Francisco Matiella

@PunterNavarre @cardsfaninky @mooroobee @kylenabecker @politico LMAO, if you think politico is biased against conservatives you're absolutely delusional. The reason I don't find it particularly useful is because it has a fake balance to make conservatives happy. You haven't pointed out any actual problem or wrong doing. Only "I don't like it"

@BioChico @cardsfaninky @mooroobee @kylenabecker @politico Do Feds "need" it? It's wasteful spending that funds a politically biased "news" outlet that attacks only one political party. That doesn't sound like a valid use of taxpayer dollars.

Fun Fact: @Politico received USAID funds. Everything makes sense now.

@PunterNavarre @cardsfaninky @mooroobee @kylenabecker @politico And for your last question, yes. Politico , the magazine became pretty useless a few years ago. By all means, be mad that the feds are falling for a capitalist gimmick, but I hardly see how the current regime is going to fix this instead of putting it on steroids.

@PunterNavarre @cardsfaninky @mooroobee @kylenabecker @politico No, but that's not the purpose. You're avoiding the question. I have it & don't find it useful. People I work with find do. We're not feds. If you think it costs too much, I'd agree, but there's not an alternative. So what's your suggestion? Keep them people less informed?

@PunterNavarre @cardsfaninky @mooroobee @kylenabecker @politico Do you think every person in the government knows everything about every part of the government?

@cardsfaninky @mooroobee @kylenabecker @politico True. $26 million during the Biden years. It was still a big jump during 2024. One has to wonder why government needed to subscribe to news.... about the government.

@JessicaBodyrubs @MelechThomas People had been complaining about that place. But once it was a "new resident" then it was a problem

@MelechThomas Once people started complaining about the metro store an era was over.

Well let me tell you exactly how “colorful” U Street was 20 years ago before gentrification…

@BostonBlueMoon @JockLandy @brfootball You're coping with getting smashed. Everybody knows Arsenal hasn't had a trophy in years. If MC had won, EH wouldn't be pointing at the champions badge to his fans after the game. He did because it's a coping mechanism, like you talking about trophies after getting wrecked.

@JockLandy @brfootball What exactly am I coping with? We got smashed yesterday, that's happened before and it will happen again....it happens to everybody

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@RalphieRaccoon @YIMBYLAND But there's not a lot of evidence that a big yard and big bedroom are much better for kids. There is evidence that forcing kids into communities where cars drive fast and are the only way to get around are quite dangerous.

@YIMBYLAND Raising kids in cramped city apartments or townhomes, often sharing bedrooms, is seen as something that only the poor are forced to do, and it's not seen as healthy for the children. That's certainly partly a cultural thing as it's more common in some other non Anglo countries.

This is whats wrong with America. “It takes a village” used to mean something because you’d have a village of ppl that could pop in at a moment’s notice to help with your kids . Now were so isolated that ppl can’t even imagine living within walking distance (let alone driving distance) of their friends, even in the time of life it would benefit them the most

@IamTheFawb @CAbitcoinDad @matteopelleg Right. But again, complicated, not foolproof. They still fail. There's a pretty well established record on this. That's why "reliability" is a quality of the system, not a single generator. Nothing is 100%

@BioChico @CAbitcoinDad @matteopelleg Yes but there are other plants to come online to ensure grid reliability. Gas turbines are as reliable as any other power plant technology if not more so. We use triple redundant everything (pumps, processors, not put the redundant machines on the same electric MCC etc)

This chart should be framed and put in the office of every US member of congress.

@IamTheFawb @CAbitcoinDad @matteopelleg But there are many plants. It's a numbers game. Complex equipment with many points of failure, and a whole lot of that equipment means there are multiple failures through the system over time. If the CT fails because a pump failed that's still an unpredictable point of failure

@BioChico @CAbitcoinDad @matteopelleg Many plants will only shut down less than 8 times a year

@IamTheFawb @CAbitcoinDad @matteopelleg That's exactly it. Gas turbines are amazingly engineered. Steam generators also. But they are large complicated machines with many points of failure to get electricity into the wires. They do fail and do so unpredictably. Solar/wind you know when they won't work.

