A text editor is what I use, the pattern is a comment line beginning with a # sign followed by the thing or things I'm noting, interspersed with comment lines if needed, followed by one or more blank lines to separate the concept.
"However, an electric vehicle with aluminium batteries has the potential for up to eight times the range of a lithium-ion battery with a significantly lower total weight."
I was trying to imagine what advertising works on me...none.
What does work is a family member, friend suggests something or even an article online that is genuine and not written by someone with a flare for social engineering.
"Among the fifty states, Texas may rank near the bottom in many categories—including environmental protection (forty-fifth), quality of parks and recreation (forty-ninth), and availability of mental health care (forty-sixth)—but there is one area of public policy where it ranks indisputably first: water planning. No other state knows with such precision how much water it has and how much it will have in the future."
"The drought of the 1890’s killed off much of its nascent cattle industry. In the fifties a seven-year drought (Texas’s worst statewide drought ever) destroyed much of the state’s agriculture and caused 244 of the state’s 254 counties to be declared federal disaster areas. This led the state legislature to create the Texas Water Development Board, which published its first water plan in 1961."
For every time a climate change hand waver starts up, the answer is, yes climate change is real...it's how the Earth works.
What we need is for people moving to the state do do what we did and get rid of the back yard, make a nice rock garden, stop watering those massive lawns.
That water plan had some costs too. "Goodbye to a river" talks anout some of them. I mostly agree with you though. Amarillo being the exception, they water their perfect lawns like the aquifer was bottomless, and it certainly isn't. The sudden transition to a natural landscape at the edge is quite jarring. Most cities in TX do much better, probably all.
Lived in San Antonio for 2 years in the middle of yet another drouth (welcome to the Southland). Mine was the only lawn in the neighborhood that was brown. Neighbors were pissed. Texas may know exactly how much water they have, but the residents don't seem to understand how important that water is. Part of the reason I moved elsewhere.
If you or your wife look at the past and current price of lettuce in the local store and then use that to make the conclusion that the purchasing power of the US Dollar has decreased 47%, then I don't know what to tell you.
Your cost of living may have increased, but I do not understand how you can conclude an increase in inflation from living your daily life.
It isn't racist or classist bullshit. It was that people liked cars for the independence they provided. Today's live in their parent's basement generation can't comprehend the concept.
It absolutely is. Often, the determining factor as to whether one rides public transportation or not given its availability is whether driving is an option or not. Driving is never an option when one doesn't have a car. Cars cost money, and money (in the US) is pretty directly linked to both race and class.
The semaphore tower method could maybe have supported mixed signals with one operator dedicated to receive/forward and the other operator dedicated to acknowledge with a detailed response.
A series of "glyphs" that mixed forward signals and backward signals would help. Old school "local loop" telephones electrically multiplexed signals, but the optical telegraphs were quite a bit more discrete.
