TheSpiceIsLife

I looked in to this every year for the past five years, and the sub AU$10,000 - AU$15,000 Leafs are generally not worth the effort.

So the answer to why is there anything at all? is:

It wasn't a choice.

Practically speaking, poor people can't just get an electric car.

> reads veiled de-development.

> If you don't like what electricity is being used for, argue for specific regulation to make it more expensive.

That reads like veiled de-development.

How do you reconcile saying both those things?

If people are going to bring up Veritasium and AlphaPhoenix, then I'm going to want to say something like:

ElectroBOOM and AvE and bigclive have done more to further my understanding of electricity, both theoretically and practically, than everything else combined.

https://www.youtube.com/@arduinoversusevil2025

https://www.youtube.com/@ElectroBOOM

https://www.youtube.com/@bigclivedotcom

And when looking at alternating current, all the pipes are kind of leaky?

Angry pixies.

What about obesity?

Why is there anything at all?

If we were ever to actually work that out, you can be sure it would all disappear and immediately be replaced with something even more comprehensive.

Surely the battery is over-provisioned to be able to deliver the stated spec for at least some warranty period fraction?

Do they fit my ears yet?

And if a guest comes round and messes it, the lights dim, blood runs down the walls, nails come out of your head, and the furniture starts moving.

Intent matters. I can well imagine a judge saying something like this:

While I am satisfied it has been proven you are aware that by torrenting said files, distribution also occurred. However, I am also satisfied it has been proven that by setting a 1 byte per minute upload limit, you had taken those steps you could to limit uploads in an effort to prevent the prohibited activity. Other evidence presented to the court demonstrates you are regularly employed, that your finances are generally in order, and you have not received payment for the meagre distribution that occurred as a consequence of your behaviour.

It is my opinion that the case brough by the prosecution does not rise to the level of requiring a sentence, nor even a conviction.

You're free to go.

By your definition of dictionary. Again, words mean what people who use them intend them to mean. Urban Dictionary and Wiktionary are both dictionaries as far as I'm concerned.

Anyway, Meriam Webster has United-Statesian https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/United%20Statesia...

How do you cope with Modern English previously never having been a language anyone spoke or wrote?

Reciprocal action gives the enemy plenty of reason to escalate.

> I'm not sure a good¹ lawyer on the other side would let you get away with claiming

Fortunately that’s not how courts work.

I’m not familiar with the case, but it’s possible setting a 1 byte per second limit showed intent to not distribute.

It is in dictionaries, at least two.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Usanian

I’ve heard or read the term at least once or twice along the way, I’ve even muttered it myself.

It might not ever rise to a common enough usage that the big dictionaries list it, or maybe it will.

I probably wouldn’t say it’s frequently used, but probably not rarely either.

Urban dictionary has an entry from 2007

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=usanians

And anyway, official dictionaries are largely historical records, not authoritative sources for living languages. Words mean what people who use them intend them to mean.

Anyone is quite welcome to escalate to whatever level they think appropriate in opposition to whatever they feel motivated by.

Just be aware of the consequences of failing, or succeeding.

It’s a bit hit and miss.

Twiggy was also talking about producing hydrogen in Tasmania from largely unavailable hydropower, or so the argument goes. If I recall correctly then turn that in to green ammonia.

Many of those dams are full to excess, at least sometimes. And what Twiggy doesn’t waste turning falling water in to energy anaemic hydrogen gas, ammonia is handy though, we can keep selling to Victoria for a profit, for the Tasmanian government to, what, waste on a footy stadium no one wants? No no, to waste storing the new Spirit of Scotland ferries.

Cynical bugger.

Volume increases to the cube, where as surface area only increases to square.

This results in large, perfectly spherical, data centre being more difficult to cool, especially when operating in a vacuum.

Sounds what Malaysia needs is Big Co. & Friends to move in, data centres and all, and run the government from the shadows, much like they do in every successful democracy.

Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.

There's an argument to be made that whether that rises to the level of harassment is up to the recipient of the of behaviour in question.

Another person may well just see it as a cost of doing business, a cost of operating in the world. There will be detractors, some of those will be malevolent snakes. We can mostly just ignore those as they very rarely represent a real and immanent threat.

If you've got nothing better to do with your time than waste it trying to antagonise a situation, you're probably wasting your life. And maybe the recipient can come to understand they can choose to be flattered by the attention - if many people are exerting effort to put you down, more power to you - you might actually be doing something important, and people hate that.

Indeed. It was about 0 degree Celsius, camping and we were trying to get a bit of a fire going for heat. I won't do that with petrol as I value my eyebrows, ended up having to thin the diesel a bit with petrol as we discovered splashing diesel on a small flame on damp wood doesn't help at all.

Thanks for clearing that up.

A fire can be extinguished with diesel (jet fuel is pretty much just cleaner diesel / kerosene) in cold conditions, I know because I’ve done it.

It takes a fair amount of heat / pressure to ignite jet fuel, easier if it’s vaporised.

There’s an argument to be made that if you’re not prepared to deal with all of that, don’t become popular - either online or in meatspace, because it will happen.

I replied to a comment about crypto whale pump and dump schemes in a threat about predicting crowd behaviour in reference to running of the bull festival, which happens to be, at least loosely, couple to the idea of a raging bull. Wall St has a raging bull sculpture.

I feel dumber having just written that out. Don't they teach reading comprehension at school any more?