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- Comment on Anyone remember how popular the group Head Cleaner was? 23 hours ago:
Got their CD when it first came out. The weirdest track ran along a ring of little brush tufts coming out of the CD surface. This band had some serious experimentalism happening.
- Comment on Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI. 2 days ago:
Glad to see you’re all-in on this rebellion, Han. I hope your Isu-Sim SSP05 is in full working order for the actions ahead.
- Comment on Peak Trump Performance 2 days ago:
He’s just playing 5D golf.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Why? She’ll obviously suffer from back problems at some point, compounded by cigarette smoke. She’ll need a good chiro when the aches and spasms start
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
It’s not republicountenance? Or visagyny?
- Comment on WARNING! 1 week ago:
My resume/rap sheet lists neither of those labels explicitly, but I’m sure it’s a little of both.
- Comment on WARNING! 1 week ago:
Well duh. Why would you buy it when you can just use it in the store and leave it back on the shelf after you’re done?
- Comment on WARNING! 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, they’re fine.
- Comment on Hamster 1 week ago:
Tragically flawed, but still a beautiful story.
HOWEVER, this has inspired me to build a hamster wheel with PEMs around its circumference and surrounded by stator windings so I can get my hamster to charge a battery. I mean, if I had a hamster, I would definitely make this a weekend project. Or I’d at least search for this on YouTube to see who else has already done it with cute results.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week ago:
I agree. Although better and more illustrative videos have since been made on YouTube, my favorite introduction to the square root of negative one is Chapter 22 of the Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. I
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week ago:
The list of things I shouldn’t do, but do regardless, stretches past infinity.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 1 week ago:
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week ago:
e = π = σ = ε = µ = Avogadro’s Number = k = g = G = α = i = j = 3
(at least that’s how they all look when viewed from ∞)
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week ago:
They barely passed me.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week ago:
Ugh, 3 factorial is most definitely not equal to π. It’s something more like, idk, 9? Honestly I don’t even know how I got here; I majored in Latin and barely past
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 1 week ago:
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 1 week ago:
Just put two π ohm resistors in series duh
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 1 week ago:
Surprised to not see Sugar Ray or Everclear, unless I’m blind.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Blame Satan.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
- Isaac Asimov
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- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Wonder what it tastes like 2 weeks ago:
I have fucked, literally, thousands of oysters, and every single one of them looked like this.
Not really, but I thought it was funny how ‘shucked’ and ‘fucked’ rhyme, given this post’s context.
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- Comment on Anyone know how to unlock Others? 2 weeks ago:
If you were to collect ALL their melanin and concentrate it into one person, even then I doubt he/she would look much different from the source material.
- Comment on The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You 2 weeks ago:
Those were amerigrams
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the great beta! When it finally comes time for me to retire the ol’ 14 y/o flat-4, I’ll keep your advice in mind.
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 2 weeks ago:
No disputes from me on your assessment. In principle I’m a big fan of EVs as a maturing technology and my only hangup with Tesla is its association with the person who is its CEO and the role he’s chosen to play in US politics.
I’ll gladly champion a vehicle that has incredible efficiency in converting its stored energy into mechanical work, especially when that stored energy came from a source that’s 40-60% thermally efficient (for combustion-based processes) or derived from solar/wind/geothermal/hydro sources and can be partially recuperated via braking. It’s too bad there aren’t more EV options for people who want or need a 3/4 or 1-ton pickup (of which I happen to be a big fan for hauling/towing/plowing).
The one area where I’m still dubious of electric vehicles is in cold climates, although I think I’ve read heat pumps are being used with success. Otherwise, I’d propose a small auxiliary tank (preferably propane, if infrastructure permits) and a “Chinese diesel heater”-type unit be installed simply for cabin heating/defogging. Few energy conversions make me cringe more than that of high-exergy electricity (derived from non-renewables) directly into thermal energy, convenient as it may be for the end user.
Of course, it’d be nice if that combustive heat could be generated from sustainably-harvested hydrogen instead of an extracted hydrocarbon, but at that point, a fuel cell running a heat pump would be even better, with resistive waste heat from the FC an added bonus. But now it all feels a bit Rube Goldbergian…
Anyway, what’s your take on EV use in climates with harsh winters (such as Canada/Alaska/Montana/Wyoming/Minnesota), especially when long range might be needed?
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 2 weeks ago:
Not to mention the electrical energy stored in their cells has a fairly strong possibility of having been generated by a power plant consuming coal or petroleum.
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 2 weeks ago:
Teslas don’t run on gasoline.
It runs on them.
