The linked article, "Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.", is more interesting. It's becoming clear that solar and wind power have to be paired with batteries once the intermittent sources start to dominate.
Fortunately, batteries are much cheaper than a few years ago, and get cheaper every year.
The article doesn't mention that California has a solar battery rebate program.[1] How's that working out? Rebate plans have to be carefully designed so that panels and batteries are installed in the right proportions.
To be fair, when you go around scrolling on these roided news webapps, they switch around to other articles as you pass articles, and change the URL too!
That’s a matter of taste. Cannabis gives me terrible anxiety even if I breath it from someone next to me. While beer (good ales that is) I find lovely and the effect is nice and slow and continues.
Also, personally I saw more people falling of things and getting wounded on too much cannabis than alcohol. I (from NL) have a friend who smoked a bunch of spliffs before his factory shift and now he has no right arm; he simply dozed off and his arm got caught in the machine. They had to amputate.
I don’t drink nor smoke weed anymore so I don’t have a dog in this fight.
What I do know is that the guy in the restaurant drinking at a table 3 feet away from me has 0 impact on my enjoyment, but if someone is smoking a joint 20 feet away with the windows open during the summer it’s gonna hit me hard and smell disgusting.
I thought public cigarette smoking was bad, but the second hand marijuana smell is way worse and for some reason just seems to linger far more than the cigarette smell.
And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering.
Seeing Brave New World references every time drugs are mentioned is tiring and pretentious. There is plenty to be said about the virtues of moderation and abstinence, and none of it involves invoking the most over-referenced book in modern history not written by Orwell.
Alcohol is usually far better at all of that for me. For grief particularly (and I've tried this a few times), alcohol has made me feel far better than my initial state, whereas Marijuana amplified the pain from grief by a couple orders of magnitude.
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>wrong article linked
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The article doesn't mention that California has a solar battery rebate program.[1] How's that working out? Rebate plans have to be carefully designed so that panels and batteries are installed in the right proportions.
[1] https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/california-sgip-battery-re...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/well/mind/marijuana-canna...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461539
Also, personally I saw more people falling of things and getting wounded on too much cannabis than alcohol. I (from NL) have a friend who smoked a bunch of spliffs before his factory shift and now he has no right arm; he simply dozed off and his arm got caught in the machine. They had to amputate.
I don't think that's the main reason at all.
More like your reason
What I do know is that the guy in the restaurant drinking at a table 3 feet away from me has 0 impact on my enjoyment, but if someone is smoking a joint 20 feet away with the windows open during the summer it’s gonna hit me hard and smell disgusting.
I thought public cigarette smoking was bad, but the second hand marijuana smell is way worse and for some reason just seems to linger far more than the cigarette smell.
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More discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457054
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/marijuana-surpasses-alc...
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