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What weird food or dishes do you eat regularly at home that you would never serve to someone else?
  • Take a slice of white bread and a single slice of American cheese. Microwave just long enough to make the cheese slightly burn… the phase just after bubbly will get harder when it cools. Top with hot sauce or spicy ketchup… but not too much. If you can find it, there is an Indian curry spruced ketchup that is awesome.

  • Arizona Republicans explain why they're considering voting Democratic this year
  • This doesn’t make sense. Whether they sit out or vote 3rd party doesn’t matter. The strategic reason for GOP financiers supporting a 3rd party candidate is to draw votes away from their opponent. A sit-out or a vote for 3rd party achieves the same thing.

    Encouraging people to sit out is just encouraging people to disengage from the entire process, which will enforce a trend that helps GOP candidates.

  • What is the absolute last extreme sport you'd be willing to try?
  • I know you didn’t ask and probably don’t care, but free climbing and free soloing are different things. Free climbing uses a rope, but does not allow you to use artificial means to ascend, like pulling on gear you put on the wall. The gear is just there to arrest a fall.

    Free soloing is where you climb without a rope. Free climbing uses a rope for safety, but upward mobility is hands and feet on wall. Aid climbing is where you climb by fixing gear to the wall and use it to ascend.

    If you know what you’re doing, free climbing is pretty safe. Free soloing is not, but people do it successfully without their huge balls weighing them down.

    As a side note, bouldering is also climbing without a rope, but you don’t climb high enough to make a fall fatal.

  • EU to Impose Tariffs Up to 45% on Chinese Electric Vehicles
  • This is the market place, brah. If the US or EU want to keep up, they can subsidize EV manufacturing to the same degree. We are just too stuck on subsidizing O&G to realize that harvesting value from a dying industry is going to leave us out in the cold as the new technology matures.

    Free market capitalism and what we operate under haven’t been the same thing for as long as I’ve been alive. What some may call “Communist China” is beating us at the game. Get on the bus or get run the fuck over.

  • EV Charging Stations DO Benefit Local Businesses
  • There are a lot of different structures for the contracts on charger installations. Sometimes the business owner pays the utilities, sometimes the charging company does. Sometimes the land is sold to the charging company, sometimes leased. Revenue from the charger is usually split between the charging company and the business based on the specifics of the contract responsibilities and costs, of which there is a lot of variability.

    In short, some businesses pay more to have them installed and take more revenue from them. Some pay almost nothing and don’t get any revenue from the charger, other than increased traffic in their businesses. That doesn’t happen often, because most deals have the business owner paying the utilities for the chargers, so they recoup that plus profit. This article is saying that businesses are statistically showing benefits from having chargers nearby.

    I know I look for chargers while I’m traveling and pick hotels, restaurants, and grocery stores that have EV chargers at them. As more EVs get on the road, this will probably be more of a factor businesses pay attention to.

  • There are now more electric cars than gas cars on Norway's roads
  • I’ve been traveling all across the US in an EV and haven’t had any issues with range in the winter. Colorado mountains during ski season, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana in the spring. The built in navigation routes you to chargers based on current conditions and I’ve seen minimal range drop.

  • [Solved] Anyone know what this is? They are embedded in the sidewalks around the city
  • This is a survey monument vs the original post being a control point. Survey monuments are established on a larger scale.

    When you need to reference a known elevation or XY coordinate, there is a network of survey monuments with known coordinates, usually installed and documented by governments. You reference a known location’s elevation and north x west coordinates and then use instrumentation to determine angle changes to transfer the known elevation to a series of other locations.

    When you section off property or build things, like roads or buildings, you use this network of points and triangulate paths off of them to the job site by calculating angles and distances. Since you have to maintain line of sight while traversing the distance, you add points you can use to pivot on and travel great distances. These points are called ‘control points’ or ‘benchmarks’.

    The main post pic is a control point. Your picture is a survey monument.

  • Any ideas?
  • We used to call them Ag-Nags (AGNG’s)… all gear, no game. It was a derogatory term, but it was more reserved for the type of person that would go buy the best gear and never invest the time to learn how to use it or why it had value other than the sticker price.

    Go out and learn something new. Enjoy something new. If you have money to buy gear, that’s fine… but know that most people that pioneered whatever sport/hobby your delving into did a lot more with a lot less. Enjoy it for what it is and worry about the gear less… sometimes the squeeze makes the juice that much better.

  • Trump bizarrely claims people have stopped eating bacon because of wind power
  • Didn’t the Kroger CEO just testify that they raised prices above inflation rates because they could, based on supply and demand?

    By pointing out high food costs over the last few years, isn’t he saying that unchecked, free-market capitalism is causing the drastic rise in food prices and (he isn’t saying this part) that regulation is what will bring them back down? After all, if you can charge more for a product because of supply/demand, capitalism dictates that is the correct pricing strategy.

    Is this an anti-democrat rant or an anti-capitalism rant?

  • Bitches with degrees
  • Well… ya know… std’s and what not…

    If it’s a numbers game, how many loads can you take before being exposed to something with life-long consequences, statistically speaking?