BussyCat

Scenario: you just had armed militants break into your home and a firefight ensued killing your dog and SO and you have been dragged into the back of a van to be held hostage with a 25% death rate and there is a group of allied soldiers

Would you rather they:

A) do nothing B) fire on the vehicle possibly injuring/killing you

I didn’t say they wanted to die I said I would rather die.

Gate valves not globe valves? Maybe they are just older than me but gate valves seem like a horrendous design for faucets as they are generally much larger than the size of the piping due to the gate and they have very poor throttling capabilities

It can be less regressive depending how it’s done. Poor people spend much larger percentages of their income on essentials like food, clothing (non luxury), and rent which can all be made tax free. It can then actually tax people who do things like take out massive loans to cover their expenses while not technically earning an income.

Washington state has also never had an income tax and uses sales tax but makes many essential items tax free to try and be less of a burden on the poor

But we got much better technology in that time, you can get a 512gb sd card for $30-40 nowadays compared to when the iPhone came out that a 1gb thumb drive would have $10-20

Anyone can order on sigma as long as you make an account! Which is really cool but a lot of the times their prices aren’t competitive with random products you could find on amazon since the average person rarely needs hplc grade products.

I used to do that exact same thing with 200mg of caffiene in a Nalgene with a drop or two of lemon juice haha

You can get it super easy in the U.S. for cheap

Here is lab grade caffeine

That if you wanted to make 150mg energy drinks it would cost less than 3 cents each.

If you want to just mainline caffeine I would recommend caffiene pills they are preportioned and are cheap here are the equivalent to 100g pre measured out for under $20

But my point still remains that the cost of caffeine is completely irrelevant to the cost of energy drinks

That’s because monster overcharges, caffiene powder is cheap and you could add it to soda for cheap

We do sometimes do that! The problem is the condenser water is usually in the mid 100Fs which by the time you pump that somewhere it cools even more and then most people don’t like living near power plants so the cost of running the pumps and the piping is generally more than the energy saved. Iceland has a lot of geothermal heat that people are much less opposed to living near vs O&G or nuclear

But how do you get the energy to pump the water up stream