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Comment Re:Running for President in 2028 (Score 1) 183

Now imagine you explaining to your own wife/children/parents that they should NOT try and kick an intruder out of their own vacation home, because âoesquatters rightsâ.

Their vacation home? Fuck them.

Given the fact that we have a massive immigration problem

Given that we have a massive homelessness problem, fuck you too.

You can always find a way to justify greed, can't you?

Comment Re: Yay to the abolition of lithium slavery! (Score 2) 129

People have heating oil, propane, and kerosene tanks next to their houses all the time and rely solely on the fire-rated tanks. Batteries aren't special in this regard, unless you consider they aren't a liquid that can spread or a gas that can expand so they're safer.

Fuel oil (whether you're talking about heating oil, kerosene, diesel, or anything else in this category) is relatively difficult to ignite. Propane tanks are usually separated from the dwelling by some significant space.

Comment Re:Running for President in 2028 (Score 2) 183

I was specifically addressing the nonsensical concept of âoesquatters rightsâ, which should not exist in any American state

If there's one place squatters' rights should exist, it's a nation that was founded on the top of a bunch of other nations and is all stolen land (since the USA has honored literally zero of the treaties it signed with native nations.)

Comment Re:Running for President in 2028 (Score 1) 183

Chicken is not going away. You can raise them on bugs and produce scraps.

Lots of people say they really enjoy grasshoppers. I have yet to taste one, but to a lot of people the marine flavor of seafood is a big drawback so it's reasonable to believe they might like them more.

Comment Re:Good (Score 2) 49

I bet you would LOVE to live in a solar powered cave or similar hole-in-the-ground

I'm struggling to determine why this would be bad, except for a potential lack of views. Come to think of it, if we built hobbit holes on appropriate slopes, then everyone would have a view, unblocked by other buildings. The energy efficiency would be exemplary. Thanks for sharing this idea with the class, not just even though but especially because you thought it was a bad one, o blessed reverse barometer.

Comment Re: If it is burned then it is not vented. (Score 2) 49

You want to talk about primitive, let's talk about fire.

It is a horribly wasteful method of getting energy into things.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not about to stop cooking my steaks with it, there are times when it's great. But given the basic issues with using fire I want to avoid it whenever it's not adding anything to the end result.

There's a reason steel plants use induction.

Comment Bluetti showed a sodium-ion batter station in 2022 (Score 1) 129

https://solarbuildermag.com/pr...
"BLUETTI, a manufacturer of solar + storage products, including LiFePO4 battery stations, is debuting a sodium-ion battery technology at CES 2022. Recently BLUETTI has announced the âoeworldâ(TM)s first sodium-ion battery stationâoe, NA300, and its compatible battery module B480. Sodium-ion batteries have become an alternative to their lithium-ion counterparts in many industries due to their high abundance and low costs. BLUETTI's first-generation sodium-ion battery excels in thermal stability, fast-charging capacity, low-temperature performance, and integration efficiency, despite slightly lower energy density than its LiFePO4 ones. ..."

But I am not sure what happened with it as I no longer see it for sale on Bluetti's website.
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
"NA300 & B480
World's First Sodium-ion Battery Power Station
Debut at CES 2022 (Jan 5th, Las Vegas)"

Which makes me wonder if the technology was still unstable in some way then?

In any case, good luck to Natron Energy with their product. The world definitely can use better batteries.

Comment Re: Don't say don't say don't say don't say gay (Score 1) 233

Your theory would make sense if the majority or even a significant number of bathrooms had some kind of controls over who could enter them based on apparent gender. But for the vast majority of bathrooms in the world, or in the US, or in fact in any place you can name, there are no such controls.

As such, the idea that not letting people with penises [claim to*] be women and use women's bathrooms protects women from being sexually assaulted is, frankly, spectacularly stupid. Men dressed as men can just walk into them and rape women. In fact, it happens dramatically more frequently than a chick with a dick doing it.

* It doesn't matter which for the purposes of this argument, and I'm not interested in having that debate in this thread

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