AngryData

I think the problem is more that non disposable vapes are illegal and unavailable to most people.

And it is the citizen's freedom to say they don't want it, the same as pig farms and oil refineries trying to build next door to them.

Labor is a fraction of the cost of trade work. The highest expensive is in most cases the bulk construction materials, next is the cost of management and bureaucracy. The excuses of labor costing more here is just that, an excuse, most often used by large corporations to try and excuse them offshoring everything and hollowed out the organization for short term gains.

The only shortage is in pay. I and many other people left trades becauses wages were crap for jobs that take 20 years of your life away. Despite the memes about trades, the majority of trade workers are not making bank unless they have an unusual specialty and a union. 1 plumber in Manhatten doing making bank doesn't make the plumbers all across the rest of the nation wealthy.

And then 10 years later we start having to pay for the downstream medical effects of doping up soldiers. Hegseth is such an idiot and cares more about looking tough than having an effective military.

Elon talks a lot of crap about topics he has barely a cursory knowledge of so I wouldn't take anything he says at value except for how to manipulate large financials and tax burdens.

But I don't know anybody that uses iPads? To me it clearly out sold the market it is actually useful for.

Im not sure if the internet made anyone dumber. It is just early on the average idiot self selected out of internet usage and there wasn't as much corporate or advertising money it to be worth manipulating.

AI im not sure of because it generates so much slop and anyone not already deep into a topic or field are unlikely to be able to recognize what parts are useful and what parts are common misconceptions or hallucinations.

Search engines are certainly worse tho, the first 20 hits on certain topics these days are AI articles that lack the needed details in favor of verbose generalizations or have questionable figures that other slop makes difficult to verify.

Assuming you could only delay it a few years, that's still a few years more than many other people would have.

I myself doubt AI is quite as good in the real world robotics as it is in coding though, and collective worker action could instead give them a few decades or until broader economic changes allows them to leave that job without being hurt financially.

If efficiency is important, like if you are using wood for primary heat, you should at a minimum be using a sealed box stove which should be pretty efficient and have little to no smoke escaping.

Alternatly you could just use an outdoor stove that merely heat exchanges to the inside.

Well also building cheaper makes converting such structures to other uses more costly too. You can't simply start notching steel and adding more features and beams without a complicated engineering review because those beam were so carefully designed as to just barely hold up under their original plan.

You can't simply add a second story to a mall or walmart or modern school, none of its main structural pillars or beams could hold it. But with an overbuilt structure from 500+ years ago you likely could add another floor or two with minimal improvements to the base structure.

Yeah I really don't get the praise for it. I doubt ill ever have the desire to watch it again.

Farming subsidies are the only way to prevent famine, the granary system sort of works, but regularly resulted in shortages and famines throughout every empire in history. Even not accounting for longer term climate trends, yield due to weather can vary up to 30% in a year, so it only makes sense to pay for a bit of over production so in the event of a couple bad years your food output is merely break even, and not 70% of needs.

Its better to pay 5 cents more for a loaf now than pay $20 a loaf with rationing later, or if we went back to granary system possibly getting moldy food.

Is it that they can't work, or that they are too expensive for Russia to field any appreciable amount that won't just make them valuable targets? Its not trivial to produce the hundreds of thousands of rounds you need for each one to be ready.

Motion blur bothers me so much. Much more using a monitor with the backlight frame strobe.

Depending on tha game you could easily hit 70 gigs on a game today, some over 100. Usually high graphic AAA games. Less HD texture games can still be quite small though.

It has been pretty bad here in Michigan. Like a heavy smelly fog all day and night. Thick enough to look directly at the sun even. Going outside and not knowing about it would make you think someone was burning a dozen brush heaps next door.

Using CO2 and not nitrogen is cruel as hell. Screw that guy, and I say this as someone who has raised my own beef since I was a kid and hunted my whole life.

Nitrogen is dirt cheap, this guy is sqwabbling over saving literal pennies in exchange for the torturous death of an intellegent animal.

If you dropped a nickel this guy is wondering if he could club you to death and steal it while you bent over and get away with it.

There is certainly not a rich place, it is dirt poor. Which is why the people make easy targets, they don't have money to throw around for lawyers.

It is an intriguing idea but that is still one hell of a coolant loop with a hell of a lot of mass continously lofted through the atmosphere and subject to weather patterns. A wire I could see doing it but lofting a pair of tubes to transfer a significant volume of fluids seems not far off space-elevator level material science to me.

Yeah, nuclear is a known solution to all our energy problems which is why I advocate for it.

Solar and wind are great but there is still no existing setup to provide a stable and reliable nation level power grid. Nobody has the power storage solution.

Nuclear however has been proven to be capable of delivering any kind of power generation we need at any scale. Perhaps it isn't best solution, but there are no other completely solved solutions, just speculation that before long we will unlock far better battery or energy storage technologies before too long.

Probably more likely to get harassed in the country for it because the cops gotta fish harder for their extortion money/pay.

Ive been pulled over multiple times with brand new stock exhaust on a stock vehicle cruising at 55 because the body looked old and rusted and the cops were looking for any plausable excuse. With a real excuse they could throw tickets at you when they get frusterated with lack of other possible charges.

Got a source for that? Ive never heard of that in my life and ive worked on multiple dairy and beef farms.

That is really only true if you are milking animals. Crops don't care when you plant them or fertilize them or spray them. The closest thing you can get with crops is certain grains you want to sell at certain percentage levels which the sun helps bring down. But even that is 50% just so the mill doesn't rip farmers off.

After I migrated mine I still had to contact support and send a half dozen messages because I didn't verify my email after accepting the migration and the link expired.

GenAI for everyday life is to me like the segway. Yeah technically you can be moving faster with less effort, but those were rarely ever a real bottleneck in most cases to begin with.

AI as a tool for specific tasks is great, using AI for everything is like strapping yourself to a robot/exosuit and being puppeted around throughout the day.

The september is the tourist season. Eternal september is when tourist season completely overtakes the previous communities cultures and standards and style permanently, generally through exponential growth that exceeds the old guard's ability to impress the already established culture on newcomers.

Building closer to shore can bring other problems like a corrosive salt filled atmosphere and higher hurricane and flood dangers.

Im not saying it can't be done, but building near the ocean has its own set of drawbacks and costs.

Yeah, I hate this narrative that rural areas are 99% republican maga people. Often they win the vote by at best a few percentage points.

Like how the dnc is surprised when their overzealous and poorly thought out gun control measures are turned down by democratic voters. Of course they are, near 50% of rural areas are democrats and many own and use guns. They aren't going to just bandwagon along with poorly conceived legislation that restricts their actively used rights.

If they don't that is just a bonus because then they can hire an H1B and threaten them with deportation if they don't lick boot.