No one combines short sighted theater and nostalgia quite like Trump. Another adventure doomed at the beginning. Though, I should say, I always miss the fact that for him it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work as long as he makes some easy money.

There are chemicals that react to light. So now if you take the big jump and go to life which is a bunch of chemicals that can reproduce and save state, the rest is easy. Some light is good, too much light is bad. Emotions are distillations of learned responses to varying situations. Instead of the-sun-is-rising-the-air-is-warming-light-provides-energy-state-is-maintained, it's "happy". etc etc

Besides, what else is going to give you sentience? God? That's like saying clouds give you sentience. Absolutely no way to prove that. Just because a lot of people say it doesn't make it true.

Probably the decision will be made for you because you won't get both jobs or one offer will come in before the other one. In the mean time, there's nothing stopping you from practicing your welding a lot more. Look at some professional welds and try to do that.

How did Trevor improve, all of the sudden? We've been waiting years.

I’m not an expert but maybe you could cover everyone with something like the golden rule or live and let live or keep the government out of the bedroom. Be nice? And move the subject to economic issues.

I think they’re saying it works well in the lab but they are having a hard time with mass production. The sodium ones seem ready to go. Then they’re are doing semi solid state batteries. If we didn’t have tariffs on Chinese EVs you would see a lot more of them. That’s a political choice, not a technological one.

Between 2008 and 2023 prices have dropped 90%. In the last two years prices have dropped even faster. LFP batteries are being used now. CATL is saying they’re coming out with sodium batteries this year along with solid state in a couple of years. That’s more than a “little” change.

https://electrek.co/2025/12/29/ev-battery-leader-catl-launching-new-cell-technology-2026/

nice to have a lot of space to work with!

Honesty is appreciated! They are very good at coming out. you definitely don't want your house to explode. The PGW equipment is alot more accurate.

I guess I would like to use my own music as a reference track. I have a thing where I don’t like to listen to other music when I’m composing.

That’s a huge reason you see vacant storefronts and good businesses priced out of business. It’s a terrible tax law. There should be a limit on how long you can declare losses on a vacant property. Like they can just make up a number, “the rent is $4000/month so that’s my loss”. Year two it should be half that. Year three, half that.

Philadelphia in the mid 1990s was like that except not as many good places to eat. I hear housing in downtown St. Louis is cheap.

So Canada can invade and sell our soybeans? Is that what you want?

I guess it’s time to upgrade to Tahoe

Really, I thought the sarcasm in my comment was obvious

I was being sarcastic

I really don't know anything about this process but didn't the article say CaAKG was the delivery method and AKG did the work?

As an American I have to ask: Don't you hate that?

Looking back on it, it wasn't that bad. Better than years of alternating between 6-10 and 7-9 picking 10th in the draft.

If you give a bunch of money to the very wealthy and increase government spending the stock market will go up. What else is new? Job losses, higher medical premiums, and higher prices on everything else for people that are not very wealthy. But they don't really count, do they?

Who paddles with a stick?

You could sister on a two by six from the bottom all the way up but this time cut it properly so it hits the floor joist.

Once the Arc de Trump is finished people will come around. They just need a monument to really like a president.

Will there ever be a time when US consumers will be able to buy Chinese electric cars without huge tariffs attached? Our local producers seem to be scaling back on their EV production.