It's not quite 20%: NHE grew 7.5% to $4.9 trillion in 2023, or $14,570 per person, and accounted for 17.6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

So if we were healthier a large chunk of that money wouldn't be getting spent on healthcare hence lower GDP so his statement on the face of it is correct. But he's also wrong because they'd damn sure find a way to spend it on something else which would in turn increase GDP albeit in a different area of the economy.

50 amp NEMA 14-50 and unless they have upgraded the pedestal wiring for EV charging you'll get kicked out for using it that way if caught. RVs don't pull continuous full load power so they get away with a lighter (cheaper) feed.

More like keep you from shooting yourself in the head actually. Trigger pressures have gone up so that they can pass drop testing. California in particular but the European and Canadian markets require it as well. They cock the pistol then drop it on it's butt vertically held from 3m. At this point it's the inertia from the trigger mass that sets it off. Many manufacturer's will use a hollow trigger so they can still have a lighter pull. Others (Colt and their gen 2 Pythons for instance) stay solid with a heavier pull and leave it to you to send in to a gunsmith to "tune it up".

My gen 1 Python if cocked is actually kind of scary. Just breath on that trigger. The double action pull is about the same though.

Factory stock Suburban's with a 6.2L can do 0-60 in 6.1s and the 3.0L diesel does it in 8.4s. Those things ain't exactly what most people would call "fast".

Snide remarks do not improve your argument.

The reason you don't see an issue is because you don't understand the actual risks involved. When my wife had cancer, treatment of which did not require radiotherapy, she was warned about said risks from the multiple CT scans she would be getting for the next 5 years. Been a while so I don't remember exactly what the doctor said but here's Wiki's quote on it:

An abdominal or chest CT would be the equivalent to 2–3 years of background radiation to the whole body, or 4–5 years to the abdomen or chest, increasing the lifetime cancer risk between 1 per 1,000 to 1 per 10,000.[134] This is compared to the roughly 40% chance of a US citizen developing cancer during their lifetime.

Did you catch that last line? A _single_ body CT will give you about the same chance of getting cancer as the average American has over their lifetime...

No, what you are proposing is a machine that will cause you to "grow eggs" inside you. And they'll be nasty little buggers that will consume you from within. You also brought up ultrasound. That's another one we've experience with. Having a ultrasound guided biopsy done is not a pleasant experience.

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You would think that the surrounding countries would be the logical choice. Wonder why none of them will take in the Palestinians? Couldn't have anything to do with how they acted last few times that's been tried could it? You know, attacking Israel from their new homes, starting civil wars, assassination attempts, landing and blowing up civilian airliners with foreign nationals aboard to try to drag other countries into it?

Nah, couldn't be that. They should be welcome everywhere.

That would cause cancers from the x-rays, because the radiation from it is cumulative. That's why we don't use them to pick your shoe size anymore. Yeah, we actually did that for years.

Mr Steinberger is a policy advocate, which he specifically listed as half of his course load when he graduated from Stanford in 2014 with a masters in mechanical engineering. Power engineers are electrical and those are the guys you want to be talking to about this.

What he is trying to do with this article is draw attention away from renewables inherent unreliability without some sort of energy storage attached, at which point it _becomes_ part of the baseload. That's all well and good as long as the sun is shining or the wind is blowing or you have enough storage capacity to last until it resumes. It's when you have a prolonged weather event that the problem kicks in.

That must be a local/by state code because I can't think of any home I've ever been in that didn't have one. Even mobile homes have 'em here.

You said "card" and that's a physical thing that you can easily identify. A eSIM looks like any other surface mount chip which makes it much more difficult to detect. The MMF2 from 2013 is 6x5mm, the MFF-XS from 2020 is 2.6x2.4mm, and the iSIM from 2021 is less than 1 sq/mm total.

The point being is that these can be present and you'd never know. Baseband processors are already pretty damn small, and you don't need the full feature set to receive a text message so it can be made even smaller. The antenna can be traces on the circuit board which would be invisible on a multilayer setup. Hiding a radio on loaded circuit board would be child's play these days.

I personally think there are better ways to do it than utilize the cellular network, which requires two way communication, but I'm not going to go there.

I haven't seen a physical SIM card in 5 years, everything I own uses eSIM now.

Due to the difference in charge time vs pump rate it takes multiple chargers to replace one pump to maintain the vehicles serviced per hour rate. Time how long it takes you to fill up your car next time and compare that to how long it takes to fully charge an EV and you'll see what I mean. The charging tech isn't quite there yet but it's getting closer. At which point it will take a serious upgrade to the electrical distribution system along with load leveling batteries at the station to deal with this.

To me that's all just an engineering and supply issue. It can and likely will be done. What scares me is Joe Blow consumer handing MegaWatt+ cables. It is inevitable that we will eventually see a rather spectacular electrical explosion. This level of power is what makes experienced lineman gear up before approaching.

Nope, fact. All the billionaires in the US combined have about 6 trillion in wealth. Different sources give different values or I'd post a link, call it +/- 200 billion. A quick search yourself will confirm that number. Which is also about what one year of expenditures is for the US government which is what I said originally.

Take all of their wealth and it'll run the federal government for one year, then poof, it's gone. That's why I said in the scheme of things it's really not that much.

The headline of that doesn't match the contents. The closest it comes is "about 42% of family offices around the world are raising cash reserves." That's SOP when you are worried about future income being able to cover things like payroll, mortgage/rent, etc al etc. And even then it's not actually kept as cash because that loses value daily due to inflation. It's kept in things like money market, or for some short term CDs.

Speaking of cash, there is only 2.4T total in circulation. The federal reserve publishes exactly how many notes of each denomination if you care to go there.

Did you get your fee fees hurt? Getting your delusions slapped down by facts tends to do that. The sad part is I'm actually a ally when it comes to income inequality. But "eating the rich" isn't going to fix that.

You are missing the point. First is that there isn't that much wealth relatively speaking held by the uber rich. But it's enough to crank inflation through the roof if you were to dump it in within a single president's term. Second, it's funny money, mostly stocks, and those will crash _hard_ the instant you start confiscation.

You want to see a fight? Goodbye all retirement funds. Union and state pensions, 401k, poof! The politicians won't do it because they have their own wealth tied up there. And they know they'd get hung up from light poles if they tried. You act like the uber rich are hoarding all the cash and that's keeping the poor down.

Well they aren't. Even banks keep only a minimum amount of cash on hand relying on weekly orders from the federal reserve to keep stocked on the various sized bills. The rest is invested because cash sitting in a vault actually looses value due to inflation.