Off topic, but since this is Lemmy, I choose to interpret your political assessment as,

• 4 US lapdogs: UK, Saudi Arabia, China and India
• 2 dictatorships: Canada and Australia
• fast becoming a dictatorship: Ireland.

Agreed, but there's a real cost involved and a real cost analysis to do. Like with the question of people upgrading to more efficient cars (and scrapping the old) or running the old for longer to minimise car manufacture.

Would it really be peanuts? Solar panel manufacture isn't exactly cheap, nor entirely sustainable (see, for instance, the black market for sand; and economics/politics over lithium mining). Solar panels also degrade; new technology replaces old and has to be paid for and made and installed; the infrastructure tying it all together isn't free either...

I feel like solar power, for all its excellence, is not as simple as upgrade as my rts-/tycoon-/sim-gamer's mind thinks it should be.

I think they're taking about battery chickens; just don't tell the vegans that's how we store electricity!

Well then there is another way of seeing this: there is an engineering/difficulty with such large power fluctuations that "drive electricity prices negative" because it implies a much more variable demand on existing power infrastructure.

I saw an article about one trained on research papers. (Built by Meta, maybe?) It also spewed out garbage: it would make up answers that mimicked the style of the papers but had its own fabricated content! Something about the largest nuclear reactor made of cheese in the world...

January brings the snow: makes your feet and fingers glow.
February's ice and sleet freeze the toes right off your feet.
Welcome March with wintery wind; would thou wert not so unkind.
April brings the sweet spring showers... On and on for hours and hours!
Farmers fear unkindly May: Frost by night and hail by day.
June it rains and never stops; thirty days and spoils the crops!
In July the sun is hot. (Is it shining? No it's not.)
August cold and damp and wet, brings more rain than any yet.
Bleak September's mist and mud is enough to chill the blood.
Then October adds a gale, wind, and slush, and rain, and hail.
Dark November's damp and fog; would not do it to a dog.
Freezing wet December then...
Bloody January again!

The metre flows better that way.

If you can't stand,
Feel free to stand
Behind our troops;
In front of my ram.

It also gives context for what way things could be worse. Compared to a completely dissociated suggestion like, "the entire universe didn't spontaneously turn into farts therefore this isn't the worst timeline."

It demonstrates how things could be worse, but aren't.

Cheese is the answer. The worst possible timeline would not have cheese.

Ancestors: "We're glad you can have a more peaceful future, where your great stress is cherry capes, not bombs in trenches."

In the days of 1024x768, I found turning my one screen over to 768x1024 was great for coding!

One must imagine you happy

Yes! No more keyboard! Pick your letters with a mouse and menus.

Aw, I'm sure she's happy with you too . ❤️

Looks like a fish out of water.

Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping

I don't think so. It reads to me like, if one day of massive violence from people generally, happened, then after that the police would be given freedom to crack down severely on everything.

"Fear leads to...'the security of My New Empire'"

Addendum: I re-read the quote and now I feel I can read it either way.