Farmers are choosing to farm that way - it's not required. It's just easy to farm that way and requires no real specialized knowledge or planning.

There are much better ways to farm, but farmers are some of the most conservative, resistant-to-change people out there.

I was just thinking this same thing.

Machine translation is getting pretty good. So there's no reason you can't translate a message into Spanish, send it to your friend, and have them translate it into English. But where does the government draw the line? German? Welsh? Navajo? Klingon? Egyptian hieroglyphics? A custom language? How about a custom language using numbers and letters and symbols which require a one-time-pad to read?

"You can talk to your friend on the internet, but you can't use Welsh because we can't understand it and you might be talking about drugs." is fucking ridiculous. I hope that demonstrates how ridiculous banning encrypted messages is, because it's on the same continuum.

Like "pretty good" as in aesthetically?

Because as a fossil fuel replacement engine, it looks dead in the water. I just don't understand what people's fascination with hydrogen is. It's absolutely not going to replace fossil fuels. EVs are here, they work pretty well with our current infrastructure, and they're already cheap and reliable, and getting cheaper every year.

To replace petrol/gas & diesel with hydrogen, we'd have to replicate the ENTIRE chain of fuel creation and distribution. We can't just stick hydrogen in the same trucks, pipes, and tanks. We can't use the same pumps, seals, gaskets, sensors, anything! So from the refinery, storage there, pipes to distribution hubs, tanker trucks, gas station tanks, all the pumps, all the everything....it all needs to be replaced with hydrogen compatible stuff.

But in places where EV ownership is skyrocketing, the electric grids are largely holding up. The last mile seems pretty good. We do need to beef up some of our major interstate transmission lines, but that's driven more by the installation of renewables than the increase in EVs.

How are people thinking we're going to replace or duplicate our entire fuel network to support hydrogen more cheaply than we can just plug EVs into the existing power grid? I don't understand what makes anyone think hydrogen is going to be easier to switch to than electricity, which already exists at the gas stations we'd need to completely renovate to handle hydrogen. Let alone which already exists at home, where 95% of EV charging happens.

But it's not, so why are you ranting about something that doesn't impact you and which is out of your control?

Hey, slow down there, dumbfuck.

The partial veto is in the WI constitution, and the voters can and have reeled it in in the past because of abuses not entirely dissimilar to this.

You can't bitch and moan about "separation of powers" when the document which DEFINES THEM, the WI state constitution, gives this power to the governor. Much less can you bitch and moan knowing that voters can and have adjusted this as they see fit.

No matter what constitution you personally feel governs you, it's the WI state constitution which governs the separation of powers in WI. And that says this is fine, and the citizens of the state have modified it more than once to ensure that it does what they want it to do.

Keep your little snowflake tears to yourself.

I work far less from home but I'm far more productive. I have people telling me all the time that they're amazed at the quantity and quality of things I'm getting out the door.

But I'm also playing games, going for walks, playing with the pets, cooking lunch, etc.

I'm vastly more productive because I'm not around all the dumbfucks in the office all the time. I'm not listening to the two dudes an isle over talk about the NFL draft from 9am until 11am in the morning. I'm not having random people walk by my desk to ask me something they should know. They send me a chat or an email instead, when I have a good time to break and respond, I point them to what they need, so my workflow isn't constantly getting trashed.

But I'm not getting paid any more for my increased productivity, and there will be no promotion in my future. So when the work is done, I'm going to play a game and keep any eye on the work chat/email. I'm not going to keep giving and giving for no reason, no reward.

I'm already at rockstar status, so Cult of the Lamb will fill in the hours that I'm waiting for the actual slackers to get around to doing what they're supposed to be doing, so I can move on. I'm not doing their work for them.

So what the fuck do you think meat is, small angry child?

Something running around, eating and shitting? Sorry, that's an animal. Meat is the flesh that powers its skeleton.

And that's what this is, sans animal skeleton and organs.

This shows a profound ignorance of what the federal assessment requirements are for states.

States are required to have normed assessments which they are required to statistically prove provide equal assessment to all student demographic groups. They have to demonstrate an alignment of these tests to their standards.

