Caleb James DeLisle

> Hydrogen ICE
H2 tanks cost 7$/kWh
Batteries cost 50$/kWh
Sodium batteries are predicted to hit 20$/kWh
New higher density sodium batteries might be expected to hit 14$/kWh
So it's very unlikely that batteries will remain more expensive than tanks for another decade - and that's why nobody is investing seriously in H2 technology.
It's pretty much either battery, or diesel (and wait for battery to improve)
> except for atomic batteries
Power output on those is trash so they're really only useful for niche stuff like pacemakers.

2026-05-19 10:48:15 UTC

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Impressive that he was able to find a worse use of resources than maintaining a car.

2026-05-17 20:46:43 UTC

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Americans don't have a government anyway.
They just have the mafia that everyone says would rule over them if they didn't have a government.

2026-05-11 23:05:52 UTC

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Loud, that's one thing that they are.
For what they charge, hopefully they'll throw in a free wrench set (you're gonna need it of course)

2026-05-10 18:45:11 UTC

Literally the most evil human being to have ever existed in the entirety of history.
You could make 1000 Epstein Islands, and they could abduct, kill and eat a million children, and it wouldn't be one billionth as evil as Thomas Massie.
#nevent1q…uw2j

2026-05-07 20:29:40 UTC

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Getting a sample and taking it apart is probably better, but in either case - even when you know what you want to do, you still need to build machines that will do it reliably to a tight enough tolerance.
This was the same problem they faced when they wanted to re-construct the RocketDyne F-1 engine (which was used on the Saturn 5 rocket)

2026-05-05 10:11:16 UTC

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There's a positive element to this: It allows us to build parallel invite-only economies, because people will actually want to be part of them because the Mainstream Economy has increasingly the vibes of a public school cafeteria. Building invite-only underground economies is great because as they become more relevant, the mainstream economy loses valuable customers and has to close down, leaving a desert for those who are not welcome.

2026-05-04 09:14:42 UTC

Me, changing the font in vscode
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/aa72ced85126aeb66d1006ee392013c766c8959981d673e1dcba21194f58c1d0.png

2026-05-03 11:01:48 UTC

I changed my computer back to light mode.
Lol nothing works, everything is designed for dark mode only now.

2026-04-16 19:48:00 UTC

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> Mythos
(meaning it's not real)
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/039acfc99d7aed346cb10baf6c6d175f02185eaa3cca527d2139157ff75ce48b.png

2026-04-15 21:39:31 UTC

WW3, but randomly interspersed with little biblical plagues just to keep things exciting...
#nevent1q…vaqh

2026-04-13 00:58:04 UTC

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I was not raised religious, so I can't make myself "see" the bible as fact - but I'm still very admirative of it's ability to organize 2000 years of the most advanced civilizations on the planet.

2026-04-13 00:16:30 UTC

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> 322
Reference to Genesis 3:22, an easter egg in the bible which shows that the snake actually told Eve the truth.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/2d1d3aba2acaef68803ef7c4aa14f7ec3ecd238549adf15b01be80862d0140a4.png

2026-04-11 12:54:27 UTC

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Well, the ASML photolithography stuff doesn't seem to be going obsolete any time soon.

2026-04-11 12:24:28 UTC

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Why ASML won:
They went against standard philosophy -> Standard philosophy is you always have multiple vendors.
ASML went entirely against this, instead they found the best supplier in the world for each one of their critical components, and they signed an exclusivity deal with each one.
So ASML couldn't buy from anyone else, and the company couldn't sell to anyone else.
So China is still trying to catch up, because they are not able to buy ANY of the parts of the stepper.

2026-04-11 12:15:57 UTC

This guy is a gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTgrWmOk4q8

2026-04-08 21:49:05 UTC

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Much safer than before, indeed.
But number of kids who walk behind SUVs per day is so high that still base rate says it's a less risky proposition...
Anyway pedantry aside, parking lots are indeed dangerous. Perhaps cars should have an alarm based on capacitive touch so it screams if something touches the car body...

2026-04-08 20:34:36 UTC

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I think your math's a little off...
I'd rather my daughter walk behind an SUV than spend any amount of time on Epstein Island.
Base rates are important...

2026-04-07 18:49:34 UTC

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Heh, I thought people were supposed to like the antichrist...

