cogitase

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[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I think most didn’t vote because they are apathetic, ill-informed morons with the attention span of a gnat. They don’t understand inflation, tariffs, deflation, international relations, trade, renewable energy, oil production, gas prices, vaccines, healthcare, or much of anything else. They also don’t care to learn about how anything works. It’s not like the last chapter of the history book on the United States is going to blame the pro-democracy candidate for not doing enough to appeal to a public that was too lazy to continue living in a democracy. They have access to more educational resources than any humans in history and they just ignore it.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

I feel like he should attempt to order that to see if anyone is willing to carry it out, for no other reason than to see if they're willing to do the same when Trump orders it.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Lumber is the main reason I miss my small 90s truck. Lumber delivery is $75 to $100 depending on which place you order from. That’s fine for big jobs but I often just need a few boards or a sheet of plywood. Places like Lowe’s have truck rentals but then you have to make two trips back and forth. If I do place a delivery order I have to buy lumber for multiple projects and buy in excess of what I need just to be sure I’ll have enough.

I also don’t have trash pickup here and loading trash into a truck bed is much nicer than putting it into the trunk with potential smell and leakage issues.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

Federal Reserve Economic Data shows debt:GDP holding at 120% since spiking during the pandemic.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

They should trade China all the cigars and rum they want for enough cheap solar and batteries to power the island.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 173 points 4 weeks ago (14 children)

Have you checked your sacrificial anode? If it’s gone, this will keep happening.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's for the Korean market. It'll get you from Seoul to the east coast on a single charge and there's high-speed rail just about everywhere for your longer journeys. Perfectly fine for most people in such a small, densely-populated country.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you have solar paired with proton exchange membrane electrolysis, you can generate hydrogen very economically. PEM electrolyzers are already around 80% efficient but supply is limited right now. Hydrogen is a pain to store, but if you feed that hydrogen into the Haber-Bosch process you can very efficiently produce ammonia. Ammonia fuel cells are very promising if you're looking to decarbonize container shipping.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

They had a number of 0.5% or greater increases in 2022, two drops going into the pandemic, etc.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can buy a kit car, but those are mostly targeted at people who want to build an affordable sports car.

https://gearjunkie.com/motors/best-kit-cars

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 months ago (18 children)

I'd love to be able to "seed" the fediverse through p2p hosting of some sort. I'd set aside 1 TB of storage and 20 MB/s for that.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Their accident rate continues to decrease and things like quorum sensing and platooning are going to push them to be better than humans. You're never going to have a perfect system that never has accidents, but if you're substantially better than humans in accidents per mile driven and you're dramatically improving throughput and reducing traffic through V2X, it's going to make sense to fully transition.

I imagine some east Asian countries will be the first to transition and then the rest of the world will begrudgingly accept it once the advantages become clear and the traditional car driving zealots die off.

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