If your definition of a ‘sane, competent’ government is one that continues to rabidly support an ongoing genocide, I want none of it.

I mean, that is one glaring point of fridge logic. If you’ve seen how many people can cram onto a bus in developing countries, Immortan Joe’s guys should have been like 15 to a car. Also, if gas is precious, why not use a train? They’re substantially more efficient.

Yah. The fact that we’re turning edible food into worse gas, and thereby driving up food prices worldwide for no reason, is nothing short of inhumane. It’s not even a reduction in greenhouse gas; it requires so much processing that it’s about the same as just pumping crude out of the ground.

Hmmm, interesting. Looks like there’s some fuel stabilizers that can preserve it for a few years (most of what I can find are for 1-3 years). I’m guessing the 5-year blend has a shorter shelf life once opened? The really interesting part seems to be that some of these stabilizers can be added to old gasoline to make it usable again. So as long as an organization had an utterly gigantic supply of stabilizer, they could potentially keep using gas for quite a while.

These stabilizers are definitely not in regular gasoline, though, so everyone except the extremely paranoid would be SOL.

Wouldn’t even be a year. Gasoline has a shelf life of six months. Three months if it’s an ethanol blend.

After that, you’re down to homemade diesel, electric vehicles, and bicycles.

The chat built into my hospital’s charting software has the ‘thumbs up’ react so you can quickly and easily show that you’ve read it. So for me it just means ‘heard’, ‘roger’, etc.

…where do you live that people DON’T have a dishwasher? Everyone house I’ve ever seen in MN has one.

I’ll be honest, Russia invading Israel would be a real, “Let them fight” moment.

Yes, because rioting definitely never has any sort of effect on the economy.

LLMs are incapable of helping. If he cannot find time to construct his own legal briefs, maybe he should use part of his money to hire an AGI (otherwise known as a human) to help him.

Actually that wild rice dish looks fine. Mirepoix, manoomin, cream of mushroom… bit of seasoning and it’s a nice hearty dish in the winter.