2026-04-06 20:13:12 UTC

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Probably doesn't matter much.
Can Europe become productive again? Sure, they've done it thousands of times.
Can they build a navy? Probably, but should they? Unclear. It's looking like big ships are big sitting ducks.
American protection was a double-edged sword, Europeans had to entertain American ideas of morality -> e.g. importing migrants against their best interests.
Lose NATO, lose the USD system, people who work and produce things will probably benefit no matter where they live. Big losers will be people who produce nothing and live by their political opinions.

2026-04-05 22:53:04 UTC

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I'm getting three unique vibes:
1. Murica fuck yeah
2. Fuck Trump, this war is un-winnable, he's gonna get us all killed
3. The sooner this gay empire dies, the better
These days I'm between 2 and 3 depending on mood...

2026-04-05 22:21:31 UTC

Scrolling the feed gives me a stark sense that America is a country made up of two groups of people:
Progressives: Who make up insane and unworkable policies, and
Conservatives: Who excitedly die defending them.

2026-04-04 20:58:28 UTC

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No idea myself, but I believe they used to mine it. In any case it doesn't matter because they're gonna do what Russia and China are willing to allow them to do. If they allow assassination market hits inside the US, they will do it.
The reason they wouldn't is because RU/CN don't want the US doing it in their countries. Russia turning off Internet is a hint that they may be preparing for this mode of warfare.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/da7ae4cd8d7059cc17b83b1fe20d7c9b5c0e2cadb2094c831b780682eb52a6e3.png

2026-04-04 20:38:03 UTC

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The logic around this gets super weird, which makes the wisest thing be to only conscript men who are already "willing to go" (you know what I mean)...
The problem is that going to Iran is a guaranteed death sentence, and most people more-or-less know that.
So, say you start firing people from their jobs, well, what if Iran wants to play hard ball and start giving cash (Monero) bounties for dead IRS agents? You're out of your job, you can go die, commit suicide, become homeless, or kill some Shaniqua. You probably won't get caught because there are thousands of other people like you thinking the same thing. And if you do, there's no meaningful punishment they can give you that is worse than dying in Iran.

2026-04-04 20:18:06 UTC

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My guess: Nothing happens, MAYBE they turn off someone's bank account. Anyone who has a history of fedposting gets left the fuck alone because the last thing they need is some confrontation spiraling into Civil War 2 before they've even got boots on the ground in Iran.

2026-04-04 11:12:19 UTC

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Russia would like to wreck the US so that they can control Eastern Europe.
Trump has a personal beef with The Swamp which tried to put him in prison.
It's *possible* that Trump has made a cynical calculation that the best way to destroy the globohomo regime is to destroy the army that defends it - and that's one thing which he has absolute authority to do.

2026-04-04 10:53:54 UTC

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They're not going to conscript Arabs.
And the reason why they won't is basic math, they know that Arabs will mutiny instantaneously.
There is a lesson in that.

2026-04-04 09:18:52 UTC

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I think what's going on here is Trump's guy told them "win this war" and they (correctly) said "not possible, we're boxed in"...
So he said "okay plan a land invasion to unbox us" and they said "that's not possible either, we're actually boxed in"
So he said "give me a fucking land invasion plan" and they said "I'm not marching my army off a cliff", so he said "you're fired"...
So the question is, do they think this will work, or is marching the army off a cliff the goal? Israel would like the US to wreck Iran and then collapse so that they leave the middle east and Israel can then takeover.

2026-04-03 17:48:04 UTC

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Who surrenders?
And what if there's someone in Iran who doesn't accept that surrender?
What if there's someone who wants to keep firing rockets?
How does the surrenderer - who "cannot fight back" (your words) stops the other guy from continuing to fire rockets?
Because China is not going to just stop providing rockets, there's no reason why they would ever stop, Iran has just gotten the world to trade oil in Yuan.

2026-04-03 14:13:25 UTC

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> once we finish with Iran
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/91d8adcfb5b8221b13e6b41de517bcd6b1f1ce5adab22b041b421ded1d6993d8.png

2026-04-03 10:08:43 UTC

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Fuel is involved in the production of ~everything.
So expensive fuel means expensive everything.
Another word for expensive everything is "inflation".
The canonical solution for inflation is for the central bank to raise interest rates - but this is kind of Scylla vs. Charybdis, either you can't afford groceries or you lose your job.
So really it's a pretty short road between expensive gas and poverty...

