Who fuckin’ knows, which is the problem.
SCOTUS reaffirmed a few years ago that limits can be put on what private citizens can own, to the disappointment of the “arms means ‘arms’” crowd. But that was before this whole fun angle of “justify it historically” was added.
Residential =/= short term rental
AirBnB and equivalents are usually a better deal for landlords. The property is vacant a majority of the time, meaning less maintenance or chance of damage. The rates are significantly higher, a booked weekend or two can exceed a month’s rent. You/your management company deal with customers significantly less than renters, it’s usually just collecting money and asking for a review.
But this means there’s now less housing available in the city, and not in places where it’s expected to be. Which other than the very obvious “thing meant for housing is now a hotel”, screws up a ton of public funding/planning because there’s not people living there, it’s just the occasional vacationer.
Like anything, if there was only one or two people doing it it would just be annoying. But it’s being done on an industrial scale. So cities are banning it unless the property owners get explicit permission, which they may deny.
The mental fitness question isn’t because of his view that we’re already in a Mad Max hellscape only he can lead the true believers out of.
The mental fitness question is because he sounds like he’s having a stroke anytime he has to string together more than 2 sentences.
As someone who loves it, It’s less a game and more a story generator. Until the company was hired to do the nicer graphics and interface for the Steam version it was a math PhD and his brother programming it as a work-in-progress complete fantasy world simulator. It still is but now it’s prettier. It feels very comfortable to call it the most complex game on Steam. Rimworld and Minecraft among others took direct inspiration from it, he’s been working on it awhile.
Famous patch notes include fixing cats dying from alcohol poisoning because they walked through a puddle of beer before cleaning themselves, egg yolk and egg white having different fluid densities, and nerfing mer-people farming because that’s just disturbing.
Would be interested in seeing/reading more about it, don’t have/want the subscription to read the white paper. Just seems like it could be somewhat like mirrors where it’s important for the glass to be liquid at one point so there’s no distortions and a strong bond but then once it’s constructed it just sits there.
And before that there were several decades of massive incentive to develop smaller more powerful ICE engines.
Lithium probably has some room to grow, but it also has a lot of problems like volatility and materials sourcing. EV manufacturers have been searching for ways to make better/cheaper/denser batteries, not better/cheaper/denser lithium batteries. They’ve been actively searching for alternatives.
It does say “during assembly […] to form a solid current collector while maintaining a liquid-like contact with the electrolyte”.
After it’s made it could be not under pressure at all.
Mostly outdated, but not “throw coins in aircraft engines” crazy. It’s at least based on good advice, just a bit cargo-cult-y.
Batteries it depends on the chemistry.
NiCad/NiMH and some other older battery tech it can prolong shelflife, especially if you’re in a hot/humid climate. Lithium batteries it doesn’t really do anything.
Minishoot’ Adventures $11.99 (20% off)
Isometric Zelda / Metroidvania / bullet hell with a lot of accessibility features and neat art where you’re a lil spaceship guy. Has a demo to see if it’s your jam. Already beat it twice, would really love for them to make DLC or a sequel.
They are a bad scientist.
They have decided they don’t like a thesis and are looking for reasoning to explain those feelings. What they are not doing is trying to understand the evidence for the thesis. They believe that science is one person saying the viewpoint they already hold is how the thesis they don’t like or understand is ‘disproven’.
They are not curious for discovery, they are curious how to explain their pre-existing worldview in “science-y words” because they feel unable to reconcile their faith with reason. In another life they would have been the monk writing how the patterning on flowers is proof of Jesus’ suffering.
RotJ is where Lucas started to not have pushback on story ideas. It still mostly works but some silliness is leaking through. Especially in the Special Edition, but Empire is the only one that really wasn’t effected by those.
It’s the name of an app/website/email spam service.
I heard of a really cool project awhile ago where they were proudly sparing no expense. Hopefully nothing went wrong.
Have a friend that’s finishing med school and going to residency this summer. Everything about it is insane and they all know it and power through. If you get accepted you’re moving around more than the military and paying through the nose for the privilege while seemingly half the “teachers” (working doctors) are worked to death and the other half are completely checked out.
Passive vs active engagement.
These plates are a passive, very visual reminder. A tracker app requires you actively use the app, and not consciously/subconsciously underestimate portions.
Neither is a holistic solution, both require buy-in, each is going to have different effectiveness for different people.
He let the crazy veil slip a bit during the Thai cave rescue drama, but Covid seems to have really pushed him over the edge.
Also you generally want the most financially prudent decision a business can make not to be “sit on the money until it’s worth more”.
Inflation encourages spending money, deflation encourages saving money.
Ah.
Yeah that’s kind of a dick move.
Well now I’m retroactively annoyed they didn’t use it in the Mad Max game a few years ago. It was still really fun but that would’ve been a great addition.