“Zoos are no place to indoctrinate children on gender ideology”

LMAO she’s just mad that the whole “nature doesn’t have sex changes and homosexuality” bullshit they peddle is so absurdly false!

You two are not compatible.

There’s a lot of green flags in your post and a few red flags for him (especially being overly critical and not willing to go to your favorite place).

But there are a lot of red flags for you, and very few green flags. You’ve got some internalized patriarchy affecting how you view relationships: chivalry, you like when he pays, you don’t seem comfortable with sex or open communication preferring that he read your mind. These are all problems you’ll want to work on if you want a relationship with a decent guy. It feels to me like you’re looking for a partner who treats you like a tradwife but you don’t seem to want to take that role. I don’t think you should either. The way you’re approaching relationships means you’ll either end up disappointed with a decent guy because he’ll expect equality and open communication, or feel oppressed in a tradcoded relationship.

Work on yourself for a bit before trying to date again. Finding someone you’re compatible with right now will be challenging if you don’t put in some work.

This article is trying to blame the Diwali celebration for air quality in New Delhi and it’s bullshit. It’s even got pictures of little girls holding sparklers as if they’re the villains for trying to enjoy a celebration the same way people all around the world celebrate.

Like the article says

On Wednesday, days before Diwali, toxic air pollution in New Delhi surged to more than 30 times the WHO’s recommended daily limit, data from air monitors showed.

New Delhi, home to 30 million people, persistently ranks among the world’s most polluted capital cities.

New Delhi had shit air quality before Diwali and it will have shit air quality after. To whatever extent sparklers and firecrackers contributed, this is probably the only contribution to pollution that most residents would support. It’s frankly empowering to see the smog one day of the year and know it was at least in part the result of celebration rather than poverty and poor regulations on usual emissions like every other day.

The headline should be “New Delhi residents seize the smog one day of the year after Diwali celebration, prepare for return of normal smog remaining 364 days”

This is the same logic as “the homeless shouldn’t have phones” and “the poor shouldn’t have TVs”. Poverty doesn’t mean you should lose your ability to seek enjoyment and entertainment.

Yeah. That’s what I said. Grid scale batteries create lots of profit for big corps. But if you want cost effective long term massive capacity energy storage you go pumped hydro. You can guess who fucked up our regulations and stopped our governments from pursuing these kinds of nation building projects: the same corps selling us batteries and coal and gas power. All based on the idea of endless fuel and battery purchases from them. They also did the same to solar, hydro, wind, and nuclear energy because those don’t really have recurring costs they can profit on forever.

Drought is generally not a concern for pumped hydro because you control the flow and you can pump both ways. In some cases it’s part of a normal hydro generation plant at a dam and then maybe some places might have minor drought susceptibility, but that affects net energy generation rather than storage capacity.

That’s because of capitalism. Pumped hydro has huge startup costs and a long payoff period, but runs basically forever. That’s not good next quarter stock market returns.

Batteries are exactly the disposable need to be completely thrown out and re bought every 5-10 years that the private sector loves to sell the government.

Pumped hydro beats batteries $/KwH before the first time you have to throw them all out every time.

You talk about China, and they’re doing exactly what I said. They’re building pumped hydro capacities over 10x their battery storage capacity.

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Hydroelectric/China-Records-Hydropower-Boom-Amid-Power-Storage-Push.html

Again I’m not against batteries they’re a great complimentary technology for surge demand and local backup. But nothing beats the simplicity and efficiency of moving water from a mountain Lake to a valley lake.

Pumped hydro accounts for 95% of grid scale storage. It’s the only thing viable for significant energy storage with batteries taking on more of a capacitor role.