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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Don't write that down. Do you hear me?

We hear you loud and clear.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

~~We've done that.~~

that's the system we have right now

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was about one day before that for me. I was like

oh that's so cool, he's got amazing engineers working to repurpose a pressure vessel from SpaceX to act as a rescue pod to save those kids.

Then actual cave divers were like:

any cave diver will tell you that this will never work

What kind of cave diving rescue plan doesn't talk to any cave divers before drawing any attention to itself? The kind designed solely to draw attention and stroke ego. He tried to make those boys' struggles about himself because he thinks he's the most capable man alive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah true, but I think they actually use wavelength of red shift, which is distance.... traveled by light in the time it takes to make a full cycle. So I guess we're back to seconds again.

I think they use this for distance and time because at scales being dealt with they have the same implications.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you need to be more specific than 'long distance', yes they use parsecs for 'long distances' but I believe only for intra-galactic objects. I think other galaxies are too distant for parallax seconds to be useful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Don't they measure distance and time by redshift (ie colour)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mate it's a meme from 17 years ago, not 2017. It's from 2007.

It's the

... like such as the Iraq...

Clip right?

Anybody else feel like it's pretty sexist to liken the anticipated performance of the vice president of the USA to a teen beauty pageant contestant?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone interested in this should check out superfastmatt (YouTube) he has a video series where he converts a Dodge Viper for offroading.

Not bolting a viper body onto a dune buggy frame.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Makes total sense to me. He loved his husband and wanted him to be happy, but wasn't sexually attracted to him. But not a homophobe, so willing to try to make husband happy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The senate has become a golden carrot for political parties to reward friendly journalists. This is not healthy for our democracy.

What if we replaced the senate with a longer cycle, partyless FPTP system, and used PR for the lower house?

Just an idea I haven't thought through yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's really telling that Chinese EVs (like imported Teslas) were basically considered fine until the prospect of them being affordable to the middle class arose. That's when we started hearing about labour abuses and fires that only happen with * cheap Chinese* batteries.

It's not like Tesla has a stellar reputation for quality and reliability. They started powerwall as a way to offload bad/ prematurely failing batteries. Don't get me wrong, powerwall is a good idea. But pretending like BYD is going to have terrible batteries and that's why we need tariffs is bad.

China has labour and human rights abuses (eg genocide of Uyghers in Xinjiang [cultural genocide is still genocide]). Imo Canada is doing a better job of reconciling with its history/present of cultural genocide than China is. Canada's TFW program probably results in lots of horrible abuses that we don't hear about, but i think this program may be on its way out too. These issues don't only apply to EVs though.

The only things that're EV specific are lithium batteries and automotive manufacturing.

EV tariffs are protectionism: We want to protect domestic automotive (and para-automotive) manufacturing capabilities, and our investments in EVs/green tech.

I don't think 100% tariffs can be justified on EVs alone.

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