Yes and that’s why I said 8 billion and not 80, I accounted for the fact that this was one year worth of work.

Spending 8 billion to find half a billion doesn’t sound like something worth bragging about. Let me know when they 20x that number.

Tick bites can cause it. Something about your body building immunity to a protein transferred by the tick that closely matches those found in beef or something like that.

I have this which is $113 right now and I think you can catch it for a bit cheaper sometimes. Of course you have to factor in installation costs if you’re not comfortable installing it yourself.

It’s great though because it makes it easy to use filtered water even for tea, coffee, cooking etc since it’s right at hand at the sink.

Vanilla bean is one. A lot of the people who produce it don’t really understand why we want it.

They pulled it. Google didn’t.

I wish communities would start banning that bot. It’s summaries are mostly awful, typically missing critical details in an article to the point of completely altering itsintent.

This example is particularly egregious though, I think it had a stroke.

Office buildings are designed to be remodeled. Just about every time a new company comes in they remodel the space to fit their needs. This includes adding/removing kitchens, bathrooms, server rooms, lighting, HVAC etc…

Sure, you’re going to have to run a whole lot more plumbing for residential, maybe you even need a larger connection to the sewer but you’re already doing a full tear out, these things are inconsequential.

Somehow I’m supposed to believe it’s cheaper to build out from scratch rather than repurpose an existing structure? It makes no sense.

He’s actually right about this one despite the down votes. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are electric vehicles that use elective motors not engines so there are no oil changes.

The difference is that a fuel cell vehicle captures electrons during the reaction that takes place when hydrogen is exposed to oxygen (they bond to from H2O) rather than storing energy in batteries.

So battery electric vehicles store their energy in a battery while fuel cell electric vehicles store it in the form of hydrogen but ultimately electricity is was powers both of them.

I don’t know what provoked the OP’s comment. I just wanted to add context because I personally made a lot of bad assumptions from it before reading the article.

Also I don’t know that your statement is accurate and global warming is never brought up in the article.

They don’t know why the ozone hole is big this year but they suspect it may be related to a volcanic eruption. Article concludes that scientists expect the ozone layer to be back to normal by 2050.

The suggestion is that this is an unusual year for the ozone layer which sees the hole expand this time every year before retracting again by December. They never suggest human behavior is damaging it again.

I don’t think it’s as unpopular as you think it is. The internet skews perceptions.

Well for starters they make the most popular pickup in America (F-150).

They also recently released the new Bronco and the Maverick. Both of these vehicles are incredibly popular to the point where they haven’t been able to keep up with orders. Both vehicles brought them into a new market that they weren’t competing in before with the Maverick being one of the only small, affordable pickups in America and the Bronco being a direct competitor to the Wrangler.

Then there’s the F-150 lightning, they were the first of the big three automakers to introduce an electric pickup.

What? I never said I was trolling. I said I was offering a different perspective.

It’s so bizarre how people are attacking me for that. You would think I said something awful.

I did enjoy the reaction that my original comment got but only because the comment wasn’t intended to stir up controversy or invoke a strong reaction but clearly has.

I was contributing to a conversation with a comment that I feel was quite harmless. I didn’t know free speech absolutism was such a feather rustling topic.

What’s sad is you being mean to a person for simply making a comment on a social media platform.

No I don’t personally believe in absolute free speech I was just trying to offer perspective in response to a comment that was rejecting the concept outright.

I do enjoy the rise it got out of this audience though.

The concept of absolute freedom of speech is based on lessons learned in history and even the present. As soon as you start limiting speech you have to draw a line and nobody can agree on where that line should be. The real issue however, is that it’s ultimately government that decides.

A government that can limit few speech gets to decide what acceptable speech is and that’s a dangerous power in the hands of the wrong people.

There’s definitely consequences to unhinderred free speech but I think history shows us that the alternative is worse.

Nobody is coming after you, don’t worry about it. If they were really determined? Maybe, possibly, depending on many factors but you’re a very small fish in a very big pond.

Anybody in PA can relate to athletic shorts and hoodie. Doesn’t matter the location.

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out that’s for sure. Every time I drive by a rest stop on the highway I imagine what the gas lines would look like if those people were instead lining up to spend 20+ minutes minimum at a charging station.

Even if you put a charger in every parking space it would likely be a problem. Those lots fill up as it is and I can’t even fathom the electrical feeds required for that.

I think the people saying “oh it’s just electricity we already have that” are a bit dilusional. It’s going to require enormous investment into infrastructure and even then it may not be feasible.

I think it’s one of those things that seems great when only a handful of people are doing it but will become a nightmare as more EVs end up on the road.

Its great for those who have a dedicated place to park their car, can charge at home and only commute a short distance back and forth to work but it falls short for many.