The Skeptics Guide #1002 - Sep 21 2024 (Ad Free)
Added 2024-09-21 12:09:26 +0000 UTC
Quickie with Steve: Minimoon; News Items: Dead Internet Theory, Classroom CRISPR, CAM Market, ADHD Increasing; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Changing Names, Net Metering and Residential Solar; Science or Fiction
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The power utilities in AZ are regulated by the corporation commission whose members are elected every 6 years on a rotating basis. The largest utility, APS was caught red handed in a pay to play scheme with some of the CC members years back. Guess what happened. You got it, NOTHING. They just raised rates 15% while reducing the buyback rate for solar customers From 12.5 cents per KWH to 8.5 cents per KWH. It’s as crooked as it gets in AZ.
Iain Findlay
2024-10-02 17:37:38 +0000 UTCPeople complaining about how solar is harming all of the benevolent utilities is like complaining about how home cooking is harming restaurants. Won't somebody please think of the corporations?
Asymetra
2024-09-27 04:26:00 +0000 UTCOceanGate has a long history of problems, the owner was warned by numerous industry experts not to use composite materials (they shrink and expand at different rates resulting in microcracks) and to stop all commercial trips, and the owner said on several occasions, "F... safety. Safety gets in the way of innovation." The incident was inevitable, Russian roulette diving made it a matter of when. My sympathy lies with the passengers. The owner had it coming.
Asymetra
2024-09-27 03:27:02 +0000 UTCThis was also my issue with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I couldn't tell which character was good, which was bad, and which was ugly. They were all just bad and ugly.
Gregory Tucker
2024-09-21 23:49:06 +0000 UTCThe term "climate change" was never substituted for "global warming". The Intergovernmental Panel on *Climate Change* -- the organization that deniers love to disparage -- was founded with that name in 1988, years before "global warming" became a mainstream topic. The terms have coexisted for at least that long.
Richard Moore
2024-09-21 20:30:32 +0000 UTCGreat movie. Another one that builds slowly and draws the viewer in is Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. I feel like I need to schedule a "long movie week" to watch/rewatch some of the great epics. It'll have to be after my current project of rewatching every Star Trek series.
Richard Moore
2024-09-21 17:16:20 +0000 UTCI still love "The good, the bad and the ugly". And one of the main reasons is that it is SLOW. Sergio Leone allowed the suspense to build up, and take its time to do so. Unless my memory fails me, the first spoken line is like 13 (!) minutes into the movie. Brilliant, imo. I hate movies/series that are too fast-paced. Why should I care about what happens if I don't care about the characters or the story?
Christer Jansson
2024-09-21 15:44:48 +0000 UTCEurope is pronounced "Europe"! Yokels.
Christer Jansson
2024-09-21 15:17:08 +0000 UTCBright and early!
Drock Drack
2024-09-21 12:31:39 +0000 UTC
