Those aren't really equivalent. Iran is affecting the supply of oil, an input. China can affect the supply of solar panels, but they would have to do something pretty drastic to affect the supply of the input. Sunlight is going to keep reaching the solar panels that were set up prior to any kind of embargo.

Most inverters come from China too, and these need to be replaced much more often that panels.

Anyways, panels are the solution now because we're at peak petrol, that's why they're so cheap, it won't last forever, evem if China keeps the door open

Well in the next 30 years we will have to find a replacement.

After which they can be recycled.

Nuclear fuel can also be recycled. The point is, a solar panel produces a finite amount of energy over its lifetime, so it's not exactly comparable to a power plant in terms of energy independence.

It's not appropriate to think of the solar panel as a constant source of power, but the solar panel manufacturing plant. All of our nuclear reactors and fuel are produced in-country, whereas china has dominated solar panel manufacturing and can cut us off. We need to be proactive about manufacturing.

Nothing lasts forever. Even nuclear plants have to eventually be decommissioned. Solar panels may be finite, but they give you a long, predictable horizon.

China might be subsidizing solar panels today. We should load up while we can. Let them bear the initial costs. We should also spin up more domestic manufacturing (which was a component of the IRA). If/when foreign sourced solar panels are no longer available, you are in the exact same position you were the day before. All of that already installed generation capacity will continue to function for years before a crisis emerges.

I think maybe they're making a joke about the Ruger Mini-14? It's a rifle.

LOL, hilarious if that's what it was! Can't say I've ever shot one but it sure looks fun.

The mini-14 is probably the best and most useful rifle I’ve ever owned and would 100% recommend to anybody.

I always felt the mini-14 occupied like an uncanny valley position between the sensible utility of a lever action and the high fashion of an AR15. Granted, it predates the ubiquity of ARs by like 3 decade or so.

It's also New York legal which is rare for a semiauto that comes in 5.56. Ruger nailed it with guns that don't look scary. Don't have the mini-14 but do have the 10/22 and their PCC - both of which have all the functionality but none of the scary features.

100% business gun.

Wasn't that a limited time promotion from OpenRouter? I didn't see anything from OpenAI themselves.

Volume is the problem. There's so much more of it now. Many platforms I used to enjoy are just overwhelmed with valueless content.

On platforms where you can not curate what you are fed, the healthiest option is to leave.

The problem is unless it becomes socially unacceptable might run out of platforms. It's not just influencers doing this, it goes as far as "normal" posters in old-school forums.

Yes. Volume is rarely the problem unless there's too little. Filter/search is the problem if desired material exists.

I know of a guy who, before attending in-person meetings for the first time with new people, sends the message "FYI, I am 7 feet tall." He's gotten enough weird looks or outright stunned people that he takes precautionary measures.

That doesn't fully explain it, the amount of oil making it through the strait is a small fraction (less than 25%) of the amount that normally flows through there.

Exports from the gulf are only down to 13 million barrels/day from 20 million barrels/day. Gulf exporters are not running at 25% capacity.

Right, but oil transiting the strait is down below 25% of its normal amount.

There is a game called Squad that has a lot of similarity to BF2 in terms of teamwork and coordination. It's a spiritual successor to the BF2 mod called Project Reality.

Palmer Luckey owns a drone company. He can't have an objective opinion on his competitors being banned.

He won’t be so lucky because no one outside the United States is gonna buy his stuff, but he doesn’t really want to sell it to anyone but the American military anyway at a inflated price.

> but he doesn’t really want to sell it to anyone but the American military anyway at a inflated price.

that's a fancy way of saying "grifting the taxpayer"

and what is the US military using their powers for these days anyway?

That’s the crux part, all these local companies are fear mongering the public and gaslighting the dinosaurs in the gov so they can kill competitors and get rewarded millions dollars contracts. These “concerns” are laughable for anyone who knows a bit about drones, you can build diy drones and strap an iPhone on it and you get outcome than any dji drone out there.

you can build diy drones and strap an iPhone on it and you get outcome than any dji drone out there. < true.

Serious question, which drone makers would you say are superior over those that are fear mongering to get million dollar contracts ?

That sounds awful. Thankfully the regimen now is only one shot of HRIG and four doses of the vaccine over two weeks.

The immunoglobulin is administered proportional to body weight, ideally with most of it injected near the site of the bite.

So one administration, but not necessarily one shot.

Don't worry, you can use Rovo to summarize the document! That way you can get the information your coworker wanted to share but filtered through a game of teLLMephone.

We’ve gone from proof-of-work to proof-of-no-work.