More importantly, the US produces sweet crude but only has refineries for sour crude, which we import from Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela. The refineries were planned and built before the Obama-era shale-gas fracking revolution that led to the US being the worlds largest oil producer by volume, to refine the crude that was available from nearby countries.

So, we export the more valuable sweet crude to countries that have sweet crude refining capacity(mostly in Europe IIRC) and import the cheaper, dirtier sour crude to refine in the US. This is another reason why we can't consume the oil we produce.

Median income is the point at which half of the incomes are higher and half of the incomes are lower. It is not the income that most Americans have. Based on 2024 data (the most recent data available) only 12% of households fall in the range of 75k-99k.

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Was there a measurable effect on traffic fatalities? What about the rate of injuries?

In the rural area where I live the highway is a single carriageway. If you cross the center line you risk a head-on collision. If both vehicles are going 10mph over the limit the resulting collision is 20mph faster. Even traveling at the maximum speed limit(50mph) any head-on collision is the same as hitting a wall at 100mph.

Speed absolutely DOES affect traffic safety . To say otherwise is to deny basic physics.

Some states, such as Colorado, have strict regulations on rainwater catchment. https://extension.colostate.edu/resource/rainwater-collection-in-colorado/ The state considers the rainwater and watershed to be their property. I guess if you collect more than 110 gallons, you would be stealing that water from the Gov't/California/Arizona. It looks like the law just changed this year(2026). I remember it being more restrictive in the past.

According to Scott Manley's calculations it's actually possible.

I just watched this video where he does the math last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlQYU3m1e80/

"If they're available, you can request free earbuds." You'd better hope your device still has a headphone jack...

Since most smartphones don't have 1/8" headphone jacks anymore most wired earbuds for smartphones have either Thunderbolt(iPhone) or USB C (iPad, Android) jacks instead. I would be surprised if the author of the article/summary was unaware of this, but the allure of a snarky and misleading quip bemoaning the loss of 1/8" headphone jacks on smartphones was too great to pass up, or was so great it interfered with the data retrieval function of their brain.

You sound like a eugenicist. I love the irony that your post starts with a lower case "u" as you claim that non-Americans are less intelligent than Americans.

You inadvertently made the point I wanted to make: why did they write "2,000kW" when it's 2MW? Also why is the 'k' lower-case and the 'w' upper case?

I can't get the picture to load despite allowing a couple dozen domains javascripts to load. If you're going to post a picture on the internet use a site like postimg that actually allows people to see the image without running hundreds of scripts.

And again, take into consideration the Tokyo metro is multiple times larger and more population than NYC or SF, so again, how do they do it?

San Francisco has a lot of wealthy NIMBY laws that prevent building higher and denser housing in most of the city. The NIMBY's want to protect their property values and the 'character' of the city.

There's nothing religious about anti-vax. There is nothing in the Bible that suggests there's anything wrong with vaccinations. MAGA anti-vax is 100% political theater and nothing more. There are plenty of equally ignorant non religious anti-vaxers among the airy-fairy crunchy hippie crystals chakras and patchouli oil crowds as well.

Every tribe has it's fair share of idiots, the real problem is people who are tribal in the first place. It prevents them from seeing and thinking about the world clearly.

Being a part of a tribe that is correct in this specific instance does not make one not a part of the problem.

H1B IS Government intervention.

I wish I had more mod points to give you. I don't understand how you could have been moderated 'troll' when you're just stating the obvious truth.

I believe these are already solved problems. There is a lot of heavy machinery operating in the arctic and antarctic for research and oil exploitation purposes. They work. I don't understand how their could be any surprises about how to solve for heavy machinery in extremely low temperatures.

FTFY

A billionaire literally does not need my money, or any more money, ever, for the rest of their lives. I could live comfortably for the rest of my life on 0.2 billion, and never have to work again.