2026-04-03 09:52:35 UTC

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The theater kids made a play in which we gave all of the power to the theater kids and everything got better.
It was so good that we gave all of the power to the theater kids.
Everything did not get better.

2026-04-03 09:40:42 UTC

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> We fired all of our shape-rotators because they didn't conjugate words as well as our word-conjugators
> Now we can't rotate shapes 😭

2026-04-03 07:55:49 UTC

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Sure, but now it's a hobby because nobody actually needs it anymore.

2026-04-03 07:25:04 UTC

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Yeah but it's all basically dead now because digital does everything for you.
And photographers really aren't specialists anymore, just randos with backdrops they bought off aliexpress...

2026-04-03 07:16:06 UTC

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Don't know Fstop, I'm familiar with film speed but as I remember you'd just buy the regular film unless you're a photographer and you have specific goals. Also I remember light meters, but again, that was photographer stuff...

2026-04-03 07:10:40 UTC

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I'm told I'm a millennial, but digital cameras weren't economical until I was like turning 20...

2026-04-02 21:30:44 UTC

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Well, nobody's mined it yet, but if somebody does, they'll be able to get paid insane amounts of money in exchange for telling where all of the mines are...

2026-04-02 21:28:53 UTC

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whoever mined the mississippi river first wins

2026-04-02 18:05:50 UTC

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> Fryslop

2026-04-02 18:01:23 UTC

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It would be quite funny if he nominated Gaetz again...
> Blocked
> War's over, mission accomplished
> Panic -> Unblocked

2026-04-02 17:52:26 UTC

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> Intercepted by an Iranian Seagull

2026-04-02 17:30:21 UTC

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Personally I'm more thinking about stuff like Ferd OBS, Chrysler Imperial, Galaxy 500, and other slow land-yachts... Not Lincoln or Cadillac because electronics & wiring will make you KYS.
And most of those things have more than one place you can stuff, 1/2 ton of batteries, and they won't even make them squat...

2026-04-02 17:23:10 UTC

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Tesla motors have a shitload of torque, but they fall off at speed because you get to a point where you can't push enough amps through the power cables. So you win 8th mile, lose 1/4 mile.
Further musing about classic conversions: https://pkteerium.xyz/@cjd/posts/B4mfrOnFbB6O9VooWu

2026-04-02 17:18:40 UTC

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That's definitely a working model. But those batteries are single-use. You buy them, they run your house, and that's it.
If you have a 16kwh or 32kwh small(ish) battery at your house but you also tap into your vehicle batteries, those ones are doing dual role.
What does NOT work is "V2G", the whole design is fucked and everything about it is $$$$$$

2026-04-02 17:14:44 UTC

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Subsidies are already more-or-less gone. Batteries are getting cheaper because of economies of scale... China is Chinaing...
China still makes it way harder to register a gasoline car (you have to win a license plate lottery), so that's kind of a subsidy.
What's actually becoming dirt cheap is motors, because EVs get retired same as gasoline cars, but unlike a gas engine that's clapped out after 200k miles, a motor lasts ~forever. So it's kind of a golden age for classic conversions...

2026-04-02 17:07:07 UTC

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Yes, 50kw 3 phase AC charging means it can run a genset in the truck bed very easily.
However, large battery has a secondary use case as well: I might look at installing solar at my house with a small(ish) stationary battery.
* When my home battery is >90% and sun is generating, I can charge the truck toward 90%
* When my home battery is <10% I can discharge the truck toward my home inverter until it's at 30%
Picrel is a simulation of what a 22kw solar array would have made at my house last year (using real solar irradiation data), red is 20kwh/day projected consumption. Adding more battery capacity would clearly smooth over October, November, January and February and eliminate any grid buy-in during those months.
Another consideration is that even DC fast charging is like 30 cents / kwh, diesel is 2.30/liter (right now), 1 liter = 10kwh, diesel engine is 40% efficient, so diesel generating costs about 60 cents. Math maybe different if your diesel cost is less insane...
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/9a98af70f8f2157e81c5b042e3516cb3745f339b61aa7c006fed7ebe39961b78.png

2026-04-02 15:57:31 UTC

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You can imagine reasons why it might actually be correct, but when you're looking at someone's statistics work, and you see something that looks like a mistake - you should assume it's a mistake - because making mistakes is EASY.
Because this is the default assumption, serious researchers always describe their process in great detail so that it can be independently validated and gut-checked against their results. So if you see what looks like a mistake, and they don't explain why it's like that, that's red flags all around.

