Telll me you don't know how the grid works without saying you don't know how the power grid works.

Design us a grid that has equal supply and demand for power, and I will show you a grid that fails very quickly.

You have to have excess power. power is being moved around all the time, switched to here and there, depending on demand. And if you get close to 0 excess, you start sweating. The famed Texas power grid failure, Euphemistically blamed on inadequate infrastructure is what happens.

When Texas decided to supply it's own grid, and failed spectacularly neighboring states still connected to the big grid retained power. Prayer and the free market don't do all that great a job providing stable electricity. Let engineers design your power supply infrastructure, not ideologue oliticians.

Even we have our foibles, like string theory, which has religion-like qualities. Otherwise yes, always try to get closer to truth.

I have no idea where you get the concept that I am not dealing with real dangers Perhaps a bit of geometry is in order here.

Background - Most modern vehicles use focused beams, many/most of these are highly focused - trucks or cars.

The headlamps are adjusted to a height of illumination, and a horizontal zone of illumination using an angle determined by the height of the headlamps above the ground for the height, and the horizontal zone by the width of the vehicle and where the headlamps are placed, assuming the vehicle is in the center of the road. I can be right behind a driver in my Jeep, and we can see that my low beam illumination is not entering the back of their vehicle.And my Jeep is a little bit higher than most cars, but not so high that the necessary angles of focus/illumination are a problem

You are correct about the height. But along with that height comes the need to use a steeper angle for the distance of illumination. Geometry.

In order for the truck to place the illumination properly, they have to have that focus area tilted down significantly more than a vehicle such as an automobile does. This is because in the taller trucks, the needed angle is a lot higher. But as the angle is increased, the distance of illumination from the vehicle is lessened. So they mess with the angle a bit.

It is a problem, obviously. I noted height is an issue already, and the reason it is an issue, because of the angles of illumination involved. Many semi trucks have their headlamps low placed for this reason. A cure for this in big pickup trucks would be to place the driving headlamps down low, like on the bumpers.

Yes, the angle is the key. The highly focused headlamps kind of address that problem, but eventually fail big time. . You are correct about the different headlamp heights, and the fact that someone might be driving a Mini Cooper, while someone else is driving a semi truck, plus different heights relative toeach other.

So many posts before we got to an actual on-topic non psycho-political one. Thank you for one that is relevant!

This has nothing to do with Cheeto. It has been going on for years. It is the culmination of multiple problems.

One of the biggest culprits is headlamp focusing. If Both vehicles are at the same level, no problem. If one is slightly lowe, they'll be in the area of focus. I've occasionally given someone the high beams, they return the favor, but their high beams then shoot over my head, at least until we're level.

And some are so highly focused that one driving behind you with that situation on a bumpy road looks like they are continually flashing their lights at you.

Big pickups have an additional issue because of the increased angle of focus.

Next is that if people replace bulbs, they really need to use the exact brabd and model bulb. If not, the focus is all messed up. you can tell when this is the case, esp if only one bulb is replaced. On normal pattern, and one pointing to gawd knows where.

Third is more subtle. Some of these lights are blue-heavy. And blue is one of the worst colors acuity wise. If seeing in dark conditions is important, we want green. I've seen the research - and we've known that since WW2.

Also, the idea that it is because older people have vision problems is specious. Individuals might, but the idea that people can project nuc fusion level energy out of their headlamps is a cop out. There are modern vehicles with the white/blue heavy headlights that are okay, and the olde school yellowish ones that can blind you if they are on high beams.

I like the way my Jeep works. It has both on screen and old school switches for most operations. Then I can decide on how I can operate.

The screen-only parts are for detailed things like oil temperature, individual tire pressure, lane monitoring, predicted miles between oil changes, and other things, which if I insisted on 100 percent manual would make the system as complicated as a B-29 cockpit. As well as make the thing cost over 150K

Even then, those are mostly steering wheel pushbutton controlled.

The other things like my fair sized screen are also appreciated, plus the hands free calling and hands free texting are great, and mapping is also great on a big screen I get it, Simplicity can feel freeing. My Motorcycle has a speedometer, and a minimum amount of switches to make it road legal.

But Just like I bought a simple motorcycle to invoke some strange, simpler times nostalgia, if people want 1950 builds in their cars, they should buy cars built in 1950.

