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Go back to school.

Tell me you had no childhood without telling me you had no childhood.

Especially the way you type, you're probably one of the ones that didn't find daddy's stash under the bed as a child nor learned more complex words from said magazines.

I said Constitution, not the Bill of Rights. You failed high school civics, didn't you?

"Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."

We happen to have laws requiring subsidation of internet services. Thus congress has the authority for it. End of story. Go back to school. Quit voting Republican.

" If we really want energy density, Calcium-ion might be the way to go."

No, metal-air is what you want. But that has inherent problems that need addressing.

Hi, I do mining.

What the FUCK are you talking about? We use core drills and hand tools first and foremost, and only bring out big machinery when there's something actually worth getting in large amounts.

Congress is tasked with 'Power of the Purse.' Read the entirety of the constitution, you might learn a thing or two.

"Cite YOUR fucking sources for your claims that you should cite sources for your own knowledge when used in every day scenarios."

Every fucking customer I deal with demands to know how I know this or that to come to how I repaired or designed their PCB.

Any customer that isn't asking you to prove your shit is an idiot and is a major cause of why we get tons of hacks that claim they know shit but don't.

"Kids are just not ready for some adult stuff until older. And that's the real fight here, some people think it should be OK to expose truly under-age kids to any degree of sexually related material."

Since the 60s a huge chunk of us, as children, got our experience to porno via magazines, usually under parents beds or in their drawers.

How many of us turned out fucked up? I'll wait while you make the count.

Do you not know of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown?

Holy shit, at least keep with current times before throwing out old shade like that, moron.

"Nope. "

Yup.

"It's a minor savings"

$300 vs $45. Go back to school and learn some basic math.

Found the mark.

There's one EV that's going to eat up a massive chunk of infrastructure improvement for that - the Brightline high speed railway to Vegas. That's an easy $10B alone or more just to make that power distribution network happen.

Your best bet is around $50B as a conservative estimate as to how much it will really cost to outfit CA for EV/solar futures.

Wait, Pisgah is on the 40, but the power still routes from there and up to the 15 via powerline roads through the Cady Mountains. I should've clarified that.

Oh, I should also add, this is also tied to the Eldorado Lugo Mojave Series Capacitor project, since they'll need that power to run that route on fully-electric trains. There's a shitton of construction that's going to be competing against each other for movement and right of way and all other kinds of fun stuff, oh and that project has several issues that need to be addressed, like seismic mitigation (I've read the plans for the 220kV Pisgah substation, and while thorough are about 30-40% underspecced IMHO knowing the general geology of the area) and the insane winds that can hit out there which can readily cause line snap. If you think this is going to be done in even 20 years you're likely to lose that bet. I can't wait for them to come across that insane faulting section near Pisgah. I bet that's going to make for a fun challenge, because it is actively expanding, and you can tell where it is if you look at the 15 while crossing through the lava field. You'll see a nice weird row of lava, and right where it hits the interstate, you'll see the road cracking open. I want to watch them deal with that one.

Bro you're on a train built on flat land with no mountain or desert terrain to compete with.

Come over here to Cali and drive the planned route. You'll be betting that track record of success is going to go right down the tubes.

They claim 200+ MPH. There might be maybe one stretch where they'll achieve that speed. I was discussing this last night in my geologist group. Anyone that's done driving up and down the 15 knows that there are so many turns barely sharp enough and spaced far enough apart that you aren't ever going to maintain much over 80MPH consistently, especially if you're following the Interstate 100%. If you think you're going through the Cajon Pass at 200 MPH you're fucking suicidal.

I even mapped the route after the Cajon Pass for the geology group last night. As you can see, most spots you could theoretically get to about half that speed before you'd need to slow down for one curve or another. You're certainly slowing down big at Barstow for the 15/40 split, and big around Mountain Pass/Primm. Oh let's not forget some parts of the 15 are close enough together that you're gonna have to move them to make way for the train, especially since you're gonna have to cut away mountain in many spots as that's the only thing separating the two directions of traffic (at different heights, even.) At best, the average might get close enough to 100MPH. Cars can't even safely do much more than that on the 15. There are plenty of crosses littering the sides of the roadway (not as many as the road to Ft Irwin) from high speed accidents.

Oh, did anyone bother to do the environmental impact studies of needing to move some sections of the Interstate? There's one spot where you might need to encroach into protected rattlesnake habitat. I don't think that was thought about.