Biofuels aren't worse than fossil fuels but they surprisingly aren't much better. You can make renewable e-fuels with just renewable power and recaptured CO2, but they take an obscene amount of energy and then the ICE turns most of what all that energy produced into waste heat.

Hydrogen is a fossil fuel industry distraction, it offers the best selection of the worst downsides: An expensive and currently mostly fossil-sourced fuel you need to get at a station like gas/diesel, relatively long refuel times and short range in a vehicle with a higher up-front cost and weight like an EV, and a fuel that is only available at a small handful of stations, needs to be stored at immense pressures, escapes through solids and embrittles steel on the way out, and burns with an invisible flame like only hydrogen can offer.

We won't be able to get rid of liquid hydrocarbon fuels completely any time soon but we can make their uses a small enough fraction of what they are today that they're no longer a major source of fossil CO2 emissions and these oddball "fucking around in the margins" solutions can fulfill a decent fraction of the demand.

On the spectrum without telling me you don't know anyone on the spectrum.

It's like Jesus fucking Christ people don't even understand what masking is. People with disabilities go out of their way to hide their disabilities because we do not treat people with disabilities well.

I have a functioning autistic buddy who I didn't really know was autistic for years. Severe ADHD.

My mother was also a high-functioning alcoholic. That and the cigarettes eventually killed her. Severe mental illness treated with booze and smokes.

This is why the right wing is attacking empathy. That plus higher education and critical thinking are the enemies of the ruling elites. While you're raging about people who have substantial disabilities but can just barely hold down a job they're busy raising your grocery prices and getting ready to make your job go away with robots and AI.

They need your rage and attention focused somewhere else and you are happy to oblige them.

We've got nepo babies everywhere and billionaires screwing us over but we are all deeply deeply deeply furious about disabled people getting a little bit of extra time on a test.

I mentioned this elsewhere but the author of this article writes anti-education articles for a living. You can look her up and you will find at least a half dozen of them and counting.

It is amazing how easy it is to manipulate Americans into screwing themselves over. You were going to spend all your rage on this and completely ignore the actual elites fucking you in the ass and raising your grocery prices.

My last three landscape sliders were the Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 4 and F(x)tec Pro1, so they survived longer than that, and all three were in the size range of normal phones.

It's best to assume that banking apps won't work with anything but a non-rooted commercial Android install with its full suite of Google trash. Either that, or the most meticulously rooted systems that can fool all forms of root checking. Banks only want their apps running on walled-garden systems.

The solution for me has been to use banking websites rather than banking apps. This also eliminates the potential issues of banking apps having access to more than what can be seen through the browser, and it will hopefully show the bank that there is still demand for web access.

I mean it works for them either way. If they manage to make something useful out of it they get something useful out of it but otherwise they destroy a competitor and can jack up prices. It's a win-win.

We have basically eliminated competition from capitalism. It's funny because we are all acting surprised when capitalism breaks down in the absence of the fundamental system for regulating it.

But hey, at least one the girl hands you your coffee at the one coffee shop available in a 20 mi radius she can say Merry Christmas now right?

Did memory testers (e.g., memtest86) exist back then?

While productivity is important for the work environment, I think timing tests frequently pre-filters people who will be the most productive workers. The university should be a place of learning and tests should be used to benchmark learning for the sake of planning future learning. Time to complete a test should be one, non punitive, datapoint on the students' progress. Do they struggle with test anxiety? Maybe counseling and workshopping managing stress during tests should be the path forward. Forcing them to retake a class or damaging their future with a lower GPA is counterproductive.

I've been close to people who are marginally capable of functioning, but who exhibit what we call autism spectrum behavior patterns. For my point of view, it's real and they are genuinely frustrated with themselves, but oftentimes extremely stubborn and self sabotaging. I get frustrated with them too, but have to remind myself they can't help it.

That said, I don't think everyone who is an overconfident ass pretending to be a savant is autism spectrum. I've only personally known three people that really fit the criteria. They oftentimes are experts in one or two things, but not in a particularly productive way as they have trouble applying their expertise towards useful outcomes.

One doctor's opinion is not a scientific fact. Aside from that, this doctor is saying ADHD is a catch all for many different problems that each deserve attention and specific treatment. However, our medical system isn't well suited for complex cases. Even relatively simple physical injuries are oftentimes poorly managed, requiring patients to regurgitate the same information over and over through a network of specialists that conclude "I can't help you" and occasionally "but, maybe this kind of specialist can."

What I can tell you is that ADHD is real, even if the root causes aren't well defined or known. Getting to these deeper causes requires the person with ADHD to persist when they aren't capable, which is probably a big reason this particular doctor has a selection bias for people who don't actually have ADHD.

The problem I have with those Mobile payment apps is that they circumvent Banks and banking protections so that if anything goes wrong you are shit out of luck. But banks don't like making it easy to transfer money because they like to use it to force you to keep all your accounts with them. So a wire transfer is slow and difficult.

The article is written by one Rose Horowitch

A quick Google search turns up several of her other "articles"

Every single one of them is a poorly written and poorly researched opinion piece similar to this one talking about some moral panic regarding the collapse of the American education system with a special emphasis on how bad colleges.

This is more anti-higher education propaganda because Rich assholes do not want your kid or your grandkid getting a good education and thinking for themselves.

Little surprise to see it in the Atlantic, but honestly after what I saw in the last 2 years with regards to American Media not all that surprised. The Atlantic is owned by Steve jobs's ex-wife so we're not exactly talking salt of the earth ownership here...

As usual, follow the money

He's the president of the United States and he is using a detailed plan, project 2025, to completely remake our entire government and society. So no there really isn't going to be anything that doesn't somehow involve trump. He is fully exercising 50 years worth of accumulated Presidential power through rampant abuse.

I can't help it if you're not paying attention or that you don't understand how our government is breaking down.

No this is taking the data that we have and fitting it to the most likely outcome. We have a lot of data because Trump is constantly in the public.

So yes there are other possibilities but this is the one that fits the data. You might not like it because well, you love Trump and you're hoping he gets a third term, and you probably not going to admit that because nobody who likes Trump admits it outside of safe spaces, but this is where the data points to

So the stuff on his hands is definitely from a IV. The only question is what is he getting as an IV on a consistent basis.

And then we have the MRIs. You don't just do MRIs. There is no such thing as a preventative MRI that doesn't involve a known issue.

Alzheimer's is the only thing that fits the data we have. Yeah it is possible it's something else but if we just talking about probability and likelihood especially given Trump's behavior where he keeps falling asleep during cabinet meetings, a side effect of Alzheimer's medication, again it fits the data.

The only difficult part is Trump rambles like a lunatic with Alzheimer's and has his whole life so it's difficult to tell if he's lost his marbles because he never had them in the first place. With Reagan we all knew because they had to take him out of the public eye because he couldn't speak in public anymore with Trump they just let him speak anyway because he's always sounded like that