Which is what the meme talks about?

• Cash handling

• Forklifts

• Parking lots

It would have to be in a single district; attempting multiple would definitely fail.

NZ has had a number of individual electorates where the Greens* won the seat, Labour came second, and National 3rd. With a sufficiently left-wing area and a galvanised base, it’s possible.

• Note: NZ greens definitely are not the same as the US Russian plants.

It is possible for a third party to arise in FPTP elections, but it’s certainly not common or easy. The UK has a bunch; NZ had a couple before moving to MMP; I think Australia has some.

It usually requires a competent and well-known politician storming out of their party for ideological differences, but being locally popular enough to win their seat as an independent or new party.

AOC might pull it off.

Here in NZ I believe they mostly can set their own routes, being ‘independent’ contractors.

I have heard Amazon in particular is super tight in the US.

And probably drives on the most efficient route for their run.

You’re about halfway along the run? They’ll always pass you about halfway through the day.

I imagine something akin to a draft or arranged marriages. You’re not married, you’re not married, congrats you’re now married.

That would likely be the winch, but yes, you’ll need a nice large regenerating motor drive.

I would hazard a guess that a 40t-rated winch, 40t-rated 100m wire rope, and 40t-rated steel bucket to hold the scrap each cost more than a 10kWh battery.

I’m not liking their maths.

For a large shaft, we move weights up to 40 metric tonnes, which give us the capability to store up to 10 kWh of energy per 100 metres of depth.

40t ~= 400kN, so at 100m that’s 40MJ. Sure, that’s 11.1kWh mechanical, perhaps a little optimistic to say you’ll get 10kWh back. That’s a smallish home battery.

Where do you get another five-and-a-bit orders of magnitude from, to get to two gigawatt-hours?

Pumped hydro works because water is really really cheap and pretty easy to store, so millions of tonnes of water is doable, whether the height is tens or hundreds of meters.

Steel/iron/concrete is just too expensive. And you can’t fit much in a five meter shaft compared to a lake.

The Master Mistress of L-space B-space.

Redundancy doesn’t necessarily come with a golden handshake, though many employment contracts do mandate it.

But they do have to try to find you another job elsewhere in the organisation if that’s possible, and they have to disestablish the position not necessarily you. That means that if they want to make one person from a team redundant, they generally have to actually ask if anyone wants to leave, and if not, run a transparent process to decide who from the team to make redundant, not just pick someone.

You also have to not be planning to re-hire for the role any time soon as that would imply the redundancy wasn’t genuine.

If you’re in a country with good worker protection, there’s a big difference between ‘made redundant’ and ‘fired for cause’. There is no ‘fired for no reason’.

I mean, if it was written well, it might say something like discharge reproductively viable genetic material. It looks like an unfertilised egg disintegrates before leaving the body, so isn’t viable.

‘Discharging genetic material’ on its own includes a nosebleed.

Yeah, it’s kind-of the onion in that it’s a satirical bill, presented to the House.

Sounds like they need to move to either ZIF connectors or 48V power; this kind of power over high pin counts isn’t really practical.

There’s a reason electrical codes don’t usually let you use parallel conductors below about 4AWG/60A per conductor.

Google has removed the video through an automated process without talking to the owner of the channel or verifying who owns the video in the first place.

Honestly sounds like Hanlon’s Razor on Google’s part. No collusion necessary, just can’t be bothered to maintain/staff an actual effective system.

Fair point, have edited.

Running through a tent site is not the world’s smartest plan. You’ll trip on a guy wire.

Everything burns up regardless of size. Big things might not finish burning by the time they hit the ground.

You need either enough thrust to slow you to ~mach 2, or a heat shield to do the same by aerobraking.

It’s called aerobraking for a reason: you’re using friction to turn kinetic energy into heat to slow down, but that heat goes into the air and your heat shield instead of brake pads and rotors.