Well the point is the powerplant, if not currently a municipal service, has to pay for itself, make capital improvements, pay wages, etc.
If the powerplant doesn’t have “regular” income they are in a tougher spot and “may” go out of business.
Solar and green energy is wonderful and we need more and more. But we should agree we want power at any time, in any condition, so the powerplant currently still needs to exist.
This problem is not wholly removed if the powerplant is a municipal service either.
Edit Not sure what the downvotes are for, nothing I said is wrong. I even praised green energy.
As a Canadian, if you taxed us for electricity the way we’re taxed to provide universal healthcare, we’re all for it. It would be cheaper then what we have now too
My point is we don’t have a green grid at full readiness. I hope we do soon via distributed storage .
But for now, municipal or not, the power station has bills and operational standards. Big swings in revenue, as well as the operational challenge of starting and stopping every day is a challenge that we currently are experiencing.
We need those plants (currently!) To provide the backbone, so unfortunately have to suffer their habits and needs
Even if population doesn’t, the constant advancement and use of portable electronics, electric cars, and a warming earth will require more environmental controls for living spaces. These will drive up demand for electricity.
No, but maybe as a first approximation in very small slices of time. It is far more complex than that. Just look at the olive tree. Olive trees detect new olive trees and release poison to kill them off, at the same time they have multi thousand year lifespans. Individuals in that species have “decided” that the only way it can live a long ass time is to have no competition and is willing to kill their own to get it. You can’t apply the carrying capacity model to olive trees.
We have already escaped scarcity. In fact, we have escaped scarcity to such a degree that the parasitic elites have to artificially enforce scarcity onto us in order to maintain their positions as parasitic elites.
People, learn from your ancestors.
I know this sucks, it really does, but our cooks from 100+ years ago had figured depression era cooking in a food scarce world and it does help to add those skills and recipes to your ammo against starvation.
Every country has truly poor cuisine too so there’s something for everyone. And potato flakes sold in the box should be your friend.
Mexican: try chilaquiles and enchiladas can be made with lots of different ingredients for cheap
European: Eggs tomatoes and cheese (it’s polish depression dish and one of my favorites), shepherds pie, and potato cakes (can stuff them or add chicken and peppers)
Pasta: imitation crab and veggies white wine pasta. Trust me it’s delicious and cheap as hell, I recommend as a splurge get raviolis to serve on.
Soups: egg drop, bean, heck a nice pumpkin stout stew can be cheap and let you use cheap beef.
Rice: I mean base staple by nature but cook it with broth or spices, fry an omelette for on top like in Japan and add garlic and carrot. Don’t be afraid of pokebowl type meals of just what you have in the fridge thrown on top like shredded chicken and cabbage but try to save some budget for nice soy sauce or garlic chili oil.
I am also a huge proponent of quick risotto since it also uses lots of cheap ingredients well. Mushroom and miso is amazing.
Good luck out there, and if you struggle with cooking it’s ok. We all do and we all ruin a dish eventually.
P.S. buy rotisserie chickens and use the whole thing by after cutting off the meat throw it in a pot with celery carrots and onion, salt pepper, bay leaf, cover with enough water to submerge it all and you have chicken broth for a week and meat for a couple days. My grocery store even sells the day old ones for half price in a cooler next to the fried chicken.
These have tripled in cost in the last 5 years here. I can cook (enjoy it as well) and I think a lot of people commenting can as well. The issue is the tips you are giving don’t change the base cost of ingredients. Rice and beans for example have doubled in price here, flour went from $2 to $12, Veg of any sort has at least doubled and eggs are no longer cheap. This year they are calling for a drought and I don’t know if I will be able to grow as much veg in my garden.
The example in the “article” is a bit over $10 a day, that is not eating out or over spending. The only food still cheap is junk.
Yup. It’s bad and you have to work with less ingredients. It doesn’t change my tips just makes it harder to buy then on a whim and you really need to stretch them.
Eggs are cheap compared to other ingredients still. Even if they are not dirt cheap. I don’t think I can get that much weight of protein for a similar price in anything else other than tofu. And I leave out telling people what veggies to use because honestly it’s whatever is in season and cheap cause it’s bad and gonna likely get worse.
They are suggestions of dishes that can be made with few ingredients for those that have to get calories and with the knowledge that unfortunately premade food is often even more outrageous. And even inflated costs comes out cheaper.
