Brazil doesn’t have slavery any more than the USA does. And perhaps you missed the part about Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana being the poorest states in the USA. I’d imagine some of them would like a job that pays. Ethanol sells for an average of $2.79 a gallon in Brazil right now. Gasoline is $4.23. Diesel $4.04. The later two are comparable to the USA. You may believe the USA is incapable of producing ethanol at those prices, but I don’t.

Is that why a country with less financial means than the USA like Brasil can produce it and and sell it for less cost than gas and diesel while turning a profit. The problems you speak of have literally already be accounted for and factored in. There is nothing to invent. The technology and means already exists. What doesn’t exist in the USA is the will to do so.

Well you got half of it right. It is the lobbyists. The Southeast is a prime sugar cane growing area. Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana are also the poorest region in the 48. They could be swimming in ethanol dollars. Sugarcane produces magnitudes more ethanol per acre than corn. If Brasil can do it there is no reason they couldn’t. In many fueling stations in Brazil there is a pure ethanol option along with gas and diesel. Pure ethanol has lower energy density, aka less miles per gallon, but it also costs a lot less. You have to refuel more often, but at a lower cost. Just like EVs. Except refueling times are akin to gas and diesel instead of the longer charging time for EVs.

I remember when basically it never rained in January in Salt Lake City. Ever is a lot time, it’s possible it has happened during 170+ years of record keeping. But I don’t recall it ever happening before about 15 years ago. However I’m only middle aged. Since then it has rained in January every year. During my life the snow totals, particularly in the SL Valley and foothills have greatly diminished. Outside of the foothills it barely snows compared to before and when it does it rarely sticks around for longer than a day or two. Late December through February even the valley floor used to be usually covered in snow most of the time.

It humid environments A/C is awesome during the summer. Don’t get me wrong I also love to exercise in 85-90 F with 80% humidity. And if you never go out in it your body never acclimatizes. But coming home after a workout to 75 F and low humidity is key. Especially also true for sleeping on hot nights. 80F isn’t bad for sleep if the humidity is low. But hot and humid to sleep. Just, no.

I much rather pay the piper to stay cool. 80% of the power coming to our house is nuclear and non-fossil fuel anyway. When I used to live in the desert our three level brick house on a slope didn’t need A/C. Even on 100 F plus days. A swamp cooler easily did the trick at a fraction of the cost/electricity. (Almost all coal) The top floor got the cool air from the swamp cooler and the warmer air from the rest of the house would rise use to the top floor to be cooled. The walk out basement never got to the 70s. With or without the swamp cooler. Before I had kids we wouldn’t even turn on the swamp cooler. We’d just avoid the top floor during the day, and if the night was warm we’d sleep in the guest room in the walkout basement instead of upstairs.

Nah. You just have to be intelligent with your backups. Keep them offline. Require a physical switch to connect online for the backups. Of course then you have to trust people with access to the physical switch. But it still solves any sort of online threat.

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So when an algorithm copies a rift or cord progression, who does the copyright holder of the original content sue? The streaming service? The creator of the algorithm who was trained on their content?

“Might as well [live] a little first”

There is no safe amount of processed meats
There is no safe amount of alcohol
There is no safe amount of air pollution
There is no safe amount of driving
There is no safe amount of taking to strangers
There is no safe amount of sex with new people
There is no safe amount of life
We are all going to die.



Might as well I’ve a little first

It isn’t really a drought if that is just what the weather is like now. As someone who lived on the edge of desert for over three decades, before move to where there is ample water I can attest to the trend of the American Great Basin drying out and trending hotter during that time. I may be off by a year or two, but it seemed like the region was in drought compared to recorded historical norms at least 7 out of every 10 years starting around in the current millennium. With the impacts compounding ever since. At what point does weather turn into climate? Because I’d argue they probably should just expect the previous patterns not to return any time soon. And they should act and plan accordingly.

Some people marry for love.
Some people marry for money
Some people marry for lust
Some people marry for power
And some people marry because, deep down, they hate themselves

Of course they are. The prison industry lobbyists probably just bought a few million in trump’s crypto scam. Federal agencies come cheap in Trump’s Money Always Gets Anythingitwants America. Trump is a crime boss and almost half the nation loves him for it.

No spyware for you. My computer belongs to me. Not sure I’ve ever sold any of my old computer anyway. They just usually gathers dust for five to ten years stashed away somewhere and then I eventually light it in fire and smash it with the 70lbs piece of granite otherwise revered as Rock of Justice. After all, the Rock of Justice does need to feed every now and then.

Same dog different leg. Might as well blame moves or video games with murder for creating murderers. A chat program isn’t ever going to get me to kill myself. Neither will any human, save some straw man argument about some fictional scenario where my suicide saves my wife and kids or million of people, or some other far fetched bs. Sacrificing yourself to save others, say jumping into a frozen river to save a child, doesn’t count. Giving a borderline mental case a few more years before the succumb to madness by banning a product used safely by just about everyone else is the definition of moral panic.