The only way I know how to reliably extinguish a lithium car battery fire, is to throw the whole car into a water tank

This thing haunts me every few months since always. You can usually stop it by exhaling deeply and relaxing muscles in affected areas.

Is this really a capitalism thing?

Well, anonymous chatbot won’t cancel you and it won ruin your life out of pure spite.

No wonder this is a thing

No, by design, you have as close as possible to raw metal on one of the electrodes when battery is fully charged. That’s the chemistry behind it - its moving metal between oxidation states. When it burns down, it also moves to higher oxidation states. Volatility is baked in. Usually you have lithium in carbon matrix that acts as physical sponge. But that’s just raw lithium in a sponge. It will still burn like hell.

Not as rapidly as lithium batteries. From firefighting perspective this is much uglier case. Bonus issue: unlike gasoline, you can’t extinguish it reliably - it has to burn out on its own

Very relevant for firefighters who have to deal with lithium and sodium fires.

BTW: Explosion in case of lithium is indirect since you need a hydrogen buildup first. In case of sodium plus water it goes boom almost instantly

Except the fact that batteries burn extremely rapidly. In case of fire you have seconds to open the door and help the driver/passaners escape out of the vehicle

I was born in 1977 in Yugoslavia

Then I guess you forgot what kind of shit hole it was back then, and what kind of progress happened since the fall of communism in europe

Except ones with no handles. You’re supposed to burn alive in these.

Technically correct.

Sodium blows up when exposed to water.

Is this?

In short, yes. They’re way smarter then you give them credit for.

From my observations they hate being watched as much as you do. If you look ostensibly at one for too long they’ll fly away.

And don’t think birds don’t see you. They have way better distance sight with multiple macula (high resolution spots on retina). If he looks straight at you, at ~45 angle or at 90 degree angle, it’s very likely he looks at you specifically.

It is if you want to move drive between windows and Linux machines

Another reason to install Linux and be done with this shit.

I recommend starting with Fedora KDE, and delving to anything else later…

It leaks private data, like it’s own source

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai

Not because it’s so smart, but because it’s so fucking stupid, and morons from Anthropic just click buttons without checking.

You can’t expect it to measure time if it doesn’t have an internal clock. I’m sure it could be done if you give LLM necessary tools and system prompt

Nah. I like when criminals are arrested by competent cops.

If cops suck it’s a sign of deeper systemic issue. There’s entire chain of training and discipline that fails behind a shitty police force

you were conditioned into that

Better. My parents were born in it. My grandparents live through it, and I spend my childhood in ruined economy after this garbage has been abolished. If you played Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, this was my childhood IRL. (Stadium with illegal weapons and software included). Even with access to EU common market and EU infrastructure subsidies it took two decades before this place became worth living in.

You get a hard-on hating communism like some who hate blacks or muslims, you were conditioned into that. Rich western white people tend to do that.

You are a fucking child, and haven’t seen a jack shit in your life.

I’d say it’s more because finding quality people IRL is so difficult these days