Yeah, a lot of people were proposing these kinds of ideas early on in EVs, but as range and charging speed have improved the extra cost for this infrastructure isn’t worth it.

Not only does it add cost, but would reduce range as it’s hard to engineer a easily swappable and slim battery (hence why most electronics don’t have them anymore.

Not sure if you’ve followed it, but there is a somewhat similar project in Wyoming by TerraPower - Source

I believe it counts as an smr and is breaking ground this year (if not already).

Came here to ask this. Growing up we’d have hot air balloons land in our neighborhood pretty frequently, they’d usually have a bottle of wine to hand out.

Not the person you asked, but our system was around $20k for about 11 kWh setup for rooftop solar. Since Trump removed personal incentives for ownership we did a Lease to Own which helped shave $6k off the project (basically you “lease” the panels for 6 years then take over ownership).

The only potential longterm downside from my perspective is that while it produces about as much energy we use in a year, we’re definitely not energy independent with the setup. We overproduce in the summer and underproduce in the winter, so even with a battery we would still be reliant on the grid. But our electric is typically over $100/month and with our states grid setup, we can basically zero that out.

I think the biggest issue is David Bowe just hanging dong.

His leotard does not hide much in that movie.

Disney is pretty well known for popularizing the rubber hose style animation that cup head uses as it’s inspiration. While Looney toons was around the same time period and had some elements, I don’t think it’s considered rubber hose style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_hose_animation

I don’t disagree, Johnson has been abusing the power to recess congress throughout his tenure.

I was just noting that he hasn’t crossed the line of not swearing someone in. If he was preventing someone casting votes that should/would be a big deal.

I don’t think that’s actually been a real issue. While Johnson waited some 3-4 weeks to swear in Grijalva around the recent shutdown, congress was technically in recess the whole time. While it’s kinda a jerk move, the moment he finally called back congress into session he did swear her in. So nothing was voted on or done inbetween her being eligible to be sworn in and when she was actually sworn in.

He did keep congress in recess for a long time to hold up passing the bill on the epstein file release (as Grijalva was a critical vote on that), but it didn’t really change anything.

Unless something revolutionary happens, AI is not taking your job anytime soon. This is just another wave of the tech sector trying to beat down developers because they don’t want to pay them.

If current AI systems could actually replace people, the the job market would have already collapsed. Right now in the US the job market sucks because of Trumps policies and wars.

You do realize they could be campaigning on these things. Making noise, drawing more attention to Trumps policy failures.

Maybe it’s just the reporting of it, but the only person I actively heard making a big stink within the party was David Hogg. The party had a big issue with his approach that they used a technicality to remove him from his position in the party.

That’s crazy, your other expenses (internet/electricity) seem comparable, but your food must be so much cheaper than in the US. Where I am, chicken alone is like $5 per pound. I think a pound of any decent cheese is $8-10.

I mean, wasn’t the old time reasons for coming mostly about “money”?

I feel like we tend to sorta play up the migrations from the past. I’m sure, especially earlier in history, there were more people looking for some type of freedom, but lots of people migrated for “opportunity”.

The worst part (or at least a negative) is, I’m pretty sure Trump is bad for the military (just good for military contractors).

Is that 10-15 each day or for a whole week?

If it’s for a whole week, what are you eating?

How dare you expect someone to actually read the source!

Any halfway decent bank/credit union should be giving a decent interest rate given how high the national rate is.

For example Ally gives 3+% on savings accounts - https://www.ally.com/bank/view-rates/

Im fairly certain this is true everywhere, but your local laws should supercede any TOS.

I think you may have jumped the shark with the “loses 2.2% of its value” comment. I feel like most of the world doesn’t understand inflation / the difference of real vs nominal dollars.

I tried explaining it to someone once and they kept just saying, “but the money in my bank account is real”.

Wasn’t expecting Bigtop Burger to be called out on Lemmy. Digital Circus is definitely a different vibe than Bigtop, but it’s more of a slow exestential thriller compared to the zany humor in Bigtop. Definitely not for everyone, but it’s done really well in my opinion.

I ended up grabbing it and I think they did a pretty good job. Sometimes the angle or wall running feel a bit off, but for the most part it feels like more Super Meat boy (which I actually only played a couple months ago).

I did find that using the dpad was the best approach. Something with the joystick made wall running not work right for me.