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We need to get rid of bail bondsmen

1. they inflate the amount of bail necessary by a ridiculous amount

2. they keep their fee no matter what

Just set bail to be a sufficient amount to keep a person from running & return it all in full when they show up to court. There is no reason a person should pay a bail bondsmen 10k to cover their 500k bail.

Bail bondsmen shouldn't be picking up bail-jumpers either. That should be law enforcement's job.

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Bail is just supposed to ensure people show up to court & make it too expensive onerous to run.

It's not a fee for the privilege to waiting for trial outside jail.

Pineapple & shredded carrot is one of the stangers combos I've had that work really well.

Pineapple is way more versatile than you'd think.

Because their politicians keep them too focused on race to think about class.

Whether or not it's intentional keeping the 95% of the population with overlapping interests divided by race & gender is certianly useful.

..Intel has been making GPUs for a few decades. Just not discrete GPUs

Devs was an imperfect show, but good enough to be measured against one.

It deserved a bigger audience & should get a watch.

I’m honestly surprised Intel didn’t try to launch their GPUs with a console.

There’s no better environment to prove your hardware while devs optimize to it.

The whole Dx12 vs older APIs would have been a non issue & given them another year or two to work things out.

I think there has been some experimentation with stripping an organ down to a collagen frame & loading it up with a recipients stem cells.

I think the closest we would ever get to native organs is identifying what alerts the recipient immune system & CRISPRing those bits of the new organ with the recipient's DNA. This would work just as well with animal organs with the advantage of using CRISPR while it's still in the animal.

It's probably not the best idea to perfectly recreate the organ that failed in that environment anyway.

People love to talk about how men are violent or maladjusted, but no one cares to think of how they got that way.

We talk so almost exclusively about how vulnerable & threatened women feel that most people don't even know that men are more likely to be victims of violent crime & more likely to be injured during it as well.

If more people gave a fuck some guys like Mr. Segundo Guallpa would have better outcomes.

Who is forcing everyone to do anything?

you said that relying on public transport & bikes won’t reduce any one’s quality of life.

Even if you don’t care about physical exertion & sweat a car runs on your schedule & can leave anytime you want.

A hot humid environment can make a person sweaty.

Riding a bike can make a person sweaty in a cool dry environment. Exertion can even make people sweat in winter.

Not being inside a climate controlled car for trips will de facto reduce people’s quality of life.

> Surely you're getting sweaty on a moped in a similar fashion to a bike?

no.

You don't sweat more when you exercise than when you sit on a chair?

>but I really don't understand it.

That's fine, but you have to take people's word for it who do.

Clothes feel gross when you've sweat through them. Starting your day & ending every trip drenched in sweat is a drop in a persons quality of life.

I live in a city where public transportation is pretty good & often better than a car. Lots of people don't & introducing a giant PITA will make their days tougher.

Reducing people's standard of living is a hard sell & likely a considerable reason people refuse to believe in climate change.

There is plenty of low hanging fruit to capture before we start asking for the really painful sacrifices which amount to a drop in the bucket.

Electric cars, nuclear power & renewable power in tandem as fast as possible will increase people's standard of living while doing more good.

A revenue neutral carbon tax will do more good for less money and more importantly less effort/discomfort.

To put it all another way: Asking people with shitty lives to pay more in exchange for having shittier lives isn't gonna work.

Especially when the acts themselves are more symbolic than pragmatic.

> I know you probably don't have the answer, but I'd be surprised if this was actually able to cover fuel needs.

It definitely won't, but it doesn't need to. There is no magic bullet coming, it's going to require a lot of relatively minor contributions.

You'll likely never be able to move away from something like kerosene for air travel, nothing else will have the energy density, safety record & maturity or the most important quality: the plane getting lighter as it flies.

But a process like this could prevent air travel from contributing greenhouse gasses by integrating it into the planets normal carbon cycle.

It's not just nutrients.

The grounds provide a lattice for the yeast to grow on & also nutrients. The important part is the process uses industrial waste instead of diverting more useful or harmful products.

Not gonna lie, I've fully bought into the potential of fungi-technology.

They are weird little >!fun!<guys with tons of potential

This field of tech should have a good niche in air travel.

Batteries will likely never be viable, aside from the lower energy density you have to carry them after they are exhausted. That a jumbo jet get significantly lighter as it travels is a boon.

30,000 feet is a particularly bad place for exhaust, but the issue with burning gas isn't so much the pollution, but that you are digging up carbon that has been sequestered for millions of years faster than stuff like coffee beans can gobble it up again.

It pays to be conservative when you are... flying in the face of gravity. Even if something like a fuel cell proves viable it won't have the century of refinements & safety standards.

Resources spent on electric flight would be better invested here or on cargo ships.

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No one is gaslighting you.

You just don’t know as much as you think you do. You don’t need to control the boiler or the valve to prevent heat from entering your radiator.

Your options are different depending on what type of heat you have which can be determined by your radiator.

All the stuff you keep saying isn’t what’s relevant.

Enjoy your heat

Because you haven’t answered the relevant question.

A pole isn’t a pipe & wanted to understand what you were trying to say.

I give up, enjoy your uncomfortable apartment.

>how am I supposed to know

By answering the damned questions & describing the features of your radiator accurately so I can tell you what you have & how to control the heat in your apartment.

How can you be so sure of what you don’t know & also confident you know everything?

…. I know how heating works, I’m asking what kind of boiler you have so I can tell you your specific options.

Do you have one pipe steam?

What is a heating pole? Are you talking about the riser that runs between floors?

You have a lot more control over your heat than you think.

What kind of heat do you have?

Unfortunately the landlord is bound by the lowest common denominator, that means keeping the coldest apartment at 68 degrees (plus a margin of error in practice).

Owners would love to save money, but the dick who refuses to close his window is also the dick who calls the city & gets you fined. It's a problem in coops & condos just as much as renter buildings.

It's a catch 22 that hinges on uncooperative residents who have zero incentive to conserve energy.

Steam hammer is absolutely a problem

I’ve been trying to fix it on one of the lines in my building for a few years.

One drop of water makes a liter bottle of steam. That a lot of displacement. If your condensed water return line isn’t pitched properly anywhere it can be blasted back and forth with tremendous force.

Someone replaced their big cast iron radiators with pressed sheet metal ones & the hammer knocked it right off it’s wall mount.

The problem with steam IME is they were designed around slow rise & long cycle coal boilers & the valves for air to escape are way too small.

Unfortunately a lot of the companies in the industry just follow conventional wisdom passed down the generations. When my building had to replace it’s boiler I asked the organization that drafted NYC code for recommendations.

Bigger valves at the top of risers, TRVs on the radiators & pressure just low enough to reach the furthest radiator from the boiler & everyone will be perfectly pleasant. Insulating risers can also help a lot if a unit is still hot.

Getting all the residents to allow that to happen is the real hang up.