Additionally, less moving parts should mean less failure cases that need to be addressed. As a light house lamp, less failures seems like a good thing!

The uber rich spending is generally via “business expenses”.

For example: Elon doesn’t own his private jets, SpaceX does. When he takes it down to Hawaii for a 15 minute investor meeting followed by hanging out with them for the weekend at the nicest hotels with all the fixings and flys back, that’s all business expenses that he “derived no personal benefit from”, so SpaceX writes it all off as a business expense, thus reducing their tax burden and he never personally gets taxed for it.

A less egregious example that happens considerably more: a person has a rental property that resides between their normal living area, which they consider the “home office”, and an area of interest they travel too. They go to the area of interest, but make sure to stop by the rental on the way there and back. The milage from the home to the rental is business miles, and thus they can deduct the travel expense from any business incomes.

I am not advocating for any of those, but it doesn’t really matter if these business expenses are legal because the IRS doesn’t have a great way to determine these minor abuses, and certainly doesn’t have the people power to track it down.

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This will be unpopular:

Before or at the same time as we fix sub-minimum wage, we need to also address the disability benefits cliff. I personally know multiple disabled people that limit how much they are working so that they don’t hit the cutoff where all the benefits disappear, not tail off. Generally these people enjoy their work and are capable of working more, but if they earn a dollar too much, they are screwed, loosing access to a number of subsidies and medical care.

The small one with the blanket!

It’s a perovskite cell, so there are still a lot of longevity issues to be worked out.

I can’t find anywhere that sells this type of glass any more.

This is a really smart work around! Thanks! I would still appreciate if I didn’t have to use an alt, so I am going to leave this post up.

Always has been.

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Dragon Quest was a solid OG RPG!

It really just goes to show how disconnected the cost and the price are.

From the airline’s perspective they have an empty seat they could have sold to someone else, likely at a higher price, so it is lost revenue, but that assumes that every traveler wants to pay more.

About the only valid argument against skip lagging is the airport disembarkation fees being different.

Mom’s spaghetti?

If I read it correctly, an image of one of the slides says that it has been confirmed by 2 independent parties.

I kind of understand space agencies not trying these out. They are government funded with tight budgets. If they chased all of these and only 1% panned out, they would get lambasted by their ruling bodies as wasting money. Also where the inventor can’t explain how it works, it would make it really hard to support with the reliability we want in stuff we send to space.

Feels like Tom Morello’s “Hold the Line”

I would absolutely pay $5 a month to get past all the news paywalls, or 10 cents for an article. The big thing is that it would need to be easy. Like “login once and get access to all of them without additional accounts” easy. Or if it’s a pay per article, again not have to make an account and configure a credit card, just use a central service that I can get the article in under 2 clicks (buy and confirm) no matter which paywall it is.

He does bring up a good point that micro-transactions in news would make a lot of sense. I would pay 10 cents (if it was easy) to read a article, but you aren’t going to get me to sign up for a “less then a cup of coffee a month” subscription.

Looks like Carl from Pixar’s “Up” but if he died 55 years earlier and they Weekend-at-Bernie’s him for the movie.