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1. FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:51:17 JST FourOh-LLC
   The AI eventually going to put Western Law out of business. Reason will yield to data.
   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:51:14 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC I'm game for that. The best thing to come out of battery "green" grift movements are ancillary, like better motor tech and controllers. Efficiency is way up on standard consumer electric motors in the past decade and consequently performance. Fuel cells are a neat tech that's underutilized with a lot of potential and could be the intermediary, which is why we won't see mass adoption or r&d dollars poured into it.
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   • FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:51:15 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Santa Noodle ☦️
     Can we please open the asylums for battery-advocates please? Lock them up and lose the key.
   • FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:51:16 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Santa Noodle ☦️
     Immutable storage such as the IPFS point in the only direction that is sustainable.
     
     Data will uncover the irrational and the unsustainable, courts will lose power. We do not need "laws" to deal with the obvious like "gravity".
   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:51:17 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC >Reason will yield to data.
     100+ years of policy decisions unfortunately suggest otherwise. I do think people are nervous about how it will damage things at large, hence the desire to contain it. The dumb thing is everyone knew this was the inevitable outcome of opening Pandora's box and yet they're surprised.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:53:43 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @FourOh-LLC At some point they're going to shut down your "data-driven" Artificial Intelligence at gunpoint.

     Whether or not AI upends history will largely depend on whether you're willing to murder in order to keep it powered on

   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:57:36 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     • Billy_Hughes
     @Billy_Hughes @FourOh-LLC 2 stroke consumer engines get crappy real quick. It's mostly the inconvenience of maintenance.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:57:36 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Billy_Hughes

     @BowsacNoodle @Billy_Hughes @FourOh-LLC Just heard Delta hawk announced a hydrogen conversion for their 2 strokes, some of the only guys in the biz doing anything interesting these days. Who knows if it's going to work, I'm optimistic on at least the gaseous stuff because there's a definitive niche for self-sustaining UAV systems using hybrid power cells. They want commuter TBP's to use it too but that's iffier

     Eh, looks like he overstated the functionality, it's all guesswork at the moment. Too bad. https://www.deltahawk.com/2023/11/16/deltahawk-engines-launching-hydrogen-engine-program/

   • Billy_Hughes (billy_hughes@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:57:37 JST Billy_Hughes

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     • Santa Noodle ☦️
     I just bought an electric wippersnipper, I'll probably keep my petrol lawn mower
     My old 2 stroke wippersnipper was getting pretty annoying
   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:57:38 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC What do you mean? All I'm saying is the consumer grade motors are better now than 10 or 20 years ago, and battery tech is the reason. An electric lawnmower can pull 3,000 watts, which is not something the average person has a spare supply for. The argument can certainly be made that electric lawnmowers are a waste, but not requiring oil changes or routine maintenance is handy.
   • FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 12:57:39 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Santa Noodle ☦️
     Use the AI if you must but show me where V=IR going to stop all "impressive developments".
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:11:16 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Billy_Hughes

     @BowsacNoodle @Billy_Hughes @FourOh-LLC You don't need much power to run a 120 lb FW DIAB setup though. If they end up getting their way they'll need a bunch, and you can synthesize H2 with power and water so you can have them just operate sans hassle. I'm not finding the thing I'm thinking of, supposedly there's a buyable hybrid system where if combines batt power and h2 in a ready-made nacelle so OEMs can fiddle with the idea and begin integration. Part of the trouble of hearing this secondhand at work, I lose the details.

     Still iffy but they're willing to throw a LOT of money at this stuff, the industry is going above and beyond in the hopes of being allowed to self-regulate. Cessna's somehow able to sell half million dollar shitcans on backorder, and dassault's still in business so money obviously ain't worth as much in the industry as it is in every other

   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:11:17 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     • Billy_Hughes
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Billy_Hughes @FourOh-LLC Always a lot of over promising in the world of non-petroleum power. That's how you get investors and grant money after all. I knew a guy whose dad studied algae who told me that everything is just leeching off the government grant teet under nebulous half truths.
   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:11:24 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     • Billy_Hughes
     @FourOh-LLC @Billy_Hughes @WashedOutGundamPilot Engineers always pooh-pooh anything that's a paradigm shift. They're often correct, but they miss the mark on the utility aspect of r&d uncovering happy accidents and side benefits. Plus they're not always right. How many engineers swore Koenigsegg would never hit what they claimed on paper until the dynameter silenced them?
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   • FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:11:25 JST FourOh-LLC

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     • Santa Noodle ☦️
     • Billy_Hughes
     I do not need to "belive" anything. I am an engineer.
     
     "In God We Trust, all else we test".
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 13:16:52 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Santa Noodle ☦️
     • Billy_Hughes

     @BowsacNoodle @FourOh-LLC @Billy_Hughes "Engineer" stock is quite low today, thanks to winning quips like

     "who the hell would want a phone without buttons?!?"

     and

     "what kind of jackass would trust a self-driving car?"

     Smart in their niche but even more blind to everything outside it, particularly where social politics come into play.

     (Hell, add up all the rocket recovery systems that were "too dumb to work", too. Somehow those came to fruition too)