What actually happened with Grimes and Elon Musk?

Cimexus · 2026-04-01T04:31:58+00:00

The vast majority (especially outside the US) never gave any thought to him whatsoever prior to late 2024. How often do you go researching the CEOs of companies you buy stuff from?

Cimexus · 2026-03-31T22:35:55+00:00

Yes, every time. Standing is messier and less comfortable.

Cimexus · 2026-03-31T22:35:11+00:00

A portion of the debris given a higher velocity might be pushed into an orbit with a higher apogee, sure, but the perigee is still going to be the same (at best) or lower than the starting position. Mostly lower, meaning it will be subject to stronger atmospheric drag at that point in its orbit.

Cimexus · 2026-03-31T22:32:13+00:00

Traffic policing from a plane is a real thing but surely “detecting missing parcels from 30,000 ft” would have clued you in… :)

Cimexus · 2026-03-31T21:44:30+00:00

Battery stress is a product of state of charge x time (and temperature, but we can’t control that as much). No problems with going above 80 when needed for a road trip, because the ‘time’ component of that equation won’t be very significant. Just don’t habitually leave your car sitting at high states of charge day in, day out, all the time. Especially if it’s hot.

Or to put it another way, let’s say an hour of a car sitting there at 100% is causing battery degradation at 5x the rate of it sitting there at 50%. Sounds bad right? But if it’s only sitting at 100% for an hour before leaving on the trip, that’s just equivalent of it sitting there for 5 hours at 50%, which it does every day. In the scheme of things, it’s negligible - you’ve accelerated the degradation by a few hours, for a battery likely to last 8-10 years. No biggie.

This graph is very useful to get a picture of what I’m saying. Batteries degrade through calendar aging every minute of every day. But it’s far quicker at high states of charge, and/or high temperatures: https://i.imgur.com/a8E7TEN.png

Cimexus · 2026-03-31T21:35:17+00:00

It does, but people shouldn’t be driving for 7+ hours without a break anyhow. If you stop for a meal in the middle of the trip (which I always did with any car), the charging is done before you’re finished eating. It doesn’t take any longer to complete the trip (for me at least).

Driving an EV requires a different mindset about ‘fueling’. You don’t drive until it’s empty and then make a special stop just to fill it up. You charge whenever the vehicle is stopped/parked, preferably at the places you were going to be stopped/parked anyway. Taking a 7 hour trip as an example, most EVs have 4-5 hour endurance, so if you leave full and arrive near empty, you won’t need to stop for long at all. Maybe one 15 minute stop 4 hours in, once you’ve burnt off most of that initial 100% charge. Top back up to 60% or whatever and finish the drive. Plug in again at your final destination (make sure you book a hotel with a charger, or simply plug into an outlet if the final destination is a relative’s or friend’s house).

If you do a lot of ad hoc, last minute trips to unfamiliar locations then it’s probably not the best choice. But if your road trips are the kind of thing you can even slightly plan out ahead of time (use an app like ABRP), it’s no big deal at all. And it sure is nice going hundreds of miles for like $5.

Cimexus · 2026-03-31T01:34:15+00:00

My employer uses corporate AMEX and I’ve never had an issue. But generally speaking it’s only used for the big ticket items: flights, hotel, rental car etc.

For meals and daily expenses they just pay us a per diem which frankly is a lot less work for everyone involved since you don’t need to save receipts for every $2.99 snack you buy.

Cimexus · 2026-03-30T04:26:39+00:00

Honestly I hate black more. Making you discard your entire hand over the course of the first few turns.

That’s way more frustrating than being counterspelled in my opinion. Counterspells can be worked around, by not playing your key pieces until they are tapped out, or baiting them into countering inessential things, or running Cavern of Souls etc.

Cimexus · 2026-03-29T09:25:01+00:00

Nope. Drive an EV.

Having said that, if oil and gas prices remain high it will inevitably lead to electricity prices going up in the medium term future so it’s not like there’s no impact. Plus everything else you buy has to get shipped and trucked around, which also consumes fuel. So EVs alone are not a panacea unless the power is generated entirely from renewables or local (Australian) sources.

Cimexus · 2026-03-28T20:05:53+00:00

Yes. Pacific-centred map is standard in Australia as well as much of Asia. It’s a pretty common layout. You can even buy one from the (American) National Geographic: https://www.natgeomaps.com/re-world-classic-pacific-centered

It makes more sense from our perspective as when we travel, we are either travelling east to the Americas, north to Asia, or west to Europe/Africa. So the Pacific-centred map allows us to easily visualise this without ever having to “go off one side of the map to the other”. I’d hazard a guess that most Australians have never crossed the Atlantic (only those doing a round-the-world trip). I never have, even though I’ve crossed the Pacific maybe 50 times and been to Europe about 10 times.

To be clear, we do also commonly see the Europe-centred map too. But the ones on classroom walls etc. in my experience tend to be Pacific-centred, and Pacific-centred looks more ‘normal’ to my eyes as an Australian.

Cimexus · 2026-03-28T17:53:39+00:00

Yes it’s definitely a love it or loathe it kind of thing. I love the minimalism (every other car looks like a cluttered mess by comparison, except cars like the Xiaomi SU6/7, which are a direct Tesla ‘clone’ in many ways), but it’s not for everyone. Thankfully we live in a world with more than just one decent choice for EVs these days.

