OP is talking 6 AH batteries. If that’s all SiC can do, why would Apple use it in place of current 18AH batteries?

Apple was never leading edge - their goal is to incorporate when it works well

But you’re both cherry picking and wrong. There’s huge lists of features on every new phone, you’re picking two and deciding that means no innovation. Take a look at the dozens of other features on models from each manufacturer.

SiC batteries that offer 6-8k mAh

You’re complaining about battery chemistry that you believe is innovation, yet current batteries are much larger. Why switch if the technology is not as good yet?

If they tried to send me to my country of ancestry, it no longer exists

As others say, ID has always been issued by states and is usually a drivers license, but also

• until recently there was not standard security, so IDs that are not “Real ID” compliant have different standards
• some states explicitly do not ask about immigration status. It’s better to have all drivers licensed and insured than for immigrants to drive unlicensed and uninsured

What about a “Real ID” drivers license?

While a regular license makes no claim about citizenship, id expect “Real ID” to only be obtainable by citizens

As an American I’m still not convinced.

Apple successfully sold themselves as a better choice, the “in”thing - to adults. Most adults I know have iPhones and the ones who don’t seem self-conscious about it. It might have partly to do with Android phones originally sold as the budget alternative. We’re the shallow ones.

Kids can take their cues from adults: they see iPhones as the “better”, more desired choice. But also take it to the next level, with teasing and bullying.

I find it hard to believe anyone cares about the color of text bubbles, especially since kids don’t use iMessage, despite all the media making that claim. It’s just an excuse, but the social stigma is real

The specific request is kind of interesting - when I was a kid, everyone had to wear Nikes or get teased. However for my kids, Nikes were always out.

Fads always come in cycles

Competency implies having some qualification other than loyalty, listening to subject matter experts, considering consequences. The result of competency could easily be just a matter of degree and awareness.

For example, tariffs can be a powerful tool for addressing specific trade inequities or supporting local production, especially in conjunction with other tools. Many US administrations have successfully used them. Only an incompetent buffoon would just throw them down everywhere all at once as the only tool, or as a bullying tactic.

And some turnip brain has thrown down a random slalom course of giant boulders of tariffs, terrorizing immigrant labor, and a full clown car of national “leadership” whose only qualification is personal loyalty

But the question is deaths by car and you don’t need to entirely get rid of cars to make a huge difference.

• inspections. It boggles the mind that some places don’t have them

Traffic calming really can work. I’m not talking about speed bumps, but things like curb bumps to narrow the road at intersection while increasing pedestrian visibility, traffic islands, roundabouts. Even repainting lines can make a difference. My town’s master plan is driven by accident stats, so every road rework is a noticeable improvement

A couple years ago my town repainted a two lane road into one lane plus turn lanes. Now traffic is slower and calmer yet you get through that area more quickly. Most importantly it’s no longer one of the most dangerous roads in town

Most recently they built a median. This was a dangerous intersection because it always backed up so impatient people would blast straight through in the turn lanes, causing accidents. Now they can’t

And yes, because of Florida Man, my town built medians at every railroad crossing so idiots can’t go around the gates. We never had that problem, but idiocy is contagious.

Every city and town can make a difference. Now. Relatively cheaply. Just by collecting accident data and prioritizing by that. Just by making small changes a little at a time

Best way to recover from a spin is push the yoke to straight down and rudder opposite the spin.

Not that it helps the victims but maybe we need a bunch of falsely abused and detained reporters able to afford significant lawsuits.

I like to think I’d stand up and do it, but I’m white and in a state where we don’t often have such conflict.

I mean we do, you can’t avoid it with the current administration. However it’s just not as often. Actually a couple of weeks ago one of my city councillors was roughly detained for videoing a gang of masked thugs depriving people of their rights. However while I don’t think it’s as simple as racism, he is Hispanic and that clearly makes a difference

At ideal conditions. As the temperature difference is greater, the efficiency goes down. So right when you need heat the most, gas is still at 90+% efficiency while heat pumps are closer to or under 200%.

Then you have to look at capacity. It can be expensive sizing for the greater temp differences when it usually isn’t. If you have a heat pump that can be 400% efficient, do you really want to pay for quadruple the capacity so that even when it’s at 100% efficiency it still puts out enough heat? No one can afford that

What’s your goal in using fake info? If it’s general privacy, it’s easy enough to register where your info is private to the registrar

I’ve been looking at that decision. My furnace is well beyond its expected life and I’d like to replace it before it dies so it’s not an emergency. I’ve looked at heat pumps and really want to make that choice. The incentives help with the initial cost, at least for a couple more months.

