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PersnickityPenguin ,

Cocaine, ha! Such amateurs.

My city sells that much weight in fentanyl per week!

PersnickityPenguin ,

And what possible way has Ukraine lost this war?

Russia’s goal was to topple Ukrainian government and see his complete control over the entire country in 3 days.

Here we are, 3 years into the war and Russia has lost something like 14,000 vehicles, over half a million casualties, and what have they achieved exactly?

Besides turtle tank technology of course.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Tessa was in San francisco, not delaware. Delaware was only for incorporation and tax purposes.

PersnickityPenguin ,

I’ve read that all they’re doing is diluting the current shares, so in essence the current shareholders are screwing themselves over by devaluing their own shares.

Pretty dumb

PersnickityPenguin ,

There is currently a huge labor shortage in the united states, particularly for engineers and skilled craft and trades people. There’s no fucking way they would be able to hire 10,000, let alone 500,000 people. Hell, my company has had two engineering positions open for 2 years and we have had zero applicants. Zero!

Everybody just wants to be retired or be a social media influencer these days, with that amazing side hustle as a door dasher.

PersnickityPenguin ,

They have the premier charging network in the United States.

Unfortunately, nothing else comes close and probably won’t for a few years… Like 10 years at least. The US is probably a decade behind Europe’s electrification at this point, and about 75 years behind it’s rail electrification.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Some use the larger cells, but not all. They apparently are a bust and don’t offer increased energy density like they had originally claimed.

The lfp cells come from China, and are now being heavily taxed.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Kia, Hyundai, BMW, Porsche, Volvo, Mercedes, VW, Polestar, to name a few.

PersnickityPenguin ,

I’m sure there are more than 10 sedan models available in the united states, did you look at Mercedes and bmw? They should have a few models.

PersnickityPenguin ,

EV batteries are actually significantly different than the batteries in your laptop or phone, and are designed to have minimal degradation over many many years of use. The coolant loops also help to moderate the temperature between cells, which eliminates problems of hot spots and the heat stress that a phone battery will experience.

For instance, my car has over 300 battery cells in it, which results in say a 100 MI Drive will only use each cell draining by about 1/3. The much lower cyclic rate on these cells results in a much longer lifespan, and the battery conditioning using liquid coolant is how they achieve that.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Sodium ion batteries are actually currently in production, and are in production vehicles by catl and other companies. There is an American and European company also commercializing the technology.

They are offering roughly 3,000 charge-discharge cycles, which is on par with lfp.

Battery technology for electric vehicles is moving super fast right now.

electrek.co/…/volkswagen-backed-ev-maker-first-so…

PersnickityPenguin ,

That’s not true, Tesla has figured out manufacturing and does so profitably. Unlike any other American based car manufacturer, Tesla is making a profit per unit and they do not rely on legacy ice vehicle sales to prop their balance sheets up.

PersnickityPenguin ,

He must have been homeless his entire adult life.

I’m mid 40s and didn’t get a credit card until I was 25. And I couldn’t even pay for any utilities, rent or car payments with it. And still can’t. Online bill pay wasn’t a thing until like after the recession.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Yes, my wife and my employers both pay using checks as well as printed invoices after direct deposits.

My entire family uses checks to pay each other. I’m not going to Venmo my dad $15,000. And his back doesn’t let me transfer funds to him for since idiotic reason.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Man, I would never pay rent or a mortgage payment with a deposit. I did that once, and they claimed I didn’t pay several times, and I had no receipt. I had to pay my bank $20 to provide proof of deposit (several times) Fuck that. Also fuck US Bank.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Also, most all US small to mid sized business transactions are by check.

I’m not going to take a suitcase with over $10,000 to the city to pay a permit fee, or $50,000 Venmo to pay a business partner.

Unless you are in the marijuana industry, then you have to…

PersnickityPenguin ,

You can over $5000 in cash with you at all times???

PersnickityPenguin ,

I don’t know what to tell you, but I work in business in the US and work in invoicing in the construction industry.

Everything is done via paper, full stop.

Bank transfers do not generate invoices, full stop. Company to company payments are made using a PO or check. Nothing else, in my experience, are accepted.

These are for amounts of $1 to tens of millions of $$$.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Stuff? That isn’t very much money. Our monthly grocery bill alone is over $1,000. Plus rent. Plus car payments. Insurance. We’re already over $5,000 a month.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Of course they were annoying assholes, that’s why we watched it. They’re New Yorkers ffs.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Wait until they start sinking our Amazon boats

PersnickityPenguin ,

Hyperion? Dan Simmons?

All I remember were the Time Tombs

PersnickityPenguin ,

There are whales today who were alive when their family were killed by whalers in the 19th century.

