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I wonder what the range would be like with a 9.6kW Harbor Freight generator strapped into the bed plugged into the truck's power inlet. They probably have some safety check to prevent this, and I get that this negates the whole zero emissions, safety issues, blah blah, but I am curious. I would love to have this as a daily driver, but then have something to augment it for the long haul. It is why I liked the Chevy Volt concept, but all hackiness set aside, this is more modular since you have a bed and aren't tied to any specific generator in the bed, or a generator at all for that matter.

I noticed this as well. At first glance, having not read the article at that point yet, I thought it was some AI generated car with distortion knowing typical HN articles. After reading the extensively long article, I realized it was likely distorted maybe out of an abundance of caution against potential identification from modern law enforcement tech? Given the highly illegal nature of the sport/challenge, and the likelihood of the characters of the article to reuse their vehicles for such activities, this was the best explanation that came to my mind.

Right, it seems like a ploy to expand the author's SEO footprint. I wasn't lost to the author/OP's comments being a part of the hustle. Given the content of the article, the ploy could almost be called something like "meta-hustle".

After reading this article, my mind simplified the findings as: organizations that have more money get more press than those that have less. Seems pretty obvious when framed in this manner.

I understand the desire to trace one's family history, find/treat diseases, discover murderers, etc. However, any time I read about these types of personal information breach events (DNA and genealogy could arguably be the most personal info of all) I so badly wish we didn't have this tech to begin with and how much present day sucks compared to the past as a direct result of these personal data mining tech companies (thinking social media, surveillance as well). I also wish the general population thought more clearly about the long term consequences of their information being in the hands of others before they so naively and/or willingly divulge it. Worse yet, we often don't have the choice. Nightmare scenarios where some could wield such information to do harm are not too difficult to think up, and if we are really being honest with ourselves, are occurring present day. Personal information data playgrounds like Facebook become precision tools for deception and oppression at best, genocide at the worst (thinking Myanmar). Not to single out Facebook, imagine what a psychopathic genocidal leader could do with 23andme data. With the rampant data collection, the human population has never faced this scale and breadth of societal threat before and we are indirectly feeling the consequences of it in our lives daily. I wish we could go back.

I personally believe that forests provide a net positive in terms of CO2 scrubbing regardless of decay/decomposition. The only evidence I'd offer is a time lapsed NASA video[0] showing CO2 emissions heatmap over time. The areas like the Amazon clear up the CO2 on a daily and seasonal basis. The areas where forests are impossible like the Arctic, it does not. The sun drives the cyclical "heartbeat" effect you see from day to day on the video, where plants using photosynthesis in the day (and macroscopically, the summer) effects the intensity of scrubbing moreso.

Also, maybe it is my mind's desire to simplify of all of it, but it was eye opening for me, and seemed obvious upon seeing that video, that forests were the key player in air management globally, and industrialized nations were the main drivers behind CO2 production in the air globally.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SgmFa0r04

Weirdly he mentions...

The author is female.

I thought this was already known. I remember watching a show a few years back on Neanderthals that mentioned they used a form of glue. For context, if anyone else might recall this show, a researcher attempted to recreate the "spearhead" they found and determined it was more sophisticated than previously thought. They also had shared results of DNA sequencing which found a 98%+ similarity to homo sapiens. Unfortunately, I don't remember where I saw it, or what it was called.

I believe the show "One Strange Rock" on Netflix mentioned this.

It seems kind of silly that the stock prices dropped for online sellers that already collect state sales tax. Is this a knee-jerk reaction or is there more to this ruling that would be cause for this?

You aren't the only one. I thought the same thing while reading this and felt the mechanics behind the atoms' movement was easy to understand and explain in what the article seems to suggest is difficult to explain. Perhaps either the bucket example was a bad one, not explained correctly as to what was difficult to understand, or Newton didn't understand certain aspects of the physics of atoms at the time. I'm not a physics or history expert, but it seems like a failure of the article to make the problem clear, not you.

Positions of power attract the power hungry. Positions of authority attract authoritarians. I think any sane citizen of any country would love to have top-level government positions such as these have decisions relegated directly to the citizens instead. There is no reason why, with our technology now, we couldnt facilitate direct-democracy for such critical positions that control the outcome of decisions that affect society.