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This is definitely a dude living his best life.

This is TWO dudes living their best lives, and I'm so fucking happy every time I see Jack Black and Kyle Gass together because how often do you actually get to see the spotlight on two people -- one of whom is a HUGE film star at this point -- who are fat and aging and yet also still goofing and rocking and enjoying one another's company despite the wild changes life has brought their way?

Kyle has talked about the difficulty he faced in watching his partner hit it big without him, and how they communicated about that and how they balance their friendship with their respective creative pursuits when they're not working on a Tenacious D project. I respect the fuck out of him for putting in the work to maintain that friendship and I respect the fuck out of both of them for being Peak Fat Old Goof Goals

Trick or Treat!

new tag game: people who don’t have anime profile pics, if you had to pick one rn what would it be

HELLO whoever at buzzfeed made him read a lesbian-on-gay thirst tweet you are my idol

sorry not tweet, tumblr post. this website is the only platform that could produce something so good and pure it actually makes Andrew Scott smile and participate in the joke rather than sigh with his entire soul

date idea: we drink wine while a dilapidated mansion crumbles around us

last night my partner held a somber little passover seder to show me what it’s about and when they got to the part where they were supposed to open the door for elijah they paused, frowned, and said “oh. huh. there is a clown.” and I looked out. and sure enough. there was a clown.

not like, a clown we knew or could account for. not some kind of domesticated clown. a wild clown. feral. with green hair and a red nose and everything.

What

who am I to question these things

“did you fight the clown” no. the clown was not hostile.

I might not be Jewish but I’ve read enough fairy tales to know better than to offer hospitality and then rescind it just because the guest I receive does not appear to be the guest I expected.

꒰ Sanctuary ꒱

another one

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (2014) dir. Wes Anderson

FALLOUT - The World Of featurette

This article is actually about a very serious problem. If you overgenerate electricity it increases the phase frequency of the power grid, and if that goes out of sync with your generators (including solar panels) it can destroy them. In the kind of way where your power grid is fucked for months. It is very very very very bad.

California started a program to make solar panels more affordable by offering very low interest rates for solar panels, to allow people to benefit from their lifetime $/energy cost that's below fossil fuels, without having to worry about the high frontloaded cost. However they did not do this for batteries. And power grid quality batteries with massive energy storage and serious charge-discharge lifetimes, are expensive.

And they did this because while solar panels are cheaper than fossil fuels per kilowatt hour of electricity over their lifetime, solar panels plus batteries are not. And California wanted a supplemented free market solution and didn't really want to think about the part that direct government intervention in the form of taxation and paying for this change would be necessary.

So everyone in California just kept adding solar panels to the grid with no disconnect mechanisms, until eventually it hit a point where at noon, solar panels generated more power than the entire grid needed. With no batteries to store the excess. This is a motherfucking power grid killer. It is a scenario where people get left in the fucking dark for months because of how badly it destroys the powergrid.

So the power grid authorities did the only thing they could do. They called up every industrial plant with heavy duty equipment and ovens they could and paid them to turn it on full blast (because using that equipment costs money in wear and tear even without the electricity cost). And in doing so, avoided disaster.

That's what this article is talking about. They are solar panel researchers criticizing a capitalist adoption strategy and promoting direct government intervention to create renewable energy. However as with most newspapers they don't get to choose the title, the editor picks the most provocative title that will get clicks.

Babygirl I know fandom history that you wouldn’t even care about

i know fandom history that even I don’t care about

well, i know about lump fish

Good to see we’re all on the same page

The vulnerability was found by an engineer named Andres Freund. Networking and quality engineering are already thankless tasks; Freund deserves better than "some microsoft engineer."

「 The time when the garden turns golden 」