> Plague has a very effective vaccine aleady

Really? What's it called?

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"Messing around with your car"

How long do you think it takes to plug in?

If I need to plug in when I get home, it literally takes under 30 seconds. I had someone else time it as well as counting myself on more than one occasion. 30 seconds to: open the charge door, remove the plastic cover on the port, walk over to the EVSE (around the corner of the house), grab the charger, unwrap one loop of cable, walk back over to the car, and plug it in. And I can do all that one-handed while carrying something else.

Then I go inside and forget the car even exists. Next morning, it's exactly the same process up reversed. This is the routine roughly twice a month.

Meanwhile, while I was still a gasser, I'd have to make a detour at some point during my travels to pull into a gas station and deal with all that, which all told would all 15+ minutes to my commute. A mandatory 15+ minutes, mind you, because there is no alternative... I can't refuel a gasoline car at home.

I can count the times I've used a DCFC in the past 5 years of EV ownership on one hand, and at least two of those were completely unnecessary and I did it just to have that experience. I'd say it's about the same 15+ minutes overall because I don't count all the stuff I'm doing that I would have done anyway if I had just parked a gas car... except my parked gas car would not be getting refueled so I'd have to make another special trip for that.

This might be the weakest of weaksauce complaints against EVs you've come up with yet.
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And because where income is high, cost of living is high, and the marginal cost of children goes from "investment in the future" to "big hole I sink money into".

Regardless of whatever budget Congress sets, the majority party has already been clear that they have no intent to enforce it. If the president uses the NASA money for something else, or even just puts it into his own personal pocket, we can be confident that he won't be impeached, and if impeached, he won't be convicted.

The only thing that matters is the total budget. The president is free to spend that total however he wishes. This isn't the law as written, but it's the law defacto. If voters have a problem with that (do they?) they can choose a different party to be the majority.

https://github.com/0x192/unive...

I've been using this to good results. Of course it's always sketchy uninstalling system level packages so the risk of bootlooping/bricking your device and/or breaking features you actually want is entirely on you.

That said, permanently disabling/removing Gemini shouldn't be a problem.
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Steve made a blue box, that made free phone calls on AT&T networks, which is a federal telco crime.
Which is worse? fraud and not paying, or paying someone $$$ ?

Their population absolutely dwarfs Canada and the US as well, so that isn't much good, is it?

BTW, remember the secret of Ti Kwon Leap- Anger is a weapon only to one's opponent.

I still think we need, given the microamps involved, a hamster powered cell phone charger.

Yes it is. Radioactive materials are made in the planet's core, and float up in the magma. Radon Gas is a normal and natural resource from decaying uranium.

It's as renewable as sunlight and wind.

> The cost of development for the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy were incredibly low

Which is to be expected since governments spent on the order of a trillion dollars and 50+ years developing the technology. Just about every aspect of their operation was conceived, developed, and trialed before Musk was even born.

SpaceX deserves a lot of credit for refining that tech, but do not dismiss the fact they are standing atop a mountain of taxpayer funded R&D without which they wouldn't even have a business model, let alone working rockets.
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Difficult is not equal to impossible. Heat can be used to boil working fluids, which can be used to drive turbines, which can create energy, which can in turn be used to run AI chips, which give off heat, which can then also be harvested to boil working fluids...Not really a perpetual motion machine, but the inefficiency in the system can be used to suck more heat out of the heat pumps anyway. Inefficiency in this case is a feature.

My answer to environmentalists claiming this is "You first". Stop being hypocrites, eliminate your own fossil fuel usage- including wasting fossil fuels storing articles like this in data centers.

Would this be the same China that is building coal fired plants at a rate of 95MW a year?

Nuclear power is a renewable.

Fission and fusion are replacements, carbon free.