I would love to get rid of my gas range/oven, but $$, and even would love induction, but more $$$$, and I would have to replace all but 1 of my cookware, I don't think even my stainless set, which doesn't attract a magnet.

Oh, and I have to open windows as my microwave above doesn't vent to outside. Wonder how much my plans and merv 12 filters help...

Ever since gnome 3 they been saying FU to the users, no biggie, I went with mate and xfce. But then they removed the ability of GTK to change desktop colors to force the other desktops based off it to suck too. So now I hate gnome because they forced the better desktop GUIs to accept their bad UI elements. (I can make a list of other things I hate that they've done)

No, I'm not bitter or anything....

better yet, AI will replace the furniture!

If I as china, first think I would do would make those factories nonoperational. Those factories are needed by the US, to combat china. China has their own chip fabs.

Its less that trump is in office, and more that he is being giving powers and almost unchallenged while most of the left complains about elon being hitler or other dumb tangents.

I swear they are letting trump consolidate power, because they "know" after his idiocy they have the election in the bag, and want that power themselves.

While I do agree that we don't need as much as the protein industry claims, that ~50 g/day is minimum, and doesn't not take into account rebuilding, muscle growth, etc.

I would suggest people losing weight up their protein a bit to help prevent loss of muscle as well as people actively doing physical exercise where they want to get stronger.

Also the older you are, the more you need to maintain, and for people young and growing, need more too.

I'm trying to keep mine in the 60-75 range, if I get to going back to gym I will be eating more like 70-100 range.

I agree, and really, clicking the link isn't falling for it, filling out information on the bogus site (or downloading/running something)

If I see an email that looks legit, I can't highlight and see the url now days, I only get to see that after clicking the link and opening page in web browser.

The real problem is companies making it impossible to contact them about anything. Give me an easy to get to phone number and chat box option. Even a I want to send a message option seams to be disappearing, just an endless loop of pages that don't help that then point you to contact them that is really just a feed back into the loop of unhelpful help articles.

If the company had presented an easy phone number, the AI or search results would have given it.

the phrase you mention "Africa wins again", I'm not sure I follow what you mean by that. best I can find is that it means the land can break anything.

I am not sure this is correct for what you imply?

There is no requirement games need high end hardware!!!

and honestly since about 2008ish, games graphics in actualy game play while playing seem good enough. And the games I am seeing a lot of young people play are minecraft or lower graphic games. Even seeing pixil art or quake3ish engine in use by youtubers.

I am actually fine with legal immigration, but immigration does cost a nation (thus its people) money, and puts a further strain on local resources.

My wife, a legal immigrant cost me multiple thousands dollars with me picking up more slack to take care of, and I know she added more costs that wasn't directly paid by me.

It also causes higher prices of all resources from food to housing, higher crime, lower wages, and does change nice neighborhoods to not nice. By nice/not nice lets say people who take care of yard, don't do activities that spell over to neighbors (like noise, parking on street, standing/playing on others yards, etc)

I've read that taking migrant/refugees cost US tax dollars 15-20k a year for the first 5 years. That doesn't include the above paragraph. And the special emergency shelter/care migrants/family shelters around 100k/year per person. Though that may be special cases like new york renting hotels or some such, but the point is, it cost money and puts strain on all resources here.

What you describe is being done in remote corners of random places to serve as electric charge stations. Apply same thing to a place that is all about cars and people traveling.

And I was referencing real gas stations. 8 would be the smallest I have seen in the last 20 years, and I am primarily suggesting the bigger that are fed customers by freeway/highway, places that can refuel 12+ cars. I think I've seen plenty of flyin-j and the like that do 30+

but my point is having random charging stations places in the most inconvenient places with no bathrooms(or any amenities).

We had family visit us renting an electric car electric car as they thought they would save money. Well the 2 day trip turned to 5 day, and we did the math on their cost of electric to my vans cost of gas doing the same trip a month earlier and it was close. Not add in the extra hotel and the fact they still had to stop at gas stations.

They also did some extra driving as some charging stations they drove past because of how sketchy it was or it was closed or some such.

I work for a university now, and they mandated copilot, sometimes I's suprising helpfull, but more often it is inacturate. I even tried using a low ball of tell me all the remote systems, databases, ldap, AD and even local config files from from a medium size perl file and it was so grossly wrong missing things like $remote_ldap_host and creating it's own config files and such. I can't even have it check itself.

Did this with chatgtp free, and it wasn't much better.

Sometimes its great but its unreliable

I didn't mind the charge time per say, but rather the charge station and location the most. Also the fact it required #1 a phone, #2 an app, #3 an account. Sorry not, you require a phone my most polite response will be F.U.

If I can drive up, insert card, and be gone in about 30ish min along with the normal amenities including safety of a main stream gas station.

Some of the places we went to/through had me wondering if we would get mugged. Or if the app had incorrect info (and in some cases it was outdated).

Also I learned overnight trickle charge was just that, not enough to matter.(granted overnight temps did get to low 50's and he said he didn't turn on warmers or such, but still... 6-8hrs of trickle should count for something)

Again, doing the math, I did not make financial sense to pick EV over ICE and that didn't include trips of over 1.5hr away at 70+ mph. I still hear people say rent a car for those rare times you need an ICE, tells me those are people who live like ant colonies, yuck.

ever other weekend during summer, and at highway speeds be lucky to get 230. I wanted an EV until I did a couple of trips in my friends, and his "free" gas. Now I, and another friend, don't want one. (think my next will be a plug in hybrid or a prius...)

btw, highway speeds are 75-85. If you think highway is 55-65 then its you who needs to learn about the rest of the country.