SaltSong

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (24 children)

What he means is, if I buy an iPhone built in China, this tariff won't affect the price I pay.

But if I buy a phone built in America, with an imported processer, this tariff will make that phone more expensive.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 62 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Unlike the Left, we don’t believe in erasing American history — we honor it.”

Really? Because your guys spent the first few months of this year erasing as much history of women and minorities as you could get your hands on.

Oh and you guys are trying to erase about half the history of impeachment in the country.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

I'm an actual engineer with a degree and everything, although this is not my area of expertise, it's one I'm familiar with.

They could do something like you suggest, but every step becomes more expensive and less effective. The exhaust from a coal fired power plant is still plenty hot, and more energy could be extracted from it. But it requires more and more to make less and less.

The curse of every engineer is to see a way to them every waste stream into a useful product, but not being able to do so profitably. (Which means no-one will approve the project)

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everything does happen for a reason. In many cases, it happens because some evil prick has not been properly dealt with.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The difficulty is, to put it in very simple terms, is that physics doesn't allow that. The less simple explanation is a thermodynamics textbook, and trust me, you don't want that.

Everything generates heat. Everything. Everything. Anything that seems to generate "cold" is generating more heat somewhere else.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Note your use of the word "cool."

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (11 children)

A condenser will generate the same amount of heat that they are trying to dissipate.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

Remember, tortillas make every kind of meat better.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can't imagine you'd want to put your mouth on a pig or cow either, but properly butchered and prepared, they are quite palatable.

I imagine it's the same principle.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

One reason might be shipping. A car probably takes up the same space in a shipping container as four cars worth of steel.

I don't know where the break even point is. But it's likely to be more complex than you describe.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Sure they can write laws making it illegal to claim the king of Thailand is a doddering old fool anywhere in the world. Good for them.

They have no legal right to enforce it on me, though. If I visit their country, of course, I will be subject to their laws. But they can't apply it to me until then.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

They can write whatever they like, but in practical terms, they can only enforce their laws inside their borders.

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