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        5 hours ago

        I’ve posted a TL;DR somewhere on the thread already and I don’t recall Alec mentioning “capacity factor”, but maybe he referred to the same concept by a different name.

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        1 day ago

        Tell me you didn’t watch the video(s) without telling me you didn’t watch the video.

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            20 hours ago

            The video is one and a half hours long so I don’t blame you, but it had the same point as you

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              19 hours ago

              I don’t even want to waste 10 seconds figuring that out, when the posting person could spend 2 seconds to make all of us save 10 seconds. Assuming we all have 90 min to spend on THEIR linked video, without saying a word, is arrogance I have no time for.

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                19 hours ago

                You spent as least that much when you made the same point as he did

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            Really? You don’t know youtube or how to copy a link without clicking on it? Wow!
            If you’re 5 you probably shouldn’t be using the internet but i can ELI5 you on how to, although i don’t think the topic will interest you.

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              In their defense, most of the time when someone just posts a YouTube link on social media it’s a complete waste of time. Video is very slow to get to the point, that’s why we’re reading!

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                24 hours ago

                This particular youtuber is know to be “slow”, but thorough in the topics he covers.
                This particular video has an “extra” 30m, you can stick to just the first hour.
                The TL;DR is that solar makes more sense than coal in the murican Midwest.

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                  24 hours ago

                  “solar makes more sense than coal in the murican Midwest” - Thanks, I actually don’t need a 30 minute video for this.

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                You can copy paste the transcript (or download the vtt subs with yt-dlp) into any AI and let it hallucinate a summary for you.

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                Clicking on a link without knowing the website it leads to?

                most of the time when someone just posts a YouTube link on social media it’s a complete waste of time

                Completely different arguments. This is moving the goalposts

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              Have to sit through ads just to see it’s a 90 minute video with next to no context of why I should trust this person with my time. In a era where most info is at best wildly ignorant and at worst maliciously misleading?

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                13 hours ago

                I refuse to believe that anyone using the internet to get smarter doesn’t know who Technology Connections is…

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                23 hours ago

                Good point.

                (1:20:24) We are clearly living under leaders who have a completely different understanding of reality than the rest of us do, and they are so high on their own supply that their followers will believe abject lies. Renewable energy is only controversial because they made it so. And they don’t want you thinking through the reality which is free energy from reusable materials, as I’ve just explained. They have donors who still make money selling you fossil fuels, and so they do not want you thinking about how much you’re spending and how we have the opportunity to stop.

                (1:27:13) Be that helping hand. Organizing networks are popping up everywhere because those of us who managed to grow up into adults, who care about people other than ourselves, are not going to stand by and let this illegitimate government run by petulant toddlers, violate the Constitution and the very principles that make America great. My fellow Midwesterners in Minnesota have made me so proud. Stay strong and keep teaching us how to be brave and resist this horrible chapter of our history with steadfast, nonviolent defiance. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a lawless group of masked thugs terrorizing our cities and neighbors for daring to look not quite white. Anyone who has any understanding of history will know that it is happening here. And if you believe that to be true, then you should also believe that ICE must be abolished. And if that freaks you out, I’m going to guess you’ve been told the people who say that want completely open borders. Some people do, but most people simply took the poem on the Statue of Liberty as meaningful and think this country should open its arms wide and provide a legal pathway to immigration. Just as our ancestors did on the storied Ellis Island. It is our decades long inability to have true immigration reform occur which put us in this place and what we’re doing today to fix it is clearly wrong. It is a racist ethnic cleansing operation happening on the pretext of childcare fraud, which was already being investigated and dealt with by the state of Minnesota, but which some terminally online weirdos somehow got wind of and spun into this madness. And that madness is being perpetrated by agents of the state and endorsed by Republicans. Republicans could stop this now, but they won’t. and the reason I know we absolutely can abolish ICE? I am older than ICE. In fact, I’m older than the entire Department of Homeland Security. That agency was created post 9/11. And in retrospect, the folks who thought “Homeland” Security sounds kind of ominous were apparently correct. We need to throw this system out and start over. And so, yes, I believe ICE must be abolished. There is no reforming that agency of thugs. It has to go. And the lawless criminals hiding behind masks who are violating the Fourth Amendment day in and day out, need to be prosecuted for each and every one of their crimes. I will be voting in the primaries and I sure as well hope my representative, Sean Casten, starts saying that with clarity and conviction. Sean has been one of the people who understand the realities of renewable energy, and has been a long time advocate of it, so we’ve been pretty aligned, but we’re not aligned on everything. And my patience is starting to break. So if you made it here. Thank you for watching. I hope we can bring some sanity back to this country and that we can start calling lies what they are.

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              😆 🤣 I can’t argue with that logic can I? It’s the only possible conclusion! Name-calling, insults, etc. You keep dig yourself deeper. But seriously, if my life depends on fossil fuels, you can relax, soak in the sun, and we’ll all be crawling to you. You don’t even have to bother with trying to mislead anyone.

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                He called you names after pointing out you can copy a link without opening it. What about that? You implied doing that is impossible:

                Clicking on a link without knowing the website it leads to? By someone who doesn’t bother to say anything about the link? 😆 😂 🤣

                Those are the emojis of someone who’s confidently wrong. Just admit you didn’t even bother what the video tries to say by reading the comments.

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                  23 hours ago

                  “you can copy a link without opening it. What about that?”

                  I have no problem with you doing that.

                  “You implied doing that is impossible”

                  Sure … copying links is impossible … let’s go with that … confidently wrong … maybe one day you’ll understand.