This has always made me wonder, why aren’t US insurance companies getting in on this. It would be cheaper for them to buy the plane tickets & fly their patients to another country.

As much as that sucks, you clearly already know the fix and are working on it. Grats to you for having the skills bro. Please work safe, 2 phase electricity doesn’t play around.

Be aware that most window A/C units are power hogs. Expect to see a significant rise in your power bill. It might be cheaper to have your home A/C unit serviced instead. Could it be low on freon? Would it benefit from having the coils cleaned?

Am I reading their data wrong? Looking at the bottom graph, the battery loses 20% of it’s life in 4 years if I fast charge once a month & live somewhere hot (yes to both for me). That’s 5% a year, but the article says 1.8%. That’s a pretty big difference once we account for real world conditions.

Depends on your expectations. Realize there’s roughly 3-4 guys for every girl. If you don’t standout in some way it will be a very quiet experience outside of the initial joining period (and immediately after the subscription ends if you paid).

Just remember, companies exist to make money. If you’re using the app for free, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

There’s already plenty of good advice here. The one that I think is missing is that the clutch pedal probably has like 10 inches of travel, but it only cares about 1 inch of it. All the rest is just slop. You need to figure out where that zone is, and get good at hitting the start of that spot quickly.

Once you can get to the start of that zone reliably, then you can start working on how fast you release the clutch through that zone. The more power you’re applying with the throttle pedal, the faster you can release the clutch through this zone.

Not really no. I make a point to game online a bit with my nephews on Friday nights. But the rest of the week - no, there’s just too much that needs doing. In addition to working full time, cooking, and maintaining the home, now that I’m older I have also added making a point to get enough sleep and get my workouts in. That’s it, that’s all the time there is.

I purposely booked a week of vacation for my birthday this year where I intend to finally play Breath of the Wild. And that’s it, that’s the whole week. Looking forward to it.

A large part of it is choice. I choose to be happy, and my dumb monkey brain says ‘ok, I guess we’re going to be happy today’. There’s a real truth to ‘fake it til you make it’, except it should be ‘fake it until it becomes real’. There was a post yesterday about people being locked into their customer service personality even after they get home from work. Sort of like that. You can lock yourself into your happy person.

Of course, that’s not enough. You also need to figure out what really makes you tick - what do you truly enjoy? For me, I enjoy being creative and applying that to fixing shit. Is that dumb, probably. But man, I’ll be on a high for a month after I save a car that should have gone to the junkyard.

I’m waiting for them to have a flavor for it. Great Grape Gazacide would be my pitch.

Honorable mention for my truck. 1997 F-150. Turns 28 this year, just put a rebuilt motor in it, hoping for another 20 years.

A pair of toe-nail clippers my grandfather gifted me. I’m guessing late 1940s. As far as I can tell, it was something he bought from the on-base military store as things were winding down after WW2. It’s rugged in a way you wouldn’t expect - it was clearly built to last, well, indefinitely. Has this excellent leather carrying case in military olive green that is also wildly over-designed. Not flashy, just built to last.

It really makes me appreciate - we used to know how to make things here (USA). And we were so good at it, even the dumb little things could be built to last.

Total registered cars in Canada: 26,000,000

EV cars GM sold in Q1: 5,750

Sigh.

We’ve got a long way to go here in North America. On the upside, HEY TECH BROS, you only have to sell 6000 EVs to be #1! You could be HUGE!

I always wanted to see if I could ‘fix’ the Berkley Pit mine. It’s a superfund site with some of the most acidic water in the world. It was a cooper mine for decade that went bust. When the owners walked away, it started filling up with rain water. But, because of the way mines work, that water became VERY acidic. So now there’s this lake of acid out in Montana that no one wants to deal with.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Pit

Inter-mountain Histories: https://www.intermountainhistories.org/items/show/376

ChemAnalyst News - Pit might have rare earth minerals: https://www.chemanalyst.com/NewsAndDeals/NewsDetails/montana-toxic-legacy-could-become-america-rare-earth-savior-36626

Not gonna lie, this was one of the very few EVs I was watching, so I’m disappointed to see it go. I’m just not in the market for a $70,000 car right now. Or, ever really. If they want to sell cars, EV or otherwise, they’re going to have to figure out how to lower the price. A Lot.

At the risk of sounding silly - Instead of focusing on burning the solids, boil the water. Water boils at 100C, at which point the water vapor should separate and leave all the solids behind. Then capture the vapors and condense it back down into clean water. Now, if you later want to incinerate the leftover solids, sure, go for it, fire’s always cool in my book.

I’ll add, simply boiling water is energy intensive. What you are proposing probably won’t work at any scale.

I would love to be able to break the cycle of poverty en masse. For too many people, simply being born poor means they will be poor for life.

The part that bothers me, is the more I noodle on this, the only way I see to correct it also involves mass sterilizations. Hey, I’ll pay for your food, clothing, & shelter for life, but in exchange you have to have a vasectomy. I don’t think that’s a great offer. If someone has a better solution, I’m all ears.

74F in the winter. In the summer I usually leave the A/C off and use fans, but if it gets above 90F I’ll let it run for a few hours before bed.

I seriously don’t understand how people farther north of me survive the cold. And I live in Atlanta, so there’s a lot of them.

As a dude who loves Transport Fever 2, you better believe I get this wrong a lot.

I also see ‘meeting’ abbreviated as MTG. Which, is now what I call it when I send texts to my friends to play Magic. “Hey, got time for a MTG MTG?”

Jesus fucking Christ why didn’t you do this back when the Democrats were in power Bernie? Stop fucking virtue signaling. You could have proposed this 4 years ago and it would have had a good chance of actually passing. And that’s exactly why you waited until now, isn’t it?

It saddens me that Bernie is the least broken politician we have, and he still sucks.

My company tests their fire alarm on Fridays. We are so fucked if we ever actually have a fire on Friday.