But then it comes down to gas is cheaper than electricity. If electricity is twice the cost per unit of energy, is it really sufficient for the heat pump to be twice as efficient? How can I rationalize the choice that is not only more expensive to install but more expensive to run?

And the answer is not sinking yet more money into also doing solar. My house is mostly shaded, and I’m not killing treees just to make this mess work together

Definitely part of the answer needs to be adjusting subsidies to bring the cost of electricity per unit of energy closer to the cost of gas, or maybe incorporating. The externalized costs would actually be sufficient

If we had just moved ahead with solar heat and hot water, or even solar panels, back when President Carter was trying to encourage it, we would already be moved away from fossil fuels

My interest in renewables, in ecology, in recycling, was all from growing up with that. But how did we let fossil fuel companies take over the conversation, guide our choices down the road to their profits at our cost?

I’ll agree with we should have started 40 years ago. We knew we should have and we did have sufficient technology to take other paths.

But I’ll disagree on whether we have the technology now. There was a recent post on Lemmy that in a sunny place like Las Vegas, you could replace 97% of energy generation with renewables and batteries. Cheaper. Not just that you can but that it’s cheaper. We have the technology.

The challenge is always to bring the cost down. We do have technology to create aviation fuel from green sources. We do have several options for fueling shipping that we know how to do. Even if we’re just making ammonia or hydrogel or green diesel, that is a huge step forward that we have the technology for. The problem is we don’t yet have a compelling economic case to (especially since climate change is externalized, not counted as a cost), nor anyone with the fortitude to make it so

Personally I think the bidet is the problem - you aren’t going through tp quickly enough. It has more time to fall apart.

All I got is try other brands and clean more often.

While you say your partner is unwilling to switch, there are still multiple ultra soft brands. For example I’ve switched from Charmin Ultrasoft to Kirkland (Costco). It seems just as soft, but it has less dust, its individual sheets are bigger, and it’s cheaper

Are you open to moving?

My niece jumped on a video program in high school and is going to college for film. In both cases, industry connections were a huge part of the program, and she has been able to find a good amount of part time work to help offset the costs of college. She even has IMDb.com profile and credits.

From what little I know about the industry, this seems like one of those careers where connections are critical. Of course the problem is you’ll find only a small number of schools and locations with those connections.

I know moving is not realistic for most people so I’ll second the other recommendations about seeing what your school can do for you.

If you want to read it yourself, there’s an entire section. Table of contents ….

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Subtitle B–Health

                      Chapter 1--Medicaid

subchapter a--reducing fraud and improving enrollment processes

Sec. 71101. Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to eligibility and enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs. Sec. 71102. Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to eligibility and enrollment for Medicaid, CHIP, and the Basic Health Program. Sec. 71103. Reducing duplicate enrollment under the Medicaid and CHIP programs. Sec. 71104. Ensuring deceased individuals do not remain enrolled. Sec. 71105. Ensuring deceased providers do not remain enrolled. Sec. 71106. Payment reduction related to certain erroneous excess payments under Medicaid. Sec. 71107. Eligibility redeterminations. Sec. 71108. Revising home equity limit for determining eligibility for long-term care services under the Medicaid program. Sec. 71109. Alien Medicaid eligibility. Sec. 71110. Expansion FMAP for emergency Medicaid.

           subchapter b--preventing wasteful spending

Sec. 71111. Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to staffing standards for long-term care facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Sec. 71112. Reducing State Medicaid costs. Sec. 71113. Federal payments to prohibited entities.

       subchapter c--stopping abusive financing practices

Sec. 71114. Sunsetting increased FMAP incentive. Sec. 71115. Provider taxes. Sec. 71116. State directed payments. Sec. 71117. Requirements regarding waiver of uniform tax requirement for Medicaid provider tax. Sec. 71118. Requiring budget neutrality for Medicaid demonstration projects under section 1115.

        subchapter d--increasing personal accountability

Sec. 71119. Requirement for States to establish Medicaid community engagement requirements for certain individuals. Sec. 71120. Modifying cost sharing requirements for certain expansion individuals under the Medicaid program.

             subchapter e--expanding access to care

Sec. 71121. Making certain adjustments to coverage of home or community-based services under Medicaid.