2026-04-02 15:33:40 UTC

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Evergreen...
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/503fed92e7a16d2d1e5e2d911afc6ff87d6c5f7e82fc390170659d324031b630.webm

2026-04-02 15:32:01 UTC

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Western IQ average is 100, 50% people are <= 100, 47% is <= 99, therefore % of people with exactly 100 is about 3% ( https://iqfreetests.com/iq-percentiles )
If someone is saying there's some population somewhere, they did an IQ test, and 26% of the population matches ANY number, there's something very wrong with their math.
Maybe they meant <= 69, but they didn't say it, and they did use <= in other places so it looks shoddy...

2026-04-02 15:19:00 UTC

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It reminds me that he should not be able to weasel out of implementing ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of his domestic policy anymore, because anyone who could conceivably block him is now on a leash.

2026-04-02 15:12:51 UTC

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I'm starting to think every time he says "Alright boys, the war is over" it's because Boasberg is starting to get lippy and he wants to trigger a cascade of panicked phone calls...

2026-04-02 15:09:40 UTC

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Not claiming Nigerians are smart, but having 1/4 of any population score the exact same number is a statistical impossibility so this image is highly suspect.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/b302f8b0b61a2ba6a5aa38075d4ddb8f7b454c8a8e267555b3fc9ae8838a2863.png

2026-04-02 13:06:09 UTC

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Yea, without the over-the-air bullshit updates.
Oh and here's my Extremely Reasonably Priced fifty fucking kilowatt 3 phase AC charger which also doubles as a ginormous power source...
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/01fb96942dbc9067c566b8a5643514999a28fb887d2def48d0b58fa00066e0e6.png

2026-04-02 12:48:47 UTC

Someone talk me out of a bad idea...
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2026-04-02 11:55:34 UTC

ChatGPT has a new thing where it gets in a mood of just telling me what I'm thinking about absolutely positively will not work - even including things which I *know* will work, it insists the idea can't work.

2026-04-02 11:34:27 UTC

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> the toilet broke
So what? You're telling me Iran shot that down too???

2026-04-02 10:56:07 UTC

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Oops, 262m/s, so actually it should output around 1.5 kW 👀
Centrifugal g-force at the rim is 27,900 so 1 gram of weight exerts about 28kg of force. Might be already beyond what a carbon fiber flywheel can accomplish, but if it's making 1.5kw at 10k rpm then that's good because it means it can make 150w at 1k rpm which is still enough for a party trick.

2026-04-02 08:09:32 UTC

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Nice, thanks.
I think the fact that it "works" has been well proven through the years, what Buhler contributed was a verification that it was not some experimental error such as ions being thrown off. Also he's done a lot to try to build a theory around it - since it defies "Robert Maxwell Physics".
I would like to (at some point) try to reproduce the work of Becker and Bhatt ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04368 ). In their case, the asymmetry of the capacitor is achieved because one plate is *thicker* than the other.
Their best results got them 0.006 newtons on a 2.5x2.5 cm plate (the size of the plate is not mentioned in the paper, I asked Mike McCulloch about this and he gave me that info). He has his own theoretical explanation for the results ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353481953_Thrust_from_Symmetric_Capacitors_using_Quantised_Inertia ).
One of my curiosities is about thrust at high speed... for example if I can build a 50cm carbon fiber flywheel with (say) 1000 thrusters around the perimeter, and I can get it up to 10,000 RPM (without it exploding) inside a vacuum chamber (to remove air resistance), that should be 6 newtons of force and 157cm circumference so speed of the thrusters is 1.57 million cm per minute - 26 meters per second. 6 newtons at 26m/s should be something like 150 watts. Power consumption in the Becker and Bhatt was 0.05w, so for 1000 of them, it should be 50 watts, leaving it over-unity by 100 watts.
So if that works, it should be a toy free energy machine that makes a useless amount of power - because the flywheel can't handle speeds you need to make it useful. BUUUUUT, just for trolling physicists it's still worth it.

2026-04-01 20:24:15 UTC

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I can't tell if he's just made the gaff of the century, or if he's just fucked over Wall Street (petrodollar) and Israel in one go.

