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Tahoe?

No, Tahoe has trees. This is Pyramid Lake, NV.

It’s like being on a lake on Mars.

Not exactly. Boeing has always been a quality company. But in 1997 they merged with a “cost-cutting” company, McDonald-Douglas, which had a history of poor quality control. Well, as so often happens, “cost-cutting” wins out and the quality of Boeing has fallen dramatically. #enshittification reigns again.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/22/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever/

Welcome to #nostr, nostr:npub1qw7hax9aqn4hw773trmkx9ss23qqzp6r33kj6pv0vwvepyheulnszh7vez ! Throw out something with the #introductions tag and introduce yourself.

There will be an actual market for loans, with supply and demand and risk level dictating the interest rate and terms. Banks will have to be a VERY attractive place for customers to deposit their funds. They’ll need to offer a level of security and a good interest rate to seem better, or at least easier, than self-custody.

Banks will need to clearly state their level of fractional reserve lending so that customers can make an informed decision.

If the FDIC still exists (doubt it) they will have to operate like a real insurance company and not just print money to bail out the over-leveraged banks. Maybe there will be private FDIC-like insurance companies and the banks will have to pay for their insurance.

Some things transcend language barriers.

Lol! Somebody tell these folks that #nostr already exists.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry

#Skiing is an excellent physics lesson in the difference between Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy. Also teaches conservation of energy.

When entering a ski resort, your (the skiers) body is like a big potential energy battery. When you get on the chair lift, the energy powering the lift is converted into potential energy of your body now sitting at the top of the run. You have now been “charged” with (say)2000 vertical feet of (say) 200 lbs of potential energy.

Now, you need to get down the hill. You can either expend all of it all at once (splat!) or better, exert kinetic energy against it a controlled manner.

As you ski down the hill, you are exerting your own kinetic energy (muscles) which is pushing against the release of the potential energy of your body sliding downhill. Most of that kinetic energy is lost as friction/heat. As it occurs in snow, nobody notices.

The amount of energy used to slow yourself down is exactly the amount of potential energy the chair lift transferred to bring you up hill.

Actual physicists are welcome to inform me where I got things entirely wrong.

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Add extra apostrophes in words to piss off the grammar nazis.