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In times of lack of leadership, it's easier to blame a mythical "them" rather than confront specific faulty, corrupt, incompetent bureaucrats. Furthermore, it provides a sense of t…

"Victim?" There are also willing participants. Extending Upton Sinclair's quote: It is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary, lifestyle, beliefs, or op…

Forcing kids back into school is insanely ridiculous; not for the kids' health, but for health and safety of everyone else around them because the kids get thrown into routine supe…

Granted the immense infrastructure investment, but why not ditch electrical and natural gas for hydrogen? Hydrogen is much safer, cleaner, and less lossy than either.

I thought this was what Conan did. Am I missing something?

How can unfairness be spread "evenly" when it is a amorphous, unique, and situational impression? Also, isn't that like a wrong rationalizing its existence by another wrong? Let us…

I don't understand this acceptance of meritless praise, much like body positivity towards the morbidly obese who are on the verge of dying. It's tantamount to rationalizing cheatin…

Tokugawa Ieyasu’s shit list includes comedians. That's funny. Leave Conan, Oliver, and Fallon alone, but Japan can have the rest of the American celebrity comedians to despise.

Memories. I remember the Apple //e in elementary school ('83 or '84) with LOGO and Oregon Trail. (Thanks Apple!) Oddly enough, I also remember almost burning my finger on some of t…

Hey Matt @ Matt erport, where's your giant pool noodle kooshball from the Palo Alto/Stanford area these days? ;-) (Matterport was listed as an investment. Also, no longer across fr…

Yes. Call it "Sierra Nevada sea salt," just as how "Himalayan sea salt" mostly comes from Pakistan. That is, after you evaporate it down to solids.

CAES also has awful energy density of ~100 kJ/m^3 or ~100 J/L. It's not worth it. Small CAES implies closer to people and more likely to experience heat and fires, more so than say…

Former USPTO patent examiners who do consulting are gold to work with your patent lawyers. Remember that a provisional patent is like chicken soup: just throw everything into it. F…

Mattress moving bags. Also, PFA beds without all the chemicals like Casper, Purple, or Avocado might help.

Oh my. It reminds me that about 2001, I purchased a medium quality Serta bed from Mancini's Sleepworld (in CA) that arrived in a sealed plastic bag. The mattress stunk with a chemi…

---- Home ---- ---- Home - water ---- - Reverse Osmosis water filter with pre UV filtration, 50 GPD membrane, and permeate pump (TDS - Whole house carbon block water filter - remov…

For fixed-site applications of sufficient land area and scale, it's difficult to beat pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH). The round-trip efficiency is around or above 70%, the s…

Speaking of car paint, I have a mid-80's VW Westfalia camper in need of a fresh, bomb look. Honestly, what paint job would you go with in the US southwest? 1. Two-tone red and whit…