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Old Love is such a good song.

It’s in the way that you use it, boy don’t you know.


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Very cool that you have a side hustle as a US fighter jet pilot!


It's known as the Air National Guard. Work for United during the week, and fly F16's one weekend a month.

If you're using Elixir (or don't mind running a separate Elixir service), we've built what is effectively a clone of the oAuth part of Nango (formally Pizzly). Drop into any Elixir project and get full oAuth management out of the box, and it's compatible with all of the Nango provider strategies:

https://github.com/agoodway/tango


Not sure why you are getting downvoted. The scariest one is the fertilizer situation which means less productive harvests, which means hunger.

Because it's whataboutism which is basically propaganda. It doesn't add anything to the discussion, and if we put too much emphasis on other unrelated (but still important) issues, the site wouldn't exist at all.

Example: Why are you posting here when you could be solving world hunger? Don't you care about starving children?


Or the angle that most likely never gets discussed such as the potential effects of heavy reliance and overuse of fertilizer being a contributor to pollution than crop yields; I don't have all the sources but here's one I was reading over the weekend:

-- https://ourworldindata.org/excess-fertilizer


As if those can’t be blown up with $300 FPVs or $10k Shahids…

You can lay them underground, making attacking them more difficult (also a lot more expensive to install).

Are you kidding me? Even developer salaries in the Philippines can afford that or at least the plan below it. If I used the Anthropic API, my monthly spend would be $4k a month. The Claude Max plan is the best bargain around.

It’s not just about energy, but also industrial (think neon, helium) and agricultural inputs (nitrogen, urea). Even if energy was solved, there’s not really replacements for these. Well, regenerative agriculture but not sure that will feed as many people.


The nitrogen comes from the air - we're perfectly capable of capturing it using renewables.

It's probably one of the last things to be created that way because it's one of the places where methane is used more efficiently than burning it... But fundamentally there's no issue here except energy availability and a short term supply shock.


The nitrogen in generated fertiliser comes from the air, it’s the hydrogen in the process that comes from natural gas.

You can theoretically get it from water instead, but the energy cost is something like 3-4 times as high. It may be feasible at some point.


Also, you can't make plastics out of wind power or out of solar, you still need the "petro-" that's part of the petrochemical industry.


You can use solar to convert CO2 into syngas and do a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis followed by polymerization to get plastics.


This is false, you can make many plastics without fossil sources (pla, bio-pet, bio-abs, etc). The only challenge is cost and scale - it's cheaper and easier to use existing processes.


And how exactly do you think all of those agricultural products are produced? They require an insane amount of diesel fuel and nitrogen fertilizers…

> challenge is cos

So you can’t.


But making plastics using renewable energy and fossil hydrocarbons for feedstock does not exacerbate the greenhouse effect, unless you burn them when you've finished with them.

Arguably plastics are a stable, cheap and useful carbon sink and if climate is the overriding ecological priority we should be making as many as we can and recycling as few as possible.


You can make plastics out of cellulose, which is available from plant sources or organic (algae) bioreactors.

It would take a while to retool the plastics industry to use organic sources, but it's not at all impossible.


Is there enough cellulose available to keep Temu fully stocked? Now and in the near future. And aren’t you going to get agricultural land out of the equation in order to have space for that cellulose-planting industry? And in so doing increasing the price of basic food.


Using renewables means you're burning up less of your plastic feedstocks.


Plastic packaging can be substituted. Engineered plastics are a tiny fraction of petroleum.


It’s not about packaging, Temu/Shein are not selling packaging.


Or you could use Elixir with Postgrest and not have to bold on all this wonky 3rd paid tools for basic stuff like background jobs:

https://elixirisallyouneed.dev/tools?q=Pgflow


And Mexican labor at this point is cheaper than Chinese. Makes sense to me.


The only way to get American auto manufacturers to step up their game is completion. Worked when the Japanese cars came, American car quality improved dramatically in response because it had to.


And the quality's back through the floor again. How many recalls have the domestic slovenly-built Big Three had to put up with in the last ~6 years? Ford alone is showing just how bad the UAW's building on the factory floor.

The amount of trim and garbage I've had to take our domestic-built Ford Escape back in for service and factory bodge fixes for is staggeringly high. Meanwhile, my Mexican-built Fusion? Rock solid.


Still no one wants American Cars outside the US, with the exception of Ford and Tesla


Even Ford has fallen out heavily from just 20 years ago. It used to be much more common to see the Ford badge in Europe when the Ka, Fiesta, Focus line-up was around.

Thinking now the only times I see the Ford badge are on work vehicles like vans or the odd Mustang Mach-E (well, not literally the Ford badge but the Mustang one).

I haven't seen (or at least noticed) any of the new cars in the Ford line-up in Sweden: Puma, Capri, Kuga, Bronco, etc.


I see more and more Douchebags driving with a Pick-Up in Germany.

Those cars doesn't fit at all into Europe, but it is what it is

Otherwise it's mainly Pumas and Vans, yeah.


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