The flip side - They move from places like the bay area to places like Tahoe, Minden NV, etc, because they are voting in problems that trash their towns. Then they drive up real estate and drive out locals and trash the new place because they like the ideas they voted for initially, not realizing the outcomes will be the same. Lather, rinse, repeat. Where will they go next?

@rsilvergun, I appreciate most of your commentary over the years, but I disagree on nuclear power. We are not going to be building any more plants designed in the 1950s. And most of the new designs are small and simple to maintain. They are cleaner and greener ans SAFER (TCO), than wind or solar. On a global scale, effectively, no-one dies from or is endangered by nuclear. If you are open to other ideas, here is a TEDx - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Building batteries is about the dirtiest and most CO2 intensive process in energy today. There is no plan to recycle all of the heavy metal filled solar panels we are putting everywhere. Barring massive storage (which is usually very dirty) every MW of Solar/wind needs a MW of gas turbine peaker to back it up when the green is not on-line, so you build a MW of (less dirty) gas plants for every MW of green. So when you spend on green, you spend on some other dirty tech to back it up.

Nuclear is the cheapest, safest, greenest, cleanest thing we have.

Sorry - also I am super contextually driven - the context overrides almost every thing else.

There are so may situations where I can't place the visual image at all, yet I can see every detail of a design or engineering project in my head, no problem...

I'm no fan of the feds but power abhors a vacuum, be careful what you wish for...

That list IS well done; bravo. I would say that Lady and the Tramp was a variation on Romeo and Juliette; but Lion King is a straight rip of Hamlet (as is Strange Brew).

I probably shouldn't be back here considering the shellacking I've taken in the last few days, but I have a few thoughts to the responses. For background I work at one of the worst COVID impacting hospitals in the U.S. It was awful and terrifying and pretty much everyone I know had family die. My thoughts are non anti-humanitarian, they are about process. I'm here for the debate not to talk down to anyone, but fire away.

Many of the responses quote one clause or another without an examination of application and the others mostly imply them. The Constitution is, by nature, a predominantly proscriptive document (@MachineShedFred) Indeed, some of the commentary is noting how many other clauses have been stretched beyond their meaning and using that as justification. The Necessary and Proper clause (well written @hey!) is about Congress' ability to write new laws, not a free-for-all. @Jellomizer, also well written, but this is not a law; and if Congress wants to declare war and buy weapons they can - but that is not what is happening.

I used to work for a company that reviewed their top 100 projects for the year, then (effectively) they gave each project a body and a dollar - nothing ever got finished. My current company prioritizes a few top projects, funds them, staffs them, drives them to completion. It is an as-kicking, but rewarding; we accomplish things now. The government is the last company, not the current one. The last COVID bill was something like 25% actually to COVID and 75% pet projects. The infrastructure bill is also something like 25% to infrastructure and 75% to pet projects. If you want to do pet projects, have the stones to do them, don't hide them in other bills. If Congress want's to declare war on COVID, DO, but let's not make every convoluted excuse to do whatever a president thinks is cool (regardless of party). The Constitution was about process and it seems like most of the arguments say we need to set process aside and do whatever we want. The Bill of Rights has suffered enough under that logic (by the GOV, not you here). That is what I'm not cool with.

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

"Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. 'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts' he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.' "

to be hooked on video games? If you replace all the workers with robots the workers can't consume and the robots won't. Time to make popcorn...

I did IT at an alt-ed school for 5 years. Most of the people I am about to speak about are good, well-meaning people. Schools and teachers and students all fail because parents think the "student" is the school's responsibility. Parents who understand their children's education is their responsibility usually have kids who do well. For example the wealthy in the US, or the dedicated anywhere, or parents of the 12YOs who learn calculus on a dirt floor in Asia with 100 other kids in the room. Staff break down into a couple of categories - Teachers who care but have to go along to get along, Administrators who care but want to move up, Leaders who have lost the vision and built a bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is, literally, staggering in scope. Tracking kids that move between schools, other social services stuff that has nothing to do with learning. I leave the cost/benefit analysis to you but at least half the money spent on education in California is social services based and has little-to-naught to do with education...

Chillers work similarly to swamp coolers, the energy magic is in the state change from liquid to gas (steam). There is a pool of water that is recycled until it evaporates off. As it evaporates off new water enters the pool. The water can be very nasty - see Legionnaires' disease. But the water leaves as vapor, never liquid so there is no chance for reclamation. Best if they are using gray-water.

I know this one - *It's not a robot* it is a tele-health communications cart. You place it in a room so someone in a central communications terminal can monitor many patients and has 2 way A/V comm with all the patient. The nurses are still going in and out, way less because the patints comm with central communications. It is not self propelled or actuatedd in any way, and as far as I know has no stethoscope. They likely have the patient in a telemetry room that is already wired for BP, rhythm, resp, and pulseOx. Helpful, yes; reduced exposure, yes; quality care, yes; stethoscope, no; robot, no.

As an example, in the early '70s my great uncle made spy satellite lens holders (tubes, etc.) for xerox (I think). There were processes as small as at the end of the day you shut down, cleaned the machine, and turned it on again overnight to maintain the running temps in bearings, etc. When making things by hand the resting temperature vs. the working temperature on a mill was enough to put the product outside those extremely tight tolerances.