TheRealTigerHorn

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My now deceased Border Collie was used to get kids unafraid of dogs. Had a very friendly demeanor and appearance. She was bullet proof with kids. Kids liked her. You need to find someone with a similar dog.

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This is a good approach, though actually kind of rare with a Border Collie. Australian Shepherds that don't bark unless actively "herding" (a ball, other dogs running around, etc) that are also very kid-friendly are easy enough to find. You want one of the lower energy ones if possible.

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Quote from the X thread, 40hz is a very low frequency a rumbling type sound if sustained, 20hz is the low threshold for human ear detection. The sound pressure level used (decibels) would be interesting to know, I imagine on the lower side.

Hope this leads to something positive to either cure or reduce symptoms of this awful disease. Lost a close friend to it, terrible for his family.

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I wonder how pure of a tone needs to be reproduced? A sine generator is easy enough to hook up to an amp. The amp will produce very minimal harmonics, the key is in the speakers, which will introduce all sorts of distortion and audible harmonics, even a very good set. And how many hours per day do you need to listen?

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Looks great! There’s an M3 on display at the Pacific War Museum in Fredericksburg if anyone has been.


It was far better suited to the PTO than going up against the Germans.

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It worked pretty well in N Africa against the Germans and Italians. It was reliable (something German and Brit tanks were not, breaking down in the deep desert is bad, y'know) and fast. It was a fast armored scout, and as long as it stuck to that duty, it was good at it.

One of the most haunting things you will see is the knocked out Stuart at the Museum of the War in the Pacific. A 3" shell went right through the bow gunner's head. You would think no one survived, but the rest of the crew managed to bail out and there is a video of the tank commander talking about it inside.

Two things these very over-simplified discussions always miss:

1. Bulk resale data is dominated by Tesla due to their volume compared to everyone else.

2. Tesla has been gradually lowering new sticker prices for some time, which drives down resale the same way that rebates by conventional OEMs do.

Their volume leader, the Model Y, peaked in sticker price in 2022, with the top package going for $69,990. That same car went for $51,490 by end of production in '25, and the new much improved version comes in at $57k, still considerably below the peak. This lowers used pricing, which is not something other automakers have done since Henry Ford did it with the Model T. Here is what Model T pricing did over time, introduced at $1k and eventually falling to ~$300:

Cambridge U paper on car pricing Scroll down to Figure 6, just less than halfway down the link.

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In Mexico they have this in pill form.
$119.95/100 pills, the 3mg.
7mg/100 pills, $149.95

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Yes, and the state of Texas will tell you that they get regular emergency calls over these pills being contaminated with oleander, a deadly poison.

Not all PE is the same. Some PE firms are actually in it for the long run to grow businesses, but it's the bottom feeders (who generally buy distressed assets - aka dying companies) and the clowns with massive amounts of cash who just plug in a freshly minted Ivy League MBA as CEO and hope for the best that make the news and ruin the opportunity.

Other PE firms are all about building companies with bolt-ons until they are either a cash cow or ready for IPO. Still others just build companies for the sake of growing their portfolio.

Competitors - referred to as "strategics" in the investment banking biz - can be anywhere from the best thing ever to train wreck as well, but they generally do have more of a vested interest in sustaining the business and keeping key employees, particularly if they live in an adjacent market and only want to consolidate back office and exec roles.

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Had a professor in college who owned on of these. At a get together one evening, his wife showed us how the dog would defend anyone who was holding him. It didn't matter who was holding or who was the aggressor.

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The name means "Little Captain", befitting that, they can be highly territorial and bossy, but generally don't bite, they just act like they will. They were used as ratters in North Sea shipping, and as a result cannot stand any door or area that is closed to them, it MUST be inspected for vermin constantly.

My parents and sister were hobby breeders for 60 odd years combined, between them they had a ton of different breeds, from little rat terriers to German Shepherds, Shar Peis, Afghan Hounds, Corgis, you name it. Wife and I have been a two or more dog family for most of our lives, and we are not young. We've had a variety of breeds too. Jack Russel, Schipperke, Aussies, etc.

You know what the common thread was among all those breeds? What they were bred for ALWAYS manifested somewhere in their behavior over time. Schipperkes were the most determined ratters I've ever seen. German and Australian Shepherds were protective herders. Shar Peis acted like the farm dog that they were - disinterested in anything that didn't represent an immediate threat to their "farm". Afghan Hounds, God help you if they got loose, because they were born to run and that's all they wanted to do.

Pit Bulls were bred for one illegal thing. Those instincts have a high probability of leaking through, no matter how "good" the owner is. The breed should at minimum require a license to own. There's a reason your insurance company will require special riders or drop you if you own one. Insurance companies are very good at calculating probabilities.

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All three had the same 2.0T drivetrain which Audi seems to have pretty well figured out at this point.

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Yeah, except for that little water pump service. They start seeping coolant around the very complex plastic housing around 30k miles and inevitably need replacing. The parts kit alone at online sellers runs $700 with shipping. Doing it at a dealer is $1500-$2k.

Then there's installing a new battery. You have to have the right scanner and subscription or the car won't recognize the new battery and becomes undrivable. That can also happen if you disconnect the battery to do service.

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Our production from 2025 was around 680k tons. 2023 was about the same. 2024 was 620k tons

In 2024 we imported 6.75 million tons.

Even if this smelter doubles our capacity we will need to import 6+ million tons.

We have way more jobs that depend on aluminum prices being low than we are gonna create jobs in mining/smelting aluminum

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680k tons. That says it all right there. In 1995, we produced 3.4 Million tons of aluminum across 13 companies here in the US. We will not be able to reverse what was done to us in the 1990's and aughts over night, but it HAS to be done. Short term pain <<<< long term gain.

FYI, US imports bauxite from Jamaica, Brazil and Guyana (another reason to tame nextdoor bad neighbor Venezuela and remove them from China's orbit), all of which are obviously in our hemisphere. Our supply line is shorter than much of the world's for this very critical mineral. What we are missing is being able to process it here.

Y'all are all wrong....and partially right. Typical OT. :lol:

Ground-based solar will always be a losing battle. Takes up too much land, too inefficient, expensive to store, ad infinitum.

Space-based solar has big potential, but how do you get it to where you want to use it? Extension cords from Harbor Freight ain't gonna work. Beaming by microwave might, better not miss!

Yeah, it's cold in space when not facing the sun, but there's also no medium to transfer the heat to, ie, air. Your primary means of getting rid of excess heat in space is radiation, which isn't very efficient. So that's a data center problem. The radiator ends up being bigger than the power panels, or close to them in size at best.