Sure, but you can do better for $3. Smaller, more powerful, similar power consumption

Dependence and addiction are different things. I find the story of mathematician Paul Erdős’s bet on stopping amphetamines illustrates it best where he had no problem stopping but said of the experience:

“You’ve showed me I’m not an addict. But I didn’t get any work done. I’d get up in the morning and stare at a blank piece of paper. I’d have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. You’ve set mathematics back a month.”

If you’re addicted to stimulants, that’s a health problem and has both poor sensitivity and selectivity for ADHD. If someone is taking stimulants and forms dependence but not addiction that is somewhat sensitive for ADHD but has terrible selectivity.

Takeaway option one: Society does a terrible job accommodating those individuals who are any sort of neurodivergant and many laws, especially those around drug use and possession, don’t actually improve society and instead primarily harm those who are most vulnerable. The takeaway here being that the laws/society are a problem that needs to be revised.

Takeaway option two: Neruodivergance = criminal and anyone with a diagnosis of ADHD/Autism/etc. should be placed under enhanced supervision as they are likely to do crime in the future. Those people are the problem and preemptive detention is the only possible solution to prevent them crime-ing all over the place.

Take a guess which direction the UK is going to go with this?

Microsoft when Bing first came out was literally like “it is highly recommended that everyone here use Bing Search”.

A lot of opioids are fairly related, Oxycodone and Oxymorphone can be used as precursors to make Nalaxone and vice versa. I recall Four Thieves Vinegar Collective doing a similar trick though I don’t remember what the actual precursor was.

Depends on when you count, but for the Iraq war specifically that’s about right for the official foreign coalition forces.

However, the Iraq war was just one front of the nearly dozen wars that were being fought as part of the “Global War on Terrorism” which NATO perpetrated, the short list of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, but arguably also including Camaroon, Philippines, Libya, Kashmir, etc.

Sure, of Europe only UK and Poland were officially deployed to Iraq, but they were actively collaborating with the rest of NATO in a much broader conflict and don’t ask about where the mercenaries and security consultants that were used heavily during those conflicts came from.

It’s not a misconception, it’s misdirection.

Also the issue of you need to be a deranged psychopath to get wealthy in the first place.

And it’s not just “overcrowded jails full of pretrial prisoners, the barefoot children carrying buckets for water in Appalachia” but the grad students in LA living out of their cars, or grandpa sleeping on a bus stop, or people in the Rockies surviving off roadkill and forage.

Seattle tent cities/tiny homes make some Favelas look real swanky.

There’s multiple ways, but as an example in a similar way as nutritional yeast is made by growing a microorganism such as Saccharomyces Cerevisiae and then extracting the products. B12 is made by growing an organism like Propionibacterium Freudenreichii and extracting and seperating those products.

You then mix the B12 from the Freudenreichii with the inactivated[dead] Cerevisiae.

Most people here are, correctly, pointing out that going fully vegan easily gets all your required nutrients except for B12. However, this is a mostly solved problem because while “naturally” humans would get it through consumption of animal products it’s synthesized via bacteria and it’s currently produced at scale via genetically modified strains, such as Propionibacterium Freudenreichii, and used to fortify things like plant based milks and nutritional yeast.

It is something to be aware of, but it’s also not the problem many on this thread are trying to paint it as.

I don’t know why homeless people don’t break into every unused house and squat in it, especially in the winter.

Because cops kill people who do. There will be no “Robin Hood economy” without extreme violence.

Judging by the location of the PWR plug and general layout, plus the large tantalum caps next to the inductors I think that’s a bank of DC switching supplies. Signal inductors I would expect to be closer to the size of L25-L29 shown in that photo.

The rest of this is good advice though! It’s CANbus so there should be a set of optocouplers somewhere to protect everything from, an admittedly less significant, type of ESD event. However, I’m not seeing anything I can immediately identify as one. Are there components on the underside as well?

