Maybe you’re not dreaming big enough on what makes ideal conditions. The fraudulent Nikola company managed to film a semi “driving” a few km without a powertrain, by just letting it roll downhill. I bet there’s a place that has a high enough altitude and smooth enough roads for a long downhill descent where 600km on a 300km battery is possible.
Makes me wonder about the wheel’s rotational inertia, too. In theory, a hubless wheel could be lower mass overall without the need for a center axle/hub and spokes connecting the outside to the center. But that’s all weight saved in the center of the wheel with lower effect on overall rotational inertia. Visually, the picture that makes the thumbnail in this post shows that the brake disc has to be further from the center of the wheel, which I imagine adds a lot more weight (more material necessary for the overall brake disc being a larger circle) and a lot more rotational inertia (further from the center).
Maybe the whole design itself can save weight in certain places that make up for the weight added in other places. But I just have a ton of questions, and am overall pretty skeptical of the long term potential of this design.
Looks cool, though, I guess.
The hubless wheel is on their current models. It’s basically their signature differentiator.
There’s reason to be skeptical of the company and its claims as a whole, but at least that particular feature has shipped and has been test driven by reviewers:
https://thepack.news/11000-km-in-2-months-marc-travels-rides-the-verge-ts-across-europe/
The CPB exists to allocate government funding to nonprofit public stations (the individual broadcasters in each city) and networks (NPR and PBS). Without government funding, the CPB has no reason to exist.
The public stations and NPR and PBS still exist. They are the ones that actually produce and distribute content. And they’ve always relied some on donations.
PBS and its stations have been roughly 15% funded through the CPB. The rest relies on donations and other income.
NPR doesn’t receive much money directly from the CPB (less than 1% of its budget), but its member stations do, around 13% on average.
So it’s not the end of the world for these stations, but it does represent a reduction in funding that is pretty serious.
My “We’re totally different from Enron” accounting report has a lot of investors asking questions answered by the report.
Or maybe use excess power to electrolyze water for fuel cell use later?
Hydrogen storage presents a lot of challenges, because it tends to leak at normal temperatures found on Earth. So we either tolerate a lot of loss during storage, or we use lots of energy chilling it to a temperature where it won’t easily escape.
Sure, but if they’re reducing new whiskey production at exactly the same time, I would think that they’d basically gain a bunch of space right at the time they’d need it. A rickhouse designed for barrels might not be a perfect fit for the big polyethylene tanks, but I’m sure a major shift in operations could result in a relatively low cost switchover as necessary.
I’m just saying that these huge conglomerates aren’t going to let something like a reduced production change the end product. They’re a holding company for a bunch of different brands, including Canadian, Irish, Scottish, and Japanese brands, and they will run whatever stills they need at whatever percent of capacity they need to meet their projected demand. Their other three American distilleries will still be churning out product, and if they do resume production you wouldn’t be able to know which bottle comes from which distillery.
Brick and mortar retail might be struggling, but it’ll take a larger set of data to try to tease out trends about whether that means a shift to online retail, a shift away from goods towards services, or an actual reduction in spending.
Too long in oak changes the flavours and at some point it won’t taste like your product.
They can and do dump them into non-reactive tanks. Or bottles.
Jim beam was in the “cheap rotgut” category for ages.
The normal white label? That was always considered middle of the road for bourbon. The cheap stuff is the stuff that comes in plastic bottles. It’s only recently that bourbon has had a renaissance where the top brands are highly sought after and there’s a perception of luxury/exclusivity with some bourbons.
With any luck they will sell and rebrand, beam is a dead brand.
Cmon. Suntory Beam owns a shitload of brands of American Whiskey:
And them shutting down one of their four distilleries is not going to affect the quality. It’s a highly industrialized operation, and they’re already good at making the process invisible to the consumer, which bottle comes from which still.
Andy Beshear remains popular and won reelection during the Biden presidency, after being elected during Trump’s first term. And before that, he served a 4-year term as the state’s elected Attorney General. So he’s won 3 state-wide elections in a row during the Trump era (2015, 2019, 2023). His electoral success there isn’t a fluke of any kind of backlash in either direction, but is a reflection of his political skill and popularity in the state.
And his father, Steve Beshear, served four terms in statewide elected office as a Democrat, too.
Understanding local and regional variation in politics is important for understanding how political power can be accumulated and used. And dismissing any Trump voting state as a lost cause is fundamentally ceding power to the fascists. No, we fight for every state, every district, every election cycle, and outside of elections as well.
That’s just a small subset of non college grads. If you’re going to compare people who are aiming for a specific profession in a specific industry, you should look at the career outcomes of the college path, too, with specific majors that are feeders into specific careers.
Maybe you can argue that plumbers are doing “just fine” with the median wage at around $60k per year (across the entire career trajectory from the age of 20 to 60), or that welders make a median $50k, but those numbers don’t come anywhere close to accountants ($81k), financial specialists ($82k), financial analysts ($102k), electrical engineers ($112k).
And you could argue that I’m cherry picking professions, and I am, but simply by saying “trades” is also cherry picking a profession.
Are you under 30? The blue collar trades income trajectory is pretty flat over time, so it’s the 30’s where college educated careers tend to come out on top, and the 40’s and 50’s where college grads really start running away with a huge gap.
Plus in any trades job into the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, and you’ll generally see lower median wages (and much lower 25th percentile wages) than pretty much any white collar college educated career.
And living through a few business cycles also shows that non-college jobs, including the trades, are just less stable (and tend to force earlier exits to retirement or disability).
Keep your head up. High pay in HCOL areas tends to pay off over time, because not all costs scale the same, and being able to pay down debt or save a higher number of absolute dollars is better for your long term financial health.
Here is the time series so you can see the stats for any given month for as long as they’ve been tracking it:
How does that delta compare to people who didn’t go to college?
Most college graduates seem not to fully appreciate just how shitty things have gotten for the non-grads in the past 30 years.
By this logic fat shaming is acceptable?
I mean, yeah, in many contexts. For example, when a professional athlete shows up to training camp after putting on a bunch of fat in the off-season, that’s fair game. It’s literally their job to maintain their bodies and if we’re allowed to criticize their job performance then we’re certainly allowed to criticize their maintenance of their physical fitness. There’s obviously a clear parallel here between that and other public figures where their intelligence may be fair game for criticism.
More broadly, when people are engaged in unhealthy habits of any kind (from smoking to sleep deprivation to overwork/stress to terrible relationship decisions to unhealthy eating/exercise habits), I think it’s fair game for loved ones to point that out and encourage steering their lives back towards healthier choices. I’m not advocating that we go and make fun of strangers, the range of acceptable conversation in our day to day relationships is going to be different.
No, that’s not OK to mock people’s medical conditions, and it’s always a good idea to exercise some empathy and humility to know that things might not always be as easy for others as for yourself. But I’ve never been on board with the idea that fatness is somehow off limits, in large part that I don’t believe that most people’s fatness is inherently innate. Correlations between moving to or away from high obesity areas (most notably between countries or between significant changes of altitude, but also apparent in moves between city centers and suburban car-based communities) make that obvious that fatness is often environmental.
TLDR: I make fun of Trump’s fat ass all the time.
But because intelligence is an inherited trait
I don’t think this is true, practically speaking. Intelligence is like endurance running speed in that there are heritable components to it, but at the end of the day environmental factors dominate on who is or isn’t faster than another.
I can make fun of someone for being dumb in the same way that I can make fun of someone for being a slow runner. It’s only problematic when their slowness is actually caused by something out of their control, like some kind of health issue.
I think it’s more accurate to say “You will die for Epstein so that the oil class stays wealthy.”