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Comment Re:Pony up (Score 1) 69

by fahrbot-bot (#66209050) Attached to: Slate Auto's Radically Simple Electric Truck Starts At $24,950

You must have had an awfully fancy truck in the 90s if the lack of anything on that list of "luxury items" is holding you back.

My grandmother bought a car with power windows in the 90s. My father thought it was silly. I had one friend who would probably have paid $20 for a working gas gauge in her truck though.

I was happy when I replaced my used '69 VW Beetle and my newer used car had separate turn indicators instead of the single "<=>". :-)

Submission + - Paint is already peeling in renovated Washington Reflecting Pool after 2 weeks. (cnn.com)

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fahrbot-bot writes: CNN, Reuters and other sources are reporting that the paint on Washington's newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Thursday was peeling away from the bottom and into the algae-tinted water, less than two weeks after announcement of the job's completion. The historic pool was drained and refinished in a $14.7 million no-bid contract.

Tim Auerhahn, a pool infrastructure expert and the chairman of the Aquatic Council, said it’s difficult to tell from the videos what was causing the “apparent delamination.”

“A coating system can fail for several reasons, including substrate preparation, surface contamination, application conditions, adhesion issues, product selection, mechanical damage, environmental exposure, or a combination of factors,” Auerhahn said.

The larger question, he added, is whether this represents a localized issue in that part of the pool or a larger, more systemic issue with the coating. “If the coating is losing adhesion in multiple locations, that could indicate a more significant concern,” he said.

Comment independent commission - right (Score 1) 195

overseen by an independent commission ... A seven-person independent commission -- nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate -- would manage the fund and use its voting shares ...

Until a President replaces them with lackeys who'll do his bidding and SCOTUS (again) says it's okay. So far, pretty much the only independent entity (agency, commission, etc...) the Court hasn't waffled on, especially under this administration, is The Federal Reserve.

Supreme Court Prepares to Dismantle Independent Agencies in Favor of Partisan Chaos (Oct 2025)

Comment Sgt Schultz: "I see nothing! I hear nothing!" (Score 4) 77

potentially ending requirements for federal agencies to report on data-center efficiency, resilience, energy and water use, and contractor sustainability. ... signals that the Trump administration is set to take an even more hands-off approach to data center oversight and regulation.

Sounds like another case of if it's not measured, it doesn't happen, like when Trump said during COVID, "If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any." (Ignoring the obvious fact that they'd still exist, we just wouldn't know about them, noting that would have been better PR for him in the moment, but not so much in reality for the rest of us.)

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