Apparently the user to user block isn’t a requirement of Apple or Google.  The block is that a service, like Twitter, must be able to ban a problematic user. - at least per Yoel Roth formerly of Twitter.

It stops someone from responding to or trolling your posts. Yes, logging out lets them see everything, but then they can’t post so a block prevents/reduces them from engaging in that type of harassment.

Per former Twitter person Yoel Roth, the app store requirements are that a ‘service’ needs to be able to ban a problem user. not that users must be able to block other users. Apparently Musk has already deleted the X-crete (frmrly tweet) anyway

You said “Coasting in neutral does not [slow you down]” which isn’t correct. Coasting while in gear will do it faster, sure - there’s more things resisting your momentum.

Those are graphic slapped together not actual photos . Look at the right front tire in the first image. I’d take almost nothing but general looks from those.

Unless you have one hell of a tail wind, coasting is always slowing down.

Especially if you’re going downhill, coasting in neutral is worse mileage than in gear for fuel injected engines I believe. IANAGH (not a gearhead) but FI only puts gas in when it needs to I think and if you’re coasting in gear at speed, the wheels drive the engine so no need for fuel.

Bought current house in 2014 and replaced with LEDs, am *just* now starting to see a couple of the kitchen bulbs start to go.  9 years seems pretty fair

Yeah, the ‘can’ vs ‘should’ problem of accountants and designers.  IKEA and bulbs are a sordid history  haha

One ‘feature’ of CFLs I did like was the older models that wouldn’t be full brightness initially. I used them in the bathroom and enjoyed not blinding myself in the mornings lol

Yes, they did.  Added an actual heating element in place of the incandescent bulb.

Where it really is an issue though, is traffic lights in northern climates. They were designed expecting bulb heat to melt off snow/ice accumulations.

If the EZ bake oven figured it out, I’m sure lava lamps can too ;-)

One thing you forget about with LEDs and (somewhat with CFLs) is constantly replacing bulbs. It’s literally an event now it happens so infrequently.

Actually its far larger than 15%, which I believe is the emissions from operating them.

The biggest cost of ICE is the carbon heating the atmosphere.  Being able to freely pollute without cleaning up the output is a major cost not being paid by ICE users.  Like I said, it's not the sticker cost (of car or fuel)

That $7000 tax credit is a down payment on not having to rebuild cities in the Southeast after hurricanes.  We *should* be heavily subsidizing them, but politics doesn’t give way to science unfortunately.

Environmental absorption would be a factor but I think the biggest losses are just the physics of distance, inverse square law etc.

A very good point. Probably is even less than net zero.

The issue I see people bring up is simply the efficiency loss. There was a Japanese experiment that used microwaves to send power over a 10km distance and had 1% efficiency.