Fun video about the "TV pickup" in the UK power grid. When a popular TV show ends, a million or two people walk into the kitchen and put a ~3 kW kettle on for tea. That ~3 GW load spike comes online within a minute or two, and ~3 GW of generation must come online just as quickly to match.

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I think at this point JD coming out saying "yeah I fuck couches" would actually be a net positive for him.

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Rather hysterical seeing a Stephanie Bice ad in which she never mentions she's a Republican, never mentions Donald Trump, and says she's going to finally end inflation.

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Also, you use a negative sign in front of the longitude to indicate the Western Hemisphere. Having the "-" and the "W" is redundant. They would lose points for that on an exam.

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Maybe this only bothers me, but there's a sign in the store with the latitude and longitude, and it's off by 7.5 miles! With 2 decimal places, they should have gotten to within 0.34 miles of the actual location. You had one job!

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