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Neil Armbong posted:This is how a lot of rail freight works? It’s actually really inefficient via when we used to have rail going straight to where freight was needed. Yeah it’s inefficient and needs to be expanded to be a viable solution.
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Amy Pole Her posted:BEARS legend? Lmao I looked up his career and honestly thought he was on the bears for like ten years. I think it was just me starting to watch them right when he got signed and thinking the head pad thing was badass
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JPrime posted:what's the usual daily range for long haul trucking? Truckers are allowed to drive 14 hours a day, minus a half hour lunch. If you have 2 drivers and a sleeper cab they just need to fuel up on their individual lunch breaks and they can swap every 12 hours and can drive for either 6 or 7 days straight before there's a mandatory 24 hour break from driving under current regulations in America.
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Kalli posted:Anyway, be transported back to high school: Oh wow, that's way simpler than what we would do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_bong 
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bobjr posted:https://x.com/bnonews/status/1764781238550680002?s=46&t=CBKJcBX0BD3U5HgUdsqBtw Did she not believe in the angle deflection against 120mm shells on a Soviet Object 268 in War Thunder?
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Air Skwirl posted:Oh wow, that's way simpler than what we would do. Peasants! https://grav.com/products/grav-monarch-gravity-bong 
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Air Skwirl posted:300 mile range is poo poo for shipping. I have a daily trip we call the Portland trip because it comes from Portland, but it actually starts in SLC. I could quote you the specific ranges and market breakups for the U.S., but I'd probably get in trouble with work  But yes, there will be different solutions for different use-cases, and beyond just how big the cab is.Air Skwirl posted:Truckers are allowed to drive 14 hours a day, minus a half hour lunch. If you have 2 drivers and a sleeper cab they just need to fuel up on their individual lunch breaks and they can swap every 12 hours and can drive for either 6 or 7 days straight before there's a mandatory 24 hour break from driving under current regulations in America. Day-cabs and local/regional haul will be one thing, the 500+ long-haul will either require megawatt charging or hydrogen. And megawatt charging and battery sizes/ranges for those vehicles have targeted drivers' legal break times and periods (eg a 1-hour break every 4/5 hours) as the premise for those real long-haul uses (eg, you don't need 500 miles if there's a break in the day and you can charge fully in that window). There will also have to be some adjustment to how people use trucks, too - diesel is a hard technology to replace when you're talking about pure range. for smaller trucks (light duty through medium duty) that don't do this long-haul, and don't do multiple shifts of driving, it'll be much easier to have trucks charge where they park 'overnight' and so long as you have 6-8 hours of break time, you can fill that battery. The design of the vehicles will allow for that to meet the life expectation of truck owners now.
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Canned Sunshine posted:Besides Burnin' Sherman, did we actually rip out railroad track? I just assumed that we're using a lot of the original alignments, just replaced over time, and the lines that that aren't in use were just abandoned? Not railroad track specifically, but here in Philly there's quite a few spots where they just paved over trolley lines, you can still see them popping up in spots as well as some overhead trolley cables. To be fair, trolleys still run in certain parts of the city just not the white ones lmao. Docjowles posted:Reasonable rail service was one of the biggest things I liked about the Boston area. People bitch about the T and for good reason but at least it exists. Being able to get all over the city and a surprisingly large swathe of suburbia without a car was pretty dope. Hell you could take Amtrak all the way to Maine. Same but for SEPTA here. It is pretty outdated in spots but the six months right before COVID when I was taking commuter rail out to the suburbs for work, instead of being made to drive on poo poo-rear end I-76, loving ruled.
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It's too bad Nikola was run by either incompetents or outright scam artists, because hydrogen trucks driving around Europe with fueling stations on the main routes made a lot of sense. I guess the capital outlay is too much for something that speculative.
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Shell is closing like all of their hydrogen fueling stations in California so that poo poo will never take off here.
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swickles posted:I still think the real trick, and honestly the only way we get to a large majority of people using electric vehicles is when batteries become standardized and able to be hot swapped. Like pull into a station, its get jacked up, old battery removed and new one put in, then drive off. It would have to take as long as a refueling and be about as much cost wise. You could even retrofit gas stations to do it. Problem is that requires buy in from competitors, plus all of them working toward a common goal and technology. Its just a lot easier to say gently caress them kids and roll with it. There was a technology my friend's dad came up with where you have a charged liquified hydrogen slurry be your battery, and when it's exhausted it's sucked out and replaced with new slurry. Retrofitting gas stations would be relatively easy and would take about the same amount of time to pump gasoline into a car. Exxon Mobile bought the patents and have been sitting on it for years, letting the EV market try to work with what's currently being used… with predictable results.
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I just saw a Billy Mays commercial on TV. Dude’s been dead for nearly 15 years, I guess they can recycle some of them still, but it was still briefly a mindfuck.
