Zipitydew @ Zipitydew @sh.itjust.works

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Same reason I think carbon capture is worth looking into. It should not be a primary solution. I know some fossil fuel groups are behind it today. But in the not too distant future we are going to have excess green energy. Capturing carbon is worth seeing if we can scale to the point of being one of our tools. People are quick to scoff at the idea. Much like I've seen with hydrogen. But I'd rather try many options to reverse change that might not be perfect. Instead of hoping we transition power sources and that alone was enough.

Except that only started on luxury brands. And the Japanese brands have struggled with it the most.

Hondas were still well known for rusting out too quickly into the early 2000s. They even had recalls on 2007-2011 CR-V.

Toyota in 2016 settled a class action suit for multiple models from 2004-2008. And that was on top of a different recall for rusting that spanned 1995-2003 models.

Nissans still tend to have the transmission blow up before the car can rust out. But did have their own rust issues.

Basically, Japan doesn't use road salt. And their engineers had much less experience dealing with it. But the issue has persisted way longer than it should have taken them to solve for.

Older cars for sure did rust faster because the manufacturers didn't adopt galvanizing until the late 80's. Then in the 90's various other spray coatings and sealers became common. Aluminum is also now prevalent to save weight.

Old cars in the south and southwest didn't have road salt accelerating the oxidation. But if they were brought up north they caught up quickly. Cars in the north prior to galvanizing would be rotted out in 100k miles easily.

Smartphones also really fucked things up. At least before that you had to kinda know how to use a computer to get online.

Old TV shows made separate beds a thing for appeals to protestant morality. Prior to that separate beds was a rich people thing. Communal sleeping had been the long standing norm. Commoners didn't have the space/money typical for multiple beds or even multiple sleeping quarters to make separate sleeping possible. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240111-sleep-the-lost-ancient-practise-of-sharing-a-bed

Airbus has a ton of new planes grounded due to engine failures since before the door blowout. But you won't hear about it because shitting on Boeing is what got clicks instead.

Fuck off Mitt.

He could plainly see what was coming. Tore it down. People laughed and let it happen anyway.

They think they're leftists. But they're too "me first" on consuming to realize they're not.

He fired his PR team a few years ago. That's been the difference.

He said plenty of dumb shit prior with people cleaning it up. One of my favorites was probably 10 years ago now. He claimed Model 3 assembly line automation would move so fast they'd have to worry about wind resistance.

My friends and co-workers still laugh about that one now. It's such an absurd "business" mentality of go fast = good. So go crazy fast = more good. With a technology that doesn't exist and kinda doesn't need to. It makes more sense to increase system capacity (multiple lines) when you're chasing throughput like that. But what makes even more sense is accurately forecasting your production so you don't have to slap a full car together in 30 minutes to keep up with demand.

Oh he could see it too and didn't care because he's a self proclaimed libertarian.

Sure dumbass. Way to discount all the labor wins the UAW has fought for recently.

They won't because part of it is slave labor.

Now this I can get behind. We should fight back by subsidization of production as heavily as China is theirs.

That $10k Chinese car cost $20k to make. A competitor undercutting the market that much leads to monopolization. When that competitor is being bankrolled by a foreign government it's potentially even a hostile act.

People have been mad for decades about what Walmart did to retail in the US. Taking steps to prevent that from also happening with the auto industry should be appreciated.

Hell just say NATO is a defensive alliance and they go off the rails. I've picked up a few long bans for that alone.

Russia's air defense had a backbone of Cold War era tech before the war started. Ukraine has been consistently plinking away at it. Most of it is naturally positioned near borders to prevent penetration. If you sneak past the coverage thins out quickly. Russia is a huge country so it's also understandable to not have high density coverage throughout.

At one point Russia had a great setup. But that time was long ago. And oil money going to modernization efforts means less yacht money. Air defense also isn't that critical when you're mostly concerned about beating up on small countries like Georgia and Chechnya that can't fight back.

My serious answer guess; it's a demo of what can happen if fall prevention harnesses are not properly worn. Would help if there are a few more pixels.

Because it is. All the accounts on here I have tagged have said don't vote at all or vote Cornel West/Jill Stein.

It's so obvious after they pushed Jill Stein in 2016 for the same reason.

Boeing issues are plane side of the business for sure.

From little I'm aware, part of why Boeing sought a partnership with Lockheed is because they weren't sure what to do with the aerospace pieces of McDonell Douglas and Rockwell they acquired in the late 90's. Meaning most of the "Boeing" contribution to ULA came from other companies already serving NASA for decades. Mainly with the Delta rockets.

None of that was core Boeing business. Which is why ULA has been run by Lockheed people the whole time it has existed. Current ULA CEO Tory Bruno was an engineer at Lockheed for a long time before working his way up to where he's at now. Something like 30 years in the industry.