Friend of mine who just retired, started getting into Lego for the first time in his life. You’re never too old

Space force might actually be a good idea, despite all the bs and misrepresentation. I can’t claim to know anything about military chain of command but if they say it’s beneficial to have a separate org focusing on space assets like satellites, I have no reason to claim otherwise

What a load of crap that is.

However it’s not going to happen. These would take way more years to develop than Trump has in office and I have to hope sanity will prevail. And if we can’t even develop the Zumwalt destroyer how can we hope to develop some boondoggle four times its size and complexity. How can the navy afford to run such things? And most importantly how can we deploy this big fat target that doesn’t add value?

Navy is complaining that it can’t keep up with Chinese shipbuilding so the last thing it needs is to blow its budget over the next decade or two with this nonsense. I have to believe this is just noise to placate Trump and will be resolved when he’s gone. However it will set the navy back another four years and waste billions of dollars

The realistic answer is lawsuits. They take a long time and don’t make headlines but there’s probably been more successes than most people realize.

There’s regional health cooperatives, for things like vaccine recommendations now that CDC is mostly conspiracy theory nonsense.

Trump may have withdrawn the us from the Paris Accords, but 24 US states and many cities committed to the climate initiatives. There’s less they can do as Trump rolls back efficiency standards and air pollution regulations but they do have control over local issues like energy portfolio standards, building requirements, insulation and appliance updates, incentives for businesses and homeowners, etc. my state still has some pretty compelling incentives for energy improvements

Plus remember there is a lot of opposition through the courts, and courts take a long time and do not make headlines. There have been successes but good chance most people don’t read those stories

It’ll be another significant milestone toward fascism if and when Trump tries to pardon that election denier …… the president has no say over state crimes, only federal. We all know he’ll try but will is cult let him get away with an even more blatant abuse of authority?

If I can play somewhat the opposite here …… this girl was completely failed by the school system and those parents ought to be demanding serious changes.

But also schools make what seem unfair actions when they don’t have evidence, can’t identify all the perpetrators and want to get the victim away from her bullies. Even if the school did the right thing about taking it seriously, we probably wouldn’t like their actions

And even sending the bullies to jail with a kiddie porn conviction may be satisfying but is a bad choice. Bullying your classmates is not really the same as kiddie porn and schools need to find better ways to handle punishment to try to graduate a responsible mature member of society rather than graduate a lifelong criminal

Yeah but that headline tells the entire story and in a balanced way. You wouldn’t need the content to hold the eyeballs on ads

The electrician is an easy choice in this case. I do have knowledge and experience without household electric but recognize this as a project I wouldn’t complete in reasonable time and quality.

Notably my garage has no electric except the light and the EV charger, and it would also be useful to have an outlet. I’ll at least get a quote for a small subpanel to give me more future options

For sure it’s a concern and part of the reason for over complicating what a space heater could theoretically do.

For safety I want something off the ground so nothing can fall on or next to it, I want a dedicated circuit, and I have a priority on making sure it gets turned off when not in use.

Ny garage will not have anything flammable since my car is an EV and I park it outside, my lawn equipment is battery powered, my snow blower is battery powered, and any chemicals go in the shed

I do already have a car charger but need it for my car, plus it’s outside.

I already ruled out the mini-split as not really suited to what I want it to do. I want the garage to get warm fast- and the efficiency function is to make sure it’s off when not in use

For sure, and it’ll be a nice addition to my house data. I like seeing data even when I have no practical use and already graph 5 different temperature sensors!

Thanks. I should have thought of this but assumed consumer appliances never have “advanced” features unless they’re listed in the product description.

Your approach is much more optimistic but got the answer right away.

I wonder if any local stores have exactly that model …………

My bigger objection are people using this argument to try to add unfairly high EV taxes

No, EV taxes don’t need to cover road maintenance if gas taxes don’t, and no, EV taxes don’t need to be extra high because of a weight penalty, when ice pickups weigh more and the difference is a rounding error relative to big trucks

But I do believe in vice taxes as a way to guide consumer choices. The most fair choice is to tax all road vehicles by miles and weight, without regard to technology, plus a vice taxes on gasoline (like we do with alcohol) to account for the damage it does to society and to discourage use.

Yes it would be more efficient but too expensive. I expect to use it for short bursts of heat - like get the garage warm for two hours to work out. I don’t need cooling and I don’t expect to use it frequently enough for the efficiency to make it worthwhile. The overall heat output is more important, to warm the space quickly.

A challenge factor is this garage is masonry so creating holes is more difficult, less desirable.

A standard garage heater has the power to heat the space quickly, means I don’t have to create holes in masonry, and is cheap to biy

That looks really cool for other uses but it doesn’t really fit the goal of quickly heating a garage for a workout. Too expensive, not enough power, looks too nice, radiant is probably not the right technology.

On the other hand my bathroom could really use exactly that

I do like the safety feature that all of these want to run the fan to cool off the unit, but that rules out most simple or cheap solitions

My speculation is a safety feature working as intended.

As someone familiar with automation and machine learning, I certainly hope most of the processing is happening in device. It’s just not realistic to have a cloud driven car.

But it makes more sense to have a dead mans switch on the safety operator. “If you can’t connect to the safety operator, you can’t go”

Like a flashlight, or laser pointer …… or gun. “Just point this gun-like object at the car you want to stop…”. What could go wrong?

I almost tested that first example but was too slow. I had a one month free trial of self-driving and approached a similar construction site where I didn’t see the officer at first …… thinking “I wonder what the car would do?”