Paul-Andre Panon
@paul-andrepanon.bsky.social
The problem with ICE rental fleets is that the engines are mistreated during the critical early period of their lives. Over-revved when they should be getting lightly worn in, and sometimes skipping oil changes. That should be less of a concern with EVs but what rental companies are buying EVs?
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The problem with ICE rental fleets is that the engines are mistreated during the critical early period of their lives. Over-revved when they should be getting lightly worn in, and sometimes skipping oil changes. That should be less of a concern with EVs but what rental companies are buying EVs?
You would think so, but with kids come higher expenses and responsibilities. Maybe her parents blackmailed her into getting with the program if she wanted her and her kids to see any inheritance.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
You would think so, but with kids come higher expenses and responsibilities. Maybe her parents blackmailed her into getting with the program if she wanted her and her kids to see any inheritance.
Data centres definitely have legitimate uses. Unoptimized AI farms that waste massive amounts of power due to lack of optimization isn't one of them.
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Data centres definitely have legitimate uses. Unoptimized AI farms that waste massive amounts of power due to lack of optimization isn't one of them.
And Trump will veto it, so they can say that they tried.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
And Trump will veto it, so they can say that they tried.
Eh, for all you know it might be the same guys moonlighting on a second job.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Eh, for all you know it might be the same guys moonlighting on a second job.
Well you didn't say, "No, no, it's-- it's just that we wanted a heat exchanger block and not a fog abattoir", so you're welcome.
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Well you didn't say, "No, no, it's-- it's just that we wanted a heat exchanger block and not a fog abattoir", so you're welcome.
In the living room, the husband says to his buddy, "Did you see her in there, not a care in the world? Little does she know that tomorrow my plan pays off and she's a dead woman".
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November 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
In the living room, the husband says to his buddy, "Did you see her in there, not a care in the world? Little does she know that tomorrow my plan pays off and she's a dead woman".
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So just under a year later of adopting that plan, his buddy visits again to see how it's going. The husband lets him in. He's in a wheelchair occasionally having couphing fits. As they pass a room on their way to the living room, the wife is in there doing pushup and doing reps with dumbells.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
So just under a year later of adopting that plan, his buddy visits again to see how it's going. The husband lets him in. He's in a wheelchair occasionally having couphing fits. As they pass a room on their way to the living room, the wife is in there doing pushup and doing reps with dumbells.
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I'm reminded of a decades old joke about this guy who wants to kill his wife. He hears from his buddy about someone else who killed their spouse by having sex with their spouse multiple times a day for a year, until their spouse died of exhaustion. He thinks there's no way to prove that's murder.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I'm reminded of a decades old joke about this guy who wants to kill his wife. He hears from his buddy about someone else who killed their spouse by having sex with their spouse multiple times a day for a year, until their spouse died of exhaustion. He thinks there's no way to prove that's murder.
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Is it just to sow fear so people can be more easily manipulated? Seems self defeating in the long run.
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Is it just to sow fear so people can be more easily manipulated? Seems self defeating in the long run.
I've got to wonder what's the twisted rationale for this though? Having your base suffer permanent disabilities like deafness, partial paralysis, or brain damage isn't going to make them fitter, in a Darwinian sense. White poor are as likely to get sick as brown people. Why?
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I've got to wonder what's the twisted rationale for this though? Having your base suffer permanent disabilities like deafness, partial paralysis, or brain damage isn't going to make them fitter, in a Darwinian sense. White poor are as likely to get sick as brown people. Why?
I think you would need to talk to installers in your area to see how they deal with it. I just thought about how I would deal with it if there was no established best practice, but I have no idea what is actually available. All I was trying to say was, I think that it's a solvable problem.
October 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I think you would need to talk to installers in your area to see how they deal with it. I just thought about how I would deal with it if there was no established best practice, but I have no idea what is actually available. All I was trying to say was, I think that it's a solvable problem.
You might also want to coat that input system in hydrophobic paint to decrease the amount by which water lingers due to surface tension and forms a habitat for molds.
