Joe B. Transue

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@sdamico I want power packets. Go to 480v DC, but the hub can cut in a microsecond if there is an issue. Heck, milliseconds is probably fast enough- at each cycle, hub determines what the other side wants and whether wiring is in tact, no ground/negative fault, etc.

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@skjsaurabh @PeterDiamandis Stories like yours are too common. I am sorry for what you had to go through; we can all hope for a time soon when such losses aren’t “just how it is”.

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@Jlafortetech @PeterDiamandis Ratio incoming.

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There was a time when I would have doubted a story like this. I no longer doubt it. In fact, I’d be _more skeptical_ if he said the ride and one overnight came in under $20,000. We are living in a dystopia, and I don’t know how much worse it can get.

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A co-worker of mine recently had a heart issue and ended up needing to go to the hospital in an ambulance. He was admitted and required to stay in the hospital overnight.

That ambulance and overnight stay cost over $100K.

Even with insurance, his out-of-pocket cost was still thousands of dollars. He's gainfully employed and has a decent insurance plan.

How does the average American who can't afford healthcare and who has an emergency situation ever recover from the financial burden of trying to save their own life?

The "fraud" in healthcare isn't from immigrants. It's the insurance companies who are commoditizing healthcare to the point of unattainability or financial ruin for the average American.

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You get that it is _completely insane_ that we are talking about any of this in this particular way, right?

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@mikepat711 Can’t tell if sarcasm.

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A Chinese robot wearing a clown wig kicked a child in the stomach.

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@favelaoverlord In order of ranked number of customers from the county makes sense. Sorry, Iceland.

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@dude_normally @JohnLeePettim13 @ForkliftCtf https://t.co/oXILWuSXRt

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They likely do, as well as stuff that science hasn’t even touched yet.

I have a photo of my great grandmother as a young child. The adults in her world were busy enjoying “modernity” in the form of things like newspapers and photography and railroads, but they had lived most of their lives with no periodic table, let alone subatomic particles, quantum, etc. somewhere a young Al Einstein was busy playing, looking at stamps and insects and patterns in leaves… with no clue what his mind would one day decode.

The point is that we also live in a time before profound discoveries. We assume “this is it”, but really it is barely the beginning.

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@Strife212 Fantastic explanation.

We’re faced with the idea that consciousness isn’t the substrate, which I think people are at least tentatively willing to accept. But if that’s true, what are we??

More and more, I suspect the physical universe and even time are persistent illusions.

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@JohnLeePettim13 @ForkliftCtf Two things are true:

1) showing initiative will improve your odds of landing in a successful role.

2) those odds are not what they were 40 years ago.

“Ikigai” is harder to zero in on, but that’s not a reason to give up.

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@prwright55 @mikepat711 I said the system needs work, I didn’t say people should walk out of their hotel rooms at 3am.

I stand by the observation that PHEVers can be a bit entitled thinking charging stations are for them. If you get in off the road at 8pm, maybe come move after 10pm. Car’s done.

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@farming_shashi1 @elonmusk Don’t forget time- the smoothie is also CO2/water, and finally the metabolic and digestive output…unfused hydrogen has a role too.

I guess for that matter, we could loop multiverse lifecycles. It might be reasonable to just say “there is no smoothie”

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@RebCrandall @hthieblot Don’t remember that- the pic was what I considered their peak accomplishment, but maybe I need to revisit the complete works.

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@pammalamma @hthieblot The golden era of “I wish I could unsee ____”

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@BadtotheBohn @hthieblot By a wide margin.

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@TESLA_winston I’m gonna need to see some data behind that.

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@SamaHoole (That was supposed to be “genetic” btw)