https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chalmers

For anyone wondering

Holy smokes,

Richard Parker and Tiger both making an appearance threw me.

My parents drove from Vancouver BC to Barrie ON (4000km) this spring in their new electric car. Their biggest complaint was that Tesla chargers are very difficult to use because the cable is only barely long enough to get to their charging port, they need to position the car within like 2cm to get it to reach.

Overall it was a great experience, they’re retired and aren’t really in a hurry. They liked the exploration and walking breaks.

They spent a lot more money in small towns than they did when they drove their Prius.

Biggest concern is if there were to be a road closure.

They will be driving back next week.

Nunc est bibendum

Who new that “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere” started with Horace? ~35BCE

TIL

My dad always corrects me to: you never get more than you pay for.

Omg the winding rotor moves as you spin the animation around!

I suspect it’s sensitive to only a narrow band of frequencies, akin to the molecule’s resonance frequency, but idk

It’s pretty neat though. It stays liquid the whole time. So you could circulate it to charge it up, somewhere other than where you want to extract the energy. But it looks like it charges from 300nm light (UV) so depending on its absorption bandwidth usefulness is questionable.

Abstract from Science:

Storing sunlight in a compact and rechargeable form remains a central challenge for solar energy utilization. Molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage systems, which harness photon energy and release it as heat on demand, provide a direct approach, but have long failed to meet practical benchmarks. Inspired by the architecture of DNA, we report a pyrimidone-based MOST system that stores energy in the strained Dewar photoisomer upon excitation at 300 nm. Designed with sustainability in mind, the system operates solvent-free and remains compatible with aqueous environments while overcoming one of the field’s greatest hurdles: the controlled extraction and transfer of stored heat. When catalyzed by acid, the Dewar isomer releases enough heat to boil water (~0.5 mL). These advances help point the way toward decentralized solar heat storage and off-grid energy solutions.

Isn’t it a probabilistic extrapolation? Isn’t that what a guess is?

Hoodoo? You do! Do what? Remind me of the babe!

Hobby tunnelers agree it’s a great escape

1 trillion dollars is like $3000 per american right? How can they have that much money to pay him?

But the problem is YouTube taking down videos.

Oh sweet does that let me see the videos?

Interesting.

Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.

In Canada we passed a regulation that social media sites have to pay our media companies to link to their articles. Google is paying up, but Facebook said no, and has banned news. It has made Facebook here much less terrible.