Yeah, not drinking would be pure insanity, i could never. Imagine spending time with friends sober.
I just got off the phone with my kid at college and he was complaining that part of a group of his friends never hang out sober. It still happens.
He doesn’t drink so that’s a part of his social life he still needs to figure out, but he’s been taking exploration hikes instead: 18 miles today!
It comes down to when is a child an independent adult, doesn’t it?
I plan to follow what my parents did: everyone goes to college (or trade school or service academy: let’s not get picky but more education will better prepare them for being an adult), and since they’re not independent adults, parents need to support them. I’m doing my best to cover their college expenses, provide a welcoming home when they’re here, basics of modern life like insurance Internet devices and a vehicle, while also trying to plan for a little bump when they need to get their first car and first apartment. That establishes them as independent adults!
It gets a little tougher when they “fail to launch”. Depending on the reasons and the amount of time, it can be a tough call between being their safety net and being their doormat. I can see mutually beneficial arrangements where they live at home, but the key word is “mutual”
It’s just as likely he’ll get bored or run out of money and never finish
No girlfriend. She barely noticed him. The ultimate incel
User replaceable batteries would be actual cheap, would be nice. But iPhone 15 pro battery replacement at Apple is $100, and I’d expect that to be one of the more expensive battery replacements. Many phones will be cheaper, third parties will be cheaper. While I’d rather do it myself, it’s really not that much for once every three years to keep it above 80% health, and 9% of phone replacement cost.
the argument of “why would you try to save your battery by not using it when it has the same net effect of less battery?” is pretty short-sighted.
The argument is
Definitely incredible but I still feel like people’s excitement is misdirected.
Imagine if home battery systems cost half as much but last four times as long! Or grid storage! This is huge!
I don’t see this as a valid comparison.
Most of these infamous early failure modes that people are afraid of are entirely possible to repair at home for a DIY guy. On a BEV I’m shit out of luck
In a BEV many of those failure modes don’t exist. It’s quite possible we’ll see them last much longer with essentially no issues
BEVs use conventional suspensions and brake systems, so failure there are likely just as repairable DIY
The batteries have gotten better over time, but they can still fail fairly early
Aside from the OG Nissan Leaf with passive cooling, this really seems like more of a scare tactic than an actual issue.
I don’t know about all EVs, but assuming they’re similar to mine:
I’m sure it happens that a few people need to replace the battery but they tend to last beyond the full expected lifetime of most cars and the usual failure mode is to continue working with less range
Maybe they need those booty shorts on the other thread instead of conservative trunks
Zombie. At college I had a costume party coming up with few options. However I had a ripped sweatshirt and a bunch of plastic spiders and rubber snakes. A bunch more rips, some strategic dirt, and attaching the critters turned me into a passable zombie. I really liked the results.
Note: I wish I had the confidence to…… the winners at that party was a couple dressed in trash bags. Only trash bags
I’d put that number a bit higher because they’re not a deterrent if any aggressor can conceive of taking them all out before you can react. But we’re already much higher than any reasonable logic like that
At like 20, someone can keep track of where they all are and plan a preemptive attack with confidence of destroying them all before you can react. Too small a number could make nuclear war _more _ likely.
The “nuclear triad” was a good concept to prevent any possibility of such an attack succeeding, so some number that can support multiple delivery mechanisms while Making a disarming attack very unlikely
The increase in non-strategic nuclear weapons (regional or battlefield) is an especially scary capability that we intentionally backed away from. Just no.
The concept of needing a massive buildup to counter emerging nuclear powers is just laughable. Do they even look at what they’re writing?
I have to admit that having some number of hypersonic missiles with nuclear warheads may be a good idea
But the missed their opportunity with hypersonic missiles. As those become available worldwide, they increase the chances of an unblockable preemptive attack occurring with no chance for reaction. We don’t need more nuclear weapons (and fewer would be preferable) but they need to be survivable enough to be a valid deterrent
Dr Pepper, no contest! This past year my company had a change of ceo and the new guy is a little less health conscious so now they stock Dr Pepper!
Jarritos Tamarind is outstanding, also one of my kids favorites!
Lime Diet Coke is back in stores!
Still looking for that legendary Birch Beer I had when I was a kid
Excellent stuff I really miss that but no longer have reason to goto that part of PA
I didn’t know that. I guess my “English privilege” is showing
Cool, thanks for the detail!
Sure there are limitations. The point still stands: an imperfect machine translation is better than no translation, as long as people understand it is.
Can we afford to allow a high bad deprive people of knowledge just because of the language they speak?
The article complains about the affect on languages of poor machine translations, but the affect of no translations is worse. Yes those Greenlanders should be able to read all of Wikipedia without learning English and even if the project has no human translators
Is it even getting misused? Spreading knowledge via machine translation where there are no human translators available, had to be better than not translating. As long as there is transparency so people can judge the results ……
And ai training trusting everything it reads is a larger systemic issue, not limited to this niche.
Perhaps part of the solution is machine readable citations. Maybe a search engine or ai could provide better results if it knew what was human generated vs machine generated. But even then you have huge gaps on one side with untrustworthy humans (like comedy) and on the other side with machine generated facts such as from a database
This sounds so much better than my bread machine where I have to add ingredients, press buttons, and wait four hours, but can never get a baguette