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Now short for in massive quantity. There isn't that much food in stores. Even less when the trucks stop coming. Most power is generated on demand, the moment people stop showing up to work at the generation site and load balancing site it turns off.
No, “in mass” means you’re physically located in Massachusetts. “En masse” means massive quantity, that’s the point of their post, that’s the expression, its loaner words from French; you’ve never heard anyone say “in mass” in this context in your life, you have been hearing “en masse” incorrectly because your education system failed you.
Goodness, a person makes one error and now the entire education system is in shambles.
these are fucking hilarious, im hoping everyone Is being tongue in cheek.
I think you mean “tung en cheeke”
Don't let them convince you it's an error, language is descriptive and "mass" to describe a group of people is a common English definition. They are just being pedants.
I agree, I'm kinda used to it now. People on Lemmy can be very delicate and beautiful flowers. Literally the smallest disturbance from their desire and they can go on a cursing tirade. If one didn't know any better one might think the sky was falling. You should see some of the comment chains I've been through in my short time here. Although two of those people seemed truly disturbed.
So your solution is to cause a famine and leave people without power during a heatwave?
Wouldn't it be better to attack things like shareholder value instead of supply chains?
After overthrowing the billionaire caste, we'll still need those supply chains. You know that, right?
More so to turn off the switch for a day or two, that would most likely be all that is needed.
Until very recently, all power was generated on demand. The amount of power generated and the amount of power consumed had to be exactly equal at all times.
Though now we do have battery farms and other forms of grid-level storage in some places to help balance the variability of renewable sources.
Its interesting being in other countries and you can watch the load / supply change with a standing fan. Speeds up, slows down, lol goes out.