It gets extremely cold where I live, and in ground heat pumps while expensive are a better option than air based exchangers especially in my case. Problem is that an “environmental group” the watershed district, creates extreme red tape and you cannot get permitting for installation because it’s too close to “wetland”. You can file for an exemption which can take months with no guarantee at success. I’d have considered the 20k+ cost, plus 10k for ripping out ceilings and walls to replumb my finished basement with pipes and electrical service instead of a replacement gas furnace for $6k but I’m not doing that and also getting poor efficiency on top which makes it completely unviable. Instead of using “environmental” excuses to curb development maybe they need to focus on the actual environment first.

This isn’t ending anytime soon, everyone is going scorched earth, and nuclear war is looking like a possible outcome. The strategic oil reserves should last at least a few weeks. How long does it take to rebuild the entire Middle East oil infrastructure?

Diving more slowly does not work necessarily. Both my gas vehicles get the best gas mileage between 40 and 50 mph. Going slower than 40 increases it rather significantly, which is aggravating when speeds are lowered at least in part due to “better fuel mileage”. My EV gets its best mileage between 20 and 35mph, quite a bit slower.

My state already has this. This year it was about $430, despite EV charging being about the same price per mile as using gasoline, triple the residential rate and quintuple commercial prices. This means people who can’t charge at home not only pay more for an EV, they also pay more per mile for fuel. If the goal is to pollute the planet then it’s working quite well.

Copper is an essential micronutrient. Reread the above. Also pearlite is made from amorphous volcanic glass, by way of heating it and the moon has an abundance of those beads so you won’t even have to transport them depending where on the moon we are talking.

It will be a government mandated brain implant in infants before it’s turned off at this point.

100% spot on. This is not different from using a non-nutrient base for mechanical stability of the roots like perlite, the rice puff of volcanic glass. All nutrients came from the night soil while supplied gasses allowed for the formation of the plant. The main difference here is some metal contamination that leeched into the plant while providing no nutrients except an overabundance of a few micronutrients

The summary is night soil and it’s leaking.

A 5% improvement in productivity at expenses skyrocketing does not make a meaningful ROI. This does not even take into account skilled humans are still needed but managers don’t understand this and let AI slop into production which will wreak havoc and destroy quality and profits long into the future.

The natural conclusion given the premise is that 99.99% of humans will no longer be needed and can be removed making way for paradise on earth. No longer will they be a persistent thorn in the side and leach away the money they earn from the company. No longer will their incessant whining about being treated fairly darken the day. No longer will laws restrain the company from maximizing profits. It will truly be glorious and the brightest future possible. You will own nothing and the Epstein class will be happy.

Is that pile of 20 hamburgers just going to eat themselves?

They stopped 159 billion or so digits from truly being awesome.

But if they don’t use Claude, how are they going to have an excuse when the firing solutions come up as schools and hospitals? Blaming a machine is great, you can design it to easily withstand being thrown under a bus.

It seems to be a combination of reaction speed, flexibility, and dexterity. Cats have a reaction time up to 20 times faster than a dog, on average maybe 3 times faster. They are far more flexible, the videos showing dogs being poured into containers are far and few between. Cats are also quite a bit more agile, likely a result of the other two metrics but also because they have superior balance and superior balance control.

Dollars please. I mean, that’s what the friend said.