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Build a large enough magnetic rail launcher and you could save shit tons of fuel. Get a ship doing 2000 mph before it leaves the ground and needs its rockets and you'll have a pretty good head start.

You're right I was thinking for some reason AGM batteries weren't lead acid batteries, but they are.

Lifep04 works great for things like this because they're very good at taking on a full charge without damage, compared to lead acid. The Prius in particular doesn't even need much of a 12v battery because it doesn't provide the power to start the engine. It just does the lights, ECU, and it flips a 12v relay to start the car engine, which the bigger hybrid battery cranks over.

Also, to my knowledge, all Prius since Gen 2 (like 2004-2009) don't come with a lead acid 12v battery and replacing one with a lead battery could cause you some warranty issues. If course, I'd imagine a home built battery could also cause a warranty issue. Lol

Chasing perfection was my sanity back when I was a welder.

No it doesn't. Something like roofing can't be a minimum wage job, no matter what the minimum wage is. It's a much harder job than something like a target stocker. So it would still just mean all roofing jobs would go to Mexican lobor, or your forced to work at minimum wage doing a hard job like roofing, or trying to find a job that's less abusive to your body for the same amount of money, but there's only so many of those jobs to go around.

Wage earnings stuff is an independent issue from foreign labor. if you want to fix wage issues minimum wage increases is a futile effort that will only cause inflation and devalue anyone's savings or retirement. If you want to fix the minimum wage issue you're trying to fix it from the wrong end. You need to create a maximum wage. Tax wealth, tax the loopholes used to avoid paying tax on that wealth, and tax a higher and higher rate the more you earn. if the top earners were prevented from exponentially increasing their wealth their wouldn't be a need to constantly try to increase the minimum wage with futile results. Right now the more most people make just turns into the more companies will charge to increase profits and earn even more wealth. if the rich were prevented from gaining more wealth after a certain point, the wealth would spread out to competition and pay and benefits. Imagine if all these board members and ceo's and billionaires couldn't earn more than a couple million dollars a year before paying everything else into taxes instead of making a hundred million a year.

I used to work blue collar. I'm cool with immigrants coming here to work, but there's no denying that it caused lower wages for people that are drywallers, roofers, framers, and such. Especially prevalent with roofing. A company using citizens that need to provide for their families in the US couldn't compete against a company with 10 Mexican guys that all live in a couple apartments and send their extra money down to their families in Mexico where the money goes so much further. They're just able and willing to work for so much less that it chokes out people with their families in this country.

Not a whole lot. Only around $5 a pound. If there really is 3 grams of gold and you got the chemicals to dissolve and collect it safely, that's worth waaay more. 3g of gold would be worth around $500.

They don't just read plated. They'll recognize scratches and dents on specific vehicles and also facial recognition. Basically complete human and machine tracking. Cities with flock cameras everywhere can track every move you make.

Back in my day we figured out how to take care of this without getting mom and dad involved. Lol

It's like from a fondue fountain.

The non existent community moderation is by design and purpose. Valve wants it that way. They refuse to be any sort of gatekeepers in it.

You don't know what jobs they cut. It was likely service offices and phone help and secretaries and maintenance people and commissioned sales people and such. They couldn't have cut 30,000 programmers and hardware engineers.