2022, customers only receive a fraction of the retail value for most of the solar power they export.

This has reduced the financial benefits and payback period of installing rooftop solar systems by an estimated 75% on average. It has led to a sharp decline of 77-85% in new rooftop solar installations in California since it took effect, according to data from the California Solar and Storage Association.

So in summary, the CPUC decision to significantly reduce net metering compensation rates for excess solar power exported to the grid is seen as the major policy change that has disrupted the rooftop solar market in California.

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 year ago

I'm no Muskcuck, but I am in favor of capping the generational transfer of wealth. Let these big inequalities die with this generation and set up a (more) even playing field for the next. If the rich want enhanced educational outcomes for their kids they have to fund public institutions.

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

It's been a couple of years now. Nate Silver now spends as much time at poker tournaments as he does working on 538

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed the couple episodes of DS9 where you meet Sisco's dad back on earth running a restaurant.

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

But he's can't escape it. He's still being Pierce...

[-] clover@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

Put in a sand pit somewhere you are ok with them shitting. Training domesticated cats is an undertaking that in my limited experience comes down to giving them an option they'd prefer over their current behavior. Trying to dissuade a feral cat from shitting where they please humanely seems like a loosing battle.

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