The advancements in battery tech are obviously great news but I still have no idea how you’d power a “traditional” charging station (with several terminals) for EVs.

There’s plenty of time to find a solution to that before today’s experimental battery tech becomes ubiquitous in cars but power generation and infrastructure seems like it’ll be the bottleneck. I haven’t done the math or anything but it just seems like 5m charging of more than one or two cars at once would strain the grid that exists today.

I guess the 2019 coup backfired on Tesla if the contracts went to China and Russia. Or maybe he paid off enough people and will get a cut?

And people say he only recently went nuts.

Seems like a dick move to plan to bring back the wooly mammoth when climate change is going to make it so there’s 45°C (113°F) days in Siberia by the time someone actually clones one.

A hairier elephant doesn’t count. Maybe the faux dire wolf is impressive research — that isn’t my field — but it feels more like marketing and hype than truly bringing back an endangered species.

I don’t think there will ever be domed habitats on other planets. For anything on Mars or the moon, you’re going to have to be underground due to cosmic rays.

But there always be specialized industrial or scientific use cases. Salt domes — where they store salt after mining it — are one example. A dome is just the best shape to store something like tons of salt. There’s also stuff like local weather radar stations where a dome is the ideal shape since you get a 360° of the sky. Radar isn’t new technology so, unlike a cutting edge observatory that rotates, it’s probably just cheaper to build a dome and buy however much radar equipment is needed.

There’s also decorative uses (like some churches, mosques, etc.) and sports venues in places with inhospitable climates during the season. It seems like modern stadia (at least in the U.S.) go with a retractable roof but places with bad weather during the specific sport’s season, I would assume it’s cheaper to have a permanent roof.

Teenagers do all those things constantly.

If there’s one thing we can all agree is funny in this time of division, it’s Jair Bolsonaro setting hospital visit records.

Some things are macabre and funny.

My friend has 5 and he basically has to buy a church bus when he needs a new vehicle. Another friend has 4 boys and he just works and coaches. When he invites me over, I always say yes and cancel anything on my schedule because it’s the first 3 hours he’s had to himself all year.

Telling 15 year-olds what to do famously always works.

Follow up: check out this bountiful harvest. It came in two boxes.

Thank you. You kind of have to be if you’re a Fediverse and Linux enthusiast and also have a social life.

This is a stray thought but I don’t know why “douche” became a universal insult. I mean, every woman I know says “douchebag” occasionally so it’s only part misogyny. But no one is in favor of filthy mysterious lady parts. Personally, I don’t want any mysterious holes to be filthy. I hope nutria rats have clean hovels.

Whomsoever does PR and lobbying for Big Douche is really fucking it up. If anything, hygiene products should be neutral or positive terms. But those douches can’t even get that right. Even Big Hose has better PR.

I thought “senile old man” was a reference to Trump until I continued reading.

I don’t normally read local newspaper comment sections because only insane people post there but I kept scrolling thinking there’d be more text and saw the comments on that article. The NY Post commenters seem uniquely insane in specific ways.

I almost think they’re bots. Most local news sites have people saying random crazy shit like, “It ain’t even safe to go to the Circle K no more!” but there’s no theme. NY Post commenters are still obsessed with Hunter Biden. It’s like Rupert Murdoch had some people set up a bot farm for the election and they all forgot to turn it off when Biden dropped out.

Or maybe Staten Island residents are just like that?

It was indeed. Very much so.

I have never heard of HP sauce but thank you for giving me something else to search online.

Google doesn’t work anymore but it seems like ketchup but Worcestershire? Is that close?

I don’t think steak sauce is a thing in South Louisiana. Prime rib gets a horseradish/sour cream sauce. Au jus is common with steak. But we also tend to eat more seafood than beef so the standard sauces are something like Crystal Hot Sauce, Tabasco, etc. Ketchup for making cocktail sauce. (A lot of places serve oysters or whatever with a little cup of horseradish and you decide how spicy your cocktail sauce will be by adding ketchup and stuff.)

I’ve definitely eaten more calamari than steaks. So, by no means is this a universal concept. I’ve just never seen anyone put A1 on anything.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a bottle of A1 sauce in real life. What is it? I’m American but from Louisiana and we have different sauces.

https://youtu.be/n2FrFBceLuY Jesus on the Mainline. Half of American music is built off Church music.

https://youtu.be/2pq9o0VmJFo Have a Little Talk With Jesus by the Zion Harmonizers

Erica Campbell - I Luh God https://youtu.be/4G5BAQhLzMw

Plus, the entire gospel genre.