and a large percentage of the debt isn’t fixed rate. Rates rising with the markets as well.

Paying $44 billion for a $20 billion dollar company...and taking out LOANS to pay the bill is definitely smart.

And, through that $44 billion acquisition deal, the nearly $13 billion in loan debt became Twitter’s responsibility.

The scatter effect from each collision causes more scatter from the next collision and so on. 8000~ sats up now, plan for 30,000 by 2030.

Angular momentum is a seriously conservative task master. You can’t just ‘drive’ around up there to different places without significant costs.

These 2 particular artifacts have been there for 30+ years. And they’re big, i.e. *lots* of this drag you imagine is there.

It’s less obliterate everything, and more, you can’t replace anything for a few centuries as they EOL.No collision here is going to touch geo stationary stuff. But it will put a blanket around the planet that makes future launches real gambles..and any launch failures make it worse.

You can not share and then have grid failures...or you can share $2.00 worth of electricity.

I was listening to someone from Australia, another country with a very independent/individualistic mentality. And yet they have vast socialistic programs. The reason given was, “basically everything here is trying to kill you, you have to spread the cost across everyone or you won’t survive”.

How many vehicles will be plugged in? basically all of them that are at home. The logistics are simpler than you’d imagine. But it requires significant regulation and *detailed* planning.

The hilariously tragic thing is a fully EV national car fleet would *dwarf* the battery needs for 100% of all other usage. Possibly by an order of magnitude.

He *did* scuttle most everything, even after MASSIVE concessions to him. A solid 18 months later he then did something very very very similar to what he scuttled initially.

re: gas furnaces and water heaters.

Appreciate the response. The IP grab by WotC of other’s work was called out by the podcast (1 lawyer and 1 comedian) as the real problem in the changes.

They apparently entered more than the chat...

Babying the throttle/braking will definitely help tire wear but turns still exist so some of is just unavoidable.

The sound issue is one I’ve never understood. Tire/wind noise is always the first thing I hear from normal cars. Engine noise is a very distant 2nd in terms of noise from a vehicle that’s not right on top of you.

that is certainly a take....wow

Damn it, I’ll bet those scientists never thought of that, nor did *basic* checks against known weather and it’s effects.

new induction stoves *with batteries* are coming online now. Full on 4 pot ones and they still only need a 110v outlet b/c of the battery.