In many of those areas, there isn't any other real industry.

And this is the crux of the issue people have with tourist towns as well. Tourism as an industry drives up CoL through inflated property values and increased prices for basic essentials but is a low wage industry.

An economy needs money to flow, but you need more than a low wage industry for a healthy area. Otherwise, you've basically just reinvented serfdom with a different product.

Citation needed.

Seasonal work pushes out other forms of employment. In my hometown, 50% of businesses are closed for 6 to 9 months of the year and basic necessities are overpriced by a major factor because of the tourists. You can literally drive over the bridges into the area and the price of gas drops 30 cents a gallon. It's called the Bridge Tax. Half of the housing or more is summer homes that are vacant most of the year when they aren't being rented out as short-term rentals like the 70% of all rental property. Rates of addiction and homelessness in the surrounding area are the highest in the state, and this is in a state where the capital city has a street literally called Methadone Mile. Outside of the tourist season there just isn't really anything to do except drink, and the infrastructure isn't built for the number of people during the tourist season, which makes it difficult for locals to do anything without dealing with major traffic. The tourists are also a major source of party drugs in the area. There are two major industries in the area: retirement homes and the service industry. So unless you're a nurse or similar profession, or are content to work mostly seasonal jobs at near minimum wage, there is little opportunity. There just isn't enough real estate for other businesses, and the real estate is largely too expensive anyway compared to locations a few hours away. It works out well for the migrant workers who come to work the service industry during the tourist season, but that just makes it even harder for locals to find a job. The locals have a saying: "Too poor to move, can't afford to stay."

And roof installations for panels are expensive to put in and take out, and need to be taken out to replace roof shingles/tiles under them.

This tech might end up being the best of both worlds for roof panels because they have the potential to remove the frame from the equation.

Instructions unclear, bulldozed public spaces to build a parking lot with a solar roof over it.

Will try again with nearby farmland.

Snow and ice are not conducive to wearing a head piece with similar sightlines as a medieval jousting helmet.

Even before renewables/green energy, we've had problems with surplus power in the grid. It's actually one of the biggest issues for infrastructure to solve in moving away from fossil fuels. We simply don't have the storage capacity, and nobody has any real plan or path toward a solution as of yet, as far as I know.

For probably a century or so now, power companies have been paying manufacturing industries to run their heaviest equipment with nothing in them just to bleed extra power out of the grids during lows in demand because power stations can't change their outputs fast enough, especially things like nuclear energy. Even stuff like coal or natural gas plants have a spool up or down time that can't keep pace with the changes in demand.

Who do you think it is that voted for unrestrained capitalism and has been its most ardent crusaders for 50+ years?

I have always said, if I were elected President, my first act would be to eliminate the draft and institute mandatory retail service of 2 years for everyone - especially those above a certain age and who make above a certain annual salary.

It would either force people to learn empathy and make the world a better place, or it would destroy the country. And I don't care which.

Part of the issue for industry in the US as well is that we also generally lack a lot of important manufacturing resources. We get something like 65% of our aluminum from Canada. When the tariffs were first going into effect and Trump was throwing a tantrum about Canada, the auto industry declared that they would be shutting down factories within a couple of months if the tariffs went into effect because they wouldn't be able to afford the aluminum to continue production in the country.

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The argument that these models learn in a way that's similar to how humans do is absolutely false, and the idea that they discard their training data and produce new content is demonstrably incorrect. These models can and do regurgitate their training data, including copyrighted characters.

And these things don't learn styles, techniques, or concepts. They effectively learn statistical averages and patterns and collage them together. I've gotten to the point where I can guess what model of image generator was used based on the same repeated mistakes that they make every time. Take a look at any generated image, and you won't be able to identify where a light source is because the shadows come from all different directions. These things don't understand the concept of a shadow or lighting, they just know that statistically lighter pixels are followed by darker pixels of the same hue and that some places have collections of lighter pixels. I recently heard about an ai that scientists had trained to identify pictures of wolves that was working with incredible accuracy. When they went in to figure out how it was identifying wolves from dogs like huskies so well, they found that it wasn't even looking at the wolves at all. 100% of the images of wolves in its training data had snowy backgrounds, so it was simply searching for concentrations of white pixels (and therefore snow) in the image to determine whether or not a picture was of wolves or not.

I saw some context for this, and the short of it is that headline writers want you to hate click on articles.

What the article is actually about is that there's tons of solar panels now but not enough infrastructure to effectively limit/store/use the power at peak production, and the extra energy in the grid can cause damage. Damage to the extent of people being without power for months.

California had a tax incentive program for solar panels, but not batteries, and because batteries are expensive, they're in a situation now where so many people put panels on their houses but no batteries to store excess power that they can't store the power when it surpasses demand, so the state is literally paying companies to run their industrial stoves and stuff just to burn off the excess power to keep the grid from being destroyed.