Guy, kit drummers don't have time to read their beats. They have to memorize everything.
Classical Percussionists do read music. Even kit drummers can read sheet music to learn beats. A rock drummer is extraordinarily busy. They don't have time once things get rolling in a performance.
While you are correct about absolute monarchs, most feudal kings had a balance of power with their barons. Barons administered the far flung countryside, collected taxes, and raised armies (and lead them as generals) should the country go to war.
If a king overstepped their authority, was a shitty king or otherwise drove the country to ruin, the Barons could and would raise armies to take the capitol and kill the king.
The First Barons' War (1215–1217) against Bad King John established the Magna Carta this way, limiting the power of tyrant kings.
The Despenser War (1321–1322) With the Marcher Barons against Edward II and his blatant cronyism is probably a better example.
At the moment the USA has an effective aristocrat class that manipulates stupid people (mostly women) through media control and selective funding.
If we had an actual ruling class and a House of Lords we'd actually know who to kill to get shit to change.
At its best, Monarchy was better than the bullshit that is going on in the USA right now. The USA is very close to ungovernable, and probably will be ungovernable within my lifetime.
Isn't this where someone pops up and tells me that it is the Jews?
I mean, it isn't like China would dare to encroache on the Jewish monopoly on evil, exploiting stupidity, or corruption.
The CCP had pictures and footage of Hunter having sex with an underage prostitute.
He was 100% compromised by the Chinese government. They had him with both the stick and the carrot.
How is it that Hunter calling someone a nigger getting so much more public attention than him being a bought and paid for Chinese agent?
Is this a post to gain the attention and approval of our faggot mods?
Sweeteners work in a couple ways. The first is that it is a sugar molecule that can't be split into glucose, and thus can't be absorbed through the gut. Since the sweetener is not absorbed by the gut it exits in the usual way.
Some of these sugar molecules are digestible by gut microbes, which leads to selection for gut flora that can gain energy from these indigestible sugars. This is what happens to people with lactose intolerance.
The second type are absorbed through the gut and then immediately eliminated by the kidneys. Sugar alcohols act in this way.
Changing the micro-biome has all kinds of complex effects. It isn't straightforward what the interactions between the micro-biome and the human immune system.
Don't panic guy!
The incompetent Indian H-1B visa holders will use their US$ to hire competent Indians to do their work for them remotely!
Best of all, they will save so much money by skipping the "background check" bullshit. You are getting great value!
The best part is that the battery banks are a consumable part. It isn't just a one-time cost of a Trillion.
It is a Trillion bucks every 10 or 15 years.
When you ask people to imagine a battery or series of batteries that can run the five burrows of New York City for two weeks, they just can't do it.
They get angry at you for asking them to try. Their first response is: "It wouldn't need to run New York for that long!" which is just stupid!
So you spell it out for them.
"So, there is no solar generation at night. So your battery bank will have to be big enough to run NYC overnight, every night. Cloud cover causes PV Solar generation to drop by 80%. How often are overcast days in New York State?
Rain causes generation to drop by 100%, and the days get very short in winter. How many days in a row is it overcast, raining or snowing in New York State? Ten? Are you willing to bet thousands of lives it isn't one day more?
The failure state is that New York City grid turns off to stop tens of millions of dollars worth of damage form occurring. People will start to die right away. First in hospitals, then for people who can't get heat. Then shortly later as all the food spoils as refrigeration turns off."
At this point the Green twats either get incoherently angry or just leave. They hate having it pointed out that they haven't given even five minutes of thought to the issues.
There are entire neighborhoods where the solar panels on the roof don't generate much electricity.
The solar panels turn on. The local power circuit is saturated and the voltage reaches the maximum limit.
The solar panels turn off.
It can be fixed with multi-tap transformers, but the transformers we that are installed have a 25 year lifespan. So do we throw them out and replace them? Replacing the transformers on the poles will only allow the solar electricity to be used in the same suburb. Bigger transformers cost more.
The icing on the cake is that not everywhere would benefit from multi-tap transformers. There would have to be considerable study as to where to put them for the best effect. That takes a long time to do right and it isn't free.
I actually know the answer to the technical question, having helped design large scale solar generation in the multi-megawatt range.
The answer is that:
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Solar panels must be geographically far apart; that way scattered cloud cover won't affect all your panels at the same time; and
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Build much more solar generation than you need, then turn a bunch of it off almost all of the time. Then as load fluctuates turn on (deploy) solar generation to match the load. As the load reduces turn off (dispense with) generation.
- Build large scale batteries (which is what GP was alluding to) to charge; then run the demands of the grid from the batteries. Batteries are consumable parts and staggeringly expensive at grid scale. Any large scale use of batteries will literally double the generation costs of PV solar per watt/hour
All of these things dramatically increase the cost per watt/hour of solar generation. Economies of scale are achieved by building large solar installations. If you build them in the desert then transmission lines (something like between $100k to $1m per km) must be constructed. If you build many smaller generation sites where people live, then they are expensive as you lose economies of scale for construction.
