They’re looking for the liquid trip flags.

It detects “liquid” by seeing if there is any conductivity between the power pins, and assumes water, but it can just as easily be a piece of debris. Hit the port with some canned air to dislodge whatever is in it.

We have mini IKEA at home.

Wow, that’s like the Anti-IKEA, regular IKEAs have a mini supermarket in the front

Absolutely, but the change in demand for the various fuels and fractions is not going to be simultaneous or linear, which is going to lead to some pretty wild fluctuations in supply (and consequently, prices). It will eventually find the right equilibrium, but that’s gonna take a while.

We also thought that about oil at one point, woefully underestimating the human appetite for cheap energy, for which we’re just now paying the price.

Burning them is a monumental waste of perfectly good and useful organic compounds.

Juggling the changing demand for gasoline over the next decade or more is going to be an interesting challenge, because when you refine crude oil, you’re separating it out into several different fuel and feedstock compounds, and the amount of crude you need to refine depends on the demand for that particular fraction. So if you reduce gasoline output, you’re also reducing output of things like diesel, propane, kerosene, fuel oil, asphalt, etc. if the demand for any of those doesn’t drop along with that of gasoline (or demand for gasoline stays steady while it drops for other fractions), you end up with oversupply or undersupply (which is a major component of why diesel costs have soared relative to gasoline). If demand for diesel, jet fuel, and ship fuel oil stays steady while gasoline drops, the cost of gasoline is going to crater, changing the economics of BEVs. Now add in biofuels, which change the demand for petroleum fractions, and it’s gonna be a wild ride for a few decades.

>solar panels steal sunshine

I mean, technically, yeah they do. That’s kind of the entire point, innit? Law of energy conservation and all that. Surface temperatures under a solar farm are significantly cooler (as one would expect, because, you know, shade and the whole turning solar energy into electrical energy thing.

And until we start launching our trash into the sun, solar isn’t actually renewable… there’s just more of it than we will ever use. And at the end of the day, all energy used on planet earth is just solar energy that has been stored somehow, at some point along the way.

And US gasoline consumption is 10-15% off its 2019 peak, and covered to drop another 10% over the next 18-24 months. This is partially due to EVs, partially due to higher efficiency standards, and partially reduced driving due to more WFH.

That’s pretty standard.

Because there will never be enough research to satisfy someone who doesn’t understand that you can’t prove a negative.

The dollar amount is meaningful, the percentage is not, as tax is not calculated on revenue.

Tax percentage on revenue is utterly meaningless.

A lot when they sell their orchards to build Disneyland.

Apple has more revenue than Netflix, just on AirPods sales.

$19B of taxes is 19% of 100B, not 5%

That’s the couch change.

They’re laboratory mice / their genes have been spliced / they’re Pinky and the Brain

He is. The bottom half is just kinda dangling there.

PMII played baseball in college too, but decided to focus on football, which seems like a good decision.

Trains float very poorly.

Everybody has a water buffalo, yours is fast and mine is slow…

Borders are largely irrelevant here, this is not a political map.

Down there they’re destroying the Amazon to put in cattle pasture.

Here they’re destroying cattle pasture to put in Amazon.

Some promising new developments on neuromodulation, hacking the nervous system for treating RA and other autoimmune disorders. This is far enough along that it should see larger scale clinical research this year.