Not to be contradictory for y'all, but if we read the story, there are three medications in testing now. FTA:

"The review calls for improved efforts to raise awareness about the fungal disease via better surveillance mechanisms, especially in resource-poor countries. It notes that three new drugs that are currently in clinical trials could likely become available for treatment of this fungal infection soon."

Yes, there are issues within the US where we overprescribe drugs that often suppress the immune system. But you have somehow made our healthcare system cause a global problem. Fortunately, this does not exist anywhere else in the world, where they do things the right way... Where only people in the US have an issue, based on your "proof". While the erst of the world is hale and healthy... But sumpin's wrong here.

A Fungus discovered in Japan, and now resident in 61 countries - Pray tell us how this is the fault of the USA, and the USA only. You made the claim.

As soon as people like you spout your usual anti-USA hatred, and employ your mad dash to blame every problem in the world one the country you love to hate, it gives you a credibility rating of 0. At least with people who don't use soundbite rhetoric as their entire argument. In your toxic view, fixing the US healthcare will fix a global problem.

True, dat. I'm more concerned about people happily gobbling medications that are immunodepressants. Not done any actual research, but on the television shows my wife watches, The commercials give me the impression that the list of drugs that do suppress the immune system, often for trivial issues, is pretty big, and looks like it is growing.

A fertile field for candida auris to do its work.

Re-parse what Geoffrey wrote. Is it your thesis that doing something against fungus is helping the fungus?

And it isn't just antibiotics. So many maintenance drugs pushed on people today have as one of their side effects, damaging our immune system, It makes for an enlarging market for the new opportunist diseases. So we scramble for new treatments at the same time we purposely nuke our immune systems.

https://www.goodrx.com/drugs/s... The list grows, and take your maintenance meds people!

No, for the same reason I seldom argue with a person that is bullshitting me.

Exactly. For all of the hoopla, It is a stark fact that AI can and will train itself on lies as well as truth. And manually searching the web shows that lies are as common as truth. And even if not lies, so much is opinion.

A human in the loop can do better, even then we are not infallible, especially when dealing with opinion based "facts". But we have a better bullshit filter. AI has none. Which loops us right back to your statement on reliable information supply.

Reminds me of the meme "In 1950, auto manuals had instructions on how to adjust the valves, modern manuals warn you not to drink the battery acid" . I'm sure that is specious, but we've devolved a bit as people who now mindlessly consume, and expect everyone else to have knowledge while they watch "The Bachelorette" as their intellectual education.

Guess who gets to be Soylent Green first if the apocalypse happens! ;^)

My old man gave me my first car, with the proviso that I do all the maintenance myself. Wise dude, and it served me well. I don't do my own car maintenance now, although I do the repairs and maintenance on my motorcycle to keep my hand in. I've seen too many people stuck on teh side of the road, not having a clue what to do for simple fixes. Guess they don't mind sitting on teh side of an interstate for an hour or more, waiting for AAA to show up.

Well played sir! I love it.

I've taught my son to do repairs as needed. It's been a help for him. So yeah.

Oh yes - I'm not a curmudgeon, I'm just a knowledge sponge. The only reason for an old school watch is as a status symbol, but indeed, a whole lot of technology is exceptionally superior.

A comparison is my new Jeep. Traction control that allows me to move on glare ice -better remember it still takes 10X distance to stop - an illustration that shows technology allows a lot, but better know some basic physics. It automatically senses snow, or mud, or rocks for 4 wheel drive - although I can still manually invoke them. So getting stuck is not an option in most cases. Big disc brakes with ceramic pads - I now consider that a must for rock driving, especially going downhill.

Yes I appreciate the new tech - so much better in so many cases.

But then again, I was the kid who read the encyclopedia as a kid, and financially support Wikipedia now. I just find knowledge useful.

The idea is weird for me. And what I do think is weird is to blindly accept what is thrown at us, blissfully ignorant of what we are doing. But in this world, reality TV is more important than knowing things - at least for some. I can read digital clocks. I can read analog clocks, I can read sundials, I can read gnomons. I can design and build a reasonably accurate water clock, and read the time from that. I can locate by sextant. Others believe all knowledge from the past is irrelevant.

Ignorance is not a flex, ignorance leads to acceptance of banality, and makes for manipulable people. My peers find very little knowledge is of no use. Perhaps yours do not. But yes, You can do you, and it is right for you.