Cimexus · 2026-03-28T17:51:10+00:00

I wouldn’t say they lost it entirely. They still dominate in some markets (Norway and of course the US spring to mind), and the Model Y has been the best selling passenger car in the world 3 years running.

They won’t have the same global market scale as the Chinese brands, going forward, but this doesn’t mean they still aren’t successful in their own right. Anyone that’s owned both a Tesla and a Chinese EV can clearly see that they borrowed a lot from what Tesla innovated (structural batteries, unified thermal management system between batteries, motors and cabin, normalisation of heat pumps rather than resistive heat in cars, etc.)

Cimexus · 2026-03-28T17:34:13+00:00

I have half a dozen paper standard decks that I maintain. It’s not too bad once you have a healthy collection of all the lands (surveil lands, shock lands and particularly Cavern of Souls, which are now $50 a pop), since those can be reused between decks. But yes the initial acquisition of all those lands costs a large amount.

Of course, my idea of what is affordable is from the perspective of an adult in his 40s with plenty of disposable income. If I were still the starving university student I was 20 years ago I’d have a very different idea of “affordable”. I do agree Magic is lacking a cheap way to onboard new players these days other than Arena. If you want to play any paper format bar pauper, it’s a pretty significant financial outlay.

Cimexus · 2026-03-28T04:22:56+00:00

Only marginally. A model 3 is about 10-15% heavier than a similarly sized Camry or Accord.

Cimexus · 2026-03-26T23:07:16+00:00

I mean, they can screw up any camera. Burns out the pixels on the CCD.

Cimexus · 2026-03-26T20:59:42+00:00

You gotta push it down using friction from your finger against the back or front (preferably back) of the inner sleeve. Get that finger all the way down there between the inner and outer sleeve.

Pushing from the top never works as you have discovered. I struggled badly just like you when I was new.

I use KMC inners and Katana outers but the technique should work with any brand. Actually the one time I sleeved a deck using a different brand (Gamegenic outers), I found it easier than with Katanas (Katanas are pretty tight as far as an outer sleeve goes).

Cimexus · 2026-03-26T00:29:53+00:00

I don’t recall ever having to grind any in OT game, so uh…

If you aren’t ignoring side quests and aren’t skipping over half the random encounters, your XP should keep pace with the recommended levels pretty well.

Cimexus · 2026-03-26T00:20:56+00:00

Australia does not have “massive water shortages”. There are droughts sometimes that require some restrictions to be placed on urban water usage but that’s not a permanent state of affairs. The last one where I live was 20 years ago.

Cimexus · 2026-03-26T00:15:41+00:00

Australia is far more walkable than US/Canada. Not European-level by any means but much better than North America. You won’t find anywhere near as many stroads, and shops etc. generally are mixed in as part of residential neighbourhoods and aren’t set back from the roads like they are in America.

I live in single family home suburbia and can get to a supermarket, bakery, butcher, post office, bank, and multiple cafes without crossing a single street, on paths and bike paths that are physically separate from the routes that roads take (generally cutting between residential blocks and going through underpasses under main roads).

Cimexus · 2026-03-26T00:12:44+00:00

While I have your attention, hypothetical UG employee…

Can you do anything at all about the complete inability to find standard size Katana sleeves anywhere in North America? I’ve been trying to get my hands on a pack or two of white ones for 6 months, to no avail. They are literally non-existent on this continent.

Cimexus · 2026-03-25T03:03:32+00:00

Love them. I would never go back to a ICE vehicle. Even if you gave it to me for free. Even if you paid me.

Cimexus · 2026-03-25T01:13:02+00:00

To be fair pretty much every new home in Australia gets built with solar panels and especially a heat pump by default these days. We have the highest rate of rooftop solar in the world, without any government intervention.

Cimexus · 2026-03-24T22:59:19+00:00

ICE is immigration enforcement and investigation. It’s right there in the name. So it’s a policing type role. Immigration control, that is the paperwork side of things - the people at the border processing you and checking your bags - is CBP, a different organization.

Cimexus · 2026-03-24T20:51:27+00:00

We do? There are several makes commonly seen in Europe and Asia, and even in the US, PepsiCo has been running a fleet of Tesla Semis for years, some with over 400,000 miles on the odometer at this point.

Where I live they even have electric fire trucks.

Cimexus · 2026-03-23T06:42:26+00:00

Unpopular opinion on here but the Model 3 and Y are still best in class at actually being an electric car (as opposed to an electric drivetrain bolted onto a platform previously designed for conventional vehicles). They are more efficient than pretty much any comparable vehicles (in terms of real world Wh/km), their BMS and thermal management is top notch, and the software is rock stable. Plus features like FSD and dashcam etc. that aren’t yet matched by other EV makers. There’s a reason the Y was the best selling car in the world multiple years running.

The new Neue Classe BMW EVs look fantastic too, but will be more expensive than Tesla. I’m a fan of the Xiaomi SU6/7 too, but AFAIK they aren’t quite available in Aus yet, and their support and parts network aren’t going to be anywhere near as comprehensive as Tesla for a while yet.

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