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Long haul electrification is a weird thing to target for so many companies when there are piles of short haul routes for trucks of all classes that would take years to replace anyway. Shocked some startup hasn't sold "transit as a service" where they sell solar, storage and insurance of a small fleet of sprinter/transit sized vans to local businesses as an all-in predictable monthly fee, collecting the tax breaks for themselves.
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Kalli posted:Anyway, be transported back to high school: This was more college/right after college for me and I can immediately see the strippers my brother sublet his room in our apartment too. They went on Jerry Springer a few week after moving out.
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I accidentally over served myself on edibles before going to the pool today and fell asleep in the shade for like 3 hours. Woke up to my old man handing me a beer saying "wondered where you've been" A+ afternoon.
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Its Rinaldo posted:Nappin in the sun what a good day no, napping in the sun gets your sunburnt, BlindSite had it right to do it in the shade.
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I'm impervious to sunburns so my superior body thrives on sleeping in the sun
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Qwijib0 posted:Long haul electrification is a weird thing to target for so many companies when there are piles of short haul routes for trucks of all classes that would take years to replace anyway. Short-haul is the first target in the U.S., both stuff you do and don’t need a CDL for. But Europe and the EU specifically have metaphorical guns aimed at OEMs with sold fleet targets that have very stiff penalties if not met. Such that it makes expensive EV/Hydrogen development feasible. “Truck as a service” is definitely something people are talking about, how to bundle the charger and vehicle too is definitely out there.
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FizFashizzle posted:Oh my god aquaman 2 looks terrible There is no reason to even bother watching it
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Nodoze posted:There is no reason to even bother watching it Oh for sure, but I meant literally. Like it looks like an episode of Babylon 5.
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If I can just find time to get my car inspected today, I will have accomplished the holy grail of adulthood: a completed to do list.
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Kalli posted:Oh yeah, all over the place. Land reclaimed to be built on, or hell just biking / walking paths in more affluent areas. Well, that’s somewhat/relatively unfortunate. I mean, land reclamation from human use is usually something I’d be behind, but not so sure about railroad tracks… FizFashizzle posted:Oh my god aquaman 2 looks terrible I’ll be the lone voice probably to say that I enjoyed it. It’s a terrible movie, but in terms of being able to just go in and shut my brain off for a few hours and see flashy poo poo, it’s ok. It’s no Starship Troopers though, believe you me… Edit: FizFashizzle posted:Like it looks like an episode of Babylon 5. ‘Woah woah woah, let’s not say bad things about B5.
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FizFashizzle posted:Oh for sure, but I meant literally. This is unfortunately a problem that is not exclusive to Aquaman 2 lol
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FizFashizzle posted:Oh for sure, but I meant literally. Now I want to watch it! And heck, I liked the first one quite a bit despite an overwhelming CGI fight at the end. Had a lot of good character moments and actual emotions.
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I was entertained by Aquaman & the Lost Kingdom but in no way was it good. I'm going to listen to The Rewatchables episode on Road House at work today in preparation of seeing the new Jake Gyllenhaal film that's coming out soon.
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Quiet Feet posted:If I can just find time to get my car inspected today, I will have accomplished the holy grail of adulthood: a completed to do list. Don’t forget one item: * Make new To-do list
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trevorreznik posted:Now I want to watch it! That's kind of the problem with this one. Sure the CGI is bad, but the characters are worse. Shazam 2 has a similar problem, but at least in that movie everyone except Zachary Levi is likeable enough.
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Patrick Wilson must be miffed that he was one of the best parts in the best superhero movie outside of The Winter Soldier and yet nobody really cared about it
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Yeah, I'm watching Aquaman 2 and I just really feel bad for Nicole Kidman.
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Amy Pole Her posted:Patrick Wilson must be miffed that he was one of the best parts in the best superhero movie outside of The Winter Soldier and yet nobody really cared about it The director's cut of Watchmen is excellent and I re-watch it on a yearly basis. Can't stand the Ultimate Edition, though (the Black Freighter segment brings the whole thing to a screeching halt).
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Yeah I showed up to vote for one of the joke candidates since there was no Uncommitted option here. Idk why I bothered, just felt like I should.
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yeah, voted uncommitted this morning as well. Very dead, no baked goods for sale at the school gym I vote at. Disappointment.
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Air Skwirl posted:Oh wow, that's way simpler than what we would do. I am sad to say I did this out of a toilet in college
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kiimo posted:I am sad to say I did this out of a toilet in college Jesus, we used the sink.
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I wasn't in charge of logistics all I brought to the situation was my lungs and bad decision making
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lol WHY on earth use the toilet when a sink is right there, or a bathtub, or any bucket......auughh!!!!
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