Think about that. They know.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Is this related to the Pacific Northwest tree octopus?

PersnickityPenguin ,

Jumping spiders are so cute. I taught my 5 year old to call them “spider bros.”

He does not know what a bro is.

PersnickityPenguin ,

I had an ex girlfriend who used to tell me to smile more. I guess I was her trophy boyfriend

PersnickityPenguin ,

Man and my wife and I complain about sugar ants infesting our kitchen.

Yeesh…

PersnickityPenguin ,

Huh, I had a talk with our house spiders. I told them the bathroom and bedrooms were off limits.

So far, none have survived our bathroom encounters.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Amazon Azure cloud services

PersnickityPenguin ,

A couple of my criticisms with the article, which is about “autopilot” and not fsd:

-conflating autopilot and dad numbers, they are not interoperable systems. They are separate code bases with different functionality.

-the definition of “autopilot” seems to have been lifted from the aviation industry. The term is used to describe a system that controls the vector of a vehicle, is the speed and direction. That’s all. This does seem like a correct description for what the autopilot system does. While “FSD” does seem like it does not live up to expectations, not being a true level 5 driving system.

Merriam Webster defines autopilot thusly:

“A device for automatically steering ships, aircraft, and spacecraft also : the automatic control provided by such a device”

PersnickityPenguin , (edited )

Citation needed

Civilian infrastructure can in fact a valid target if it assist the military. Electricity generation is used to maintain many military systems, including telecommunications, logistics, lighting, radar systems, and all sorts of manufacturing capability that assists the military.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Power plants are valid military targets.

reuters.com/…/when-are-attacks-civilian-infrastru…

PersnickityPenguin ,

The geneva conventions and other treaties that established what we call the international conventions on warfare were not written by he UN, amd the UN has no jurisdiction on them. The geneva convention was held in 1864, about 80 years before the UN was formed.

The ICRC is the jurisdiction in “charge” of defining warcrimes.

In any case, warcrimes are contextual. Bombing a power plant in one instance may be a legitimate target in war, while in another case, where Russias goal was to cause civilians to freeze and suffer, may very well be. However, I am not a lawyer of the international criminal courts.

PersnickityPenguin ,

In war, everyone loses.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Bleach doesn’t penetrate, use vinegar instead.

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

PersnickityPenguin ,

The whole point of having a Roku tv, however is for it to be connected to the internet and it works between all of the apps and your phone.

We have a 10 year old Roku TV and it’s actually been pretty great that’s streaming.

France votes to ban ‘forever chemicals,’ exempting frying pans (www.politico.eu)

The French National Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted a bill aimed at restricting the manufacture and sale of products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — also known as PFAS or “forever chemicals.” The MPs, backed by the government, voted to exclude kitchen utensils from the scope of the text....

PersnickityPenguin ,

They have non-PFAS nonstick pans now. Ours are ceramic coated.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Moar butter

Add water and poach

PersnickityPenguin ,

Peanuts butter!!!

PersnickityPenguin , (edited )

Conflating Bellingcat with the CIA is a hilariously bad take.

“Last year marked the final year of project funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) that provided funding for Russian-language workshops at no cost to journalists and human rights researchers based in Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia and the Caucasus. We continued our project for the Swedish Postcode Lottery (SPL), which among others supported free trainings on ideological extremism for organisations in Europe.”

You seem to be misinformed. Also, provide proof that the NED is CIA, because that is quite a claim!

That is however a claim promulgated by the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist State:

The United States has long used democracy as a tool and a weapon to undermine democracy in the name of democracy, to incite division and confrontation, and to meddle in other countries’ internal affairs, causing catastrophic consequences.

Link: www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/…/t20220507_10683090.html

PersnickityPenguin ,

More accurately, this would be like if the United States conducted a drone strike on a Mexican taco stand in Tijuana.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Interesting. I married a Japanese woman, and when she registered me in Japan she changed my surname to hers, lol.

We don’t live there, though.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Lol, my Chevy bolt was debranded when I bought it.

PersnickityPenguin ,

All charging stations in the US will about the NACS connector, but it uses the CCS communication standard. They don’t pay musk royalties for them as it’s now a standard.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Fun fact, there are over 5 billion tons of naturally occurring uranium dissolved in the ocean.

Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. (lemmy.world)

Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can’t count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with...

PersnickityPenguin ,

Manuals?

Don’t you like logging into the same game 6 months later and the entire game mechanic and progression system have been changed???

PersnickityPenguin ,

That is why my wife and I chopped every grape in half before feeding it to our son.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Quiet and no IR signature. Run electronics for days or weeks without generating IR signatures.

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