2026-04-01 16:10:26 UTC

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GPT said "you're smart for challenging this" 😏

2026-04-01 12:53:05 UTC

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I think the goal of woke was to create an official religion for the office workers so that they and their masters could be heroes - at the time when Occupy Wall Street was bringing their vilification into the mainstream.
If it's a failed experiment, it means they have nothing to tell their bean counters anymore except "well... at least it pays..."

2026-03-31 22:17:07 UTC

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> But WE have the Sampson Option, what are you going to do NOW???
> Make you use it.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/03a9ead60579e074fa3964c3fcdf7e886cfc9fb658acbc877cc22668db3a9d70.png

2026-03-31 21:52:43 UTC

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It's not just BYD, it's Dacia (made in Romania, sells a car that's less than 10k€)
And of course the 10k€ Toyota pickup that is also illegal in the US.

2026-03-31 18:33:52 UTC

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Gen X: We're peak punk, it's impossible to be "shocked" by the music the next generation listens to...
Gen Z: <Starts playing 1930s German parade music>
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/854bb3dafd64e673455e2bc3749ba02aa150a1654ac042bd60ae4aec601cb462.gif

2026-03-31 16:24:41 UTC

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What's additionally funny about this is the reply does not rebut the OP's claim, in fact it supports it.
OP: Jews are way over-represented in the news room (implication: Only logical explanation is that Jews are racist / nepotistic and got those jobs for each other)
Reply: That's not over-representation, they all earned that (implication: Author believes Jews are *significantly* more qualified than Gentiles)
To describe what I mean by "significantly", here's some probability math: If they hired 5 positions by interviewing 1000 random people and selecting the best, 25 of them the interviewees would be Jews and 975 would be Gentiles.
Of those 25, 4 would be qualified, and of the 975, 1 would be qualified. Meaning 16% of Jews are qualified and 0.103% of Gentiles are qualified. So you are ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE TIMES more likely to get the job if you're a Jew.
And he claims it's because they are just That Much Better..... This is not a winning argument.
The the point that this is LLM slop is kind of amusing because it is also LLM slop on another level. It's words, that sound smart, but only to people who are incapable of manipulating numbers.

2026-03-31 13:53:39 UTC

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Every country with nukes that can't get oil through the SoH:
> WHY WHY WHY?!!!
> ISN'T THERE ANYTHING WE COULD GIVE THEM THAT WOULD SOLVE THIS?????
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2026-03-31 01:19:00 UTC

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Yeahnah that doesn't capture it at all. But thank you for your kind advice.

2026-03-31 01:04:36 UTC

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Yeah, I'm not really tuned in to what else is going on in non-anglosphere fedi... But I guess neural net rules should apply...

2026-03-31 01:01:57 UTC

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What's particularly fun about this secret is that nobody really has to keep it secret for it to "stay secret", it's kind of an IYKYK thing...

2026-03-31 00:58:32 UTC

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Don't assume those are explicitly political labels, I'm kind of thinking of them a little more like left and right brain... There is a political angle, and it's kind of left goes here, right goes there, but I don't think it quite captures the essence to refer to them as lefty-fedi and right-wing-fedi...

2026-03-31 00:55:59 UTC

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It's funny though because the story is SO INTERESTING, it should be like catnip for journos... Here you've got this happy little social network, but then it turns out it has an "evil twin", but then in fact it's not really that evil and both networks actually depend on each other.
It's like the Morlock and the Eloi... particularly when you consider the fact that the Eloi had become something that couldn't survive on their own in the wild, and so the Morlock were basically farming them.

2026-03-31 00:46:39 UTC

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All free software is neutral, and if it was as simple as that, that would be one thing - but the Fedi has two very distinctive "halves" which ... the left half largely thinks the right half doesn't exist, and the right half finds the left half devoid of meaningful thought. But each one needs the other for the fedi to work the way it does...

2026-03-31 00:25:01 UTC

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Depends on whether you want to tell people the Fediverse has two halves.
Almost nobody does, because almost everybody is politically aligned with one half or the other. But that's why nobody really understands the Fediverse, because the way the Fediverse actually functions would not be possible without both halves.

2026-03-30 22:22:27 UTC

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Oh yes, lets definitely nuke the strait. Little tsunami never hurt anyone.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/02cef376c434e30e1e48138194252fbd7f7f7bce211fa1647cdddf1a8fd4fb43.png

2026-03-30 18:20:29 UTC

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Before I even bought my car, I confirmed the cleaning process (spray some junk down the back pressure sensor hose, start it up and blow it out -- or spray a lot of it under pressure to force the junk out)
But I've never had any issues so far...

