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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • Why does the cars need to move?

    Just build car charging coils into every parking spot, then have a computer keep track of what car arrived at what time, and give them an hour each of full charging sequentially.

    Example

    Car 1 parks in space A and starts charging, car 2 arrives shortly after and parks in space D, the computer logs the VIN and timestamp, placing it first in the queue. 30 min later car 3 arrives and parks in space B, the computer logs the VIN and time stamp, placing it second in the queue. Then car 2 leaves space D, the computer logs it and removes it from the queue, making car 3 first in line, then car 2 arrives back in space D, and is placed second in the queue since it left earlier.

    No need to move tonnes of metal and batteries, just switching the power, a cheap and fair way to extend the number of charging spaces, while not overloading the circuit and ensuring that everyone gets a fair timeslot, all without having to risk dammage while moving the cars.




  • Dear Mr. Bezos, instead of pushing for increased energy use to create more slop, how about making something truly meaningful?

    You have the money to do a LOT good, you also have the resources and contact to actually do it.

    Here is a suggestion:

    Set up a fund with 10 billion USD, have it managed to produce a decent, but predictable return every year.

    Take another billion USD, and fund a non-profit organization that will develop the following:

    1. A semi autonomous garbage collecting boat, powered by solar power.
    2. A mothership for number 1 with a processing facility that takes the garbage collected by a a fleet of the smaller crafts, basically dry it, filter the water and compact the dry gargabe.
    3. A high power incinerator at a port that can burn the garbage at a very high temp.

    At the end you should have a large fleet of the semi autonomous garbage collectors, a minimum of two motherships and a port side incinerator.

    Deploy the garbage collectors and motherships to the great garbage patch and set to work cleaning up the surface.

    As the initial funding for the company dries up the funding of the organization should come from the returns of the fund set up earlier.

    The organization should accept donations and build more garbage collectors and motherships, and also develop new methods of collecting garbage from the oceans.















  • I mean, it is fair for the company leadership to decide on what is said through their channels.

    I don’t really see any issues with them limiting what can be said when representing their company.

    However, any coworker should be able to post, comment and like what they want on their own personal social media pages without it affecting their employment.

    I remember various attempts by employers to force employees to represent the brand and company at all times, that is just idiotic.

    I will only accept that my employer will have me say “no comment” when asked about company opinions or details in my free time.