Our charger has a long cord, even if the charger was inside the cord could run outside and you could shut the door on it.

As it happens, that's not a problem either. I put the charger outside on a north facing wall under a large roof overhang where it's protected from the elements. The Tesla wall charger is waterproof and designed to live outside. I've had zero issues with it.

Besides, isn't it usually recommended not to park an EV in the garage due to fire hazard if something goes sideways?

The car parks right next to where the charger is, we plug it in every night and it's on a timer to start after 9 when the cheap rates kick in. Between the TOD Prime rate that SoCal Edison gives for EV owners and charging almost entirely at home, the electricity for the car is basically free, as our power bills are actually lower on average than they were before we changed rate tiers.

I personally don't care for the car (it's my Wife's car) due to the driver-hostile control setup (no buttons) and the fact that it tracks your every move, but it works for her because she has a long daily commute and we were spending a lot of money on gas every month.

Crypto doesn't always mean PoW

Nah.

Iâ(TM)m 51. Iâ(TM)ve had health insurance continuously for 35 years and have used it exactly ZERO TIMES.

I am self pay. For everything but true life threatening emergencies, which Iâ(TM)ve had zero.

Even the ER is cheaper when negotiated self pay.

My urologist is stunned that I pay $85 for his visits. Self pay. Including labs. My colleague goes to the same urologist and his insurance pays $550 for the same visit and naturally it comes out of his deductible lol.

Insurance is a scam. All insurance is legal gambling and gamblers never win.

Thanks for the update. I did use Seatguru fairly recently and the information on my particular flight was still valid as far as I can tell, but maybe I just got lucky. I did notice that it was transforming into a booking gateway to maximize revenue. I've bookmarked the new site and I will refer to it for the next trip.

Always consult seatguru before booking...they have maps of the layouts for each plane for each carrier, and you can see the lemons....

Supply and demand dictate this is exactly the case.

If something is valuable to everyone, it should only be accessible to those who have enough saved value to acquire it.

The poor fucked themselves. My parents are poor but worked hard so I wouldn't be.

Being compensated for it means it wonâ(TM)t get wasted and will always have a fair valuation.

Compensation is as cooperative as it comes because nobody can hoard it.

You know, some of us are introverts and hate talking to machines. I don't want to have to interact with a machine pretending to have a human-like personality. I don't use voice input on anything except occasionally when composing text messages using speech-to-text, and even that's aggravating and useless half the time because it gets so many words wrong. No thanks.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Have they found a less energy intensive way to separate H2O into its component pieces? Otherwise you may as well just burn the source fuel directly without the conversion loss. If it can be done with electricity, powered by wind, solar or nuclear, then it might be an OK storage medium for things that have to move long distances.

As some other commenters mentioned however, there are serious downsides to even doing that in terms of storability and safety. It would be better to pour research into making more efficient electrical batteries for the same application.

Right now nothing beats the energy density of gasoline and related fuels. Electric is probably the best bet in the near term, but likely not for aviation unless they solve the weight problem too.

So a few counter discussion points to that -

What 50 billion devices are you referring to? If you're counting android in there you shouldn't, you can't upgrade the kernel yourself and you're stuck with the vendor's decisions to update or not

What are you calling linux? The kernel only?
If the whole system, most distros require you to reboot with updates to core services/software, especially to the desktop environment.

Microsoft are idiots with this whole win10 to win11 debacle (what happened to win10 is the last version ever?), and they should simply disable the few features that require new chip features in a slightly cut down version (mostly security related, let the users choose, just like you can choose SE Linux or not).

It would be amazing if there was a document that stated in very clear terms just how limited our federal government is and what it can't do at all no matter what.

Everyone I know who makes my equivalent AGI, except for my household, has 1+ dogs, work crazy hours, and have been told that their dogs are lonely and depressed.

Not one or two people.

EVERYONE. Dozens upon dozens of my clients, colleagues, peers, friends from grade school, etc, have a dog or two, and then they have to have someone come spend time with said dog when they're putting 10+ hours away from them.

Wag/Rover/etc is part of their crazy consumer spending. I always am shocked to hear they're spending $1000 a month on their pets.

Americans are insane about their pets. Instead of buying a dog, I invest in corporate veterinary hospitals, because it's crazy profitable.

He's wrong about the Facebook part. The SocialFixer extension for Firefox does a huge amount of stuff for the Facebook experience and it's still active and usable. I couldn't use FB without it. You'll see like 10 'suggested' items blocked and minimized, and then actual friends' posts. It's so helpful. I'm reminded of what a garbage dump FB is when I occasionally use the app on my phone, which is the full unfiltered experience the way they want you to see it. It's all ads and suggested posts. SocialFixer allows me to continue using Facebook as a place to connect with friends and groups with shared interests, as it was in the earlier days.