Why no, I am not a vampire
Oh and you probably don't want us driving wooden stakes through your heart either, huh?
exasperation
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Yeah but if some direct combustion of a fossil fuel is cheaper than electricity, then the actual dollars per unit heat will be cheaper with a fossil fuel source.
Yes, but that's why heat pumps in this country are typically paired with auxiliary electric heat.
Yes, and although it's not very efficient to have auxiliary electrical heat, that's a small percent of the overall year.
If you live in a home that hits -20C for 20 days per year, that's really cold! But you'll probably need the heater on for about 180 days per year at that point. Putting up with less efficiency for 20-30 days per year is still a net gain if the other 150 days of heating makes up for it.
Probably where AI learned that sheen from.
I'm saying that whatever it was your grandparents had 50 years ago, the costs (including opportunity costs) are totally different.
I can work an hour at McDonald's, for $18, and earn enough to buy 10 pounds of tomatoes at $1.80/lb. Growing 10 pounds of tomatoes is gonna take me a lot more than an hour of work, even if the land is free. The tradeoffs for me in this moment are going to be different from what your grandparents faced in the 70's.
Either way, whether it's worth the effort to drive for Uber depends on whether you already own a car. Whether you can publish a cheap indie game on the app store or steam depends on whether you already own a laptop. And whether it's cost effective to grow your own food depends on whether you have access to land, sun, soil, and water.
Also economies of scale is a poor argument when it comes to farming
For small scale food gardening it absolutely matters. Picking berries, planting seedlings, spreading compost, getting rid of pests (either through pesticides or things like ladybugs), productivity per worker hour depends a lot on the scale. It's really, really hard to be cost competitive with the grocery store in just pure worker hours, even if your own time is worth less than $5/hour.
What's the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent meal of loaves and fishes?
very very poor
had an acre
Sounds like they already had something that dramatically changes the cost/benefit analysis, compared to someone considering gardening from scratch.
Someone with a few raised beds isn't going to be able to compete with the economies of scale of a full acre of farmland.
But my French toast slaps now.
There's always the Japanese method, where the protege being groomed as the CEO's replacement goes through the effort and legal process of being adopted as the CEO's son and taking the company name as his own legal last name.
Suzuki has done it 4 times in a row, even bypassing biological sons.
Not yet. Reading Wendler's stuff posted throughout the internet, some old reddit posts discussing different concepts and issues talking about the basic framework, gives me some ideas of how I'll approach it. I suspect it won't be a big change in what exercises I'm actually doing, but will mainly be a shift in how much weight and reps I'm going for on any given day.
But I'll figure it out this weekend, enter next week with a plan.
For the last 2 months, I've been doing a 3-day split, focused on each of the 3 main powerlifting exercises (bench, deadlift, squat) and related accessories, aiming at 3x5 of what my 5 rep max is.
From some discussions I had here last week, I've decided this will be my last week doing that, and switching over to a 5/3/1. But I was able to hit 5 reps of each of the following:
Bench: 180 lbs
Squat: 335 lbs
Deadlift: 385 lbs
I'll use this snapshot of where I am now, to plan out how I'll do 5/3/1 over the next two or three cycles, and see how I feel about the program after.
Eh, I can see a resilience based argument for why we need nuclear, but building new nuclear is never going to be cheaper than solar or wind.