If the CO2 is somehow released, it will not be possible to drive away from the accident because car engines require oxygen to burn fuel.

Thank you, Bartoku, that is a very helpful explanation.

If only you could get wood by punching trees

I'm on Devuan. Most Debian packages work but not all. When one doesn't I use the appimage or flatpak, preferably the former. It gets me the software and I move on. Right now I am using OrcaSlicer from a flatpak.

In my mind you'd be buying a car without a battery and simultaneously subscribing to a battery service, but if you ever wanted to own a battery you could buy one. You'd get the battery delivered to the dealer (and/or they would work with one or more services directly and keep some on site) before you picked up the vehicle so it would be all the same to you as if it had come with it, and it would also come charged.

Moving them around without a battery at scrapping time is not a detriment, as vehicles to be scrapped are usually moved around with a fork lift anyway.

The $14 Billion el Bunko is throwing to the farmers pales in comparison of the $40+ Billion they are out because of that moron. This was just to shut them up and, more importantly for him, shutting up the flesh-eating Republicans in Congress. Recall that asshole came up with $40 Billion for Argentina, a country that has free, state-subsidized health care. el Bunko spent any money he could have used for Americans on his rich pals through the Great Stupid Bill. His rich pals think of themselves as citizens of RichLand, a gated community that exists wherever they wish it to exist.

More to the point, the rich pals of el Bunko and the tech goomers like Elmo and Thiel do not want democracy. They want a government that will keep the proles in line and them free to do whatever it is they want. Just listen to their speeches and what they write about much less their actions. That's no different than the robber barons of old or the greedy fucks that gave us the Great Recession.

This is the same ethos: the proles live to support them and only them. It is also what is driving them to control the media outlets. If their messages are the only messages, then no real opposition to their rule can be mounted short of a revolution. And a revolution will then be used by them to call in the military in the guise of el Bunko's storm troopers (ICE, which now boasts a fair number of those lovely reptiles that attempted a coup in the 2020 election, and which can easily be renamed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, this latter a part of the Inquisition, the DoJ is already in the planning stages for this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com... ).

They've even managed to co-opt the evangelical right into renouncing Christianity by proclaiming that it somehow against God to welcome immigrants. That was easy pickins though since their hearts turned black during the Reagan era when he stupidly let those racist and fascist ghouls into politics in a big way. The evangelicals, in service of saving their souls, have lost them.

I use AI regularly, at least once or twice a week. It's a real productivity boost. It's completely replaced searching for me. It's basically an API expert I can talk to and get answers from in 20 seconds. Good stuff.

Example: I'm working on a bad code base of a legacy application. The backend is quite a mess which I don't really like to touch, so I push a lot of my new logic into our Postgres DB. I don't really like SQL and anything beyond one or two joins I'd usually avoid. With progbuddy AI I'm doing triggers, procedures, functions, variables, etc. in SQL like a champ, sometimes 30 lines or more. Getting this good in SQL would take me at least a year of systematic practice.

The AI still does some mistakes or talks nonsense, but I catch those mistakes easily because that much I do know about SQL and coding in general. I'm the sole programmer in a company of 70 people and still manage to get off work at 5 o'clock whilst doing everything on my own.

So, yeah, AI definitely is a sold productivity boost for me and my work.

You could do battery swaps for NEVs in a scheme where you didn't own a battery at all, and instead just subscribed to one. You could also do it for heavy diesel truck equivalents, as big diesels typically have the fuel tanks hanging on the outside of the frame where they're nice and accessible anyway. But it doesn't make any sense for the vehicles in between that, i.e. the bulk of them...

MATE is outdated (but good for resource constrained systems) and GNOME is dumbed down and hard to get good results from, you need a whole bunch of add-ins just to get where KDE is. KDE was very bad in the past, but it's really come quite a long way. GNOME was really quite good in the past, but it's really gone the wrong way. I'm not against having a simple mode but I don't want oversimplification to infest everything.

He shot himself 2 days before they found him. This is not some triumph of technology. It's not a victory for the FBI. He shot himself with time that he could have used to escape or shoot some other people.

Because the USA doesn't have the concept of absolute power, Donnie Dipshit's pet Catholic Court notwithstanding, and those files were sealed by a judge at the time. There are a lot of fundamental ways in which the two parties are up to the same bullshit, but Democrats tend to obey court orders.

Corrupt, yes.

Requirements, maybe. Meeting them, absolutely not. They aren't just reporting an amount spent on classified projects and therefore we can't have a breakdown, they're saying they can't figure out where an awful lot of money went at all.

Obama was more like the Republicans than they think. For example, he was fully behind the MIC, blowing people up without due process and so on. Obviously there is a big contrast, for example we know he did a lot of drone strikes because of his EO which gave us information on how many strikes were used and where, and Trump was doing about four times as many strikes per month when he rescinded that order so that we wouldn't know how many he's done since.

Even the ACA was a Republican health care plan, spruced up a little bit but still writing profit for insurance companies into the law. So no, the pendulum just wasn't pushed that far at all.

Revolution. The chances of us rewriting the constitution for that (which is what it would take) are roughly nil otherwise.

They were specifically chosen for their respective lacks of merit. They aren't DEI hires, they're anti-DEI hires, like matter vs. antimatter. And the purpose is to cause destruction when they come together.

To you, the centrist (pro-corporation, pro-authoritarianism, pro-incarceration, pro-MIC — based on voting records) policies of the Democrats are "too far to the left" when actual leftism includes far more liberal ideas. This is because you are too far to the right to even see the left from where you're standing.