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Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · Jun 9

I’m at the coffee house, I’m at the opium den, I’m at the combination coffee house and opium den

Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 10h

I was thinking yesterday if this increases the take rate on data subscriptions

Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 11h

Wow looking at the elevation you’d definitely need locks though

-273 feet

Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 11h

Sea level rise will get us there eventually (Mexicali is 27 feet above sea level) but I always found the idea of a canal to the Gulf of California interesting

Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 1d

Bad news for workers at the companies trying to develop geothermal and lithium on the Salton Sea:

A new study found that inhaling dust from the inland California lake changes lung microbiomes and harms immune response in ways that may be irreversible. The more the lake dries, the most toxic dust.

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Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 12h

Billionaire Gulag

www.nbcnews.com/news/mideast... How a Saudi royal crushed his rivals in a 'shakedown' at the Ritz-Carlton

How Saudi Arabia's crown prince crushed his rivals at the Ritz

Royals and others held at the luxury hotel after a Nov. 4, 2017, roundup were subjected to extortion, psychological abuse and torture, U.S. officials say.

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Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 13h

Me troubleshooting my heavily depreciated celestique

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Interstellar - TARS Humor Setting

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Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 13h

Ok an LLM feature id actually want is if it can read trouble codes and do log analysis on the on board systems computers to do some assisted troubleshooting

Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 14h

The horseshoe has legitimately gotten so strong some leftist should give running as republican a shot

Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 14h

Ok but at least the president isn’t old anymore

Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 14h

*sound of jackhammering in the background *

Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 14h

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REAL GENIUS (1985) – Popcorn Explosion

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Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah but also a one time 20-30% bump isn’t really saving the planet

EVs neither but at least you’re getting 50%+ as the grid decarbonizes

Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 16h

Honestly I don’t see how we make it more than another couple generations now that immunity by congressional majority and Trump v US is a thing.

You’d have to bootstrap to some kind of multi party democracy and at that point you need a whole new convention anyway

Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 16h

I just think of Tesla can move that many model Y’s and Toyota makes such a big deal that plug-ins are the future you’d expect them to be in the same ballpark considering the cost advantages

Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 16h

My “the food is terrible; and such small portions” take on Toyota is that they should be building half a million RAv4 Primes every year instead of the 30k they made last year

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Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 16h

Even Toyota hasn’t really cracked the premium hybrid thing.

The hybrid option on the Tundra costs a fortune and is mostly a power adder

At least they finally made the hybrid Sienna people had he asking for for 15 years (a huge hit)

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Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 16h

Honestly the one that really made me cynical is how slow walked hybridization has been

This tech is 25 years old

You can’t even get a bronco sport or expedition hybrid when the pickup offers it

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Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah it’s really looking like their plan is to milk the ICE cash cow until tbe government is forced to give them another bailout to retool

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Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 17h

Unironically this. We actually could use a lot more socialist mayors

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Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 17h

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Run the Joules @wattasecond.bsky.social · 1d

This is a good example of what’s always wrong with GM

They’ll spend ungodly amounts of money to put out a product that’s 10 year ahead of it’s time and then completely lose their bottle in less than one model cycle

Modern GM couldn’t invent the corvette if it wasn’t already a legacy nameplate