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by fwungy 3y ago
Fox News just banned itself by getting rid of Carlson. He was their most popular host by far, and the rest of their popular evening lineup depended on his lead in. They're going to cellar to CNN.
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by fwungy 3y ago
The original phrase was coined by the World Economic Forum. What the critics leave out is that the WEF was saying that people would be happier not owning anything. >You will own nothing and you will be happy. Alternatively it could have
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by fwungy 3y ago
Without knowing the VMT of driverless vehicles it's impossible to compare their safety to drivered vehicles.
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The first 80% of AI tasks will be easy enough. The next 20% will be increasingly difficult with the last 1% virtually impossible. Same with driverless cars.
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by fwungy 3y ago
So you have all the heat pumps going on full blast on the coldest days, all together. It's a huge spike in energy demand. As long as the grid can deliver it fine, but when it doesn't the potential is catastrophic. Natural gas heat
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by fwungy 3y ago
Global South, i.e. BRICS+, sells and consumes huge amounts of oil. Russia has proven mineral reserves of $75T, most in the world by a fat margin. If they stop selling their oil they're done, and so are China, India, Japan, and parts of
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by fwungy 3y ago
Germany thought they'd have cheap Russian gas from Nordstream. Now they're looking to move manufacturing to the US because energy is too expensive. Look at it this way, even is CO2 levels are primarily anthropogenic, most of the w
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by fwungy 3y ago
Yes, but at that point it's like running an AC during a hot Summer day. The compressor will be working very hard to keep up with -20. Our leaders have lost their minds pursuing green purity. It's a religion at this point.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Washington is unique in its hydropower positioning. It's easy to electrify in Washington because it makes sense to do so. Hydropower is cheap and clean. Unfortunately it's not a replicable model for the rest of the country.
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by fwungy 3y ago
A chemical is a compound that has been purposefully refined or purified. A chemical fire is far more complex and potentially dangerous than a normal fire. Gasoline is a chemical, however we have a lot of experience dealing with gasoline dri
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by fwungy 3y ago
When a lithium-ion battery catches fire, it can be very hard to extinguish and can burn very fiercely³. If a battery is going to catch fire, the likely cause is thermal runaway¹. This is when a battery experiences an increase in temperature
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by fwungy 4y ago
They're being forced to do it. The natural market for EVs is a maximum of 20%. The cost/benefit is only positive for certain use cases. Ford can't sell its Lightning F150 EVs. They just had a fire on one of the holding lots t
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by fwungy 4y ago
SF is Rube Goldberg device of juice boxes feeding juice boxes. Works great until the Feds can't print juice.
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by fwungy 4y ago
It's actually the impact of the paper that matters, how many cites it gets.
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by fwungy 4y ago
How about an article on the unequal impacts of prison, suicide, and homelessness?
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by fwungy 4y ago
Historically once people recognize the media is not trustworthy they discount it. You see this in the former USSR countries. People don't take the media seriously like they do in the west.
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by fwungy 4y ago
The Century of Self is a BBC documentary about Bernays and his propaganda models. It's quite good and available on yt.
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by fwungy 4y ago
I hired a small business web consultant. His big advice was to build content with the intent of getting email addresses. The email address is the gateway to the real sales avenue. Everyone uses this pattern. You see it everywhere.
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by fwungy 4y ago
We are likely in the incremental phase of battery innovation. You've got to balance so many factors to commercially release a battery: safety, durability, reliability, weight, energy density, cost. You can build cheap batteries, they
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by fwungy 4y ago
>no mention of cost Means expensive chemistry. >targeting aircraft first Means expensive chemistry >no mention of durability If they were highly durable this would be an important feature so they're likely not. Sounds like the
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by fwungy 4y ago
It's funny how the USA feels like it has to get militarily involved to guarantee something that the producers are willing and happy to sell. Even moreso when you understand that the USA has plenty of oil itself available. It's alm
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by fwungy 4y ago
Average diversion for gasoline is a quarter mile. Siting a gasoline station is highly strategic. They know exactly where to put them and how much to charge on the real estate and vendor sides.
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by fwungy 4y ago
If Russia doesn't back its insurance it loses credibility around the world. Russia is a major player in the oil world. It has the relationships and experience to manage this.
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They have the resources to make their own insurance company.
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Does it make logical sense to abuse and weaken your own property? If they were too harsh with slaves they'd spend a lot more time and energy managing their behavior. Even in prison privileges are given so they can be taken away. Slave
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by fwungy 4y ago
The fact that they founded a nation that has last as long and successfully as the USA is extremely impressive, in the same way Apple is impressive even though Steve Jobs was not a perfect person, except the USA is orders of magnitude more i
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by fwungy 4y ago
https://patents.justia.com/search?q=weather+modification
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by fwungy 4y ago
The atmosphere is enclosed. You can't change the weather, but you can move things around. Europe had an unusually warm Winter. The US had an unusually cold one. It was just amazing timing for the Ukranian war effort. With a normal Euro
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by fwungy 4y ago
Except the ones that are done under high secrecy for national security purposes. Weather is a huge factor in warfare and the economy. If it could be manipulated to put an enemy in a bad position that would be a powerful weapon indeed, best
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by fwungy 4y ago
Russia has $75T in known resource reserves. The US is second at $45T. Do you really think Russia can't afford to insure oil tankers if the West refuses to do it?

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