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Icepck 2 points ago +3 / -1

If blue states can do it with their "interstate compact for the popular vote"or whatever, why not red states?

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Icepck 16 points ago +16 / -0

I had an experience wearing a red hat too! It was a hat I bought from the golf course while traveling. I was loading my clubs back into the rental car and this dude drove his jeep up behind my car, mean mugging me. When I turned to face him he saw the front said "san Marco golf course" or whatever, instead of maga, and quickly drove away. His face changed so quick when he realized his mistake. I wore that hat for a long time after that.

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Icepck 1 point ago +1 / -0

"They" can worry about pure aluminum. I would build something that uses aluminum in whatever form I can get my hands on easily.

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Icepck 1 point ago +1 / -0

If I were to try it i would use the gallium I bought years ago from ebay or Amazon and use whatever aluminum I could find as scrap. It is everywhere in our world.

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Icepck 2 points ago +2 / -0

One method of producing hydrogen without electrolysis is to react water with aluminum. The problem is that aluminum forms a passivation layer of an oxide, similar to rust, but it stays on the surface and stops aluminum underneath that passivation layer from reacting.

One method of stopping that passivation layer from being created is to make an alloy of gallium and aluminum. Aluminum reacts with water and gets used up, but most of your gallium drops out and can be reused. You are essentially burning aluminum in water and burning hydrogen in the tank.

I don't know the economics of a setup large enough to run a car or how many cycles you can run before needing more gallium, but it is a new and different idea than I have seen in the past.

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Icepck 1 point ago +1 / -0

You can buy a quarter acre somewhere if you want to vote. It doesn't have to be developed. Every voter should own a piece of what they're controlling.

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Icepck 3 points ago +3 / -0

I take it a step further and say you must be a landowner to vote in that land (and a citizen of that land to own land in that land...forgive my poor language skills...).

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Icepck 1 point ago +3 / -2

That short squeeze happened a long time ago. If you can afford to wait, leave the DWAC holdings alone.

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Icepck 1 point ago +1 / -0

I am confused. If what's his name decides not to step down does she still get a seat?

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Icepck 1 point ago +1 / -0

Instead of an October dump they should have released one photo at a time made into a meme like this.

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Icepck 1 point ago +1 / -0

I wonder if they'll make it invitation only. It'll cut down on the communist propaganda. It seemed to be the strategy that springboarded Facebook past MySpace back in the day. Just a thought.

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Icepck 4 points ago +4 / -0

Oh, as an investment in a world with internet, I can understand crypto being the gold coin of the digital world. Gold/ silver are already mine and processed at this point. If I want a silver coin in a world without internet and electricity I can trade blacksmith work for it. I can trade home grown potatoes for it. I guess I'm a bit of a doomer. As far as investments...DWAC at $14 a share was good enough for me. So was SBUX at $6.

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Icepck 1 point ago +1 / -0

But I can go to my local farmer/butcher, or pay a laborer with the right metal. He can spend that metal to buy firewood or heading oil. Can you do that with crypto? Send it via Bluetooth and charge your device with solar I guess?

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Icepck 4 points ago +4 / -0

If they know you have wealth and you don't turn it over it doesn't matter if it is physical or crypto, they'll treat you the same. I agree that crypto is safer from theft, but you're relying on a lot of technology remaining available to use it.

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Icepck 3 points ago +3 / -0

I think he meant Chyna will invade (and maybe the Ukraine mess really gets messy) after the Olympics.

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Icepck 1 point ago +1 / -0

Didn't Biden give Russia a list of things that were "off limits" for cyber attacks?

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Icepck 2 points ago +2 / -0

Should have said yes, got on the chair, continued the conversation about how you had to because you never had the disease as a kid. Then say, "oh...I thought you meant the new chicken pox vaccine. Nah, I didn't do those mrna shots." Let him jump off of the chair if he wants.

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Icepck 17 points ago +17 / -0

You and your wife should have stood at either end of an aisle to see what he would do.

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Icepck 3 points ago +3 / -0

Agreed. I wish our government would treat funding the way they treat the military: volunteers only and make do with what they have.

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Icepck 3 points ago +3 / -0

Even those can lead to war. See the American Civil War and the tariffs leading up to it. The tax on tea leading to Boston. Etc.

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