gene rayburn GOAT host, dude was just on another level
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I’m not an expert but it’s probably safe to say that practical batteries are limited by materials, not physics. A given battery chemistry has a maximum theoretical specific energy (energy per kg) but we don’t come close to that in practice. We can get several times more energy into a lithium ion battery than we do but we’d have more car fires. We’ll do better. We’ll develop better materials, new chemistries, safer implementations.
Moved the trans discussion to the existing thread for that. Please feel free to continue it there.
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Amazon will refund you every time. They give no fricks. There are various reports around the ether that they are destroying hundreds of thousands of packages a week.
I can’t speak to the veracity of the reports but it aligns with my experience of delivering packages for them. They have no contingency plans for obvious situations like people passing away. They literally do not care about waste on that level.
They have such a stranglehold on product inventory that it is actually logical for this kind of waste to happen.
William’s victory over James and the subsequent Protestant Ascendancy are celebrated by the Orange Order.
These guys don’t even accept Protestants married to Catholics as members. There are yearly marches in various places in Ireland and Northern Ireland on the 12th of July, which have often been flashpoints for sectarian violence. I was in Derry for it one year.
Lines for sugar in Russia. Meanwhile, in the US
https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1505292742993321993?t=NmLXBd488LzZwOjJhIrQ-g&s=19
Has to be a troll, come on.
Has the feel of a satire account
I learned something random today. If you are an iPhone and iPad user you can simply cut and paste back and fourth seamlessly. Cut something from one go to other and hit paste. It’s pretty cool.
No you can follow the link right through to Bloomberg’s website.
This one was easy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/03/19/medical-mystery-invisible-threat/
We had a similar one a few blocks from my house.
Simona Wilson could not have been much happier in her south Redondo Beach home until the day earlier this year when a new shower was installed in her master bathroom.
Her life since has included an agonized series of trips to emergency rooms and doctors as well as the recent relocation of her entire family away from their home. Wilson would only later discover that she was suffering from what is sometimes described in medical literature as low voltage electrocution.’
Wilson called Southern California Edison that morning and reported an emergency. She told S.C.E. what had been happening. That night Edison sent out a crew to investigate, but not the house. The crew didn’t even stop to talk to Wilson but instead went to the substation next door, formally known as the Topaz substation.
“That,” Wilson said, “was our first clue that something was seriously wrong.”
“We saw a lot of meetings of minds, people just standing around talking,” Stelle said.
Finally, Edison officials met with the couple on April 27 and disclosed the home’s unusual history. The Topaz substation had what is known as a stray or escape voltage problem for at least two decades. The substation apparently was not sufficiently grounded – despite an intricate underground system of the sort that is generally able to contain electricity, the sandy soil underneath the facility was allowing an escape current – meaning electricity leaked onto Wilson’s property.
“So what we thought originally was just a shower situation we started to learn, when all the field technicians came out here, was actually a property-wide problem,” Stelle said. “The entire ground of this house is charged with electricity.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/woman-wins-4m-verdict-stray-electricity-article-1.1294855
That is super weird and something I’ve never heard of.
Carbon monoxide poisoning is no fucking home. Make sure you have a co detector
There was a state election here on Saturday, I spent 4 hours in the morning handing out Greens how to vote cards in the seat of Badcoe, where my girlfriend lives. Labor thrashed the incumbent Liberal (centre-right) government and Badcoe had the biggest swing to Labor in the entire state:
I loled at “key marginal seat”.
I actually feel kind of sorry for the outgoing Liberal Premier (who as well as resigning as party leader after the thrashing is also in danger of totally losing his seat). I think the state’s response to COVID was very good and he did not run an ideologically conservative government. Bills allowing voluntary euthanasia and liberalisation of abortion were passed on conscience votes (that is, waiving the strict party-line voting which is usual in parliamentary systems). The reality is that both major parties are very centrist in the state, more so than for the federal parties. It is just hard to get credit for something like COVID because people have negative associations with it even if they think you handled it well and it’s just always hard to get credit for preventing something rather than actively bringing it about.
The Greens increased their vote percentage over last election but it was more or less entirely off the collapse of another minor party, who scored 20% of the vote last time and 1% this time as their figurehead leader abandoned them. Unfortunately one upper house seat may end up in the hands of One Nation, who I was going to say are best described as the Trumpist wing of politics here but Sarah Palin or Marjorie Taylor-Greene are probably better analogs.
not good
Apparently the cap on the front of the plane just falling the fuck off is…not completely abnormal for a 737? Which, uh, what the hell?