I wonder what the azeotrope for magically created alcohol is.

See? I do t even know how many boroughs there are!

Yep. Not what I intended.

I mean every American is expected to know the layout of a specific city.

My point is that people in the US are kind of expected to understand the layout of a city that they may never have been to or maybe only visited as a tourist.

It’s only the “local map” for like 8 million of us.

digitalblasphemy.com ftw

I’ve been using a Dell keyboard I got at goodwill for $4. It’s great.

Has anyone in this family even seen a chicken?

Android OS runs a modified version of the Linux kernel.

Yeah, but again, try running on a platform of “everything you enjoy will need to be different.”

Oh sure. I agree with that. Obviously many people have limited options.

I just think think it’s a monumentally bigger ask no matter where the change has to be made (policy or individual choice).

Like our best solution for transportation (in the US at least) is to just keep making larger free ways. Even gas powered buses running on decades old technology could make a significant impact on the climate crisis, but people either don’t want to ride them or cities don’t want to build them.

Any way, I’m just frustrated with the attitude that we’re going to technology our way out of this hole without needing to change or sacrifice anything (like we pulled off with ozone).

When it comes to energy use, there’s such a thing induced demand. If it’s cheaper, people will use it more. Hell, look at how much energy it takes to use AI to write an email.

There’s no induced demand with refrigerants.

Yeah but consumers already have choices when it comes to fossil fuels and they’re sticking with fossil fuels.

Eh. The solution to the ozone layer was to replace refrigerant A with refrigerant B. A 1:1 swap that required very little effort from anybody.

Getting off fossil fuels more or less mandates an entire global paradigm shift in how we do basically everything. The entire global economy of the past 200 years has been built off an unsustainable energy source.

Sure, we can replace gas with batteries, but every step of the way is going to require small changes in how people do things, and they’re going to be very resistant to that.

Yeah, but given the number of morons pumping gas into Home Depot buckets, etc, it’s amazing more folks don’t die.

Was waiting for him to talk about how insane gasoline is. Highly explosive, comes out of a hose, no special training required to dispense it. No oversight.

We had one of these. It was terrible. Spring force was super weak and slow and there was no lever to manually lift the toast if it got stuck.

I heard that part of the motivation behind games like Pokémon Go is that they can collect data on previously unrecorded pedestrian routes between major landmarks or points of interest.

So Google’s directions may be based on crowd sourced routes that have never been vetted as safe/legal for pedestrians and cyclists.

MIT students call elaborate pranks “hacks.”

Source: class of 2011

Yeah this is back when human beings needed to hand-draw the big yabos on the generic fantasy women. There was no AI to do it for you.

The solar sail reflects light instead of absorbing it so you get to double dip on photon momentum.

And sure, you can steer with the laser I suppose, but with that kind of super weak deltaV, you’re not going to be exactly doing donuts in the solar system.

Even the massive solar sail only imparts a super small amount of force. It’s only useful because it does so for free over a long period of time with no air resistance.

You’d be better off using a conventional thruster to do whatever steering you needed to do before letting the sail take over. It’s not like you need to steer around any obstacles.