The optocouplers themselves might be okay, the things most likely to be killed are diodes and capacitors. A fixed 8V would make me suspect one of those failed as a short. If you have a thermal cam handy and value your time over potentially damage you can short the signal to ground and use the cam to try and identify what specifically is damaged as those should heat up significantly when directly shorted to ground¹.

^1 use a loose wire, shorting events should be kept as short as possible, increasing the duration after each sweep with the cam. Don’t do this with the power line. If the circuit was undamaged this should be fine for the signal lines, but poor/cheap design + damaged circuit could cause any amount of havoc. Do at your own risk, etc.^

The point wasn’t to denigrate solar, but to demonstrate the fallacious beliefs you’re operating under.

Yes, the plant owner will want to maximize the profit of their investments and get as quick a return as possible.

If gas/coal was held to the same exact safety, environmental and waste disposal standards as nuclear, and they should, then those would also need to be run at max throttle to justify the initial expense and have significantly shorter lifespans. It’s a “plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit” type issue.

Nothing you have said is an argument against a solar in the day + nuclear at night type of setup. It would certainly be a huge improvement over building out more CO2 based generators.

In the power grid of today (and even more so in the future), that’s fairly slow.

Not really. Reciprocating gas engines are specifically designed for balancing loads with renewables and have maneuvering capabilities in the 25-100% range with the state of the art at ~25%/minute slope.

Startup time is 15min-1hr for gas, 30min-2hr for nuclear.

You’re correct that gas is better on all these metrics, but it’s far more comparable than you’re making it out to be.

Also needs to be mentioned that these are very oversimplified metrics and things look better for nuclear the deeper in the weeds you go imo.

it needs to be able to drop to 0%.

That’s not how any kind of turbine works.

shutting it down means it’s just a hunk of a building costing money.

The same could be said of solar. ‘It’s a very expensive capitol investment and as soon as the sun goes down it’s just a stupidly expensive roof costing money’.

Nuclear can’t quickly scale up and down

It can though. Modern nuclear plants with light water reactors are designed to have maneuvering capabilities in the 30-100% range with 5%/minute slope.

Historically, they were built as baseload plants without load following capability in order to keep the design simple which led to many anti-nuclear activists claiming this. It’s just not true though.

even if it could it’d make nuclear even less economically viable

Why?

It’s why currently gas plants are used as backup: they’re cheap

No. They’re not. The costs are just externalized and safety is, comparitively, neglected.

ICE NOW HAS A BUDGET LARGER THAN THE MARINES, IS COMPLETELY EXEMPT FROM ANY LEGAL ACTION BECAUSE TRUMP HAS THROWN OUT THE CONSTITUTION, RAMPIDLY BUILT CONCENTRATION CAMPS AT A RECORD PASTETHAT ARE MORE RESTRICTED TO THE PUBLIC THAN EVER, AND NOW ARE MASS ARRESTING LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND CITIZENS ALIKE.

The same can be said between Trump’s first term and Biden’ presidency. The level of funding and militancy isn’t a function of R vs D, but a function of time as they because increasingly less cost effective and require increasing force to attempt to maintain/increase the level of eliminations.

All while the rule of law has been entirely abandoned.

You’re delusional if you believe in the “rule of law”, that’s never been how the justice system has worked in the US.

It was bad for immigrants before, it’s actual Hell for everyone now.

Sorry you can no longer sleep through brunch and now have to face the realities that immigrants and others have been facing for decades.

Not to mention it’s gotten so much worse that you can actually observe it on national economic data.

… What? Can you clarify what you mean by this and what data? This feels like Facebook level finger pointing and not based on any actual data or proper analysis, but I’m happy to be proven wrong there.

I think any marginalized community would prefer having the wiggle room of being able to exist and organize under hollow virtue signals than ACTIVE AND RAPIDLY EXPANDING GENOCIDE.

Your “group” being spared genocide as a tool to influct genocide on others is not the “easy moral dilemma” you make it out to be.

REPUBLICANS BANNED ABORTION

The bipartisan nominated supreme court banned abortion during a democratic party trifecta.

