Rooftops, bus shelters, parking lots, south-facing building facades…lots of existing places to put panels other than glassing over what could be animal habitat.

40% seem to have disposable income to be able to afford a decent build at today’s prices. I couldn’t.

Funny that a goth-y TV show that, even in today’s versions are heavy on black and white, yet was in reality the family originally lived in a very colorful home.

Is that RWBY? I should really finish that series.

The problem is pushing a business model that likely seeks to put many of the graduates he’s speaking to out of a job.

Yes, the other things you say are also true, along with the tactless use of a commencement speech to advertise said business, but telling the people about how great AI is while failing to consider the effects on them is…well, very Billionaire of him.

Why would they start now?

Like cheating on a test, but like every test he cheated on he doesn’t understand the question.

Every time I see this man doing stuff like this it’s like he never matured beyond being an asshole 14 year old who never suffered any consequences.

Now overlay household income?

Sorry man. I hope you can enjoy the time you have.

History repeats.

Ah, that makes more sense. $225 is minimal for a “bonus” payout. Thanks for finding a better source.

We live in a company town now. Every cent that comes in goes right back out. No savings. No retirement. Our paychecks are picked apart by fees, middlemen, subscriptions to things we used to own, corporations forcing us into choose to pay for everything or figuratively live in a cave disconnected from society. CoL and inflation increases that pay never keeps up with, working more hours, harder, with less people, for stagnant pay, and never getting a break or vacation.

Broke doesn’t mean living in a box under a bridge. You can still have the trappings of modern life, but be a complete slave to the grind with no end in sight.

Funny, it really is easier to get the gist of what someone is saying in a foreign language that one has some familiarity with, but constructing a sentence with the correct words and grammar is a completely different game.

August Weismann figured this out quite a while ago.

(And Mendel, but he didn’t do “body mods.”)

Quick read of the article and it only shows “$” and not ₩. So I assume that means USD.

That’s a big payout, and it shows how much we’re getting gouged for memory prices.

E: it’s ₩. Jessica found a better article.

Yeah, car batteries have gotten crazy expensive, too.

Inspections, licensing, insurance, maintenance, and maybe even parking, all need to be factored into the cost of the car and not just the direct operating costs of the energy required for the mode of transportation.

A £600 battery is not a huge expense when compared to a car that might need brake and rotor replacements ~£900, or a radiator replacement ~£500, etc. Heck, even a wheel and tire damaged by a pothole, if replaced to OEM, can be £400.

To survive long term in an apocalyptic collapse of civilization you need to already be surviving in a manner that acts like the apocalypse has already happened.

In other words, if you don‘t currently have all the skills and community to live in a pre-industrial era, like farming (all the seeds and tools, cleared land), smithing (do you have a forge? Know how to make charcoal? Raw materials and skill?), animal husbandry (do you know the first thing about draft animals? Have all the tack and harnesses to put them to work?), a mill, textile making, etc… you are going to die. You cannot learn these things when it‘s too late, this way of life cannot be picked up as things are falling apart. These skills are why communities existed that could specialize skills and trades to make life livable and make it survivable as possible.

In a full nuclear apocalypse scenario there will be a nuclear winter that will kill the overwhelming majority of the population due to starvation. Radiation related illnesses will wipe out most survivors.

One cannot solo garden their way through a true collapse. Pests will destroy gardens, food preservation will be an issue, injury could be lethal.

Or Bester. Koenig did a great job of making that character hateable.

That‘s going to be younger democrats. They‘re more likely to be independent women or minorities that probably won‘t have the money or financial backing the typical white male republican will have.