It's not that all of them are blathering idiots; many of them see lies, gaslighting, and crony capitalism as the gang signs that they need to express to fit into their perceived social status. Those psychopaths are the most dangerous fools on earth, because they won't stop with evidence and will instead push back with every resource they can muster to prevent their 'power' from eroding, even when it's killing them personally.

Of course AI will tend to ignore new entertainment websites. While often more truthful than some will admit, the format tends to regularly bend reporting for profits, corporate needs.

More than a decade ago, I replaced my furnace/AC with a heat pump/furnace. When it gets too cold for the heat pump to work, it fails over to the furnace rather than simple electric coils.

Boy, the billionaires are really, really glad that you feel this way.

The best comments are written by the people fixing or adding to code which has no comments when originally written, especially in complex or distributed situations. The worst is doing plain getters and setters but well organized code should never be discouraged, complete lack of comments is a red flag for bone headed code.

Thinking about it just a little and knowing that the typical nuclear bomb explodes above it's target, I'd guess immediately after satisfying the needed conditions they destroy the package just to keep the test article from cratering. Although I can't imagine I'd want to be anywhere near the shredded material either. Maybe there's a different reason? Maybe just need to make things go 'boom'?

Who'd a thunk that e-Bay was a rotting cesspool of gangland activity and pressure campaigns. They had a team, this couldn't have been a 'one-off' thing, clearly there were other victims; I doubt if they killed anyone (directly), but I'm sure they ruined a few people along the way.

Ammonia as ICE car fuel, just in case you've always wanted to drive a car which smells worse than they do now.

I can't imagine the refueling smell or even process, as it's one of the worst. I could be wrong, perhaps your car won't smell like bad sweat and you wouldn't need a breathing mask to refuel, but ...

Help! I've been catfished by the CIA Chat AI and now I have a what must be a Predator drone following me around town. I swear I was just cosplaying a dangerous guy really, let me live! The only scenario I could see happening.

It doesn't take a real genius to know that the targeting module is an important part of any space born laser system. Orbital debris tracks at insane speeds, especially the small stuff. Do the math, take a good look at the physics and find a slightly more realistic fantasy, may I suggest molten salt nuclear reactors?

My dual fuel system (gas furnace 'emergency heat') only runs part of the time for maybe three months in my mid-atlantic home. It runs automatically below 35 fahrenheit, but will kick it if you raise the temp more than 2 degrees, with the warm winters it rarely runs. It might have cost me maybe another 25% at the time, but that was saved in just a few months. While it's true that heat pumps lose efficiency on a sliding scale in very cold weather no other system keeps a house at a consistent human happy temperature more efficiently.

When my heater gave out in my townhouse, I replace it with a dual fuel system, my 'emergency heat' is an 80% efficient gas furnace (the 90%+ one would have needed a liner for it's chimney). My bill (combined electric and gas) has never been bad since, it was the best decision ever. The reasonably high efficiency heat pump (I think it was a 16 SEER) does most of the heavy lifting, but the gas kicks in when the heat demand is high.

I've waited 10 minutes or more queued at the pump for people to do their morning food shopping at Wawa. Time spent parked in or waiting for a gas stall while otherwise on a morning commute me always made me to fill up the night before, often it was still a hassle no matter the time. Now, I'm sure to plug in at home when less than 95% and while the EV queues are brutal when they happen, it's a hell of a lot less time spent overall than the chumps pumping their own gas weekly or more.

We already have a tremendous surpluses in both agriculture and industry which will only continue exponentially in the absence of a destructive war. Human society works best when it works to ensure the safety of all people, even those who you deem to be 'unproductive'. Besides, in a world in which 'influencer' is an obtainable, sometimes well paying occupation how does one even define 'productive'?

At least I was trying to make a point, which you seem to be vaguely against. So how much electric do you believe is used in to create gasoline?

Musk's recent turn to free-formed reactionary bullshit had been quite distressing and I'm sorry that I confused you by using a controversial figure as part of the conversation, but that's the sort of mistake that his own staff reportedly avoids. It's said that his staff actually practices before the meetings to keep everyone, including Elon on topic and focused toward the important goals, rather than meaningless dick swinging.