They are, that’s the motivation behind this. You still need to convert the high rpm of an electric motor to a high torque output at a continuous speed though. But this will open doors to smaller motors for each wheel and torque vectoring
Citizen Kane was a not-so-subtle criticism of William Randolph Hearst to begin with. History really do be repeating itself.
Right now, a month is 4.345 weeks and 30.4167 days. it makes scheduling and budgeting kind of a nightmare. in a 13 month calendar, each month has 4 weeks exactly and 28.096 days. the 0th of january/june isn’t a day of the week like Sunday, it’s just an extra day. That makes it a lot easier to call it a holiday, pay out like it’s bonus time, add at the end of calculations, etc. I think it’s actually easier to grasp conceptually than our current way of handling leap years. The main benefit though is that even if you did include 0th days as a day of the week you would still only have ~4.1 weeks per month. The decimals are much lower and as a result much less frequent. 30.4 days per month is atrocious, it’s basically a coinflip. Doing any kind of math on our current calendar system is a giant pain and would be much improved with any system that can lower that decimal value.
As for practical benefits for the majority of folk that don’t make budgets or deal with scheduling, Every month now starts on Sunday and ends on Saturday plus we get a new holiday, neat. Every 16th, for example, is now a Monday. Honestly, everything about it sounds better to me and it’s not even my favorite alternative calendar.
There are pros and cons to every alternative calendar. Just as there are pros and cons to the metric system, hybrid cars, and renewable energy. There is a short term cost to switching to better systems and a long term reward. The earlier we switch, the more reward we reap. Not saying that 13 months is the best alternative but the reasoning of systemic changes hinges on being willing to front costs that we know will be worth it in the long run. Our current one is not causing enough issues and it’s upfront cost to switch is too high so we will likely not even seriously consider changing it for a long time. But we can still acknowledge that we should use a better system and that adapting earlier will only benefit us in the long run.
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They sure do, we try very hard to get as close as we can to what an objectivist would consider ‘true’. But nothing in objectivism states that we will ever know what the objective moral truth is. How many stars are there within 100 million light years outside of the observable universe right now? We don’t know. We can’t know. But there still is a correct answer even though we don’t know it. Just as an astronomer might average the count of stars in a similarly sized region and make an estimate of the correct answer, humans will share ideas of morality and endlessly critique them in hopes of getting a closer approximation of what “moral truth” might be.
Perhaps even a PEBCAK error.
I’d maybe even add a ban for in-home use around children under a child abuse clause. Very hard to enforce of course but I can think of some meaningful ways to make it not worth the risk for most people.
I’m also quite biased in the opposite direction. I just quit (4 months) vaping and have had some strong opinions that my own stupid choices should be mine alone. I draw a hard line when my choices become your consequences.
But frankly, us both being biased in opposite directions and still agreeing on potentially meaningful bans just tells me that it should be easier to get done in a way that might actually be effective.
One thing that concerns me is how a ban might impact the homeless population. It’s already basically illegal to be homeless in many places and the rates of smokers among the homeless is probably significantly higher. It could end up being yet another thing enforcement uses to harass people.
I assume you would prefer to see stricter legislation/enforcement about smoking in public versus outright sales bans, correct? I can totally get on board with that.
If you read that report you’ll find their conclusion is that plastic marked as recyclable is not being recycled. Not that it can’t be recycled. Merely that it isn’t. Very big difference. This is a good piece of investigative journalism on the topic.
That poor animal displayed fear of the humans that tortured her. How could anyone defend this. I get it, implants are super cool in sci-fi but jesus christ. If they have to be researched this way then they shouldn’t be researched. And if they don’t then this is just profit motivated medical torture. Horrifying.
Many people find content they enjoy to become more enjoyable when they can empathize with other people who also enjoy it. I don’t but somebody is up voting those comments so I assume. Not like it hurts me so meh
Im still boycotting them from the Hong Kong stuff back in '19/'20. I really miss hearthstone but fuck them.
They recently released a firmware update that disallows third party toner carts. You can downgrade it though and keep using the hardware. Not positive which models were impacted, mine wasn’t. Still a shit move from a brand that I used to recommend to people.
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This is the most wise thing I’ve read today. We all know it, but it needs to be said more.
If we really want to split some hairs, some waste products don’t even need to be radioactive to be weaponized. Depleted uranium ammunition makes for excellent armor penetrating rounds and comes (primarily) from the enrichment process of uranium for use in reactors.
I’d go a step further and say it should be capable of an industry standard communication protocol from the beginning and every device that has a ‘root’ or equivalent elevated access mode should be user recoverable (not easily necessarily, but there shouldn’t be any specific counter measures to prevent it). EOL unlocking would be a good first step towards that goal.
Tell me wise sage, how smart do I think I am? How smart am I? Gee I hope you say “very” so that I can feel good about myself. I hope I can remain one of the intellectual elite so that I can call out stupid ideas on the internet, since normal folk aren’t allowed to.
That might be true about DNA data but these places gather every public genealogy record available. If your country has a census, for example, they probably already know more about your family then you do.