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Captainant

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  1. Trump's anti-vaccine rhetoric turbo-charged the antivax movement, and we're now seeing the re-emergence of polio and measles. It's now political to be vaccinated or not. Trump made it political. I don't think he should be held criminally liable for COVID deaths (and maladministration is really hard to prosecute), but he shouldn't be fucking let off the hook as you're suggesting.
  2. BBC reporting on it too https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9ezp0lv039o The company says an "unapproved change" in the production of the pedal meant "lubricant" was used in its assembly, which means the pad did not stick properly to the pedal.
  3. Counterpoint: we know that trump KNEW covid was airborne and highly infectious in February 2020. He actively downplayed the danger and fueled a fucking litany of conspiracy theories with health consequences we are still dealing with today. Fauci and the rest of the pandemic response happened in spite of trump, and were frequently undercut by him
  4. But what if I showed you a chart with a line going up and called you a socialist?
  5. It's crazy that imma is comparable to an Applebee's waiter in your upside down mental model of the world. Good Lord dude lol
  6. This is the dream, he'll have decent power resiliency when ERCOT inevitably shits the bed again and leaves the state dark
  7. You literally just said you want things to"swing hard" the other way from Biden. You let me know the predominant theme among the hard right. I hear they're very fine people.
  8. Hell the adaptive cruise control in my 2019 Jeep will maintain a follow distance and keep you between the lines with it's relatively unsophisticated ACC. It does use cameras and some radar sensors though so it's got more data to work with than a Tesla in some ways
  9. Can't wait to get back to the good ol days of nazis marching in the streets, eh?
  10. Notably not denying the fascist preference. And again repeating your lie of my ever posting a TikTok as a source. From a dude with a green avatar lol. Keep on telling yourself lies and enjoy your fabricated worldview. It certainly makes voting for trump again easier
  11. It's funny that fatty only shows up when he's got sheeeeit around to fling poo and give him cover. What a silly fascist preferring coward
  12. IMO I'm less upset about hitting a pedestrian in a tricky scenario - I'd bet 50/50 that your average human driver would do just as poorly - but the fact that the car wasn't even aware that hit it something is a HUGE problem. Any closed loop decision making should be doing OODA - orient, observe, decide, act. If it's just deciding and acting to keep rolling without observing that it just pancaked a (simulated) child... That is nowhere close to SAE level 3 automation or even road safe for the public.
  13. I've got one of those renewable plans with free nights and weekends, and while the metered usage is higher than I'd like, we mostly time-shift our power hungry tasks (mainly laundry) to nights and weekends and it definitely makes an impact on our monthly bill
  14. I really do think home solar + energy storage is going to be the answer. You can charge your battery up overnight for pennies on the dollar when grid demand is low, and then use your panels during the day with the battery available as additional capacity during the hot part of the day. It would remove a hell of a lot of strain from our grid, but would require government incentives to make economical. Unfortunately, the government incentives have been going to Chinese cryptominers that moved to Texas after they got kicked out of their home country. Ah well, nevertheless.
  15. Up until now, Ventress was presumed dead so I think bringing her back was more about putting a toy back into the toy box. But I can't disagree that there's not that much screentime left to close out the Bad Batch story. I hope they do two 30 minute episodes at least, if not longer
  16. It's more likely that the panels are different qualities or runs of stainless, and that's why the owner is seeing different surface finishes between treated panels. I think the acid in the barkeeper's friend is effectively doing a surface passivation - which is something Tesla should have done at the factory - which gives it a higher gloss and improved corrosion resistance properties.
  17. I think it's more accurate to frame it as the outcomes of extreme beliefs tend to be the same, but I certainly don't see an equivalency in beliefs or values between the current extremes
  18. Not sure if it goes here or in a cyber attack thread or where, but it's crazy that the 911 system was offline for a while last night in Texas (and a few other states) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/911-outage-reported-across-multiple-us-states-officials-say-2024-04-18/ That system has so many redundancies (on paper at least) it's crazy that it went offline for any period of time
  19. It's not that nuclear reactors are unprofitable - once they're running they just keep churning out power pretty much indefinitely with planned outages. But building and certifying them is immensely costly and full of risk due to the long construction times. This professor has a load of great talks on nuclear energy, but this is a great primer on why we aren't building more big nuke plants But as you note, SMRs sidestep much of these problems. Waste is easier with them too since each fuel pebble element is it's own dry cask storage (in theory)
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