Modern heat pumps, which use the same principle as A/C, can achieve 4 to 1 efficiency. Old fridges can be tanks, but are horribly inefficient. A new high efficiency unit could probably pay itself off in 2 3 years.

Israel has been weaponizing the guilt card since it’s inception.

Try octopuses. Essentially liquid. Think Odo from Startrek DS9. Watch them go from a beige cucumberish shape to a dark green/brown lump that looks like a jagged rock

That's going to paddle real well

I don't buy new cars. I buy them 5-10 years old, and for a bit before, try to keep an eye on how many I see of them on the road. Not very scientific, but it gives you an idea of their longevity.

I was surprised, until I read the last paragraph. SEAT and Skoda have been the reliable VW brands for 2-3 decades, with the Ibizas and Octavias reaching mythical status. I read somewhere that some SEATs are actually rebadged VW china models. Great way for VW to squander reputation.

Trump, that you?

I’ve often wondered why e-ink displays are so expensive

There are some great looking container hoces in alibaba. Not joking.

I was once at a convenience store, run by a Chinese man, and this 30ish girl in a tank top, obviously a regular comes in and says @look I got my sons name tattooed. Then she says, “look, Aitor@“. The guysmiles nervously. She leaves, and I ask the guy, who es shaking his head, and he says that it was some random mataré sign.

Tristán is a proper local name in Spanish

I'm old enough to have had to sign credit card receipts in Europe. I routinely signed "Mickey mouse" and stuff like that. Never had a second look.

I hate the guy, It scares me shitless that he may be elected, but we must admit that creating the "weave" thing to sell his mental decline as a brilliant oratorial strategy is a genius marketing move. The problem is that he is selling exploding Ford Pintos as the safest car in the world.

What does this all mean to the home gamer?

Oooook…..

Plot twist!

This took an interesting turn!

I have a Gen 8 HP microserver. Works great. Mine has a Celeron with 4Gb, running Xpenology, but you can plop in a Xeon and 16Gb, for containers and stuff if you want. Runs great, 4 Proliant caddies, cold plug, an extra SATA connector for a CD that can be repurposed for an SSD, a power draw of 25-45w. Very small form factor, Proliant quality and build. Fairly silent, and very small.

Super happy with it, and it can probaly be found on ebay cheap.

I'm a Rocket Lab fan. Tons of innovation, slower progress due to not having the richest man behind, but on track to launch a reusable medium rocket, FULLY reusable and with a sensible guy at the helm.

The unit pictured seems like it would be better at corners than my round one.

Endurance and reliability of cycles seem to be an issue with mine

The "Botijo" uses the same principle and has been in use for centuries in Spain to cool water.

The article mentions fragility, but I imagine that some open sided fiberglass cage or equivalent could be made. Fiberglass is fairly low tech nowadays, cheap and widely available even in the developing world.

Didn’t you read? It’s a workhorse. It pulls wagons