@ysbreker Speaking of, was it @TechConnectify that bought the Coda?

@rexi @TechConnectify looks like a mass report by the chuds that are mad that Alex is speaking out

@rexi @TechConnectify looks like a mass report by the chuds that are mad that Alex is speaking out

@TechConnectify It's really refreshing to see a US youtuber addressing what's going on outside their windows with a call to action to his fellow citizens.

The solar part was cool too.

Let's do this.

@balkonsolar Yikes! How are you preventing backfeed to the grid and not defeating the whole point of a breaker box? Backfeeding from an outlet kills people!

Let's do this.

@TechConnectify That was a very nice summary about all the economics of renewable energy, and a very personal comment on the end. Thanks for making and sharing it.

Please *be* explicitly political, the deafening silence about these issues with many of your fellow content creators is really irritating.

I (from Germany) share your sentiments, and here in Europe we're probably not far behind the US in the degradation of the political system.

@TechConnectify

TL;DW

how does the solar panel and battery deterioration affect the calculations? The panels might las 25 years but definitely they don't stay as efficient.

@TechConnectify Amazing video. Absolute aces all around. Some meandering thoughts:

1- The starting discussion around Midwestern values around frugality and investing wisely kept echoing as a corollary of the Vimes Boots Theory of Socieoeconomic Unfairness that I expected it to get mentioned. I'm assuming you know what that is, but that leads right into my next thought...

2- Building off your statement "I kind of already assumed everyone knew what we were trying to do", plainly stating assumptions is one of the most useful tools for solving problems I have found in the past ten years. My day job is supporting some niche technology infrastructure, and when I get pulled into a problem it's because things are seriously, seriously weird. I've had multiple occasions where I've "walked the stack" out loud, and someone else chimed in to correct some component of pile which led to figuring out what was wrong and how to solve it.

I think there's a more advanced theory of mind issue around understanding and addressing the inherent assumptions other people make. I have no idea how that realization will help make better videos, but I'm excited to see it happen.

2a- While I agree that there's a massive capitalist interest in misleading people, my gut says the bigger challenge is people just... not reexamining assumptions that are years or decades out-of-date. Either because it's cognitively expensive (taking time and mental focus off of day-to-day work, which is also an opportunity capitalist interests are happy to exploit), or because they straight up lack the tools to approach the subject. Maybe that's wrong, and fraud/deception are really the impetus behind wasting time and money on disposable energy.

But I really think the Overestimate Short Term & Underestimate Long Term problem does a lot more heavy lifting in that regard. Humans in survival mode (as so many of us have been for the past 10-40 years) need to focus on the short term, and thinking about the long term is an unaffordable luxury.

3- Tangentially related to cognitive expense/load, I process information better with my eyes than my ears. Showing more of the math when you were running the numbers would have made that easier for me to grasp and process.

Yes, Excel is one of my most-used applications of all time. How did you know?

4- There was a dark, gallows laugh when you talked about the First Amendment rights and the press being declared enemies of the people as Donald Trump is racistly arresting four black journalists. (I'm not laughing because it's funny, I'm laughing because it's an easier emotional outlet than crying)

5- We've lost so much from caring too much about what billionaires and cult leaders say, and caring too little for our own neighbors. I don't know how we solve the big problem. I'll do my part with my skills, like the repair café I'm volunteering at next weekend. We need to build more, better fucking community, damnit.

(sorry for spammy edit/reposting. markdown is being an asshole with list formating)

Let's do this.

Let's do this.

@drsbaitso @TechConnectify We need to reclaim “conservative”, because frugality used to be a byword, and even a synonym.

“Stitch in time saves nine” is a whole ethic and way of life

A “Conserve” movement would target the radical conservatism — radical rebellionists in a conservative constitutionalist trenchcoat

Let's do this.

@TechConnectify I watched about half of this while eating lunch. I gotta say, not only is this one of your best videos ever, this is the clearest explanation of the renewables value proposition I have ever heard.

Let's do this.

Let's do this.

Let's do this.

Let's do this.

@TechConnectify this is so good, so well argued, so laser-targeted both rhetorically and culturally at the victims of the fascist disinformation machine that the petrochemical industry has constructed, that about halfway through I stopped feeling like "yeah! right on!" and started feeling more like "Gosh I hope Exxon doesn't try to assassinate him."

This is *amazing* work, stay safe out there.