It’s funny how he takes the most prominent issue that cuts across liberal vs. leftist ideological lines — anybody can be a NIMBY — and then blames it solely on the leftists.

E85 is inefficient to make in the US because the climate isn’t right to grow sugarcane (except in Hawaii and maybe south Florida, I guess?). I hear it works pretty well in Brazil, though.

The biofuel that makes sense for US farmers to produce is biodiesel, but unfortunately relatively few vehicles are diesel.

IMO biodiesel is the solution we should be pursuing for things like aviation, rural car owners, and as an interim fuel for long-haul trucking (until it can be abolished in favor of going back to trains) that are relatively hard to electrify.

It’s at least true that biofuels made from fast-growing crops like soy or sugar cane are carbon neutral (if you assume the farm equipment also runs on biofuel and no other petroleum-derived inputs are used) because they’re part of the short-term carbon cycle, right?

If so — if the cut-off for “renewable” is definitely longer than a year, definitely shorter than millions of years, and apparently also shorter than hundreds of years — then I’d like to know where scientists (not industry shills) have decided it actually lies. Would the forest industry’s position be valid in the context of e.g. a slash pine tree farm?

Honestly, I’m inclined to see a very strong distinction between burning wood and burning fossil methane, as long as you’re not talking about chopping down an old-growth forest or something like that. (And as long as the methane you’re comparing to isn’t from a short-term cycle source like landfill gas, for that matter.)

Considering the kinds of questions OP was asking, which group does it sound like he falls into?

With computer stuff, you can do even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

TL;DR: your documentation and your shell script (sequence of console commands you run to accomplish the task) can be the same file.

(Dunno what kind of chemistry you do, but you may have already come across this concept in the form of Jupyter notebooks or something like that.)

While I’m at it, I’d also like to mention Ansible and Git, for when you really want to keep good records and have a reproducible setup. Don’t worry about them immediately as it’s probably too overwhelming to learn all at once, but keep 'em in the back of your mind for later.

Honestly, I don’t think it’s possible to get by just trusting any particular guide without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing. The field is just too wide and rapidly changing for any source of info to be authoritative (and stay authoritative indefinitely after the guide is written), so it’s super important to develop the skill of looking up multiple different and possibly conflicting approaches to the task, thinking critically about them, and then synthesizing your own approach that works for your specific situation.

What a shitty, dishonest retort. The entire goal is to be allowed to talk about it so he can organize and gain allies so there’s a chance to win, but you’re just telling him to pointlessly suicide-by-cop.

It’s not at all strategically comparable and it’s dishonest rhetoric and it’s cyberbullying. That’s the kind of shit that ought to be banned!

IIRC Hogg wanted to primary old incumbents with younger ones, but not necessarily with more progressive ones. It was more of a credibility (and possibly anti-corruption) thing than an ideology thing.

Don’t forget South Sudan.

If I could easily emigrate to a country that didn’t suck, I would.

Did he, though? Trump appointees are almost uniformly selected for their commitment to sabotage.

Having shared assets to maintain is legitimate, but the vast majority of HOAs (those governing single-family neighborhoods) don’t really have that as an excuse. Even if they do have something to maintain, like a private street or a pool, it’s only because the local government was shirking its responsibility to provide what should have been public infrastructure.

(And that’s why they’re so common: because low-density development is so ruinously unsustainable, governments heavily encourage developers to establish HOAs so that the time bomb of future maintenance is the homeowners’ problem instead of bankrupting the city.)

You hired somebody to put a shutter back on? It’s just a couple of screws!

HOAs are the direct result of racists trying to work around de-jure segregation being abolished, so yeah.

I’ve been using AMD (and ATi) for 20+ years. An Arc GPU is the first* Intel product I’ve actually been interested in and seriously considered getting, in all that time. I still ended up picking an AMD 9070 XT because there isn’t an Arc card in that market segment, but maybe next time.

(* Other than a Chromebook I had to buy for college, which at the time didn’t have any reasonable AMD options available.)

Is there ANYTHING that’s going well for Intel?

Their Arc Battlemage discrete GPUs are a success, relatively speaking.

What was that phrase, again? Oh yeah: “VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO.”

So what? That doesn’t mean it would’ve worked.

The Democrats, as played by Prince John from Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Eh, “executive order,” “royal decree” – same difference, at this point!