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  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • You also use 120VAC which makes the current overload issue a lot worse.

    Voltage inside of residences is 120v AC, but its 240v thats delivered to each house. I think a bigger difference is that in the USA that 240v AC is single phase where I believe (Germany included) many nations in the EU are 3 phase.

    The USA does have 3 phase power for most commercial applications though.

  • Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them

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  • If power generation becomes so cheap that it can’t sustain the company then don’t rely on that for revenue.

    I'm not aware of anywhere power generation is that cheap yet. That may be a problem for the future when commercial fusion is viable, but thats likely a lifetime away.

    I’d rather pay a flat rate for the infrastructure and operating costs than a fluctuating generation charge.

    I think everyone would, but the cost for generation is always fluctuating because the variation in the market for the fuels that generate electricity, supply, and demand of electricity on the market. If its a flat rate, and that rate is below the cost of generating the electricity, who pays?

  • Typical US worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement, report finds

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  • I noted there were age ranges.

    And I gave those age ranges filling out your example, for those reading your mostly good post that care for the additional details. If you don't care feel free to ignore them, they're not for you, they're for the person you're responding to where I felt your answer was a bit incomplete, but not wrong.

    $1,500 a month is poverty, federal definitions be damned.

    And I said I agree with you in spirit.

    I appreciate the tuneup, but in no way was anything I said incorrect and pedantry was unwarranted.

    Calm down, I'm not attacking you or saying you're wrong. I'm adding additional context and details mostly supporting your argument.

  • Typical US worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement, report finds

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  • Unless everyone has YOLO'd their entire retirement into NVIDA the AI bubble burst isn't going to wipe out retirement savings to zero. Even the worst drop in the US stock market in history (which triggered the great depression) eventually dropping 90% at its worst recovered nearly half loss in 2 years. Even that drop wasn't in one day, it happened over months.

  • Typical US worker has less than $1,000 saved for retirement, report finds

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  • if you earned $200,000/yr

    Note, the max you need to earn to receive the top SS benefit is $176,100 in 2025 (it increases a bit in 2026). So the person earning $176,100 and the person receiving $200,000 get the same social security benefit.

    you’ll get ~$4000/mo

    That's true if you retire at Full Retirement age (which is 67 years old for nearly all of us on Lemmy). If you delay taking your SS benefit until 70 years old the benefit would be $5100/month. If you take the SS benefit before Full Retirement age at 62 you would only get about $2800/month. To your point, all of these numbers are for that top earner of $176,100. Benefits are reduced for lower working year incomes.

    $1500 month is poverty. Period.

    $1500/month doesn't meet the federal definition of poverty for an individual, but I agree with you in spirit. However, for a married couple thats $3k/month, thats $36,000/year. Social Security benefits are taxed, but that income would have them in the low 12% tax bracket. Rent/mortgage (largest portion of spending) doesn't double for two people. That could provide an okay modest retirement in a LCOL area.

    Social Security was never designed to be the only income in retirement. It was one of the legs of the "3 legged stool" meaning Social Security, pension, and savings. Few jobs these days have a traditional pension, but that leg is replace with the 401k/403b/IRA/TSP. Those going into retirement with just Social Security won't die from exposure to the elements, but it will be a very basic and minimal lifestyle.

  • Treasure hunter who refused to disclose location of shipwreck's 500 gold coins is released from prison after a decade

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  • He's likely be followed 24/7/365 by multiple private investigators for years. The $50m his investors believe they are owed can likely fund few folks full time to see if he ever magically "comes into some money".

  • Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US

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  • My insurance wouldn’t pay for my colonoscopy (colon cancer runs in the family) due to me being under 49.

    How long ago did you ask? The old guidance was at 50 years old, but with the guidance changing to 45 years old insurance should cover it if you're at least 45. I went through a similar you did under the old guidance. I can confirm that my insurance paid and I'm under 50. Note, the one you want is a "screening colonoscopy". These are covered under the ACA, I believe. If it is a "diagnostic colonoscopy" those cost more money. Its the exact same procedure for both.

