Maybe, thermodynamics are a jerk, and it may be impossible to get enough cooling in some environments.

It could also use more power to compress refrigerants to cool it other ways. Then we’re trading carbon in the atmosphere for water waste.

Sure we could use solar, hydro, or nuclear, but we could also just stop the fucking slop and waste less of everything.

But without political revolt none of that will happen.

Especially with all the pesticides and fertilizer in those lawns. Might get rid of a few sooner.

It sounds like the waste head they create is getting harder and harder to cool with heat exchangers. So evaporative cooling is more efficient (power wise, not water usage wise) and they basically spray water on the cooling towers and it blows away in the wind as vapor.

He sounded more like a moderate who’d finally had too much. But I could be wrong. Also considering how far right the center has moved, he could be left of center and still be what we’re all used to call conservative.

Imagine if you’d raped a bunch of children and you were running out of ways to distract the world from the distractions you’d already tried. Crashing the whole world economy makes sense in the “if I can’t have it, nobody can” toddler brain that he’s working with at this point.

The Internet also made Concorde redundant. We’re never going to travel faster than TCP packets on a zoom call.

Rich assholes who want a vacation with less travel time are gonna love these though.

Yup, unless our electoral systems change it’s mathematically impossible for a 3rd party to do anything but spoil.

Kegbreath reduced the vaccine requirements for the military, so there could be measles in any of the ships loading the missiles.

Yeah, black mold is what’s stopping me from doing this, or at least the threat of it, hopefully.

Low battery is probably as close to physical suffering as a robot could experience. Especially if the motors start to draw the voltage very low. That would drive up amperage as the motors start bogged, heating up wires, potentially tripping circuit breakers and probably sending warnings as servos and motor drivers often monitor the currents draw to act as limit switches and safety measures.

Programmers have also essentially tied battery levels to “anxiety” in robots, to ensure they prioritize charging when needed.

True, but also I think it may be a coffee mug.

My first car was my dad’s clapped out ex work truck. And 85 F-150 with a quarter million miles, an extended cab (back bench seat but no back doors), and full 8’ bed. Nobody thought there were unnecessary in my rural neck of the woods, and most contractors had something similar even in the late 70s full size fords. Also it basically flexed in the middle over bumps.

Toyota popularized the extended cab minitruck in the 80s in my recollection. But when we lived near Detroit back then Yotas got a ton of shit from the buy America crowd. I don’t think the US brands offered them until a lot later (later gen S10s and Rangers).

It cost $32,000! That’s $120,000 in now money, it was like luxury car money or small house in the sticks money.

One of Apple’s early tricks was efficient board designs with low chip counts that let the charge less (I know, it’s hard to imagine now). The Macintosh was many of the same features, a friendlier design, and cost $2500, which was still really nice used car money in 1985.

You both get taxed on the $10 income unless you can write off the $10 you gave each other as a business expense.

Naw, those jump seats were only for emergencies and Toyota, Nissan etc had them for years too.

The Dodge Dakota was the first of the compact trucks to get big. Rangers were the last small American* truck sold, S10s went out just before it. When they replaced the Ranger with the Explorer Sport Trac is when the second row of seats got usable. Those things suuucked though.

*Even though it’s a Mazda, sort of.

** I’m old too.

This needs to be replicated or relocated across the street from wherever Trumps fucking con library ends up.

This side’s odds don’t look great then.

I’m starting to seriously wonder if ChatGPT is actually running OpenAI. It would explained Altman’s constant lying and telling people what they want to hear.

Or he’s just another tech asshole.

This is probably what it felt like to the first explorers trying to cross either pole.

Naw 1890s was after the civil war, they want to go back further.