Blaming the Republicans primarily for that is as asinine as blaming the Democrats primarily for the current government shutdown.

Dems, believe it or not, fucking didn’t.

No? So they’re just completely powerless and their votes were forced even though they really, really didn’t want to?

The only people you are helping by spreading this “both sides” BULLSHIT is the fascists.

The difference is who we say are fascists. Yes, the Republicans are fascist, but so are the Democrats.

Take Trump’s tiny cock out of your mouth and smell the shit around you.

If there’s one thing we can agree on it’s that the elephant in the room is absolutely covered in shit. However, I’m busy trying to take the fucking animals outside and am currently begging for you to please, please stop sucking donkey cock, realize the problems, and help.

The difference is method, not end result.

The main purposes of DACA was to get immigrants to “come out of the shadows” and have individuals self-report and turn themselves in, in exchange for temporary benifits to, primarily, their children. As stated at the time:

“Deferred action is not a pathway to citizenship. It is not legal status. It simply says that for three years, you are not a law enforcement priority and are not going to go after you, It is temporary and it is revocable.”

It was part of a series of incredibly smart, effective and efficient moves which resulted in record high deportations without needing a bunch of jackbooted thugs cracking skulls in the street.

For a while. Now we’re in the “jackbooted thugs” phase which is less efficient, but plays better with the base it’s trying to appease. It’s less efficient and less people are getting deported overall, which is good. But the majority of those are switching from self-deportations to direct expulsions which are getting increasingly violent, a process that started back in 2021.

I submit that the Democrats are at least 1% better than the Republicans, and that this proves the meme is fake news.

You can’t just state something as fact and not show your work. You are making a claim it’s up to you to support it. You can’t just go around saying “I’m right unless you prove the negative”.

You have not placed any goalposts to begin with, what is your definition of “better”? By what metric are you using? What do you mean by “under the Democrats”?

How about we define “better” as “death rate per capita within immigration detention centers”? And “under the Democrats/Republicans” as “who holds the executive branch”? We should see an increase during the Bush years, when ICE was first created, a decrease during the Obama years, followed by an increase during Trump’s first term, decrease during Biden, and increase under Trump’s second term right?

Is that what happened?

If you don’t like my attempt at making your claim falsifiable, which I suspect you won’t; especially when you see the results, feel free to redefine your lose language into something else rigid and falsifiable. Set those goalposts.

wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?

Those neighborhoors will tell you that ICE had been around since 2002 and while happy you’re finally getting with the program, despite the current administration’s best attempts, 2012 was the worst year so far right after the democrats had their governmental trifecta and with the dreamers bait and switch.

So yes, while different flavors, they have been equally bad.

go tell a bunch of drag queens and trans people.

Republicans despise them, Democrats love to use them. That isn’t necessarily better.

go find some under aged girls who’ve been impregnated by adult men and tell them the Dems are just as bad as the GOP.

Fucking yes, the big Epstein reveal is that it’s all of them. The Trumps and the Clinton’s.

it’s all frantic backpedaling.

Kettle

I think the study you’re citing makes a methodological mistake by applying an issues based measurement framework in a representative democracy

I don’t necessarily disagree. It’s definitely not a holistic view, but I haven’t found much else that even asks that question much less has any real methodology behind it. Have you?

What would be the correct methodology in your opinion?

I have no intention of elaborating

You’re not communicating anything other than the vaguest of concern trolling. You clearly have thoughts and opinions, this is a place to share those.

You can’t both be upset when you are misunderstand and refuse to communicate.

Quit backpedaling and say it with your chest.

Anyway next time post the version of the study that actually passed peer review and got published, not a draft.

You do know how to use sci-hub right? You have the title, or if you’re morally opposed to that option a quick Google and you can pay $30 here for it.

However, before you gish-gallop into concern trolling the source I linked why don’t you provide one, or multiple, of your own that supports the concerns you have surrounding “nuance”.