I was a child prodigy who skipped a grade, not dissimilar to Sheldon Cooper, except I was better socialized, and excelled at athletics and was a leader in the Boy Scouts.

I had a real problem getting to sleep at night and waking up in the morning. I would read in bed until late at night and be late in the morning.

At some point in my early 20's I experienced a period of unemployment, and at my doctors advice I started tracking my sleep. We determined that I had a 27 hour biological clock. He said it was unusual, but happened to some people, mostly young men, and that I would grow out of it as I got older. Which didn't really happen, but kind of happened. I have a 24 hour clock but I only sleep 6 hours a night, sometimes less.

...thing where it's decided by committee that a new sequel to something or other 'needs' to be made FIRST, then story, SECOND.

If you've got a great idea, maybe go with it then, but all these forced sequels - especially w/o long term direction (as in the latest Star Wars movies), are just a waste of talent and money.

No. I do not. The polar deserts are becoming valuable real estate. I don't need to persuade anyone of anything. I need to secure property rights, build fences and buy guns to protect my claim from those who clued in late. I'm really just making conversation.

You are creating poverty for no good reason.

You are wrong. There is no evidence to support the assertion that climate change from fossil fuels is rendering the planet less hospitable. If you research the Paleocene Eocine Thermal Maximum, you will see that the opposite is true.

It is also a LOT easier to both post content and reach a lot of people via social media as opposed to doing both using your own website.

Once upon a time, in the long long ago, I could create content on my site and then automatically or semi-automatically share it on social media, where my social media followers would see it.

This is really bad for those species. It's reasonable to expect that, in a healthy species, there's going to be a few self-fertilizing mutant freaks born. But, when those self-fertilizing mutant freaks dominate the landscape because insects aren't doing the job and there's empty habitat for the freaks to expand into and dominate, it's inviting a blight to take them all out. And then, there will be very few flowers of the species to reproduce with the bees. There's going to be dramatic change.

My wife and I were dining at our local restaurant and I was scrolling through my phone for something when she says, "Hon! Help them, please." A middle-aged out of town couple were seated behind us and were asking their waitress where the nearest charging station was. They were told, 'I THINK there's one at the gas station up ahead...' Bad advice.

It turns out that the couple had rented an electric car from an agency located in a airport about 60 miles away. They had flown up from Florida, dropping everything they were doing, as the woman's mother here in PA, had fallen seriously ill. The problem was, the rental company at the airport had no more gas powered cars. Desperate, they decided on the electric, in spite of never having driven one before.

They had NO IDEA whether it was a Tesla, or not. I asked them to show me, so they took me out and I determined it was a Polestar 2. Being in a rural area, I'd never seen one in real life, but knew of them due to a personal interest and knowledge of EVs (I own a Bolt).

The nearest DC fast charging station (EV America), was back where they came from - about 25 miles back - and according to my apps - there were NONE to the NW, where they were heading. The man told me he LOVED the pickup - which would partly explain why he had only *49* miles charge left, (additionally, they told me it only had 1/2 a charge at the airport!), I gave them the bad news. They weren't happy.

On top of that, when I tried to help the man put a charging app on his phone, he couldn't remember the phone's password to install it. I had to put the address into Maps for him and his wife had to act as co-pilot, holding the phone and giving directions, as they couldn't figure out how to use the car's GPS.

I gave them all the knowledge I could about DC fast charging, showing him the port and describing how to operate it. I don't know if they made it or not. I DO know that the couple were confused and angry - barely knowing enough from the airport that it 'didn't use gas'.

RIDICULOUS!

I'm in a DC fast charging desert out here in rural PA. I got my Bolt and we use it for 95% of our driving (mostly local), and I charge it with my own panels.

This should NEVER have happened! They would've been better off getting an Uber to take them to a rental place that had an ICE vehicle. This is NOT the way EVs should be introduced to the general public - the rental company should have had trained people to give them SOME direction AND had a fully charged car.

Just a reminder to the dreamers out there, there are still MANY places in the U.S. without suitable charging ability - and I say this as an owner: I love my Bolt, but I have a specific use case. They are NOT for everyone... Yet.

They follow a book. Anyone can read it. It's not bigotry or racism to read the book and claim that it defines the people who openly claim to follow it.

They are sickly, inbred xenophobic and antisocial monsters. They believe they are the chosen people of God, and they have two standards of behavior, one for each other and another for Goyim, who have dirty blood and are no better than animals.

They sexually mutilate little boys, they have irrational eating disorders that stem from mental illness, they are predatory loan sharks, and they engage in lies, slander, theft, banditry, fraud, corruption, propaganda, blackmail, assassination, murder and genocide.

They believe that there are two races. The human race, and the Jews.

It's in their book.

Eighty years ago, the Japanese and the Nazis believed they were the master race and wanted to keep themselves inbred and subjugate outsiders. We, as a species, stomped them, and now they are decent, civilized and valued members of the international community.

The Jews haven't been stomped hard enough yet.

I don't know why you need actual land to consider yourself a country.

A state is an entity which has an effective monopoly on force over some piece of territory.

If you can't make laws and compel people to obey them, you're not a state.

I don't consider that relevant. No rational person should. We are still pulling oil out of the ground and burning it. Until we can provide for the energy needs of the human race without burning things, it's foolish to bury plastic and mine coal.

I am not a chemist. But, based on the understanding that I have achieved through my investigation into Russian Stoves aka Thermal Mass Heaters, it should be relatively simple to superheat the off gasses generated by the initial burn in a secondary burn chamber, and produce a system that releases only carbon dioxide and water. Plastic is just hydrocarbons.