My current car won’t start unless m wearing my seat belt.

You need to get a streaming audio service - you only need one playlist. No commercials. No blather. Just the music you requested. Surfing is no longer relevant

My ex gets distracted easily. She always hated that I would ghost brake, but I can’t help it when she’s not reacting to the stopped car in front of us

And the 3d printing part is not relevant.

There is no national firearm registry and manufacturers are not required to track parts or kits. So you can “build your own” weapon without traceable serial numbers - regardless of whether you use 3d printing to create one or more parts

My ez-pass transponder came with a faraday bag - clearly ez-pass is a criminal organization

A former employer handed out branded faraday phone and wallet bags as a tchotchke- I must have worked for organized crime.

Oh no, passport faraday bags are all over Amazon - clearly criminal and needs to be shut down

And it’s not just insurance companies that need to be disrupted. There’s that whole convoluted ecosystem of profit-takers that should not even exist

Misleading headline. Article goes badly wrong in its attempt to ELI5 ……

It’s not “direction”‘that’s affected, but electron transitions to either higher or lower states …… I think. This article is horribly written if they wanted to communicate anything

Edit: the article does link to the original paper but someone else will need to translate that. It looks more like they were able to produce a formerly theoretical quantum particle (not electron) and show weird behavior. I still don’t know what “direction” means, because it’s relative to how its quantum state changes. I don’t think direction means direction in the macro sense but I don’t know what it does mean

I was misled in the posted article with hints about energy levels that reminded of electron shells. The original article makes it clear these are not electrons but talks about quantum states in a vaguely similar way (at least according to my limited understanding)

Seriously. I expected to be replacing my gas furnace with heat pump in the next few years, but now I have to figure out if I can or should do it asap

They’re really annoying since they only do prescriptions. I suppose that’s useful sometimes but so is regular stuff. It seems like such a small part of their business

For example, one time my toddler was sick and my wife was out of town. I needed some Pedialyte and I forget what over the counter medicine, and it’s not like I could leave the little guy. I pull up in a cloud of stench with him vomiting out both ends, and begged them to let me buy stuff in the drive through. But nope, I had to take that into the store

Bummer. I wanted to see that

I do know plenty of people who think this way, and I find the post quite plausible. There’s been so much disinformation about unions in the US, for the last couple generations, that people don’t know any better.

However as an edge case, I do believe it was true for my brother working part time minimum wage. As far as we could tell there were no benefits for the part timers, no extra pay, no protections, no perks, just extra dues to pay. It’s too bad too, this could have been the unions chance to re-educate, show them benefits when someone is starting out so they support unions the rest of their lives. Instead it reinforced his prior attitude and he remains anti-union to this day

The problem is everything with buildings is slow. Who can afford to replace functional buildings, and buildings remain useful for decades or more? There’s only so much you can do with infill. The only other option I can think of is to change zoning radically enough that it becomes profitable to bulldoze functional buildings. Of course that has additional environmental costs but over time should be fine

I’m personally not a fan of higher density buildings by themselves. That’s just a recipe for annoying people enough that you hope they demand better before they give up and move away. Higher density buildings needs to have some thought put into walkability, personal mobility, and transit

You still have all the moving parts needed to radiate/convect away the heat.

…… so if my experience with existing systems means anything, the control board. It’s always the control board

Plus they’re too breakable. My kids have a few and they break if you knock them off a table

They’re not just country codes, but match a list of two character country codes defined by the UN

Massachusetts has a regional transit system, and just used that to mandate transit oriented development for all towns and cities served. It requires they zone higher density housing “as of right” within half a mile of transit. I have high hopes for that, but it will take decades and we’re starting at such a high cost of living.

However we also have the problem of a stagnant population and very little room for new development. It’s infill and replacement housing so will be even slower

I so hope this is true. We have an extremely anxious teenager waiting for his early decision results expected out this week. I hope for every advantage he can get

True, but not many have sold yet. We still have a chance to get commuters out of trucks before they transition to EVs.

But do you know what’s even heavier, by many times? Trucks. In the beginning of EV times, one level of misinformation was claiming increased road wear from heavier vehicles. I believe several red states used that to block EVs or to increase taxes well above ICE vehicles. Then people started realizing it was exponential by weight, and road wear is mostly trucks. The difference with EVs is vanishingly small.

Im not saying it ts the same situation for tire wear, I’m saying it’s important to know. Heck, is. It even the weight? What about all that extra torque in EVs? Alternately, does modern traction control make a noticeable difference. It just seems lazy writing to highlight EVs as a problem here without covering more of the possibilities, one way or another

I call shenanigans on blaming EVs. Yes, they’re heavier, but pickups and trucks are even heavier, and pickups are currently far more widespread (in the US). If you want to single them out, you either include all heavy vehicles or at least five a reason we should be more concerned about those than about heavier vehicles

While I love data and crave the dashboards, for everyone else:

• things work normally, and the “smart” functionality is added
• my automation is timers
• everything is voice control

I’ve given up persuading anyone to use any of the smart functionality, although I’m likely to get the Apple home hub when it comes out.

I’ve looked into various e-ink projects for dashboards but never had the time to follow through

I wish I could have an avocado that looks so perfect! Of all produce, they’re the most difficult to find in good condition, good ripeness.

This week I did pretty good …… out of three avocados, one was good, one was bruised and ugly but mostly useable, and one had to be thrown out.