It absolutely is not. It is a commodity fuel that can be converted into heat energy when vaporized and ignited by a secondary energy source. You can pour it directly into a combustion engine and nothing will happen until you provide a spark. It can evaporate without being converted into a significant source of energy.

Electricity is energy. It does not need a secondary source of energy to convert it into heat or light. Electricity arcs through the atmosphere it instantly and automatically converts to light and heat.

That’s why they are produced, transported, and sold in such radically different ways.

Gas isn’t energy, it’s fuel. It’s a commodity with a global market. Producers have to physically store it. Refined gasoline has a shelf life and production is planned weeks to months in advance. If demand falls off their product depreciates and they have storage expenses. If a gas company cuts production below demand competitors can ramp up and eat that market share because consumers have options.

But electricity tends to be a captured, monopolistic market. There’s no scalable physical storage. The supply is whatever they are producing locally right now and they have some say in that. There’s no tanker of Saudi electricity coming to relieve the market and you’re not going to drive your house to a filling station to top off your electricity.

Liquid natural gas is similar, in that most people will just pay whatever is asked for what’s pumped into their homes, but less dramatic because it is a physical commodity that can be replaced or substituted.

Yeah. Any car that isn’t armored should be assumed 0% bulletproof. I wouldn’t trust a car door to protect me from a .22.

The engine block is the only thing on a regular cop car that would reliably stop, deflect, or at least slow most bullets.

Exactly, so there’s never a reason to bring down the price. If anything you’d bring down the supply (e.g. Enron during the California energy crisis).

No, those are all necessary.

I needed a machete one time and honestly could have managed with a different tool. I now own three of them.

Another BioShock… Don’t mind if I do.

They can turn off some generators and adjust the supply down for ideal revenue/profits, reduce staffing levels, and extend equipment life. There’s no reason for them to charge you $50 for something once you’ve told them you’ll pay $100 for it.

You should listen to some of the recordings of the energy traders at Enron. They did this stuff all the time.

It probably doesn’t matter if they are actually bulletproof. They’ll be used as propaganda show cars, or personal vehicles for the brass, and never called into actual service.

No one in their right mind is going to pick the “bulletproof” cybertruck over an armored Bearcat in a scenario where they expect to be shot at. For non-tactical applications they’re no more or less bulletproof than a standard potrol vehicle.

Same. Unfortunately I’m very forgetful and the distance between now and then is often greater than the release window of that movie I want to watch.

I block ads everywhere I can, then get frustrated that I don’t know when movies are going to come out.

It would be nice if we could get back to a place where advertisers just wanted to tell us about products in case we are interested rather than stalk us like some kind of a psychotic ex-lover hoping to build the perfect psychological profile to Make us love their product whether we want to or not.

Hands down the best Christmas movie that no one talks about. I love this movie.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is an underappreciated gem. It’s minimally christmassy, but its a perfect distillation of Shane Black’s style of buddy cop story telling and humor. Almost a reflection on how everyone else directed his screenplays.

I’m adding The Lion in Winter to my list. Thanks.

I hope enough people remain on this AI infested ghost ship that it can keep providing a base for librewolf.

Brooklyn 99 has a whole story line about Rosa coming out as bi. That’s not exactly the same thing as writing her Lesbian, but it’s representation.

Narrow models trained on a task specific data set tend to be very good at their specialization. So protien folding, or material sciences have benefitted from machine learning, but we shouldn’t mistake that for being the same thing as chatGPT.

One of the bigger problems we have with AI at the moment (in my very inexpert opionion) is that they seem to be trying to throw LLMs at every problem and swearing that it’ll achieve AGI soon.

Meanwhile Alpha Fold is more closely related to stable diffusion than it is to ChatGPT.

I actually have some accidentally poisoned data out there. Many years ago I had a job that entailed doing red carpets. There were a lot of photos of me at small to mid-sized events with two of my business partners.

Then for two years in a row my partners went to the MTV VMAs with someone else. The VMAs are MUCH bigger in terms of media footprint. That guy got tagged as me in the photos. So now a Google image search for me will at least be mixed, and often the other guy comes up first.

So the idea is sound.

It is a terrible headline. It can be debated whether it’s intentionally misleading, but if the debate is even possible then the writing is awful.

There is, but there is a difference between not admitting you’ve broken a law and impeding an investigation into whether you broke the law or destroying evidence.

The particulars are going to be very important in this case. It’s also possible they have no case and they’ll just use the legal system to torture him, ruin his life, and waste his money then drop the charges before it ever sees a judge.

I didn’t realize it was back in active development. It seemed to be abandonware for years.

That’s awesome. I’ll have to test drive it. Thanks.