I have a bit of schadenfreude around this. For years, people said Europe was fine, and didn’t need to invest more in their military. “No, you silly American, we are just fine with the military we have because we don’t go invading other countries.”

Now here we are. Thing is, I wasn’t even talking from the perspective of Europe becoming warmongers like us. I wanted Europe to be armed well enough to handle what the US has been doing, and the US can draw down its military. Then we could put that money into healthcare and schools and shit, but Europe would have to pick up the slack (and also Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, and Australia). This is still a good idea.

Almost like they’re looking for an excuse to hang NATO out to dry.

It never is. People don’t “slip up” that way unless they use it all the time when in private.

Cats in the wild tend to share food with their friends. They must think we’re some rude ass motherfuckers when we push them away from our own dinner.

It makes more sense if you start from the premise that there are “good people” and “bad people”, and bad people need to be punished to protect good people. The people who do the protections–like Joe Arpaio–can do no wrong. Even if they seem to do bad things, that’s just in the service of protecting good people.

This premise is bullshit, but everything follows from there.

People used to care a lot. The GNU utils absorbed everything all the old Unix vendors did. This made them comparatively heafty back when a high end workstations might have had 64MB of RAM.

Now that Chrome takes up gigabytes per tab, nobody cares except a few old Unix curmudgeons.

Meh. It’s a nice bragging right, but that’s all it is at this point. Linux killed off almost all the old Unix vendors for a reason.

They’re not sending their best.

In this case, the streamers themselves might not be guilty. The crime is being a foreign agent paying the media without being registered. That’s on the foreign agents, not the streamers.

That still might mean they don’t get to keep the money, but it can also be useful to prosecutors to let it slide. It’s a classic move to give the lower level guys a pass to flip them against the higher level guys. Keep working your way up until you, hopefully, get the leader, or someone close, anyway.

MTG doesn’t like that Loomer has Trump’s direct ear. That’s it. She picks fights with other republican women whenever she feels one of them is trying to be better than her.

Today, yes, but there’s no reason to think it’ll stay this way. The lithium batteries that will stick around aren’t likely to have this problem.

Not all EVs need Li-Po batteries. They probably won’t be in the next couple of years. The cheap end of the market will use sodium-ion, and the more expensive end solid state lithium. Both have much better fire protection and puncture resilience than Li-Po. Both types of batteries are at the manufacturing stage, but aren’t in cars yet.

No. This kind of safety issue isn’t universal to all lithium chemistries, much less other chemistries. If they do catch on fire, it isn’t self-oxidizing the way it is for Li-Po chemistry. Other types also have better resilience to punctures.

Lithium fires are self-oxidizing, so that won’t work. Burying it helps keep it from spreading, though.

It isn’t.

https://youtu.be/qgP7KkDesBo?si=XNb_yZYwA943t0lP

Water seems to put it out for a bit, but the reaction is self-oxidizing and starts right back up again. That’s why it takes so much water; fire fighters keep dowsing it and then doing it again. Takes all day, and the whole thing burns away in the end.

The way to do it is, if possible, tow it somewhere away from other things, keep the fire from spreading, and otherwise let it burn. For cars, there are fireproof blankets coming on the market to contain it. Semi-trucks are probably too big for that, though.

Russian checks must be bouncing.

But if it makes you feel safer, enjoy your bliss. I just hope for everyone’s sake you focus on steering the car to safety instead of pulling the parking brake if you ever lose control of a car.

If this is your version of “impersonal”, you need to recalibrate.

And no, I’m not wrong. Total brake failure still happens, and a separate system is still important.

Uhh, master cylinder failing would result in all brakes failing. Things these days are internally partitioned so that front and back are separated, and thus complete failure is unlikely, but still possible. It used to be all in one, and the e-brake is very, very important in vintage cars because of it. Less so now, but there was no good reason to change it besides manufacturing cost.

You’re making an awful lot of assumptions on my driving skill based on (checks notes) wanting a redundant system.

Yeah, it’s been pretty common the last few years. My wife’s 2021 Mini does it.

For Debian, “unstable” just means “not running a five year old compiler”.