Glad to hear that! I’ve got that problem too! Sometimes it takes hours to find the way out … hours free of social media, boring or horrifying news (real or fake) … today it was the Medici family history …
Glad to hear that! I’ve got that problem too! Sometimes it takes hours to find the way out … hours free of social media, boring or horrifying news (real or fake) … today it was the Medici family history …
US parts prices are … WOW … There was a time when there were junkyards, guess there aren’t so many as once.
Talking the talk is popular with these guys. They know it helps their image. In this case, it’s gaslighting.
On the whole, car should be lighter (-engine & parts,-muffler,-fuel tank) … depending on # batteries needed (+ holding structure + cables)(might lose the back seat). Same Transmission/drive train needs.
Here’s a picture of it while it’s still in the shop. https://inspenet.com/en/noticias/nasa-tests-solar-sail-in-solar-in-orbit/
Oh, for sure. Heat pumps are a-comin, dear Lisa.
Yeh, she was outstanding. That ‘poor little deer’ scene in that Brooklyn accent alone.
Yep, it’s really a lot of fun. A little hard on some parts of both southern culture and NY culture, but just enough to make it even funnier. Not just Pesci as a lawyer and all the lawyer jokes; making a judge out of Fred Gwynne so he could make all those facial expressions he’d perfected was a casting winner. So was Marisa Tomei. And the characters that played witnesses … to this day when I’m saying ‘I guess’ it always comes out with that drawl. Every scene in the film was comical first, and never let up. Masterpiece.
Other’n a couple others named? My Cousin Vinny.
(Some quotes to help my arguement: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/quotes/ )
Margaret Hamilton (witch) in a sci-fi Wizard of Oz remake. Oh hell, let’s throw Burt Lahr (lion) in there too.
Haven’t heard about the NASA design yet, but JAXA’s 2010 IKAROS used "Eighty blocks of LCD panels are embedded in the sail, whose reflectance can be adjusted for attitude contro ".
Oops, good catch! (I even used to live by her… will fix that, thanks!)
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If you don’t know what you most enjoy after H.S., finding your motivation is a really great idea for many kids. if you give it a quarter and still aren’t inspired, outside work could help with that. College is expensive; but it’s worth it and -much- easier once you know why you’re there! You’re story is a perfect example, thanks for sharing.
I’d add this (from my experience): if you start out doing well, but your grades start slipping in the second year? Take a quarter (or a year) off to figure out why that’s happening. Maybe that major isn’t for you after all. Maybe things in your personal life need getting past so that you can can get your focus back. The college will still be there when you’re ready … unless what you need is … another college !!
Totally agreed … IF you plant a tree, and let it grow, then pellitize and transport it in a green way, then burning it won’t release more hydrocarbons than it accumlated.
Fire that consumes hydrocarbon fuels and oxygen liberates CO2. So yeah. Gasoline, diesel, natural gas, wood chips, all hydrocarbon fuels. NO SUCH THING as ‘green’ wood burning.
I think NYT is correct in this sense: I haven’t heard Harris herself say much about ‘climate change’ let alone ‘global warming’.
We all get that. Candidates tend to stay away from talking about stuff that makes people feel bad because it sticks to them. But I’ve not heard her even address expanding renewables as rapidly as possible, or even heat pumps. No doubt that’s the advice she’s getting. One reason is that the cars we’re driving are a major source of CO2. Nobody’s touching that elephant.
Legislators this year already are trying to tackle the rising costs of electricity.
Considering CA’s widespread use of the now-cheapest sources of electricity, it’s more than ironic that costs to consumers are rising. Somebody needs to take a -very close- look at that.
Another question for CA: are data centers required to be carbon-neutral or else ? Will they thriving on the savings created by people driving EVs? Will their demands result in higher prices for everyone?
Because you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time … and they’ve been at it for a very long time.
Up to about the 1980s, the popular magazines used to frequently run cartoons with ragged-looking people holding up ‘It’s the END OF THE WORLD!!!’ signs. Guess they ran out of variants on that joke. But Doomsday Prophets have been around for centuries (some made big money from it) … and yet … here we all are.
We humans like to scare ourselves, but observation seems to show that it’s not a big worry. Will it all end, sure, some day. When? NOBODY KNOWS. Carpe diem, my friend … seize the day. And go ahead and make plans and execute them. Save your worry time for the little things that are inevitable.