2026-03-30 14:01:53 UTC

Interesting little video about the types of mines Iran is believed to have and how they work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMXSDUj-dms
Key takeaway is that mine sweeping is really difficult, particularly for the type of mines that sit on the bottom.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/b20b6dcb6dbae9309a567b93bd1c860f6cbcc3c4f50145bda5b78e621d0291dd.png

2026-03-30 13:37:27 UTC

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She just said "yes" on a podcast :|
This is my outgoing message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUEs6r6UZTo

2026-03-30 13:16:39 UTC

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14. Converting a classic car to EV is indeed possible, and there are some not-so-obvious reasons why you might want to do that.
In the build (picrel) the guy swaps a powertrain from a crashed Leaf into a Mercury Comet wagon. What's particularly interesting about this swap is he replaced the entire back axle and used wheel rotor hardware from the leaf.
This means he has no more transmission, no driveshaft, no differential, wheel bearings are new, and break equipment is new.
Why this is interesting is because it means you could do this conversion with an orphan car such as a Hudson, International, or Packard, where replacement parts are unobtanium. Of course you can also do that with an LS, but then you're fitting engine, transmission, driveshaft, exhaust, and diff. That is *significantly* more work than fitting one electric transaxle.
You might consider fitting a transaxle from a Honda or something, but it pretty much needs to go in the front because engines are tall, and there are so many hoses and cables to deal with that it just takes all the fun out of the project.
Another reason why an EV classic car conversion is potentially interesting is because you're going to have total control over that EV system. Currently there are companies that make controllers for Leaf and for Tesla, and when you swap in that controller, all of the stuff that makes the car "locked down" goes in the trash.
It's the same concept as pulling the computer out of your LS and replacing it with a Holly Dominator.
https://pkteerium.xyz/media/89bf6f5d1dae7aec31c0c61cc8551592abbcee902aa13bb31e47ecfa99514035.png

2026-03-30 05:53:02 UTC

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I have a Volvo diesel from 2010, so no DEF but it does have a DPF. My experience is it's not horrible. I know how to check back pressure and where to put cleaning fluid if needed. Have never needed to so far, and my driving is probably 90% short trips.
But yes, they should just have 2 sets of rules, one for polluted cities and one for everywhere else.
Farmers unable to start their tractors because DEF freezing is "you deserve to lose a war" level stupidity".

2026-03-29 22:38:46 UTC

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Teslas are the best, they're just expensive and proprietary. A 3rd party Tesla control box is quite attractive for anyone thinking about a conversion, because that control box is gonna be "yours" no doubt.
It's basically to a Tesla what a Holly Dominator is to an LS.

2026-03-29 22:36:05 UTC

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> DPF/DEF hell.
Great example of one-size-fits-none. In the city it's inadequate, in the country it's absurd.

2026-03-29 21:43:33 UTC

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Anyway, sorry I didn't complete my point... My point is that I think whatever emissions and safety standards the US has, they're basically rigged to make sure the only cars can get into the US are from countries that are "approved" by the ruling oligarchy.

2026-03-29 21:39:19 UTC

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Yeah, CAFE is one issue. Also you will notice that in America you can't buy a car from anywhere in the world except American colonies: Germany, Japan, Korea.
Volvo is an exception, and there are of course the oddball Italian supercars that make it in, but generally speaking anywhere that the US didn't fight a war, Americans can't buy cars.
I live in France and I occasionally see BYDs on the road here...

2026-03-29 21:22:01 UTC

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I think when they do that, they're not called a psychologist anymore

2026-03-29 21:21:16 UTC

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> ‘Israel’
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2026-03-29 20:41:09 UTC

> This week
Okay, now I know it's fake.
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2026-03-29 19:16:53 UTC

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Unions can do that, yes. Particularly in Illinois where it's all just mafia.
But I think America's problems go deeper than this. The Americans who are willing and able to do real work and care about customer needs have been systematically shut out of the workforce for political reasons. And those who remain have been trained not to care about efficiency and customer needs, but instead about social causes.
In China, hard work and customer focus are specifically promoted by the central government. They have their own corruption problems, and over the next 100 years, the US is probably going to do better, but right at the moment they're ahead...

