There’s no “undefined” in JSON either

Most of them

Why would you recommend people make the effort to switch to Podman if you can’t name any benefits of doing so?

They’re made by people who are wealthy

Yup. Determinism doesn’t actually change anything-- but it tricks people into thinking it does by giving them permission to remove all meaning from the world. You can accomplish the same thing by believing in nihilism.

Plus, if I’m wrong it doesn’t really matter and I never could have been right at this point in my life anyway.

It’s kind of like the free will version of Pascal’s Wager, amazing

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on a scale that’s grand enough to make the proverbial apple fall upward

Not necessarily. An apple teetering on the edge of a cliff requires no grand change in initial conditions to have two very different journeys. If “you” are a metaphysical entity capable of altering the signals in your physical brain, your brain could deterministically amplify and enact your will, like gravity does to the apple on the cliff. If you have a metaphysical existence, this is a pretty reasonable mechanism for it to work.

Why do people always stop one step too short?

If there is no free will, the concepts of justice, blame, etc. still survive funtionally intact. If “chemical you” commits a crime, “you” are only not responsible if “you” is a metaphysical entity separate from (and that cannot control) the chemical you. But there’s no evidence that “you” aren’t simply the “chemical you”, and therefore fully responsible for your crimes. If “you” are a metaphysical entity separate from the chemical you, then “you” do actually have free will.

This is only not true if the metaphysical you exists but cannot control the chemical you, which seems reasonable but like… you can move your arm right now, by willing it to be so. Either metaphysical you has free will, or your conscious experience is the chemical you. Either way, your conscious experience is either the same as or commands your physical form, and therefore is responsible for the actions that you take, and can be blamed and given justice.

Of course

You can also just… empty the bags manually. Without buying the super expensive machine.

Johnny Cash has some amazing lyrics

Not my favorite, but it came to mind: “…live the dream with a time machine, you’ve been waiting forever. But you can make ever wait for you.” (Time Machine by Miracle Musical)

My actual favorite is probably “Often I am upset, that I cannot fall in love but I guess, this avoids the stress of falling out of it.” (This is Home by Cavetown)

Wendy’s chicken sandwiches are very good. I had one with a pretzel bun and it was amazing.

STBSQL?

You linked the Wikipedia page on electric batteries. Of course it’s going to talk about the things you put in your remote, because Wikipedia is not a dictionary and that’s what most people mean when they say “battery”. See also, the pages on energy storage that refer to them as batteries:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage#Thermal_Battery

You could also look at the Wikipedia disambiguation page for “battery”, found at /wiki/Battery, which mentions electrochemical batteries as the most common meaning and then has an entire section on energy storage that mentions “Energy storage, including batteries that are not electrochemical”.

You are wrong.

To answer your actual question though, we need about 85 times our current pumped hydro capacity to transition to a fully renewable US. This seems daunting, but:

• Pumped hydro is growing rapidly
• It’s not the only battery storage technology (heat batteries look promising imo)
• Any increases in storage allow more renewables, less pollution, and overall contribute to making our future better

Pumped Hydro doesn’t need to singlehandedly handle the storage load of the entire US because there are other options to use in conjunction with it and even a partial storage solution produces benefits. This is good, because Pumped Hydro is geographically limited.

If we built 43 Hoover Dams, we wouldn’t need to build any other renewables at all-- the Hoover Dam doesn’t just store power, it also generates it. I’m not sure of the numbers for pure pumped storage hydropower systems (I don’t think “pure” systems even exist, everywhere gets some rain), but we only need enough capacity to take over when the normal grid is underproducing.

Right-- batteries don’t power cities, they just smooth out the power generation. The size of the battery is determined by the reliability of power generation, desired uptime, etc., not just by the power consumption of the city.

First off, don’t be rude. Second off, bold claim saying I don’t know shit about shit when you don’t know that a gravity battery is measured in mass (or volume, sure) and height, you know, that thing that gravity needs to make stuff move.

Anyways, I’m too lazy to calculate this myself, but the Hoover Dam website has better data than I do and probably smarter people doing the formulas anyways. It produces 4 billion kWh of power per year on average. The power usage of a city of 1,000,000 people varies based on average headcount of each household and especially by industrial (and commercial) consumption compared to residential consumption, but to take NYC as an example, it uses about 11 million kWh per day, and has a population of about 8 million, so it uses about 1.375 kWh per person per day. Over the course of a year, this means that a city of 1 million people would take 1.375*365*1,000,000 = 500 million kWh for a year. Conclusion: the Hoover Dam, which is a gravity battery, could fully power 8 cities of 1 million people, or almost exactly 1 New York City.