I’m aware of how much the price went up cause I have been making these dishes the whole time and what was once just general frugality has become necessary cost savings but it works.
The article is bullshit and from a stupid perspective, but also breaking down pricing from the whole dish to per person serving is very different. And you can stretch more filling foods into more servings.
Oh no. I provided thoughtful tips and recipe suggestions in a place where people are complaining about finding ways to afford dinners.
but people just want to be mad so downvote the also poor person trying to help.
Man I like Lemmy more than reddit but it’s still filled with some of the most irrational emotional people.
I know people just want to feel seen and seen as hurting but walk and talk. Do 2 things at once and stop punching each other because it feels good, you’ll end up alone.
Why are you replying to your own comment? Why are you upset people want a discourse anyway? I doubt not thanking you for your pandering tone deaf comments would be considered the actions of “irrational emotional people”.
Because no one else was replying. There isn’t discourse if people just down vote and walk away because they don’t like how a comment makes them feel.
I am trying to offer good faith suggestions for cheap meals to those that might end up here and aren’t you, and don’t brag about how well they cook. You say tone deaf but it’s deaf on your ears as you already feel you know things that others may not.
Sonder. Everyone is having a different experience than you even if we share reality. Help where you can and don’t be a dick to others. That’s the best we can hope for.
Also “pandering tone deaf comment” kinda implies you are being emotional, which is fine, people are but it does nothing to prove your point that you aren’t.
Also “pandering tone deaf comment” kinda implies you are being emotional, which is fine, people are but it does nothing to prove your point that you aren’t.
Sorry this slipped past but the crux of this is that the article is blaming people for spending money on food, I will make no illusions to how that makes people feel. You giving “advice” on how to eat for less is pandering on almost the same level as the “article”. I am sick of people telling me and others to just “get gud” at life, when we did not ask and are doing as well as we can.
And imitation crab meat? Really I can’t afford butter and you expect me to spend a whole days budget on pressed minced fish?
Hmmm maybe I’m not federated with those. Honestly I just see you replying.
There are comments of course but my comment looks like down votes and you and me.
And people tend to vote with the herd so I wanted to invite people to at least try and say something as to why they would so that it wasn’t just blind herd voting and I could see the discourse and learn if there was something to learn.
I don’t wish to be a dick but I don’t want to just be a blind punching bag either l, you know?
Ah, well it looked like you where unhappy down votes happen and it came off weird. Makes more sense that it is more odd lemmy stuff. No hard feelings from me.
And imitation crab meat? Really I can’t afford butter and you expect me to spend a whole days budget on pressed minced fish?
Just saw your edit. Woah what??? Sorry the pack I buy is the expensive stuff and it’s still on like 2 bucks. The like stringed tofu soaked in fish juice you buy in the freezer section?
Damn if that is expensive where you live you absolutely have problems with cost.
But again not meant to be pandering just meant to be suggestions for things I make that are tastier than hotdogs and Mac and cheese for close to the same price even.
If you are absolutely poor and can’t afford shit finding a nice recipe that you can make for still cheap feels like heaven. I think I have just been poor longer than you.
I am sick of people telling me and others to just “get gud” at life, when we did not ask and are doing as well as we can.
You are projecting on me because you are upset and that’s fine. It’s hard to see others doing great and feel like you are missing out on the secret that is “just have more money”.
I’m saying, finding out you can make a nice dish using the bare bones of what you got can feel nice.
I like food, it’s one of the few things that helps me get through my shitty existence as well, so in the same vain that I suggest keeping green onions fresh by putting them in a jar on your windowsill I suggest to people that there is a dish called Chilaquiles that most don’t know of because it’s considered poor food but is really tasty and just salsa, chicken stock and tortillas, (heck I like to use the ones from my rare visit to a Mexican restaurant and ask if I can take extra home with me because they are thicker).
It’s because I hope they have a nice meal too.
Humans are supposed to share knowledge. It’s what got us here. I’m just trying to do that.
I am pretty sure this is terribly taken out of context. The issue is solar is unreliable. By being cheap, it is pushing reliable sources out of business. And if you want to know how bad the consequences can be, just look at how many people died due to the relatively small blackout in Texas.
So the issue is not capitalism disliking solar. The issue is capitalism liking solar too much. Endangering people by choosing cheap over reliable.