October 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
You might also want to coat that input system in hydrophobic paint to decrease the amount by which water lingers due to surface tension and forms a habitat for molds.
In fact, when it comes to fog, some well designed counter rotating fans could probably catch a lot of it on the blades. It's not that different an idea from the way computers are designed to filter dust out of airflow.
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
In fact, when it comes to fog, some well designed counter rotating fans could probably catch a lot of it on the blades. It's not that different an idea from the way computers are designed to filter dust out of airflow.
If those things are really a big problem, there are probably things you could do to reduce the moisture and the fog before it contacts the heat exchanger, say by filtering the air with a few fine meshes or baffles, or maybe an inflow pipe diameter change to change the pressure and %
October 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
If those things are really a big problem, there are probably things you could do to reduce the moisture and the fog before it contacts the heat exchanger, say by filtering the air with a few fine meshes or baffles, or maybe an inflow pipe diameter change to change the pressure and %
That would be the grift. But lets face it, if things became that bad, Trump would be far too paranoid to let anyone other than hand-picked loyalist Secret Service members join him in the bunker. Anybody stupid enough for the grift would be left screaming at a closed door while the mob got closer.
October 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
That would be the grift. But lets face it, if things became that bad, Trump would be far too paranoid to let anyone other than hand-picked loyalist Secret Service members join him in the bunker. Anybody stupid enough for the grift would be left screaming at a closed door while the mob got closer.
Sure, but that was probably to support modern intelligence communications requirements and compute. These changes would be to support Trump in the comfortable manner which he believes is his due. You know, like a virtual golfing room for example.
October 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Sure, but that was probably to support modern intelligence communications requirements and compute. These changes would be to support Trump in the comfortable manner which he believes is his due. You know, like a virtual golfing room for example.
Since the Presidential bunker is under the [former] East Wing I've seen someone speculate the real purpose is to increase its size. If so, then the safest way to ensure if hasn't been compromised with listening devices during construction would be high heat.
October 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Since the Presidential bunker is under the [former] East Wing I've seen someone speculate the real purpose is to increase its size. If so, then the safest way to ensure if hasn't been compromised with listening devices during construction would be high heat.
As with the care that I'm sure the NSA has to do after Putin and aides had unsupervised access to the oval office during Trump's first term, I suspect the bunker and East Wing will need to be gutted and rebuilt again once he is gone to ensure no listening devices have been buried in concrete.
October 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
As with the care that I'm sure the NSA has to do after Putin and aides had unsupervised access to the oval office during Trump's first term, I suspect the bunker and East Wing will need to be gutted and rebuilt again once he is gone to ensure no listening devices have been buried in concrete.
As someone else pointed out, the Presidential bunker is what lies under the [former] East Wing. They indicated that perhaps the plan is to increase the size of the bunker, with Nazi Germany apparently doing something similar (including covering with a ballroom) for Hitler.
October 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
As someone else pointed out, the Presidential bunker is what lies under the [former] East Wing. They indicated that perhaps the plan is to increase the size of the bunker, with Nazi Germany apparently doing something similar (including covering with a ballroom) for Hitler.
At this point, a different president could call in the Canadians to do it. We'd love to help and there's historical precedent. :-)
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
At this point, a different president could call in the Canadians to do it. We'd love to help and there's historical precedent. :-)
And if you're supply limited on battery raw materials, smaller batteries for the same performance also means that you can make more vehicles to sell without pushing up the price of battery raw materials.
October 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And if you're supply limited on battery raw materials, smaller batteries for the same performance also means that you can make more vehicles to sell without pushing up the price of battery raw materials.
But also, large vehicles were being heavily promoted by automakers because they are more profitable by being exempt from some CAFE standards. When you're making EVs though, you're implicitly CAFE compliant, and smaller is what is more profitable. Less mass can use smaller batteries => lower costs
October 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
But also, large vehicles were being heavily promoted by automakers because they are more profitable by being exempt from some CAFE standards. When you're making EVs though, you're implicitly CAFE compliant, and smaller is what is more profitable. Less mass can use smaller batteries => lower costs