  • Two hurt and gunman killed in ‘active shooter’ incident at Virginia college campus

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  • I saw the first few words of this headline and thought it was talking about today's shooting (no victims it sounds like, thankfully) at a synagogue in Detroit. Nope, this a different shooting today apparently.

  • Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing

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  • I loved in the story of that episode that the TV execs learned that blipverts could kill their audience, and briefly switched back to adverts, but when sales fell they went back to blipverts knowing the danger because it was more profitable. The writers of that show nailed a corporate dystopian future.

    Our own hope was our protagonist Edison Carter "live and direct from Network 23"...who was also part of the giant corporate machine.

  • Iran appears to have conducted a significant cyberattack against a U.S. company, a first since the war started

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  • I think they simply used the hack that was ready

    I think we're saying the same thing. If they had a hack that was higher tier/more exposure, they would have used it. They didn't at this time. So they used what they had.

  • Ukraine’s First UASAT Constellation Set to Reach 300 Satellites

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  • UASAT also states that its terminals are compatible with the Starlink and OneWeb platforms.

    Reading between the lines here, this means that UA drones equipped with these UASAT terminals can connect to three different satellite constellations to maintain connectivity. That's going to make it more difficult to jam them.

  • Iran appears to have conducted a significant cyberattack against a U.S. company, a first since the war started

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  • My guess is that if they had access to a juicer target, they would have taken it. This feels like the best they could do with what they had.

  • Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing

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  • If anyone remembers the cyberpunk 80s TV show Max Headroom, then they know that TV was everywhere all the time in that universe. There was a scene in one episode where the police enter a suspect’s home and discover that she had an off switch on her TV. The cops react in shock to the fact, and one of them says “She’ll get twenty years for that.”

    This universe also had "blipverts" which were a type of ad (advert..advertisement) that directly accessed your brain's motivation to get you to buy something. The only problem was that blipverts also had a high chance of killing the people that watched it.

    This was a TV show from almost 40 years ago now and it looks like these would be the things that are coming in the next few years from now.

  • Iran tells world 'get ready for $200 a barrel'

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  • American petroleum producers right now:

  • Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent. But they have to prove it

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  • Germany passed a similar law in 2021 allowing citizenship for folks that had otherwise been denied in the past. I missed it by one generation. My grandfather would have been eligible, and by proxy I would too, but he passed away right before the German law went into effect.

    For those exploring the German one, there's only a 10 year window beginning in 2021 to follow through with it. After that this path closes again.

  • California gas prices rise above $5 a gallon amid US war with Iran

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  • DCs are like roaches these days. If you see two going in, there are probably ten more than you don't know about also going in.

  • California gas prices rise above $5 a gallon amid US war with Iran

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  • I want to say our estimated break even was about a decade at our current consumption.

    That calculation also likely assumes electricity prices stay the same for a decade. If electricity prices increase, your payback date arrives sooner.

  • California gas prices rise above $5 a gallon amid US war with Iran

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  • Our household has solar panels, two EVs, and a heat pump located in the Midwest. We still have 1:1 net metering so its nearly the ideal conditions as far as energy harvest and economic landscape. I know this won't last, but I'm enjoying for the years that I can.

    We also have a separate deductive meter where we can get about 25% discount on electricity that charges the cars. We only use it during the cold months because car electricity is free during the rest of the year from solar.

    We have a small electricity bill in November, then big beefy electricity bills and for when the our location on Earth its tilted away the sun for the very cold months of Dec Jan, and Feb. March we get a bill but its about 1/10 of the cold months, and then usually electric bill until November again.

    With the installation of our heat pump we cut off our natural gas connection. So the only energy bill we have is electricity during the cold months. No natural gas bill, no gasoline bill.

  • U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy

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  • I don't understand those that have a home they're going to be a long time, is viable for solar panels, can afford to install solar, and don't.

    My neighbor, who meets all of the above criteria, just replaced their electric water heater with a gas one. That's the wrong direction.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Even more Star Trek wash party

  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Video: When A Barn Owl And Great Horned Owl Meet

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.

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  • Commodore 64 @lemmy.world
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    C64 spotted at Universal Studios Orlando

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Chief O'Brien has the most wholesome Holosuite programs