@BioChico @CAbitcoinDad @matteopelleg The gas turbines themselves very rarely break, it's usually some other system that is part of the entire plant that goes down that requires shutdown. But you are right I guess bc what's the difference. The backups though are just other gas turbine plants 😄

@TheOGfrog_ @Wash_cycle Do you prefer said asshole to be in a car instead of a bike? There's already too many entitled assholes driving. Better then use something that has less harmful impacts.

@Wash_cycle Completely wasted. The bike lanes in DC add nothing. All they do is add pretentious, asshole cyclist to the road that act like complete and utter assholes. I hate every bike lane. I hope we never add another one again.

The new protected bike lane on 11th NW between Pennsylvania and L Street.

@IamTheFawb @CAbitcoinDad @matteopelleg The amount of back up and ancillary services that are required and called up every day on different grids because some CT crapped the bed tells me that. I'm not saying that you can expect a particular gas plant to break, but that on your grid one of them will when you need it.

@BioChico @CAbitcoinDad @matteopelleg They actually don't break often idk who told you that but I work with them every day

@CAbitcoinDad @IamTheFawb @matteopelleg And yes fossil fuels burning sources are certainly more complex and delicate. They are highly engineered machines meant to operate in specific parameters and maintain specific outputs. They trip offline frequently for a whole book of issues.

Not an expert, but I know a little. Hydro is not complex. Fossil fuels are not complex. Certainly not more complex or delicate than a windmill or solar panel. So suppose you can predict the weather perfectly, you still can’t control it. So every kWh you count on from wind/solar needs to be duplicated with reliable power, because people don’t wait for a wind storm to turn on the lights. So if I have to build a second plant to power my town when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining, where is this “green” efficiency? An honest question, interested in a detailed answer, seriously.

@CAbitcoinDad @IamTheFawb @matteopelleg That's why I said reliability is a quality of the system. If you have a gas plant, and it fails, do you make everyone wait on repairs? The answer is that to ensure reliability you have small amounts of flexible back up that cover variability and unpredicted failures.

@CAbitcoinDad @IamTheFawb @matteopelleg Gas turbines and steam powered turbines are in fact quite complex and break often. they also require back up.

@CAbitcoinDad @IamTheFawb @matteopelleg The benefit they have is that they are cheap to build/maintain, and the fuel is free. They don't have a lot of unaccounted for downstream impacts, unlike carbon burning energy. They are variable, that's something that has to be accounted for to make the system reliable.

@CAbitcoinDad @IamTheFawb @matteopelleg If you're willing to listen, I have expertise. Reliability is a quality of the system not the tech. Thermal systems are complex. They breakdown. The weather is quite predictable for what we need. So you're putting too much behind the idea they are unreliable and unpredictable.

@christophaa @CAbitcoinDad @matteopelleg None of them. Reactionaries again getting made at something they made up.

@CAbitcoinDad @matteopelleg Which ones? Who has said that?

@BarredinDC Mid-century aesthetic continues to make a revival

Wow - rendering of the first floor bar coming to Henceforth, the brewery/wine bar coming former H Street Country Club (rest of the 1st floor is already installed brewing equipment). Aim for this bar to be open 11a daily.

@AuroraGroove @TheHypocrisyCh1 @JonnyCapitalist @JessePeltan I know. I'm making fun of the other guy for only posting screen grabs from specific times, as if that's compelling evidence

@BioChico @TheHypocrisyCh1 @JonnyCapitalist @JessePeltan I was looking at the average for the whole of 2024:

"China's going nuclear while we build solar" couldn't be further from the truth. China's nuclear generation is growing, but it's still only half as much as the U.S. Every single month since January 2023, solar generated more electricity than nuclear in China. China's solar generation doubled in the last 2 years and it now exceeds U.S. nuclear generation on an annual basis. China produced as much electricity from solar as the U.S. did from nuclear - in December. If China maintains this growth rate, it would be like building the entire U.S. nuclear fleet over the next 2 years. (in terms of total generation)