That's basically just an array of panels, an inverter, and a battery... Anyone can design that in 5 minutes. This seems like the kind of thing I would have posted as a very smug small child and would have stress nightmares about randomly.

Turning poor social skills into a self-aggrandizing brag.

I also don't want to hear about the poodle, but I have an amazing ability to moderate my own preferences to encompass the needs of others.

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Truly intelligent people are curious. Curious minds understand that nothing is simple, and that something as seemingly mundane as a poodle is actually a series of complex systems and biological history spanning billions of years.

Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment. It is man’s social being that determines his thinking. Once the correct ideas characteristic of the advanced class are grasped by the masses, these ideas turn into a material force which changes society and changes the world. In their social practice, men engage in various kinds of struggle and gain rich experience, both from their successes and from their failures. Countless phenomena of the objective external world are reflected in a man’s brain through his five sense organs — the organs of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. At first, knowledge is perceptual. The leap to conceptual knowledge, i.e., to ideas, occurs when sufficient perceptual knowledge is accumulated. This is one process in cognition. It is the first stage in the whole process of cognition, the stage leading from objective matter to subjective consciousness from existence to ideas. Whether or not one’s consciousness or ideas (including theories, policies, plans or measures) do correctly reflect the laws of the objective external world is not yet proved at this stage, in which it is not yet possible to ascertain whether they are correct or not. Then comes the second stage in the process of cognition, the stage leading from consciousness back to matter, from ideas back to existence, in which the knowledge gained in the first stage is applied in social practice to ascertain whether the theories, policies, plans or measures meet with the anticipated success. Generally speaking, those that succeed are correct and those that fail are incorrect, and this is especially true of man’s struggle with nature. In social struggle, the forces representing the advanced class sometimes suffer defeat not because their ideas are incorrect ! but because, in the balance of forces engaged in struggle, they are not as powerful for the time being as the forces of reaction; they are therefore temporarily defeated, but they are bound to triumph sooner or later. Man’s knowledge makes another leap through the test of practice. This leap is more important than the previous one. For it is this leap alone that can prove the correctness or incorrectness of the first leap in cognition, i.e., of the ideas, theories, policies, plans or measures formulated in the course of reflecting the objective external world. There is no other way of testing truth. Furthermore, the one and only purpose of the proletariat in knowing the world is to change it. Often, correct knowledge can be arrived at only after many repetitions of the process leading from matter to consciousness and then back to matter, that is, leading from practice to knowledge and then back to practice. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge, the dialectical materialist theory of knowledge. Among our comrades there are many who do not yet understand this theory of knowledge. When asked the sources of their ideas, opinions, policies, methods, plans and conclusions, eloquent speeches and long articles they consider the questions strange and cannot answer it. Nor do they comprehend that matter, can be transformed into consciousness and consciousness into matter, although such leaps are phenomena of everyday life.

Cool solar generator ahmed, want to bring it to the whitehouse?

I am ultra smart, this makes up for me being an asshole, also schools are bad and you shouldn't listen to scientists if they say socialism is good because that's outside their field, but you should listen to me who is neither a scientist nor a politician.

When you can design a poodle in your head in 5 minutes, it's boring af to have to small talk about the neighbor's solar power generator.

• Steal a fresnel lens from a lighthouse and set it on a tripod
• Rig up a big suspended rock underneath so that the sunrays are focused into it
• Big rock becomes spicy hot
• Put bucket of water under big spicy rock
• Connect a pipe from bucket to a turbine
• Make a grand speech to a crowd about how you have "mastered the divine energies of the heavens" and, with a dramatic flourish, ("Behold!") pull a rope that releases the big spicy rock
• Big spicy rock falls into bucket and creates steam - have a minion quickly throw a lid on the bucket, probably scalding themselves in the process
• Marvel as the steam turns the turbine and powers a small, dim lightbulb for about 5 seconds
• Sell your wisdom to the excited and awed crowd in the form of your snake oil exclusive guide "Harnessing the Heavenly Heat of Helios" for $200 a pop

I mean, when I was 8 I conceived of a flashlight that you could use a hand-crank with to power (and later finding out that they existed) and yet I would still want to hear about the neighbor's dog because dogs are neat

okay but for real i have a rule that when you are visiting someone and they start showing you tricks their pet can do its time to leave

Animals are interesting though

Grug use sun to boil river juice.

least idealist liberal