Handling a human powder keg all the time is exhausting and extremely anxiety inducing. Your ex’s and friends might love you just as much as you love them, but a relationship built on eggshells and arguments will never be healthy for either of you or last long term.

Embrace < you are here

Extend

Extinguish

No, they usually are just LED’s these days.

Yes, but car, home (or renters), and health insurance are required for the average person because all of those have a reasonable chance of absolutely bankrupting a regular person for life at any moment.

The alternative is to pay more taxes and have the government provide the insurance, which may or may not be better. There are pros and cons to both.

Either way though, you need the safety net that insurance provides.

It’s still a terrible investment in the US if you are looking at it purely from a monetary perspective.

When I was looking at it, break even is usually just shy of 10 years, so let’s call it that for easy math. You install a $20k solar system, and you end up making about $30k over a 25 year life span, assuming you never have any major issues and never move out of your house.

In contrast, you could dump that 20k into the stock market. With an average return of about 7-8% (the historical rate of the s&p500) you’d walk away with about $110-140k.

There’s noble environmental reasons to do it, but financially it’s just not a great return right now.

Edited to clarify: You’d also need to be paying for electric in the second example, so minus 50k over these 25 years. You’re still up about double to triple over the solar panels.

I’m not educated in this matter at all, this is just a guess with no basis.

A “cloud chamber” is a device used to detect radiation, and it has been that for a long time. Perhaps they wanted to distance themselves from that device, hence the strained acronym CLOUD.

Hey, number of standard cheeseburgers would still be an effective standard. All we want is one common unit.

It’s really not that much weirder than horsepower for engines.

To be fair, this one is true… Its just that they are also designed to protect you from stray microwaves lol