Building capacity specifically not to use is the single most expensive use of solar generation. Investors hate it. They want to get returns for every panel they nail onto a frame.
Grid control issues are difficult to solve and are very expensive. Designing a grid that doesn't use the Baseload / Spinning reserve control model is complex and requires rebuilding the biggest and most expensive system ever built.
Facts are not equal to feelings.
How do you buffer a solar panel to the grid?
I point out that solar panels lose 80% of generation when a cloud covers the site. Unless it is solar/thermal where it loses 100% of generation.
How do you buffer the grid from entire solar generation sites dropping off the grid on cloudy days and then appearing an hour later?
GamerGate was the first topic ever banned from discussion on OG 4chan.
Mostly Candice is a very well televised, slow-motion train wreck. We can point and laugh when the very deserving get caught in the crush ... but that just seems to be coincidence at this point.
At the time I was impressed at how fast Candice did a 180 when confronted with the actual facts of the situation. After she got burned by Literally Who, Candice was very quick to accept that OG KiA actually knew what was going on.
It took guts to admit that she was 100% wrong and to flip like that. She did learn very fast when other leftist and normies were not learning at all.
I am not at all impressed by anything at all she has done since.
It is slightly amusing that she is winding up the French so hard, but that seems like top tier trolling, and that doesn't impress me anymore.
Gizortnik is so frustrating. He clearly has deep knowledge of more than one field, yet will not budge when confronted with actual facts.
I like to think one of my best attributes is that I change my mind, especially when confronted with facts. Lord knows, I started 2014 as a left of center, pro refugee athirst. I am none of those things now.
Gizortnik is often beyond the reach of facts or reason. At that point, what do you do?
I like him, he is just ... ugh!
This happened in 2017.
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Ganker article (July 2022): https://ganker.com/magic-the-gathering-has-a-pedophile-problem-that-no-one-wants-to-acknowledge-1703/
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The Outer Haven article (January 2018): https://www.theouterhaven.net/2018/01/wizards-of-the-coast-background-checks/
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KVIA news report (March 2018): https://kvia.com/news/2018/03/06/magic-the-gathering-players-struggling-to-weed-out-sex-offenders/
The MTG judges involved were:
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Ross Prajzner - convicted in November 2014 for possession of child pornography
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Sam Straus (level-3 judge) - pled guilty to taking indecent liberties with a child and using electronic means to solicit sex from a child in September 2014
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David Park (level 3 judge) - sentenced to three years in prison in December 2015 for molesting two teenage students
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Jason Long (store owner) - indicted for sexual abuse against a 15-year-old in October 2017
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Luke Flora (Star City Games employee) - convicted of six felony counts of taking indecent liberties with a child (Ganker)
The Quartering started out with a Magic the Gathering channel.
He discovered that many, many of the official judges for major competitions were convicted child sex offenders, on the sex offender registry.
When he reported the news he was banned from competitions and taken to court.
He shut down his channel, basically because he could pay the staggering legal costs.
It became crystal clear that WotC Tournament Organizers Knew about the issue and had at best done nothing, but more probably encouraged child molesters by running cover for them.
Eventually WotC quietly fixed the problem and pretended nothing had ever happened.
I think it literally hurts the authors if there is any advancement at all on the central premise of the series.
we really didn't get much in the way of wins ...
I disagree.
GamerGate is fairly directly responsible for the Adpocolypse. Advertisers demanded that YouTube and Google give them more control over where their advertising was seen, and then unanimously chose to have nothing to do with Gaming content.
The advertising rate in computer publications and websites used to be the highest in the publishing world. Shortly after GamerGate the rate had plunged and never rose again. Games journalism went from being safe, politically neutral media, friendly for every advertiser, to being very, very political.
The drop in advertising rate changed the entire business model of Games Journalism.
The end of "Native Advertising" caused (by my count) at least two AAA games to tank and then slowly starved two billion dollar publishing empires.
They changed the rules of Reddit because they were utterly terrified of the effectiveness of Gamers writing letters to advertisers. We cut off journalists money and made their jobs a joke. They have been utterly terrified that something like that may happen again ever since.
I have argued elsewhere that it is the end of at least one of Europe's biggest economies.
I don't disagree with you.
It isn't possible to keep Ukraine out of Russian hands. This is an existential situation for them, and they are a nuclear power.
I don't disagree.
Bleeding Russia for resources is expensive and ultimately counterproductive.
I think that the real benefit is for certain parties to skim off the top.
This whole debacle is the end of Germany both as a western power and a cultural group.
The illegal can still challenge the judgement; just not from inside the USA. If they submit paperwork etc, through the US consulate, it will be reviewed.
It isn't free, and it isn't fast, but there is a pathway to have the decisions challenged and revoked.
This has happened when a citizen was deported by mistake.
The point was never to win. The point was to back Russia into a corner and force them to bleed resources until they are ruined.
So far it is going pretty well for NATO.
Well there you have it.
Idiots like you and I think that Communist China has done a fairly convincing job of subverting much of the global elites through the stratagem of Elite Capture.
But it seems like we are wrong. I have been told that it was Jews all along.