You might also enjoy The Shoulders of Giants.

I strongly suspect that this was all by design. If they jail them in US prisons, it’s very easy for them to be released. When they’re being held by a foreign government, it’s very difficult to force them to release them, especially when they know the president doesn’t actually want them released in the first place. I’d even wager there’s an under the table agreement that they won’t release them, even if pressed.

Even if it were true, it’s a American citizens paying that money. It’s like bragging that he raised everyone’s taxes and increased government revenue, he’s just masking it behind language that the majority of the population doesn’t understand the implications of and a broad web of lies to make it sound more palatable.

👅🐴 … There is not a raisin emoji.

Meanwhile they created a SharePoint and are forcing every state funded college to upload the syllabi from every course to make sure it doesn’t mention black people or gun violence.

The wildest part is, I can’t tell if this is a joke or not; I wouldn’t even be surprised to learn that this is true, at this point.

Holy shit, what a story. The fact that so many people tried to get him help when he was a kid and the wellness checks and whatnot just completely failed to discover any of this, while based on the accounts of what he was doing at school something was clearly very wrong, is pretty messed up.

The fact that there were other kids at the house is wild, too. How did none of them say anything to anyone? They had to know he was there, right?

This is hilarious mainly because all he had to do was type /DND and he could have stopped all of this, which anyone who had actually played the game for any substantial amount would know, but of course he doesn’t, because he just paid people to play it for him.

When we need to get another car (which hopefully won’t be for a while), we’ll definitely go the PHEV route.

The EV we bought was 42k new, but we were able to take advantage of 10k in government rebates (which were the only reason we went new instead of used - the rebates were not available on used ones; the end result was that it cost about the same as a used one would have in our area.) Those rebates obviously aren’t available anymore, though, which makes them considerably less palatable.

The planned charging infrastructure just not coming to fruition is probably a contributor. We bought an EV (not a Tesla) in 2021 and while we like it a lot, range anxiety is definitely a thing. There’s some places where if we want to go there, we have to take 30+ minute detours to find a charging station.

It’s funny, really, because game elements like that could make for a really neat game if it was done intentionally, but when it’s AI artifacts, it’s awful.

But the fine is nominal — $200 for first offenders — and the House Ethics Committee, which is the primary enforcer of the STOCK Act, may choose to waive it without publicly disclosing it has done so. The Department of Justice has criminally investigated a handful of alleged STOCK Act violations but declined to bring charges.

The system is fundamentally broken. That isn’t a penalty, that’s just a fee they pay as part of their transaction.

That’s fine, nothing wrong with that, but it’s right in the rules, and will probably result in this post getting removed. Just letting you know before it does.

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(Also, this is some pretty boomer shit.)

Where is this / what company is it with? This is pretty amazing.

Even if they do, unless Musk divests entirely, they can still get fucked. As long as hurting Tesla hurts Musk, they’re just a means to an end.

That’s a good point; it becomes less economical if you need multiple of these cells just to counteract the self-discharge. Even so, it’s really just a demo of the technology; they do mention they expect to have a 1 watt model later this year.

Almost nothing… Maybe some very basic scientific equipment, but they do note that they’d be able to use multiple batteries layered to produce higher output, and that they’re expecting to have a 1 watt version later this year; that’d be far more useful in practice.

This is wild; the battery would outlive the electronics it’s powering in almost all cases.

The output is incredibly tiny, but I wonder if it could be used to trickle-charge a higher-output battery for use in electronics that only need to be used infrequently for short durations.

Please don’t judge us all by Florida’s actions. In turn, we won’t judge you by the dumbest 0.1% of your country’s population.

Holy shit, that’s awful. Sorry your dad is awful, but good on you for cutting ties.