2026-03-29 18:12:29 UTC

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Finally watched the video. They're subtweeting BYD pretty hard, I don't think that's proven yet at all.
I think companies like Ford and Chrysler are not being serious about serving their customers, so BYD's sub-10k offerings might be trash and they might be quite decent for the money.
Also the notion that the only reason these are cheap is China govt subsidies is not really true. Dacia sells sub-10k vehicles in Europe and they're not "good", but they're are decent enough that taxi companies use them.
The idea that a car starts at 30k is an American phenomenon.

2026-03-29 17:27:48 UTC

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Yeah, this is a real problem, and I'm not sure there's any real incentive to stop it.
IMO it's not specifically the fault of EVs, but rather that as reliability improves, people stop caring about repairability. Even back in the 80s when they started cramming everything under the hood, timing chains that are ~impossible to service, etc.
You might imagine that delivery companies, taxi companies, cop fleets, etc will insist on buying cars they can service - but even for them, if the vehicle lasts 10 years without trouble, they might just not care.
Problem is, new car buyers are stupid, and they trade in every 5 years or so, so reliability after the first decade is not their problem. Maybe if the used market commands 20% of the car's initial cost, that matters, but if the car company can cut cost by 20% by making it impossible to maintain, it's a wash. And the company could also buy back used cars to support the market - even though they're junk.
For the car culture this is hell. You can put together an LS rig, and you can put together a rig on top of a commodity electric chassis, but in either case this is something you have to completely build yourself. Seems like there's just nothing comparable to Fox Body or Camaro ecosystem anymore...

2026-03-29 16:13:47 UTC

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*F35

2026-03-29 16:13:18 UTC

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The problem is you could starve everyone in Tehran to death and it wouldn't stop the missiles, because the missiles aren't coming from Tehran, they're coming from the mountains, and the people in the mountains have food and water supplies stashed and they're in tunnels where you can't bomb.
The reason why they want ground troops is because that's the only way to get to the tunnels and try to clear them. Can't do that from the sky.
The other problem is that bombing has already become very difficult because there are no functioning air strips left in the region to launch from, and (it turns out) getting close with aircraft carriers doesn't work because hypersonics can hit those too...
The whole US military thesis was based on the assumption that an F36 is IMPOSSIBLE to hit, but the Iranian thesis is that if you take out all of the support infrastructure within a few hundred miles of the territory, you don't have to hit them.

2026-03-29 01:19:06 UTC

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So, if EMFs cause stress in animals, then you would expect wild animals to avoid EMF sources. One massive EMF source is radio towers, which are often dumping hundreds of kilowatts of continuous energy into the sky...
So birds nesting on them should be absolutely unheard-of...
I think there's a problem with your theory.
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2026-03-29 01:02:09 UTC

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Okay, how much power is needed for this to be significant?

2026-03-29 00:49:28 UTC

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Okay, I need to be a bit more specific here.
If the question is "Can EMFs affect biology?" then the answer is obviously yes, and the perfect example is the microwave oven - which is deadly if you're inside it.
But there are also EMFs that pretty much everybody accepts are not harmful, for example from the AC electricity in your walls.
The question is, do the *specific* EMFs from an EV motor & related control system have a significant biological impact?
And that's not a question that can be answered "decades ago" because EVs didn't exist back then.

2026-03-29 00:42:23 UTC

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That's complex because they're trying to make "food grade" oil (although it's quite nasty in fact), if you're just looking for fuel, you can throw the seeds into one of these things and oil comes out the other side. Nobody will want to cook with it, but that doesn't matter.
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2026-03-29 00:36:46 UTC

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Okay.. has anyone found any real impact of that, or is it just like precautionary principle you're invoking?

2026-03-29 00:31:16 UTC

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> How many kg of potatoes is the best you can get per acre ?
~10–16 tons
> Okay, and how much ethanol can you get per ton of potatoes ?
~90–125 liters of ethanol per ton of potatoes (typical range)
> How many kwh per liter is ethanol ?
~6.5 kWh per liter
(ChatGPT is typically quite accurate with these little factoid questions)
So.... 16 * 125 * 6.5 -> 13,000 kWh per acre-year...
Amazingly enough, same ballpark as the oil seeds, and then gasoline engines are less efficient than diesel so it ends up being quite a bit worse just for that reason.

2026-03-29 00:01:15 UTC

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Probably high pressure pump and injector issues a lot of shops would be afraid to deal with.