For what it's worth, a lot of libraries do reading with dogs.

He’s an awful senator but Oz was an awful choice too, it is what it is.

The sun doesn't shine at night, so every solar panel drops offline. Wind doesn't always blow, got to cover those low points. Energy storage is needed. It's a mater of scale. We don't have the batteries to store that kind of power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muddy_Run_Pumped_Storage_Facility is a comparable facility.

Taking property without proper compensation is wrong. So pay them double what the land is worth. Half in cash now, and half in stock in the new power company. Power companies make money, having part ownership is money every year for them and their heirs.

I hope they are as supportive of the Trans community.. We are getting attacked everywhere. I’m scared to leave the house anymore.

Holy shit, that entire sub is full of people that give veganism a bad name. The elitism and snobbery is off the charts…

Don't be a schnickelfritz.

In the formerly Pennsylvania Dutch parts the second language is bickering. (My mother, a Scottish-Irish woman from Central Pennsylvania's suburbs, told me that when she first met my father's aunts, she thought that they hated one another.)

There is a vanishing Texas German community out there.

Exelon has a long history of not GAF about anyone or anything. I wouldn’t expect that dredging to take place any time soon. Exelon is just Philadelphia Electric but broken up. Think of it like keeping a few dollars in each pocket and shuffling it around. You really have $100, but if anyone asks there’s only $25 in there.

When I was younger, my father's family would have annual gatherings at a property owned by their parents known as, "the crick." I remember many summers of try to catch crayfish.

Conowingo is fine except all the pollution it dumps into the Chesapeake because everyone is fighting over who should pay for dredging. And a lot of that is on PA for not complying with the EPA consent decree. Sediment and erosion control as well as water quality laws in PA are garbage.

I once read, somewhere that I cannot recall, that there was a time when a third of Pennsylvanians spoke Pennsylvania Dutch. My father is Pennsylvania Dutch and his father was bilingual, but his mother forbade him from being taught the tongue as it wasn't, "modern." She later admitted that this was a mistake. He once told me that he hated going to the local barber shop in his small coal town as all the old men would speak Pennsylvania Dutch and he would have no idea what they were saying.

My grandfather once visited a bar in Upper Darby, where we lived when I was very young, and the locals asked if he was Swedish, because of his accent. My mother has told me that when she met his grandparents, she could never quite tell when they were speaking Pennsylvania Dutch and when they were speaking 'Dutchified' English.

When I was in college, in an act of futility, I took courses in German that were taught by a woman from southern Germany. I once showed her my grandfather's old Grundsau Lodsch (Numma Finf an da Schwador) pamphlets, and she was amused to find the language rather familiar. (She also said that I sounded Austrian when I tried to speak German)

I wish that I were bilingual, because I would not be too far from High German, even if I would sound like something of a 'hick' in Germany, and it would be amusing if I could banter with my father auf Deitsch when he visits. My grandfather would often torment my mother, a self-described 'suburban princess' from Central Pennsylvania, by speaking Pennsylvania Dutch around her. He used to recite some poem that began, "A Truss truss trilly, a farmer hat in Philly," and ended, "the farmer had to sell," that I wish I knew all of. The Pennsylvania Dutch have strange, slight cruel streak, especially toward children. (Anybody who has lived in mortal terror of the Belschnickel knows what I refer to.)

They don't. And I'm pretty sure Port Deposit is Delmarva now. PECO trucks wouldn't even be there unless it was someone commuting. The dam has been officially owned by Exelon for a while. Although both Delmarva and PECO are owned by Exelon. As is BGE. And Constellation who operates Muddy Run. Conowingo Dam was completed in 1928. So yeah, years ago. Just a few.

Downstream flooding does occur at times, the last bad one was the kid 90s. And Exelon really needs to dredge behind the dam. That has been a long running fight. But that is more about pollution in the Chesapeake Bay than flood risk. And honestly, Port Deposit shouldn't be more than a marina and freight track. It barely is more than that. It made sense to build there over 100 years ago just like a lot of flood plains. But it doesn't make sense now.

I don’t know what to say

I think the official language of over half the state is “ Hillbilly “.

>you wouldn't need to build the destructive supplemental power supplies in the first place.

Yes you would, just less of them. A major manufacturing plant isn't going to be able to fully supply it's power with just solar on its roof tops. It would need a massive solar farm plus a lot of battery storage. You might be able to supply, and even oversupply, your house most of the year. And when you are generating more than you need you can help supply your neighbors. But you aren't going to be able move that excess generation very far. Like anything, distance causes losses. That is why we have giant transformers on one end to transmit electricity at high voltage and low current, then switch it back to low voltages and higher current for actual use.

I'm not saying this plan is good, but I wanted to add some perspective. So there is an 850 MW solar farm in China. It's one of the largest in the world. It covers 8.9 square miles. One tenth the land usage. The reservoir would be 0.9 square miles. An average on shore wind turbine produces about 2.75 MW so you'd need about 310 of them. That works out to 20-40 square miles. Of course in the case of wind you can use that land for other things, which is good. But York County isn't exactly great place to build wind turbines. I'm not even going to bother to do math on geothermal.

I'm just talking about land usage so far. You also have to consider how you will transmit and distribute that power. You need substations to increase voltage and lower current. You need more lines whether underground or on poles. Distributed generation like on-site solar or small wind turbines with battery banks can work great for lower loads in densely populated areas like homes in cities. It is definitely something we should be doing a whole lot more of. But managing a grid is just insanely complex.

To be fair, liberals believe a lot of hoaxes and conspiracy theories too

I really can't beleive people think that's a body double. It's clearly just a lizard person that didn't properly adjust their meat suit.

It's not a black and white issue, I agree. But vegan extremists, like most of /r/vegan, can't admit that. A video of a guy eating eggs from chickens he's met, know are family pets, and see are well cared for? BURN THE WITCH.

Okay, now I am sure you have met goats. Because only someone who has had a fair amount of experience and loves them would use "ornery." "Yeah, Beezlegoat was a bit excitable yesterday, but he only crotch shotted me with a hoof once and left two new bruises."

You're kidding, right?

Probably natural gas, at least initially. There may have been secondary dust explosions. To have that big of a dust explosion is unlikely because a very large amount of the building would have to be filled with a lot suspended dust. I know flammable dust explosions can be huge, but there were workers in those spaces so there would have to be significant control methods even if they weren't following safety rules. They probably wouldn't be able to work if there was that flour and or sugar dust in the air.

Who is attacking drag queens?

Assholes can’t help ruining good things.