The 2020 incident? Texas failed because they didn’t properly winterize their infrastructure. Not because they were using green energy. It was almost entirely gas that failed.
Also there are a number of ways to store and transfer energy.
The real issue in Texas was unregulated capitalism. Energy prices skyrocketed like 6000% at the time, because they could get away with it.
I live in Minnesota and those idiots are charging me for their lack of preparation.
It doesn’t have to be that way. With volatility comes high peak prices, so speaker plants should be doing ok. We should be approaching a stage where fossil fuel plants are evolving into peaker plants, and peaked plants will still have decades of use to generate a profit, as we continue to build out renewables and try to get a handle on storage
The issue is the storage costs. We can’t generate excess electricity from solar and then ‘bank’ it somewhere. It needs to be used within a relatively short amount of time.
If we could figure out a way to store it for longer or allow the grid to deal with more volatile fluctuations then there would not be an issue with it.
Well, yes. But I don’t think wishing for what we don’t have is productive. That is why I am still convinced nuclear is the best source of green energy we currently have.
Agree that nuclear should be the focus if we are serious about clean energy. The main problem with it is that the plants take so long to setup that we need to start them now to see benefits which could help the planet in the medium term.
Gluttony itself is not a sin, hence why it’s not in the 10 commandments, but its one of the 7 deadly sins because its practice has a tendency to lead one to enumerable sins.
Good God please use xlookup. We have some old school people that still use vlookup and refuse to convert their ranges to tables, it drives me crazy.
I still use index/match for multiple lookup returns (or is it sumifs I can’t remember?) But I do a lot of work in BI and it’s much more intuitive for me in DAX/M.
Bad posture and form will mess you up in either. If it hurts to sit in an ergo chair the way you’re meant to with your hands at the right position on the mouse and keyboard: you’ve already been doing it wrong for a while.
I will also argue that general workout will help a lot with pain. I used ti get sorre after some time and after getting a couple dumbells and working out the parts of my body that would hurt/get sore I rarelly ever have problems nowdays.
I’m down with the sentiment of the comment, but I legit find I get way more arm/wrist pain from gaming than from spreadsheets. I think there’s much more prolonged button-pressing involved in the former. Some games are worse than others.
Right now my elbow is killing me from too much Project Zomboid over the last few weeks. A day of spreadsheets and QuickBooks today was almost a break from it (not that I didn’t go right back to PZ after work).
Thanks for the tip (genuinely). Unfortunately in this case I actually don’t have arm wrests at all - I literally removed them from my chair years ago. There’s just something about this game in particular that really messes up my left elbow. No other game does that (normally it’d be just my wrists, if anything).
Million tutorials online or if you are lazy you could just post the contract on something like upwork. I answered a post like that and the guy tried to haggle with me. Automating his job and he wants a discount cause he claimed he could get someone in India for cheaper. Told him he should do that. Point is you could do it and as long as you are not him get quality code in short order.
I’m not a programmer by trade but I learned some python and VBA to automate some of the things I do every day. Any time you’re doing some manual shit and think “there’s gotta be a better way” there probably is - just Google how to do that one thing and you’ll build up your knowledge over time.
It’s up to you to decide if you tell your boss or not. I chose to and took on some extra duties along with extra pay so it worked out for me but it’s a small business with a high value on productivity.
You can learn how. VBA for Excel is pretty easy to learn on your own.
There’s probably a lot of material online for learning it, but that will most likely only scare anyone off from actually getting started, because it is too comprehensive.
I suggest you just start trying and then search for each problem at a time. You’ll soon learn how to make anything you need.
The first step is to get familar with macros. Enable the developer tab and record a macro. Start with something easy, like searching for a word and format it as bold or whatever. Then stop the recording. In the macros dialogue box you can set a keyboard shortcut so the macro will run everytime you press that key combination. Play around with it.
If you then open the visual basic editor or click edit on the macro, you can see what code was recorded.
You’ll soon realise that even if macros are powerful, they’re also very limited for larger tasks. There’s always something that doesn’t really work as intended when trying to use it on other cases. That’s when you need to start editing the code and this is when the online resources come in very handy. Simply search for “vba” and any function this causing issues and you’ll easily find solutions.
Love the huge programming capabilities built into Excel itself but for everything else it’s AutoHotKey FTW. I have a bunch of macros tied to the F keys along the top of the keyboard that can fill out any number of forms with a couple key presses.
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