We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
How to get screwed with solar. The VAST majority of door to door solar sales have a priority to get you to sign on the line for a loan. They don't give a damn about production or shade. They will show you the modeled production without accounting for shade issues.
Warning signs:
1)salesman wants to talk about how much he can reduce your bill instead of kWh. This is the equivalent of a car salesman discussing monthly payments instead of the actual price of the car.
2)They do not use their own install crew. They will sub the job out. This means that when the crew shows up, their incentive is to get those panels on the roof and get down the road. I've heard horror stories about the salesman sold a number of panels and all won't fit due to roof easement requirements, so the installers will put them in another place. Keep in mind, the installers are paid for the job and don't give a damn about the install.
2a)if there's a roof leak, the solar company will tell you to call the installer. But you didn't contract the installer or even pay him so he won't respond to you.
3)The sales place will set you up with two loans. There will be a short term 0% apr loan for 18 months for the portion of your system that applies to hte tax credit. But if you can't claim the entire tax credit in one year, you gotta roll the tax over. But the loan will revert to 30% interest from day 0 if you don't pay if off in 18 months.
3a)The balance of hte system will be put on a 20 year loan and a lien will be placed on your house. When you sell your house, that loan will be satisified out of the equity in your home. There is no obligation of teh buyer to take on that loan.
Yanis Varoufakis (former Greek Minister of Finance) describes AI as a new form of capital that produces not goods, but behavioral modification. This is achieved by engineering perceptions.
The answers provided by ChatGPT, or the images rendered by StableDiffusion — as these increasingly inform our perceptions, they in turn define the reality we experience.
This is what makes AI so powerful — he who controls the AI, defines the reality of tomorrow.
⚡️🇺🇸 Some more things coming out for the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Under the preliminary drafts of the bill, the USAF is requesting a release of $57,000,000 USD ($57.0 Million) to retire all remaining 162 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in current service. Apart of the 2023 NDAA, there was a clause for a few million dollars to be released every so often to gradually retire the (then) 250 airframes by 2034; however due to the push by the Dept of Defense to ‘shed’ obsolete or obsolescent airframes that cannot be overhauled or upgraded further without a whole new airframe, it appears the USAF wants to retire all 162 remaining A-10s by the end of 2026.
The USAF plans to fully divest the 340-total remaining A-10s entirely, including those that currently serve in a handful of Air National Guard units in some states; which will be replaced by F-15EX Eagle IIs (like what is already happening with the Michigan State Air National Guard’s A-10s), or F-35A/Bs.
Included ...
My older sister lives in the country in between Velma Oklahoma and Duncan Oklahoma near the Fuqua Lake area, this story was told by a rural mail delivery woman who delivers the mail in the country.
The incident happened while she was on her route, when she came upon to the mailbox a male Chinese nation came out brandishing a, AK-47 rifle being very hostile,
I don't know if he pointed it at her since it is against the law to do so but she was terrified and said she was never going back and that the location that had a guard tower. Was the sheriff department notified, I don't know, did she notify her supervisor, don't know. But word is from the country folk who live in the area they have seen the guard tower at the pot place;
I refuse to call it a farm because it is an insult to farmers.
And yes she was traumatized by that ordeal
