So "BUT there's a danger in the technology... AND Elon's making it hundreds of times worse." /end

So yes. Li-ion batteries as a technology can catch fire. HOWEVER the Elon Musk implementation has a LOT more fires than the competition. AND when a fire happens, you get locked into a bulletproof compartment and the system shuts off, so you can't escape the fire. It's like a D&D trap by a 13yo DM.

I was going to say "but" and 90% of what I typed was "and".
Too much detail follows: Li-ion batteries do catch fire sometimes (there are technological solutions in development but they're not there yet. The batteries develop, like, lithium icicles that eventually short out the battery and boom.)1/n

(Friend of mine had two brothers. One hid an Annoy-o-tron in the other's house. The victim spent like $10,000 busting down walls, checking wiring, and looking for the problem. If you're going to be an asshole you have to be REALLY funny and... nothing's funny enough for that level of asshole.)

(came here to ask same thing, ty)

I just said something about RFK Jr that might have been deep: If shame was going to work, it would have worked by now. That applies to every one of these incompetent, evil, losers in his cabinet and possibly to the entire governing Republican Party.

I didn't know your dog but it grieves me to hear.

"I'm a privileged murdering piece of shit who thinks people will forget about this."

I mean, every member of his family already turned their back on him. If shame was gonna work it would have worked by now.

*nods vigorously* My memory overstated it, but it's about 10x as energy intensive as iron.
About 200 MJ/kg to make aluminum from bauxite (55 kWh) vs about 20 MJ/kg (5.5 kWh) for iron. (from energyeducation.ca, checked elsewhere, neither source actually known to me.)

I'm old enough to remember when Hunter Biden was constantly in the news for making $0.6 million in salary from Burisma, a job he supposedly got because his father was Vice President. His dong got entered into the Congressional Record.

Anyone else remember that, or is it just me?

Settlers of Catan! Or chess if I gotta reroll.

We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

Scientists turn scrap car aluminum into high-performance metal for new vehicles Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a new aluminum alloy called RidgeAlloy that can turn contaminated car-body scrap into strong structural vehicle parts. Normally, impurities…

Aluminium used to build cars can now be reused to build cars. A new alloy called RidgeAlloy turns contaminated scrap into strong structural vehicle parts. This solves the problem where recycled aluminium from mixed or dirty auto scrap was too weak for structural use buff.ly/tmDSuWf
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ENERGY SECRETARY CHRIS WRIGHT: We were proud to have gasoline prices below $2 a gallon earlier this year

HEINRICH: What are they right now?

WRIGHT: Just over $4

HEINRICH: What is diesel?

WRIGHT: Diesel is over $5

HEINRICH: It's closer to $6 in my state

WRIGHT: It's over $8 in California

AI? Racist cliche's ? Weird.

Leeching onto a person with friends's post to say: I was so pissed off when "ride sharing" got redefined to "law-dodging taxi company" and not, you know. A carpooling app.

NEW | Clean power met ALL the growth in global electricity demand in 2025

Solar generation alone met THREE QUARTERS of the demand rise and grew by 30%.

Fossil generation stagnated (-0.2%).

🧵 A thread on changes in the global power system in 2025...

We all thought it was going to be useful for something! Well, I did.

And you know everyone was clicking on it to see which character it was.

Was he born the last time you guys got a cup?

the word misfits that is pink on a black background Alt: the word misfits that is pink on a black background

"Die, die, die my darling"- worse things can be stuck in my head.

AI Demand Sparks Transformer Boom: Ayr Energy Lands $500M Orders AI data center growth is reviving demand for iron-core transformers. Startup Ayr Energy has secured over $500 million in orders, highlighting production bottlenecks for major players.

We have 60 GVA transformers ready to ship to the USA with 18 month delivery times from India.

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So I am a terrible hockey fan but I'm trying. I am against every team [but one] from places where water does not freeze over in winter. I will make an exception for any Florida team who changes their name to the Snowbirds.

If it's any consolation, they don't believe their products work and are just trying to get as much money as possible from the investors.

He changed my life, in small sharp-edged ways, for the better.

So.

Solar and wind are A LOT CHEAPER than getting electricity from coal and natural gas. They're cheaper than coal and natural gas if you bought the power plant for a dollar* and the employees were volunteers.

*This could happen. A Swiss nuclear plant was selling for a dollar with no takers.

Was that the one where one of the musketeers had, like, steampunk Bond gadgets?

I mean, Reagan's farewell address was at least partly about how great immigration was.

"...then completely moved out of their bedroom and had the connecting door boarded shut."

He is not a neutral source here, but I wanna know what got her to the point that she was sneaking into his room at night. I feel like she was waking him up so it's not his skillz. Do I know any experts?

I'm gonna have to read a Dickens biography now because according to Wikipedia, one reason gave for he separating from his wife was she couldn't leave his dick alone. "To ensure no more children could be born, he ordered their bed to be separated and put a bookshelf in between them..." 1/2