it’s about NMP (N-methylpyrrolidone) and some secret sauce they don’t want to talk about. NMP is used in petroleum industry for separation of olefins and BTX (both important chemical intermediates) and also it’s a solvent that can dissolve about everything, so it’s used in production of plastics, including kevlar and plastic parts of lithium batteries, and also explosives

Keeping consumers alive as a class is indirectly encouraged in capitalism.

but that won’t show in results for next quarter, so they don’t care

what can i say except to quote david gerard:

AI alignment is literally a bunch of amateur philosophers telling each other scary stories about The Terminator around a campfire

that’s edited photo, original is just as derpy. it’s altman and nadella

btw this is very much a “heartwarming - the worst people you know are fighting” sitution

when we’ll find out that it’s a russian cutout?

this is all year+ old info

it’s quite big, expensive, and not readily sourced, so when it’s used, it’s better that it’s really worth it. i don’t think cessnas need starlink, it would be worth it if it’s needed, but i think they might be using inertial + gnss. i heard that some drones had russian sim cards recovered so apparently sometimes gsm is used too. internet connection increases microwave signature greatly, and i’m not sure when it’s worth it, other than in cases where video feed is transmitted back and drones are guided manually, but that’s sea drones only. cessnas targeting refineries can work fine with gnss (+ maybe some crude tercom?) because refinery won’t run away

not by any fucking stretch “all drones” operate on starlink, these small surveillance and fpv antitank drones are controlled directly by operator. couple of times starlink terminals were spotted on boat drones on black sea, but far from always. there was an incident where musk personally turned off starlink over black sea, when ukrainian sea drones were on the way to destroy ships in port of sevastopol. these drones drifted off uselessly, which gave russians warning, pushed dod to get exclusive use of some part of starlink, and pushed ukrainians to develop their own alternatives. nowadays ukrainians use their own communications. why are you talking about things you clearly have no fucking clue about?

they can, but they had problems initially. also that claim about “all drones” is utter bs

nah you got it right first time around, it’s closer to half overall

i misinterpreted certain statistics first time around, which suggested that potential canadian impact on available primary aluminum in us would be lower. canadians also export lots of oil and gas south, and there’s plenty of gas powerplants in us

right, american production of aluminum metal is 1/4 of canadian production. it also critically depends on cheap elecrticity, canadians have nuclear powerplants and hydro, and guess what other funny thing canadians can do

e: i can’t read

it breaks down like this: american production of aluminum 750k tons, canadian 3000k tons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_aluminium_production), 95% of canadian aluminum exports go to usa (https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/raw-aluminium/reporter/can#trade-flow), and comparing export value, price per ton and manufacture, it looks like most of manufacture goes to export, let’s say 90%, of which 95% goes to usa, that is somewhere around 2560k tons. this is 56% of imports, so the rest is about 2010k tons. so out of 5320k tons total, canadians can just take away almost half

that’s just regular fox news chart

This only works well for fast things tho

the word you’re looking for is “jedzie”

strictly speaking polish (and all slavic languages i think?) doesn’t have a verb like “go”. you have to specify, you can ride, drive, walk, sail, swim, roll and so on but you can’t “go”. that verb (which means “[there it] drives”) would be usually used for land vehicles, for boats we’d use “płynie” (“swim”, “sail”, “flow” depending on context)

i understand that it’s remnant from times when fusebox wasn’t a thing and it was an attempt at protecting ring circuit, that’s all. it makes little sense

wikipedia says that not for a long time:

Beginning with underwater swimming pool lights (1968) successive editions of the code have expanded the areas where GFCIs are required to include: construction sites (1974), bathrooms and outdoor areas (1975), garages (1978), areas near hot tubs or spas (1981), hotel bathrooms (1984), kitchen counter sockets (1987), crawl spaces and unfinished basements (1990), near wet bar sinks (1993), near laundry sinks (2005)[26], in laundry rooms (2014)[27] and in kitchens (2023)

american electrical code has so much of weird shit that would be illegal out there, it’s dazzling. you can’t get three-phase power as a regular customer, but you can as an industrial, but only as 480V interphase. there are like 7 different mains voltages available. it would be illegal in europe to come up with something like “high-leg delta” but it’s a thing out there

fuse is in plug and accessible only when plug is disconnected

it’s also a very weird thing because fuses are supposed to protect what is downstream of them. so effectively fuse in plug protects cord and appliance only, not the wires in the wall. there’s breaker box for this

eastern block solution to copper shortages was to wire houses with aluminum instead of copper. this avoided all that bizarre bullshit that brits do, and in principle it’s a good idea since aluminum is used for big time power distribution as well. this worked pretty well until it was noticed that under some conditions hot spots can form on connections over time, requiring replacement of connectors. it’s still legal to use aluminum wires in some places, but copper is more common now

the only thing that would make a shred of sense would be reactive power from plugged but unused transformers and the like, and for this reason you should disconnect these when not in use. but the only loads of this type that matter are welders and such