My mother was a public school teacher for 25 years. This is facts.

We've made the trip between Lopez Island, WA and Menlo Park, CA many times in our Model 3 since we bought it in 2018. The number and availability of superchargers on I5 has increased dramatically over that time; we used to plan charging stops ahead of time but that's no longer needed at all.

The albedo (reflectivity) of solar panels is comparable to that of asphalt paving, but a significant (15-20%) of the incident energy is converted to electricity rather than directly into heat. Of course, that electricity will all be converted to heat eventually - but not in the parking lot.

"Does your dog bite?"
<Dog bites questioner>
"I thought you said your dog didn't bite?!"
"That is not my dog."

Hey, I worked on that release (and many others 1989-2017).

We often see these birds diving for fish here in the San Juan Islands. They are quite skilled fishers....

4 of us holding signs and dressed warmly.

Had a nice time in Friday Harbor, WA participating in the No Kings Rally on Saturday with my wife, my brother and his partner.

A checkered past....

See you all on Saturday....

So, we need a "one size fits all" solution? Cars don't work for a lot of older people, poor people, people too young to drive, etc.

I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

Alders are the first to move in disturbed soil here in western WA if there are any nearby. Douglas firs (not really firs, but oh well) are next...

Note that one pays Medicare taxes on all their income, salary, stock, etc. Social Security, on the other hand, is only paid on salary. This is indeed an fix, and one that directly affects the well-off.

Mark IV Monitor AC system aftermarket 1960s.

I remember when my dad bought the 1965 Suburban we had throughout our childhood - it had an aftermarket AC (Mark IV).
Used units are still for sale for restorations; all steel and built like a tank.

The trick here is keeping it clean... w/ water injection the minerals that dissolve under high heat and pressure tend to be very corrosive, which is hard on heat exchangers, pumps, etc, and presents pollution issues. The technology to isolate the heat exchange fluid from the rock is quite new.

The stupid, it burns.

So that's why we killed 100+ schoolgirls?

"no stupid rules of engagement."

Aluminum containers work - it's very recyclable, and is valuable enough that it gets recycled even when scrap glass is a drug on the market.

Yes, and anti-fascist to boot.

A little tempera paint (water soluble but good for a scare) in a squirt gun wont help....

Data centers are dense compute environments, designed to minimize transmission delays between compute elements. Current power densities for AI are increasing rapidly toward .5 MW per rack, which is converted to heat, and in space, must be radiated away, at 1200 square meters per MW @ 300K.

Having gone through a period of being immune-compromised this year (masking and most staying out of public spaces), I appreciate the difficulties involved. It's not only Covid19; it's flu, measles, .... Forcing everyone inside will not get rid of Covid19 - like the flu, it has become endemic.

Death rates due to Covid19 (cdc)

Former ICE Employee: "I swore an oath to protect the nation when I signed up. I followed it when I resigned a little over a week ago. I am duty bound to report the legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken...

#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #ICE #AbolishICE

He did make the pie higher.

We can now get good Mexican food in northern Washington state, some 1400 miles or so from the border... but 30 years ago, a local "Mexican" place served a Chili Relleno that was really a green pepper omelette. Authentic food migrates with along with people...

Good memories of our kids playing this with their friends at LAN parties in our dining room, with Ethernet and power cables everywhere......

Dr K.W. Current was an Electrical Engineering professor at UC Davis.

Herb Caen - Wikipedia

Herb Caen (columnist at SF Chronicle many years ago) called aptronyms namephreaks...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Caen