LanyrdSkynrd

I am for getting rid of cars, but it's not like new headlight technology stops that from happening.

The OEM reflector style ones are mostly fine, IMO. It's the projector style lights, and when people jam LEDs in a reflector that wasn't meant for them, that are the problem.

These are the projector lamps: They rely on a little piece of metal covering the top half to keep the intense and evenly diffused light from blinding you, which doesn't work if you're not on flat ground.

Reflector style led lights diffuse the light unevenly, no differently than halogens, other than the color temperature.

The absolute worst are when people take led bulbs in jam them in headlight housings that are meant for halogens. The light doesn't leave the bulb in the same way affecting the diffusion pattern, plus they're more bright than intended.

The new matrix style LEDs could be a game changer. They allow some of the lights to turn off when there are oncoming cars, and darken just the areas where they are. The only downfall is the computer hardware needed, but the same hardware that tracks cars for automatic emergency braking systems can do it. If past is any guide, those systems will be mandatory in new cars at some point.

I wonder how much of this stuff is really useful, or is meant to portray them as scrappy underdogs in need of aid.

Marry-fuck-kill Chapo edition:

Marry Matt, Fuck Felix, Kill Will

I hate this argument. How does buying something incentivize more of it to be made when there is a substitute(dirty energy)?

It's like saying you're going to incentivize people to eat healthier by destroying vegetable crops

It depends on what you want to do with it. It's a useful certification to get jobs, but a lot of them are really difficult jobs with not great pay. I think it depends a lot on the area, though.

I was considering getting my CNA to get a specific social services type job working with disabled kids. I decided against it because the other CNA jobs available in my area were difficult and low paying nursing home jobs. I didn't want to do school to end up making a couple dollars more an hour than McDonald's pays.

I had those when I quit smoking weed.

Sometimes I'd realize I was dreaming, then wake up and explain the dream to my partner, all while still in the first layer of dream.

That was Chicago.

I think we'll see more of this stuff. It's just too tempting for politicians. They can fill a budget hole, lower property taxes, etc, and make it some future administrations problem. Especially if they structure it with a gradual increase in prices.

It's like taxing people 50 years in the future but getting to spend the money now.

I think it was the regular political corruption that exists everywhere in the US, lobbying, campaign donations and the revolving door. Texas is definitely winning the race to sell off all the public goods, but this kind of thing happens all over. Chicago sold off the rights to the parking spaces on public streets in a similar kind of deal.

Texas is the champ at letting private industry profit from government.

They built a toll road with $1Billion in public money, using a private equity firm to build it which resulted in large profits, and hazardous work conditions. Then they sold 50 years of toll rights to a different private equity firm for $600mil, with no limit to how much could be charged. When tolls predictably skyrocketed, they had to buy those rights back for $1.7 billion after the firm had collected tolls for 5 years.

I think it's overrated, like most high status foods. Lobster, truffles, caviar, and steak are all pretty mid, and terrible when considering the price.

https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.urology.2008.10.057