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Yes please, I already use Graphene but I would be so happy if I could finally ditch google entirely.

I have a Framework 14 for my school laptop and it really is a great little piece of hardware. Can't wait to see what they come up with next.

Yup, its a terrible design. Every other automaker uses some form of lidar with the cameras, but elon says "HuMaNs DrIvE wItH jUsT eYeS". So we get this bullshit.

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Part of the problem with teslas is they will sometimes do the phantom braking even when not on autopilot. My gf has a model 3 we bought back before F-Elon went full mask off, and there's a certain road we occasionally drive where the car will just slam on the brakes for no reason wherever another road joins the main one. We both refuse to use autopilot but it still does it with even normal cruise control active and sometimes even under full manual control. Its a serious problem. We'd replace the stupid thing if we could afford it but its devalued so much that its more affordable to just keep it.

The study says they used online polling but didn't elaborate further so who's to say what biases there may or may not be. But generally ipsos does a pretty good job with their polling.

I do agree that most of these polls tend to end up being nothing burgers, but there has been a recent trend of younger males gravitating towords the right of the political spectrum. I mainly commented to point out that a sample size of 1000 is generally recognized to be large enough for accuracy.

A sample size of 1000 people gives a margin of error of only 3%..

Other than the stupid ducks, exactly. They arn't good on-road vehicles. They do great on the trails, but anyone who would buy one as a daily driver that never sees dirt is a moron.

As a classic jeep enthusiast I am disgusted with what the jeep community has become. I hate the stupid ducks so goddamned much.

Fascism won’t kill you.

I think there are about 17 million dead people that would disagree with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Nazi_Germany

I feel like if he wanted to he could out right buy half the GOP congress people though. Money holds a lot of political power when the politicians are for sale.

Of course, the shitbags will use it as an example of how academia is flawed so they can justify even more cuts to the sciences and education.

The black ocean series does a good job if blending the two together. But it sort of sets them in opposition to each other. Interstellar travel is made possible on futuristic spaceships by using magic to plunge the ship partially into another dimension, shortening the relative distance between stars. But unless the it is specially shielded against it, magic ruins and destroys technology.

You clearly don't understand the basic principles of engineering.

They don't float, they're fixed in place at depth. They use the pressure of the surrounding water to spin a turbine as its pumped in and out, the only moving parts are the turbine and its associated components. And seeing as how the water is pumped in and out, most of the silt/detritus pulled in during filling, would be pumped out during draining assuming a siphon tube is used to draw the water from the bottom of the sphere (where all the debris settles) to the pump.

Yes salt water is corrosive, but that problem is already solved, there are currently concrete oil platforms built in the 70s and still in service today. We have formulas for concrete that are proven to be seawater resistant.

Building storage tanks on land wouldn't be as efficient due to the greater pressure differential at 500m underwater vs on land. Dams are one of the most expensive structures to build and are very damaging to the surrounding environment. They also have a much larger problem with silt deposition as there is a constant flow of it, every time it rains there's another surge of silt making its way downstream to be trapped by the dam.

Overall this project would be considerably cheaper, more friendly to the environment, and most likely more efficient than any pumped storage on land. And its not like the sea floor is lacking for real estate, unlike any feasable locations for dams here on land.

That's why I said siphon it from the bottom, a siphon tube going from the bottom to the top would eject the water up and away while still sucking out most of the sediment that had gotten in and settled on the floor of the ball.

I don't see silt being as big of a problem here, if the intake is located at the top of the sphere that puts it well away from the seabed. The only silt it could suck in is what's dispersed in the water already, and at 500+ meters there's very little current to stir it up. And if they put the intake on top and siphoned the output from the bottom it would even be relatively self-cleaning.

Tigtone!!!

I feel like this was created with ai, the angry robot in the first panel has the same hair as the guy. But not in the subsequent panels.

Its the sugar, it slows the curing of the concrete but doesn't stop it entirely. Over about 2% concentration by weight it begins to affect the strength of the finished concrete though.

Sugar in a gas tank will only really clog the fuel filter. Sucrose doesn't dissolve in gasoline. Water in the fuel would be more harmful than sugar.