Greetings from Germany! With the SO out of town I decided to head out on a little solo road trip. I had never been to a sauna / spa before but felt like going today. I went to a large one with 10 “sauna worlds” ranging from koi karpers to Vienna coffee houses, lol. It was less relaxing than I thought due to heart rate / covid woes, but I had a good time. Boy is it nice to jump into a cold waterfall after a good sweat. Next stop is arguably Europe’s best themed themepark: Phantasialand! Haven’t been there before. I might not ride much if anything so I’m trying to keep my expectations low. At the same time I’ve been a thoosie (theme park enthoosieast) for two decades now so I can’t not be excited, y’know?
It was incredibly dope, but I have no frame of reference so I'm now just assuming they're all like this. I did not get to see most of them on the inside as they were mostly 80 or 90C while my limit's currently at 70. Update: theme park was fucking awesome, rode my new recency biased favourite rollercoaster twice, and most impressively managed to get in 16,000 steps when my previous record in the past months was 7K. My legs are exhausted beyond compare but I had a good day.
Rule of thumb: Koreans do their spas less hard core than the Russians/Scandinavians but they also tend to be gender-separated. I prefer the Russian spas because they tend to be more hard-core. LA's is built in a former crematorium; one of the body-burners is now in the hot banya, with railroad tracks still leading out of it.
I'm good at this shit. I'm particularly proud of the interchangeable connector blocks. Now that I've discovered crimp multipins I'm kind of flying through this BS. There's a lot of electronics there, and in order to pinout it properly for where it needs to go, I think I've decided to do a jumper box with a bunch of pin headers in it. There's definitely going to be nonsense and if this were audio nonsense? there'd be a goddamn patchbay. Let's do an experiment. Click this link. Ignore the first two minutes. Let it play for a while.
I cannot for the life of me get that .m4a to load. Maybe my IP is blacked out? I tried yesterday too.
File serves, actually. "listenership" is a bitch to measure, and there's no reasonable granularity from Nielsen. So the proxy the radio station uses is "do people donate a lot during your timeslot" and "what's the streaming count." They've shunted us to 11pm-2am which is really going to drive a lot of timeshifting. That file is raw off their server. I wanna see if it ticks up from plays outside their ecosystem (website and app). 'cuz then I can wrap it in my own player on my own site. Yes, a reasonable radio station could answer these questions. This is not a reasonable radio station.
I skipped to 2:16 right as Ministry dropped in... I'm good for a while. I'll let I play through the hour. gotta grind through some late night work as it is... might as well do it with some ear bleeding treats. edit: Shazam doesn't really understand industrial music.
If they do collect those analytics, which I guess most hosts do by default, you should see some from Poland. Maybe Ukraine too. I tapered off around minute 14 because repetitive music = me drowsy, and I can't go to sleep now. Yeah, I kinda got turned off from current livestream by the twitch-grade "let's drop everything to shout-out donations" focus. The one radio I listen to has a patreon, though, so maybe it's those damn times changing again.So the proxy the radio station uses is "do people donate a lot during your timeslot" and "what's the streaming count."
They're doing things very, very badly. I'm in the process of revamping everything (at least in my corner of the world) but it's slow going.
It's probably unsurprising to anyone who knows me to find out that I'm very eye-rolly today at the new EV mandates. But even if I weren't, it seems to me that this is just more politics from Sleepy Joe. There's an almost 100% chance that the Court is going to nix this based on the major questions doctrine. It's almost as if he keeps doing these policy initiatives with full knowledge that they can't go forward just so he can rile the lefty base. You'd think that actual policy proposals would be restrained, achievable, and legal. Anything outside of that is just pandering that won't amount to substantive change.
Lol no I wouldn't. The 'wingers are trying to ban libraries so that they can't host groomer books or some shit; if you know they're going to shoot you down no matter what you propose, propose free marijuana for transgender ANTIFA climate activists. The Left has made a stunning amount of legislation and Democratic voter participation is largely driven by people under 25 at this point. People under 25? They aren't of the opinion that "restrained" is the proper approach when it comes to global warming. I happen to think they're right. Tesla is 100% EV. Toyota fired their chairman for dragging his feet on electric vehicles. There are like five or six different competing electric trucks out there. Speaking as a mechanical engineer? EVs are EASY. You reduce your moving parts by about 95% and your reciprocating mass by 100%. Guaranteed: the Big 3 all went whingeing to the White House demanding a policy decision they could whine about so that their shareholders don't punish them for spending money on R&D.You'd think that actual policy proposals would be restrained, achievable, and legal.
EVs are going to kill “domestic” producers. Their main profit center is tucks and EV trucks can’t tow and actually do truck things. Now granted most people don’t actually need to do towing but I don’t think ev trucks are going to a huge sector though there will obviously be some profitable niches the as early trucks are really popular with the city crowd. I do think a large chunk of the suburban and rural market is not going to accept evs
Cash for Clunkers took like eight weeks. As for trucks that can't tow - I keep seeing Rivians. Speaking as a former electric vehicle designer? There's no shortage of torque, the only limitation is range. Is the range an issue for most people? Inside EVs towed an airstream a hundred miles with the standard battery package. For the people at my kids' school who haul their RVs to a KOA 40 miles away to go glamping? That's plenty and they're the ones buying $100k pickups. Chelan is 180 miles away and I'll bet it'd be a nail-biter getting a bayliner from here to there but most truck-and-boat people do that like once, maybe twice. An EV truck is the dumbest EV you can make because the efficiency just isn't there and you're gonna get punished on the highway. The way you get around that is by stacking batteries all day, which increases your cost, which gets you a six-figure F150 which is where we're at. Trucks aren't a profitable segment because they're really cheap to make, they're a profitable segment because people pay fucktons of money for them. At that point, the expense is just another bragging point.
99% sure you intended to reply to uhsguy, so I'm tagging him here. Although I am one of those morons who overpays for pickup trucks...they keep getting more expensive and we keep buying them. 10 years ago I had a Silverado whose sticker was like 20k less than the Sierra I currently drive, and at the time it was a top of the line model, while the Sierra is upper-mid range. Shit's crazy. They can keep doing that because there's a giant tariff on foreign trucks. Gives GM and Ford a 25% cushion to work with...criminal to anyone free trade minded, though it keeps my wife's bonus cushy year after year.
But this isn’t legislation. It’s DOA. The conservative SCOTUS has basically said you can’t make multi hundred billion dollar changes by way of rule making. It’s a political stunt that everyone knows is going to fail. Process matters in our system, whether the under 25 set gets that or not.
I wouldn't be so sure. I started out in a place of pure flippancy. But the US is now a net exporter of petroleum products. Red states are jumping all over wind and solar. Saudi Arabia probably hit peak oil in 2008 (they'll never tell) and MBS will cozy up to anyone who sucks his dick. Russia's using oil as a weapon against Europe, China is consuming a fuckton - there's a deep red argument for electric vehicles. And that's before Florida submerges itself, Arizona dries up and Texas manages to do both while also freezing and flooding.