Best to note this down as a non serious hobby project and move on.

The fact that amino acids and other chemicals used by earth based biology can form fairly readily has been known since the Miller-Urey experiment in the 1950s, this isn't news. The problem is there's a big gap between biologically active chemicals and biology itself, specifically a molecule that can replicate, evolve will a surrounding framework of chemistry. We don't yet know if THAT can spontaniously evolve anywhere or needs to very particular conditions that happened to exist on earth after it formed.

> It's a nice idea, but who equips their trailer with this to save money for the stranger hauling it around?

Fleet operators, where they don't have strangers hauling around their trailers; e.g. USPS, Amazon, FedEx, UPS.

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> Once, the one time 5% is spent the state will have to figure out how to do the one time 5% more than once to keep feeding the spending machine.

The money to be raised is already budgeted as a separate fund for a specific purpose. It is not intended to be general funds nor is it intended to be ongoing funding.

Think of as a bond. When the government wants to raise money for a project or investment in the future, they will often issue and sell bonds to raise that money. Bonds mature and pay back with some interest, and are not recurring or factored into the normal budgeting.

This is functionally the same thing, except instead of borrowing via bonds and paying back with interest, it's just a straight up tax on billionaires.

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Nothing happened to The Times. It's the best selling broadsheet in the UK and is far from being a right wing tabloid. Perhaps try reading it sometime instead of spouting some 3rd hand BS you saw on reddit.

I didnt find canada diverse when I've visited, not compared to europe. So Quebecens speak french, bfd, it's not Martian ffs and it's a lot nicer sounding language than spanish with it's annoying babbling cadence and nasal vowels.

Typo: should read 150 million cubic feet

Yet 150 cubic feet of gas per day will be burnt to run a datacentre to so what.... generate more AI slop and scan images in order to stroke Fuckerbergs ego and reduce what little privacy there is online that little bit more?

Find an independent EV specialist. They can probably get or build you an aftermarket LEAF pack with more modern guts.

There's a ton of aftermarket support out there.
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> Might be. But it is not far outside the window of actual expense

"Yeah the evidence is fake but that doesn't mean the conclusion is wrong."

That's basically politics in 2026 in a nutshell, I guess.
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Aside from the early LEAF packs being notoriously bad with degradation - both due to early tech AND bad thermal design - it's also worth noting that the main reasons EV batteries enter the secondary market is because the vehicle they were installed in got totaled.

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Its an x86 mini. Given its run from the shell I doubt terminal permissions come into it.

Not even adminy stuff, why TF do I need to enter a password just to run the lldb debugger as me on one of my own binaries??

Most EU countries dont allow military aircraft to break the sound barrier except in times of emergency. That's not the case in the USA, so ask yourself why they banned a supersonic passenger aircraft.

The EU didn't exist in the 1970s. Other than that, great comment.