Samskara, samskara@sh.itjust.works

Exactly. This would result in a partial blackout, if there’s no other provider increasing their production.

In a real world electricity grid, there are always some fluctuations, load balancing, and also redundant generators, that turn on on demand.

You also can’t just turn most types of powerplants on and off easily or quickly.

Demand for electricity also isn’t constant. Some industries will select the time they use the most electricity according to price and supply.

Prime example: water pumped storage. When there’s superfluous electricity it pumps water uphill, if there’s more demand, it generates electricity.

So when the price is very high, the demand will drop, except the inelastic demand. So if this guy pushes up the price and demand falls, he might not make more money overall.

You can easily observe this in the real world as well. If things get too expensive, people change what they buy. Chocolates with Easter design was really expensive this year in Germany, demand fell immensely. The supermarkets are still full with it a huge discounts.

Simple economic models assume perfect information on all sides and rational decision making by all market participants.

However you should have also talked about how price is set in monopolies, duopolies, oligopolies, and barriers to enter a market.

Of course economists know things are more complicated than is taught in an introductory course.

Would you expect to learn quantum physics or general relativity in a physics 101 class?

Lemmy is a tankie bar.

Literal ZOG-posting

The Zaptistas have their ideological base not purely in western anarchism and Marxism. Liberation theology and catholic religion plays a big role in practice. They also emphasize a mystical connection to the land (people of maize), so their ideology is adjacent to blood & soil nationalism in some ways. They also leverage lots of traditional power structures like family clans, tribal loyalties, and such.

They have been successful in a way as they are still around and actually have local government structures in place that seem to work. However the EZLN hasn’t succeeded in providing stability and security to the region. Economically it’s still one of poorest regions in Mexico.

The limited success of the Zapatistas is more a sign of the weakness and failures of the central government of Mexico. They have managed to build a somewhat functioning local government and militia providing security in a remote poor rural area.

Similarly to the Machnov anarchists in Ukraine, Catalan anarcho-syndicalists, they leverage ethnic nationalism for cohesion.

What the Zapatistas have achieved is admirable, but their model doesn’t transfer to highly developed multi ethnic multi cultural highly urbanized countries with disintegrating social bonds.

Western contemporary anarchists are mostly fringe and usually not well connected with traditional structures like family, ethnicity, nation, religion.

Linux users hating on systemd, wayland, emacs, bash, etc. is part of the culture.

The hate some have for Ubuntu and Omarchy is ridiculous. These are some of the best user experience focused distros out there.

Meanwhile Fedora‘s (Red Hat) dominance is never even questioned.

Also you should use OpenSuse, it’s the best distro out there.

Men don’t get enough compliments and often worry about the adequacy of their penises.

If you want make a man happy, compliment their penis.

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Please continue using using the thorn.

Not a vegan vehicle.

Teenagers having sex is legal, sharing pictures of it is not.

That’s how Fins ensure appropriate social distancing. The only place Fins come together closer than an arms length is in the sauna.

I’m getting a chameleon as a pet.

This is a mastodon post.

Or buy ad space to play a short song.

Common sense is the one all the way in the back in the picture.

Because it feeds into people‘s antisemitic ZOG conspiracy theories.

There is zero proof for this conspiracy theory.

Also to launch big spy satellites into orbit.

The main disadvantage octopi have is their antisocial behavior. The parents don’t raise and teach their young. They live in solitude. The only time they spent time together is for mating, after which they die.

Octopuses that can talk to each other, hunt in groups, and raise their young collectively would be pretty formidable. Even if they managed to get there, they would still be living underwater making the use of fire pretty difficult.

Children of Ruin is a great book that describes a civilization of octopus, if you want to explore this a bit.