Buelldozer

If you truly have an “MS” then it should be trivial for you to do the math and calculate the power requirements of even a dozen cars being charged at the rate of 1 Megawatt each.

A bare 12 chargers, the equivalent of a single small gas station, would certainly collapse the grid its attached to. These kinds of charging rates aren’t possible outside the parking lot of a power plant.

The hurdle to this kind of fast charging isn’t the tech in the car nor is it the tech in the charger. It’s powering the fucking things.

A charging station the size of a small gas station that can handle a dozen cars at once, basically 6 islands with a pump / charger on each side, would require a nuclear reactor sitting out back to supply the required 1.2 Megawatts of power!

So we’re either going to have to get comfy with having an SMR sitting next to every charging station or we’re going to have to get over this idea of charging an EV pack in 5 minutes.

We actually don’t need an entire Open Source Printer, just an open source controller. So you can buy $printer and then replace it’s control board with an Open Source version. We’re doing this already with things that weigh hundreds of pounds, spin at thousands of RPM, and literally contain explosions!

Gear heads (car people) are very familiar with this. There’s at least three major, and many minor, Electronic Fuel Injection / Engine Management Systems out there that will allow you to strip the factory “brains” out of a car and replace them with stuff you can control / program yourself.

A printer is just an assembly of mechanical parts and there’s no reason that an Open Source controller couldn’t command them.

“A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.” - C. H. Spurgeon (1859)

Rossman is a modern day Ralph Nader; he lives on outrage and the money it generates. He’s generally correct but when he swings and misses, like he did in this case, it hurts his reputation.

In a few years AI-generated content will be as common as photoshopped images and no one will bat an eye because it’ll “just be normal”.

We’re already there you just aren’t noticing them because they’ve progressed beyond the Six Fingers / Halo Ring in the eyes level of believability.

We should find out next week at APS Global if it’s really a problem or a case of Physicist Sergey Frolov, the author of that quote, failing to understand what’s been done.

Microsoft could be full of shit about Majorana 1 of course but it would be damned odd for them to make a claim like this without being able to back it up; the fallout would be horrendous.

Republicans passed a bill requiring married women to have a passport to vote.

I don’t want to defend the horseshit Republicans are shoveling around but this isn’t true. You can access the text of H.R. 2022, the so called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, at this link.

If you read 2(b)(1), don’t worry it’s on the very first page of the link, it clearly states:

“(1) A form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States.

As of September 2020 all US States and territories are issuing REAL ID compliant Drivers Licenses and State ID cards.

So anyone whose undergone a name change, regardless of gender, who has a State Issued ID meets the requirement. No passport necessary.

Republicans are up to enough awful shit without needing to lie about it. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act does not disenfranchise 80 million married woman.