What you're describing tests understanding and technical skill. That's not what the federal government requires states to do in order to get federal education dollars. That's not what this assessment (NAEP) is doing.

And what you're describing is super hard to implement and grade, and takes a very, very long time to design and administer. Since there's no federal incentive to do this, states go with the lowest bidder to meet the federal testing requirements, with the shortest test they can get by with the shortest development time and least overhead.

That's why testing is what it is in the US.

To change that, you and a whole lot of other people need to be chatting with your congress critters and getting them to change the federal educational laws and testing and accountability requirements.

Well, I, for one, plan on sticking with my wired cosmic ray navigation. I don't trust this newfangled wireless version they're talking about here.

If you think reddit was good before this, IDK what to say. Reddit has been trash since day 1. Unlike some more sensible sites, they didn't bother with any sort of reasonable moderation, and let people have unlimited up and downvotes and unlimited accounts so it's been ruled by sockpuppet accounts and organized trolling groups since its early days.

It's almost hilarious to watch someone post something factual with evidence, only to see them get downvoted into oblivion. One of my last ones that I remember was on the emotionally charged subject of game mechanics. I pointed out that there were more ways to do what someone said was the only way, with a bulleted list and a link to the game's wiki. Last I looked that comment was at -150 and still going down, lol.

I won't miss reddit.

Since this is coming from water vapor, doesn't this extract electricity from thick air?

Lol, did you even read what you wrote?

There are exactly three things.....proceeds to list 4, and the 4th has a large number of options hidden in it.

I haven't listened to the radio in decades. I've got a USB stick loaded with a constantly shifting stockpile of my favorite albums. Dozens and dozens of them.

There's zero way I'd know that there was a government broadcast going on. I wouldn't know where to look to find one. I probably wouldn't even think to change the mode of the car audio to look.

But I'm an oddball, because I'm not doing what everyone else is doing, and hooking their cell phone up to the car stereo and streaming music over it. That's the primary use-case for audio in cars these days. (Also not one of your exactly 3 things, and the most common way to enjoy music in the car.)

But I agree with you - if AM is gone and the emergency broadcast happens on FM, you reach the same people. However it's not enough to care. Neither are how people primarily use music in their cars now. TFS claims 50m people still listen to AM, but that claim comes from people who make their money based on how many people listen to their broadcasts, so I would take that number with a big grain of salt. It also doesn't claim that they still listen in their car, which is the data we really need to know whether or not this is a good idea.

If gas ranges are selling well right now, fucking idiots are fueling the sales.

Other than some very extreme scenarios where people are living in the woods and relying on a 500 gallon propane tank for cooking and heating, gas ranges largely suck compared to induction ranges. Pair an induction range with solar panels, and you're well on your way to not relying on anyone for cooking than yourself.

It blows my mind that people somehow think that gas is the survivalist choice, when it's part of a global supply chain. You can put solar on your property, have a cheap ass shed full of marine batteries, and run your hot water, heat, cooking, etc., with no supply chain interruptions. Pretending you're somehow resilient to global events while reliant on fossil fuels is laughable.

You got rid of your 93 wagon, I remember the post!

But for real, it doesn't matter how long the cars last. It matters how long it's profitable for gas stations to be in business.

Without serious government subsidies, and I'm not sure that public opinion will allow for it, gas station chains are set for collapse. And that's going to be a real shit-show. As people transition to electric vehicles, the weakest of the gas station chains will go out of business. That will drive their remaining customers to the rest, and it will be interesting to see if they can accommodate the influx. If not, we're looking at long lines at the pump, while the BEV folks laugh driving by,

That may encourage more folks to switch to electric, and the cycle repeats.

I really expect the future for people driving ICE vehicles to suck. I can slap solar on my house in the next few months and largely fuel my car with it. And there are tens of millions of us who can. When gas stations start to close, a lot of people are going to shrug and get on with life. But everyone still using an ICE vehicle is going to have a bad time.

Well, a study conducted by me has determined that I'll likely be able to command 3b people's views by 2025. I will promote your product for $10m a year, paid up front. First come first serve.